Hello! We arrived safely, but very sleepy, last week on Wednesday morning. Got to a nice little hostel run by a crazy lady, also Sophia, called 'Girl from Ipanema.´ Was ace, met some really nice people that we´ll hopefully be keeping in contact with. On the first day we chilled, soaking up the atmos on Ipanema beach, watching the youth of Rio posing and pouting around! In the evening we went to an insane football match (which we almost missed due to passing out in our room an hour before we were to leave) but got there somehow and really glad we did! The people are sooo passionate about the whole thing and the crowd is almost alight from a hazardous mix of flares and flag-flying! Was an interesting turn of events when the Rio side
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