RIO de JANEIRO, Brazil - The Northern State University volleyball team is starting to wrap up their two weeks of adventures in Brazil this week. The team has left Sao Paulo, where they have been since arriving in the southern hemisphere and will spend their remaining days in the city of Rio de Janeiro, home of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Team members continue to keep blog accounts of their daily adventures.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9 EXCERPT: We left Sau Paulo early this morning after a tearful goodbye to Ligia’s wonderful parents, Orlando and Teresa. Breezing through a 45 second security checkpoint, we headed north to Rio de Janeiro on a very short plane-ride with a very short landing strip. (Some of us thought that we might not make the landing and end up in the ocean!) After getting off the plane we quickly realized that Rio and Sau Paulo are very different. Sau Paulo is very New York City-like and Rio is more scenic with beaches, greenery, and speedos.
The first thing we did as we arrived in Rio was drive straight to Sugar Loaf, a famous Brazilian scenic tour that takes place on three different mountains. Tourists and residents take gondolas from mountain to mountain to give people a fabulous view of Rio! We got a great view of the mountains, beaches, ocean, and could even see the Christ statue. Sugar Loaf was a great start to our time in Rio de Janeiro!
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