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1000001 Things to do before you die
Topic Started: Oct 7 2008, 06:02 AM (1,945 Views)
Adilah
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Listen more than you speak.
"We call 10 American deaths a catastrophe. One hundred European deaths are a tragedy. One thousand Asian deaths are a shame. And 10,000 African deaths we call a Monday." - Lissa (1981-2007) ÇáÓáÇã Úáíßã æÑÍãÉ Çááå æÈÑßÇÊå
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Mia Culpa
Nov 19 2008, 03:52 AM
Read your journal

It's very revealing. I started writing when I was but a wee lass living in the wild. My first journal was written on top-of-the-line paper and pencil. Now I use a painfully out of date laptop. You can even do it online nowadays.

If you don't write a journal, start now.
I'm writing my dreams on myspace blog. I want to see how many differents dreams I will have in 10 years. I'm just trying to see myself in a mirror.

I will start a travel journal maybe.

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manon
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Before I die, I want to go back to London as much as I can.
"Listen to the color of your dream."
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Adilah
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I would like to take a river cruise on the Yangtze, Amazon or Danube.
"We call 10 American deaths a catastrophe. One hundred European deaths are a tragedy. One thousand Asian deaths are a shame. And 10,000 African deaths we call a Monday." - Lissa (1981-2007) ÇáÓáÇã Úáíßã æÑÍãÉ Çááå æÈÑßÇÊå
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Adilah, the meeting of Rio Negro and Solimões is impressive. They don't mix! Something to see before you die for sure. I already saw.


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wow, that is SO COOL, michelle. why don't they mix? this has given me an idea for a new thread.
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I was not a big fan of Brazil Geography at school but I can answer this question since I have been to the Amazon. They don' mix because they have different temperature, density and velocity. The Black River temperature is 22 C an it runs 2 km/h while Solimões River is faster, 4 to 6 km/h, temperature 28 C.
They run 6 km without mixing and after 6 km running like in that picture they form the Amazon River.

Another interesting thing is when Pororoca happens. Have you heard of Pororoca?

It happens when the Amazon River meets the Atlantic Ocean and this meeting form huuuuge waves. It doesn't happen all the time just in February and March and the waves are very intersting. Many surfers go there. Pororoca in Tupi language means great noise, destructive, something like that.

Watch this video, it explains and shows the Pororoca. I love my country. :wub:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6N1436Ink
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I hope when I die I have someone a friend a partner, by my side when I past away.
I hope at my furnal someone be playing the song mY life. I hope after words people will party and have lots of fun.
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temptresss
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WOW...i want to see the pororoca now! i have always had this fascination with the amazon, this just makes me want to see it more. when did you go, michelle and did you see those small towns? i can't imagine how people live there but i've always wanted to see firsthand. you are very intelligent for being so young. i LOVE to hear about brazilian geography. that youtube was amazing. it would make sense, i guess the two bodies of water not mixing. kind of like water and oil, ones heavier, etc.
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I went there in 2005 I think, or early 2006.

People who live there are native people so they are used to that life. Three days in the jungle is enough. The North is the most boring region of the country, it's only nature, no beaches.

I would like to hear you pronouncing Pororoca :P
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Nov 29 2008, 02:10 AM
I went there in 2005 I think, or early 2006.

People who live there are native people so they are used to that life. Three days in the jungle is enough. The North is the most boring region of the country, it's only nature, no beaches.

I would like to hear you pronouncing Pororoca :P
no you do not want to hear me pronouncing that. although, after that 9 minute youtube, it's not hard but before i saw it... :whistle: if i was doing it the way i thought it was in portuguese i would have said, "pororoSa" but the C doesn't have that squiggle. how do people in those villages get their electricity? did you take pix in those lil towns?
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When I went to Amazonas, I went to Manaus and there's a hotel, a treetop hotel in the middle of the jungle and I stayed there, it's northeast Manaus I think.

CEAM is the electric company from Amazonas and they provide electricity for those small towns like the electricity we have in big cities.

I didn't visit those small little towns. From what that video shows, I think they were at Macapa, Amapa, another state in the North. I was in Amazonas state.

I have some pictures of Manaus just sec
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Nov 29 2008, 02:10 AM
I went there in 2005 I think, or early 2006.

People who live there are native people so they are used to that life. Three days in the jungle is enough. The North is the most boring region of the country, it's only nature, no beaches.

I would like to hear you pronouncing Pororoca :P
yes i remember you telling me about the 'tree hotel' and you posted pix of it. i mentioned to my rio love that i wanted to go there and he said it's a million miles away. :cry:
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Yes, the Amazonas state is located at North of Brazil and your carioca lives in the Southeast region where I used to live, it's another world and reality. There are airplanes going to Manaus everyday.


Some pictures

A boat in the black river
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_301.jpg

Boat
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_322.jpg

Meeting of waters
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Meeting of waters
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In the jungle
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_429.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_430.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_435.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_461.jpg

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Vitoria Regias
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_438.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_454.jpg

Snake with a native :bemused:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_446.jpg

Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, in the heart of the jungle

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_509.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_521.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_543.jpg

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_633.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_753.jpg

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_083.jpg


Amazonas theatre
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_755.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_769.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_770.jpg

A street where they sell handmade stuff

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_155.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_154.jpg

A church

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_167.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_168.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v359/darkening_mushroom/AMAZONAS_170.jpg



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omg...i can't tell you how much i enjoyed these pictures. they are soooooooooo interesting and beautiful. i sat with my mouth dropping open at some of them. do the natives speak portugues or a different language or port. with a different accent? i really thought it wouldn't be so built up but Manaus looks very quaint and nice. and OMG what HUGE LILYPADS!!!!

thanks for going to so much trouble for me to see these. I LOVED IT.
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Yes they speak Portuguese with accent. In Brazil people from different states and cities have different accent.
Indigenous people speak different native languages, it depends on their tribe. Some of them speak Portuguese and their mother language. There are more than 215 known different ethnic groups of indigenous people in Brazil. There are more than 55 unknown tribes living at the Amazonia Legal Region without any contact. More than 180 indigenous languages and dialects are spoken and learned as native language.

And what makes Brazil Portuguese different from Portugal Portuguese is the influence of Indigenous and Africans languages, but the Indigenous influence was stronger.

Examples:

Abacaxi - Pinaple

Tijuca, Guanabara, Ipanema, Niteroi

Some Amazonia tribes

Arara
Bororo
Gavião
Katukina
Kayapó
Kulína
Marubo
Sateré - Mawé
Tenharim
Tikuna
Tukâno
Wai-Wai
Yanomami

It's hard to tell what language all these indigenous speak, only if you study them at the University, because every language comes from a different family language, it's very complex.

Those Lilypads are fabulous. I was watching a documentary about them, I was impressed. Nature is perfect.

Manaus is not bad, it's a big industrial center. If you buy a cd made in Brazil, you will notice it is made in Manaus. All electronics equipment are made in Manaus.
If you don't like rain, that region is not for you. It rains all the time maybe that's why the forest is there, because of the Equatorial climate .

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Learn another language. You can't know too many languages. It's harder to do as an adult but it's never too late.
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Buy life insurance and a casket.
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Dec 3 2008, 06:56 AM
Buy life insurance and a casket.
Long as you put me as you benefactor. :lol:
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Michelle, thanks for all of the fascinating Brasil information - I have never wanted to visit there before as much as I do now! ^_^
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You're welcome. Brasil is a huge country with a complex culture, with an interesting history, great food, very diverse. All regions are like mini countries, every state has its own identity. People don't want to go there because they don't have information about the country and they have all the stereotype in their mind. Brazilian secretary of tourism should work on the image of the country outside Brasil. The image doesn't reflect the reality.

I have never wanted to visit USA because I had all those bad stereotypes in my mind and I'm in love with this country. There are so many great places here, the fall is beautiful, culture, history. The image of USA in Brazil is not good. The same way I talk about Brasil here on the board, I talk about USA for my Brazilian friends because they hate what they don't know and that's something stupid.
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I think the same can be said of most countries. Look how people reacted when Paul said he was going to Israel. Most people only know what they're told about a place. If they never go there they'll never really know what it's like.
If you read my posts backward there's evidence that Paul is dead.
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