Rio Carnival (part 2)

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○ Access Schools Parade

(Chopper delegation)

(Bookie delegation)

(Hard-working staffs. sometimes they would push floats inside)

(Vinyl disk delegation)

(Kids' channels delegation)

(Cleaning team; once in a while you would see them working behind a float. It's very entertaining to see them normally dressed and seriously do their errands, after a bunch of shining and dazzling performances. I would definitely vote for them if I'm one of those judges. They would dance as well, but merely sweeping is funny enough.)

(Seafood restaurant delegation)

(They are actually very happy while look suffering. Those enjoyable expressions on the faces of disables are undoubtedly the most beautiful scene tonight.)

(Delegation of shower-more-in-summer propaganda)

(Descendants delegation)

(Delegation of no-sensitization-on-face)

(Contraception delegation)

(It's dangerous to stand on piles of plywood and shake the body, both courage and skills are needed.)

(The Flintstones family delegation)

(The best performance tonight)

(The best music tonight)

(The best lady tonight)

○ Entry gifts:

● Condoms, not seeing someone using them, but there're many small balloons floating in the air.
● Paper urinals, look like coffee paper filter with one longer side. Girls should have more chances to use them tough there's a boy's face on the cover.

○ Every school has 30-50 minutes for showing themselves(from the beginning to the end of the parading street). Most of them would complete their performance within 40 minutes, and leave 15-20 minutes for viewers to take a breath or go to the toilets.

○ People get tired mostly after 2AM, 3/4 of them stay until 6AM though.

○ The front sub groups(of each team) perform better, with hotter girls.
○ Full-body-naked is prohibited, but having colors on it doesn't count.

○ Wonderful and very professional show; rundown keeps going no matter the music is down, float breakdowns or whatever happens. Dancing would perfectly match the music, when it comes back, within 2 beats. Precise in blocking, neat movements and actions, makes people pretty impressed.

◎ My first time to understand the meaning of "giddy"; my eyes get less sensitive to colors while watching so many different color passing for hours, kind of unbearable, similar to the daze brought by sun when just opening the door.
○ Mainly green set colors appear, though I think they deal with black better.
○ Floats are similar in size. I heard recently they standardized the length, width and height of floats for safety concern.
○ For people who pay for parading, samba schools would provide you the whole set of costume and let you keep it as a souvenir.

○ pack-up time: 05:45


2013/02/09 The second day of Carnival