Being Connected

As part of the activities to the Online Publishing class, one is find and share with my readers a website that can be interesting and useful for you. 

I think that one of the best sites that I saw about travel is the TravelPod, the web's original travel blog.

It is kind of a blog, good to navegate and full of information about travel, mainly about details, that is something that we always forget. 

The website gives a lot of information about wonderful places to visit and where to stay, but I think that the what makes it good is the opportunity that it opens to people share their experiences. 

No matter where you are going, it is always awesome talk to somebody that have been there before.

If you had a good experience in some of your trips and would like to share with people around the world, go to TravelPod. Also, if you are thinking about make an adventure and want to be sure that it will be nice, check website. 

I hope that you like.  

Brazilian friends and an amazing experience in the USA

Let’s go to Kansas City

If you have already been in Pittsburg, you probably know why I was so excited to go to Kansas City. But if you don’t know why, I will tell you. There is a little number of things that you can do in a small city and generally they are the same every weekend.

It was Labor Day on Monday and we did not have class. We were not interested in spending our weekend in Pittsburg. Americans were going back home and we didn’t have a place to go.

We were in eight people – six Brazilians, an American girl and a Paraguayan boy. We rented two cars and went to Kansas City. We booked the cheapest hotel that we found, stopped in Wal Mart to buy some food, and left.  

It was Friday, 6 p.m. The two cars that we rented were awesome. We were feeling like rich people living and enjoying United States. The sun was with us most part of the trip, and we took beautiful photos while we were driving on the road. You can see some of them below.

We just wanted to have fun, but we could not enter in clubs because we were not 21. So, parties were in our rooms. It was difficult to wake up on the next day, and more difficult it was to the ones that did not remember how they had got to sleep.

On Saturday morning we went to The Legends and spent almost the whole day there, just shopping. On Sunday we tried to go to the Brazilian Market, but as good Brazilians, they were not working. We went to the zoo, had a funny and tired day there and went back to Pitt State. To conclude our trip, we went to Wal Mart and bought some food to cook. At night, we had a Brazilian dish with a really good taste.

The Labor Day was a day to study and finish our works.

I loved that weekend.   

Click here to see the photos.

A Farm Trip

In my first week here, in Pittsburg, everything that everyone offered to me I accepted. I was alone in my dorm, I did not know the city, and I was looking for some entertainment. The opportunity to go to a farm seemed good, even knowing that I lived in a small countryside city in Brazil. Anyway, my friends were going and I would like to go with them. 

I was wearing boots, a chess t-shirt, and jeans. When I arrived in front of the Glass Point in the Student Center, I was glad to see the bus that would take us to the farm. It was a yellow bus and it looked old, but it was beautiful, something that I just had seen in movies. When they opened the doors, we ran to take our places. We took a lot of pictures with the bus. It was awesome. 

The farm that I saw there was totally different than the ones that I had seen in Brazil. The biggest tractors that I have ever seen in my life were there. The huge rolls of field piled one over another were amazing. There was a lot of machinery that I could not imagine to what it served. I felt inside a movie because it was a film scenario. 

To complete that view, there was a huge truck waiting to collect the grains that were stored in big compartments. I saw in a story some time ago the difference between the trucks that carry grains here and in Brazil, and I could identify this difference here. In Brazil, trucks are not totally closed, so they lose a lot of grains during the transportation. I liked the process to carry grains here. 

We had lunch in a church and after that we went to see a corn harvest. The huge tractor was there, destroying the plantation to take the corn. We were in the middle of the plantation and we could see so far. We went to visit a church in another place, and then we went back home. 

Everybody was so exhausted that for the most part, the ones that were in the same bus that I was slept. I slept too. I arrived in Pittsburg tired, but I really enjoyed the day that I had. It was wonderful.