OH MY GOD!!!!! WHAT.A.FRIEKIN.WIERD.WEEKEND!!!! Soz that Ive not been in touch for a few days-but I have been on an amazin mission to a land far,far away...Buzios....I saw it, and it was good!!! Firstly, I will begin by telling you all that I did get lost in the favela on Friday...and was 40 minutes late...which was fun...but is not that interesting compared to the weekend I have had so Im not even going to bother!! I finally arrived home on Friday night at 6ish, and everyone in the house was like- "Vicky- you have got 20 minutes, in counting to pack a bag and get ready to go to Buzios...(anybody who knows me well will know that this is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE!) I didnt even have time to attempt to shower off my favela feet-and I was coverred in paint from the creche-it was gross.. So anyways...we gets the tickets from the station...get on the bus (prepare for the excrutiating 3 hour journey)la de da de da...all is going quite well as far as bus journeys go...bit boring...when all of a sudden Adrian turns around to me and says... "Oh my god-Hiten just got off the f****** bus!!!" I was in a state of stupour at this point so I just laughed and went "yeah, right" but then I realised...he was being serious... O.My.God. (it may be useful to explain that the point that Hiten alighted at was part way between pitch blackness..and the middle of frickin nowhere...in the Brazilian wilderness...at half past eleven at night....WHO WOULD DO THAT?!?! The guy must have had a friekin death wish or something-it was beyond dodgy, and we all kind of looked at eachother like"what the hell should we do?!" Then we decided that we should probably get off the bus and try and retrieve the man(yeh, he is actually 25!) but then some random guy said to us- "DO NOT GET OFF THE BUS HERE- you will not survive!!!" Well, not in so many words, and in Portuguese, but I understood the severity of the situation... So we got to Buzios and decided to inform the police....who were somewhere between indifferent, and totally comatosed...HELLO! This guy got off the friekin bus in the middle of nowhere, doesnt speak a word of Portuguese and has obviously got the common sense of a midget...after all-he got off the damn bus!!! So we decide that the best thing to do is to hire a combi for 20 quid and try and drive back on the route to see if we could find him whimpering in a ditch somewhere-to be honest, we just hoped that he was still alive....but did we???Did we flickery!!!! Anyway, Im going to have to leave you on a cliff hanger to find out what happened, and all the other amazing stuff that occured afterwards, because as always, I am hogging this machine!! ooo, before I go though, thanks to everyone who has messaged and mailed me over the past few days- I have read them, I will email and message you back in the next few days- I have not forgotten you or fallen off the end of the earth!!! Plus, I have to tell you the rest of my amazing weekend in Buzios (clue-Boozy by name...BOOZY by nature!!!-hence the obligitory drunken moose face photo!) I have just realised that this entry probably doesnt actually make any sense- I apologise.... to be continued.... luv u all mwa xxxxx Well I am back...where did I get up to? Oh, yeah, we were driving around in the combi until 3 o clock in the damn morning-no sign of Hiten.This is pointless we thought. We will have to go back to the hostel and wait until the morning to try and find him..in the middle of nowhere....in Brazil. So anyway, a rather exhausted and emotional Vicky gets into the rather procarious top bunk-with no sides on it (please no not another centre parks incident-mum! lol)and sleeps until about 10ish, when the others return from breakfast... Carrie: So, did you sleep well Vic? Vix: Hmm ok I guess...how was Breakfast? Carrie: Yeah, I had some ham and cheese on a roll-it was ok I suppose... Vix:Yeah...what are we going to do about Hiten?(aka Hitman, Hilman...) Carrie:Oh S***! I forgot to tell you that we found him in Buzios about an hour ago-he caled Phillipe and he called us! Well thanks for letting me know Carrie! I thought he was dead!lol. Turns out that (apparently) he thought that we all got off the bus and left him (what? like we would do that- and can you not see the obvious crowd of 8 non-Brazilians huddled together at the back of the bus!!??!!) anyway..so he got off in the midle of nowhere in the midle of the night to try and resolve the situation (is he out of his damn mind?!?) Not thinking that if he stayed on the bus he was bound to at the very least reach some sort of civilisation, aka Buzios..... So, we decide to rent some Buggies from the hire place next to the hostel and explore Buzios, as Hitman has arranged to meet us on the beach later that day....somehow(I didnt even ask!) O.My.God-it was the most fun ever!! And Buzios is the most gorgeous place you will ever see! It is amazing! I so fell in love with it! We gets to the beach, anyways, and find a nice spot and Hiten turns up looking rather flustered as you can imagine, and wads soon greeted with a tirade of anxious questions about his where abouts the night before! It seems that he decided to flag down a random car and agreed that they would take him to Buzios for a fiver or something. Dangerous...but fair enough-you are stuck in the middle of Brazilian wilderness-neither of the options are fantastic! But then he says-"yeah, thay looked proper dodgy-it was a pimp and his prostitute I think..." And we were all like...!and you got in the car????" and he was like "yeah..."(*#@#%%&¨*¨¨$%#@) So, anyway...he didnt really go into detail about what happened next, and I wouldnt like to speculate.All we know is that they took him to a hotel......... So, that drama over, we decided to noew enjoy the rest of the weekend! We chilled on the beach(HOT HOT surfer guys with attitude-ladies!!) and I tried this rare Brazilian slush puppy thing called Acai (ah-sigh-ee) made from the fruit of the same name, and Guarana-it was neither sweet, nor savoury, and not that nice..but you have to try these things... Then we went shopping-this is RICH Brazil you guys-I was so depressed that I souldnt buy anything much, but I did go a bit cerazy and bought a 2 necklaces, a pair of trainers (which are amazing-you can only get them in Buzios and Salvador!) and THE cutest little outfit for Gucci EVER- a little Brazilian football tutu, matching yellow cap, and....little yellow booties!!! they are so.......sweet!(Gucci is gonna love them!) Before Mum frieks out completely (I can just imagine it now-"WHAT???The budget is NOT intended for shopping, Victoria!!!-she only calls me Victoria when shes really mad!) I only spent, like, 30 quid altogether! Everyoune knows how I just love....my bargains!!lol. What else?What else? Oh my gosh this entry is going to be ridiculous in length!!! We went out for a really nice Chinese-as I said-this is rich Brazil-not like Rio where the most up market place I have seen as yer is Domino Pizza...(dont get me wrong though, I do LOVE Rio!)And it only cost me a tenner for 2 courses and drinks....yummy!!! Then I got roped into being involved in this Caperaira display in the street-quite literally! (its a Brazilian form of martial arts but there is no contact, it encorporates dance, too, and its really impressive-the guys are so muscly!!) Anyway, I had to hold up this rope for them to flip over at head height for seriously, like half an hour-my arms hurt so.....much!(Good for upper body strenght, though!) That Caperaira guy will come back to haunt me...but Ill tell you about that later... Afterwards we went to a club for some drinks...I got so drunk!(off like 1 vodka and coke though-the measures are like fill the glass with vodka and add alight splash of coke for flavour!) So we were in this club...and I was really drunk, and this Argentinian HOTTY (who can actually speak english!) just comes up to me and snogs me! It was so random!!! The guys are sooo....forward!(I would have normally have kicked him in the b******* and been quite offended, but as he was amazingly fit, I let him off-double standards, I know but, I dont care!lol) So...dancing, dancing, and then it gets to 3 o clock...hot Argentinian Cinderella must go home now before he turns into a Carrot or something...oh well...never mind... and literally, as soon as he left, the random Caperaira guy just kind of leeched onto me- I was like "did you stalk me here?!" It was rather frieky so I was really on my guard!(even more so than usual!) and he would not leave me alone!!! My friend Adrian has some HILARIOUS photos of me looking NOT IMPRESSED (anybody who is farmiliar with my not impressed expression can appreciate, I am sure!lol) But, I have to wait for him to burn them onto a disk before I can post them on here for you to look at, too (oo and theres one of me and the Argentinian hotty as well!) We didnt get back to the hostel until 7 in the morning, it was crazy-so we just had a few hours sleep, and then decided to go back to a really small beach, which was a harbour as well! (this is where the statue of Bridget Bardot is- she is credited with "discoverring" Buzios in the 70's.) Anyway....we were all just laying there on the beachy thing (which is really narrow), still in a drunken stupour, just catching some rays...when all of a sudden...there was a 50ft friekin yacht mounting the sand coming right towards us, with no warning!! We only just made it out of the way!! I have never been so scared in my entire life (even more scared than in Cape Town when I saw a sharks tonsils close up!) They must have seen us there!Can you imagine the news report if we would have been run over on a beach by a harbouring yacht....I am sure that this random s*** only happens to me!!! Why, lord, why?!? lol. But I am glad Im alive to tell the tale!lol. (Mum, please do not have a siezure-I really am ok! lol) And thats about it- I cant think of anything else to write, really- and I have been typing for so long that I have square eyes from the monitor, practically! I dont knoe if this account sounded quite as amazing to you lot as it actually was, you may have had to of been there- but I hope it did-because it was!!! Anyway, I love you all, miss you all, and I am thinking of you all!! Speak with you all soon-take care! xxxxxxxxxxxx