Yes dear the readers! Yesterday Micha finally get to the country Brazil and it is everything Wayne said and more. The bus drop me off in big place called the Rio de Janeiro which is on coast of the Brazil. The weather is very hot and there is people everywhere. Everybody speak the language Portuguese here, and not the Spanish. Micha like the language, it sound like singing. Maybe I learn some words to say to nice people? I ask many people to find where is the place to have the fun, and they all tell to me to go to the beach for the party. One friendly Brazilian girl say she will show me if I give her the TicTac. Her name is Ulara and she live in the Rio de Janeiro all her life. On way to beach we go by many the food places and she ask if I want to try the nice Brazil food? Micha hungry after long journey, so we sit down at street restaurant. Ulara order food and tell me it is called the feijoada. She say it is the stew made with the meat and the beans and cooking for long time. It taste great and remind me bit of Uzbek stew, but with different meat than the lambs. I eat everything and Ulara laugh and say she never see anyone eat that much so fast. After food is gone, we go down to beach. It is very beautiful, like something from the advertising, with glittering oceans and pretty people in swimming clothes. I go in water with Ulara and it is very fun. She is funny and pretty and I think that maybe I am in love with her. When we sit and dry on beach after the going swimming, I tell her that I play the music TicTac and maybe she knows if I can play the music on beach? She get very excited and say that in the Brazil everybody love the playing music and especially the playing samba. I aks what the samba is and she explain it is the music with rhythm and drums and very fun. Sounds like Micha playing the TicTac! So I get out the boxes TicTac and try to get people on beach to play. It is amazing! Everybody in the Brazil loves the music, it is true! Quickly many the people are coming to Micha asking to play with me. I show them some Micha songs and they show me some the samba songs and we TicTac samba. One guy even come and make the music like drums with his mouth called the beatboxing! Micha never see that before. And all the girls on beach dance very nice. So I keep playing the music to watch the girls doing the dance and soon it seem whole beach is having party. When evening come Micha tired from all the playing the music and Ulara say he can stay with her and Ulara family. Ulara mum is the very nice lady and make Micha food. After I eat the great Brazil food, I try to tell Ulara family about Uzbekistan and great travel adventure and the Bigfoot and treasures in mountain and the sea monster but I don’t speak the portuguese so I have to show with drawing and making acting. Ulara mum laugh so much she fall of chair! Luckily she is not hurt. Ulara younger brother Zico say maybe he will show me the football match when big game is on and say it is the best footballs team in world! I go to sleep very tired after long long day and dream of girls on beach doing the dancing. Brazil is Micha country!
After we wake up after big Texas party, Wayne is saying he is hurting in the legs and in his back from all the riding of the wild bulls. I am hurting in the legs too, from dancing too much!
We eat big big breakfast and then we get in car and start to drive to the Mexico. Wayne say he has cousin in Mexico we can celebrate the new year evening with. It is still very hot and I fall asleep in car for many hours. When wake up, we are in the Mexico already! I like the Mexico because there is so many the different colours everywhere and so much music. Wayne say he thinks the music it is called the Mariachi, and is special for the Mexico. We stop at small shop so Wayne can buy the map to find the place of his cousin and I walk around and look at things. Outside shop there is the guy who wears a very big hat and colourful cape, but I think he is the sleeping. He has very bad breath! When Wayne comes back, he explain that the very big hat is called the sombrero, and the cape is not cape but clothing called poncho. So many new words! Wayne also say that sleeping man has the bad breath because he is the drunk, maybe from drinking too much the tequila. I feel sorry for man sitting in sun with the bad breath so I wake him up and give him some TicTac. I think he likes. He take one the TicTac then shake the box like Micha and make rhythm so I take out flute I make of the boxes TicTac and play him little tune. He smile and shake box in time, then fall asleep again. Wayne say we have to drive more to get to cousin so we have to leave. As we go to car I can hear sleeping man snoring very loud, but I don’t think his breath smell the bad anymore. We drive for many the hours and I think the Mexico is beautiful country. In evening we get to the ranch of Wayne’s cousin, but no one is home. We sit in shade in front of house and eat some food and wait. 11 o’clock in evening Wayne cousin return with her husband and kids and they are all very very happy to see Wayne! The children of Wayne cousin have bag full of fireworks and candy and by midnight we celebrate the New Years evening with loud bangs and many strange but delicious snacks! Micha like the food Mexican because it is little bit spicy! I ask for the recipes and Wayne cousin say she will write down for me so I can make the food Mexican in Uzbekistan for family when I get home. After fireworks and food, Wayne and cousin and cousin husband start drinking the tequila in some strange competition eating the lime and salt and they are all shouting and having fun. I think of family back in homeplace, and I miss Micha mum a little bit, and brother and sister. I not sure of the difference of time, so maybe Micha family getting ready for the celebrating the new years in village? After while Wayne and cousin and cousin husband stop playing the competition tequila and get ready to go to bed. I am not sure who won and ask Wayne but he laugh and say that they all won. That sounds like good competition! I fall asleep thinking of what new adventure I will have in 2010. Happy the new year world from the Micha!
Today we arrive in the Texas and it is very very hot! Everything here is so big. Wayne is very excited and tries to find the rodeo to see cowboys. We stop at shop and ask for the directions. In shop they are selling many guns! Wayne says this is normal in America but I am a bit worried because I don’t like the getting shot! A guy in shop ask me where I am from and he say he has heard of Uzbekistan. He then ask which state it is in! Maybe he don’t know where the Uzbekistan is after all? I am happy because the weather is the nice so I do little dance in front of shop until Wayne get the direction and we drive off again. An hour later we arrive at the rodeo with the riding of the wild bulls. What a crazy show! Many cowboys sitting on bulls trying not to be thrown off. There is also the clowns running around, and everybody wearing the cowboy hats. Wayne decide he too try the riding the bulls. He sit on bull and when doors open he get thrown off almost straight away. Lucky the bull don’t step on Wayne when he is on ground. After getting up, Wayne tells me that he is in much pain but that he have fun and ask, does Micha want to ride? I think for little while but maybe it not good idea. Micha not cowboy but boy from Uzbekistan who plays the boxes TicTac.
Wayne wants to go more on wild bulls so I stand behind rodeo and try to get Texans to play music with me. In beginning they all look at Micha like he is the crazy, but soon many the people join in. A girl with the banjo and a guy with the accordion show me Texan songs and we play for long time. Texans know how to party. They call it the hoedown and everybody is dancing and shouting and being happy. It almost like street party in Uzbekistan.
In evening we have the big barbecue with lots of food and more music. The boxes TicTac are popular instrument now. As we are eating, Wayne, who is sore everywhere after falling off the wild bull many times, ask if we should do the New Years in Mexico because it is close to the Texas.
Micha adventure continues!
So today Micha is in the United States of America. After driving for the long I am now in the place Montana, for wedding of Canadian girl and American guy, on big big ranch. Everybody welcoming and say I stay for wedding which last three days. I already promise to play music for guests at party. On ranch they have the many horses and I want go on horse. I met guy who says he is the cowboy. His name is Wayne and he live Montana all his life, wokring with the horses. He take me to see the horses and they are beautiful. I think I could go on horse forever into blue sky. Wayne is funny and ask me me many thing about Uzbekistan. He never heard of Uzbekistan before and ask if it is Africa! Wayne has never been outside of the Montana before, so not big adventurer like Micha, but he is cowboy and that must be big adventure too. He chews the chewing tobacco alot and keep spitting on ground. I ask him if maybe he would not rather have the TicTac because surely it is taste better. He likes, but say he will still chew the tobacco as well. Strange.
After a while he ask me if I want to help him find secret treasure? He say he has map that show treasure that is buried many years ago by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, two explorer who come to Montana 19th century. He say he has made drawing of map from story told by his grand father when he was little. Micha thinks this sound exciting! We make plan to go looking for treasure tomorrow morning before wedding, on horse! I think I stay awake all night looking forward to that.
I took picture of map Wayne draw for secret treasure.
Hello all you readers of my blog! Thank you for you patience but I been on sea for very long time, sailing with fisherman the Kjartan from Norway on way to the Canada for more adventure and meeting the cousin of Kjartan. Being on sea for long times gets a bit boring. But two days ago we see the big monster in the seas! In morning with no wind and wave we see dark shadow under the waters. It is very big and a bit scary. Kjartan get very nervous, he say it might be the kraken. I ask him what kraken is and he says it is big creature from sea that eat the boats. He run down in cabin and hide and shouting very loud in Norwegian language. Micha don’t like. I try to hide for a bit then have to take the look because I am curious persons. Many time I get into trouble for being the curious persons! When I look over side I see big shadow in water still, but suddenly it moves up! I standing frozen of the fear on boat and then I see it is only the big fish, very big like house of uncle Sherzodbek in Uzbekistan. Micha never see a fish that big before. It is swimming next to boat and looking at me with a big eyes, doing fish things. It almost looking friendly. I think maybe the big is fish is not monster but friendly like a dog? Suddenly it spit water out from hole in back, many meters into the heaven! In shock I fall over in boat and hit head on steering wheel. When I look up big fish is disappeared into oceans. I tell Kjartan it OK for him to come out again and after little while he unlock cabin and look out. He look very very scared, and maybe he has been crying. I tell him it only big fish that spit the waters and he start to laugh. He say it is whale, not big fish, and that everything is now OK. Kjartan still pale and I don’t want to see this kraken of which he speaks. The rest of day we don’t see more monsters and Kjartan say we are close to the Canada now. Make me happy because toilet in boat not very nice. I have to eat the TicTac to make smell go away.
I am happy be in Canada, I can call mum and father and sisters and see more of the worlds! Canada here come Micha!
That was nice birthday I had.Many nice peoples, music and laughing. I really liked it.
I am still at hostel in forest that Gunhild show me. I am still not in Oslo, and I think maybe I am still a bit lost! But the weather nice so I go for walk outside. After while I am in middle of forest and everything is beautiful and quiet. I sit on stone and think of mom and dad and sister Guldana back in Uzbekistan, when I think I hear the sounds of the troll! I jump up in tree and try to be very silent when an old man comes walking to see me. He is smiling and say his name is Olof and he lives in forest. He ask me who I am and what I do in middle of road far away from everything. I tell him I am Micha from Uzbekistan and that I play the boxes TicTac. He has fiddle and ask if we can play music for the trees? I think for a little while then I ask him, is he the trolls? Olof shakes head and say no he is just very old. I look at him again and it is true, he is not troll, he is just old and looks like troll! I decide it is safe to climb down tree again.
Olof is very funny and we play music for long time. He teach me many Norwegian songs that are all pretty, but maybe a bit sad too. I ask if he learn the violin music with the Alexander Rybak. He says no, but say he think he see Rybak on television once.
When we finish playing he say he is tired and must go home. I tell him I am still lost since yesterday and he say I should ask the trees nicely for direction. So I hug the tree and ask for way to Oslo or bus for Oslo. The tree very silent, only making the tree sounds. I hug again, and ask loudly to tree, please to tell me where is the way to Oslo? Then Olof shake head and say he better drive me to the bus in his car.
Strange. Maybe tree tell him directions but not me? Or maybe the tree tell me but I don’t understand because of language? In Uzbekistan, trees don’t speak Uzbek. Maybe they too speak Norwegian?
Olof drive me all the way to Oslo in the end, which is very kind. In car we eat the brown cheese, made from the goats and called “geitost”. It is almost as nice as cheese from Furkat, the goat of my uncle in Uzbekistan.
Hello world. My name is Micha Albacow and I am from Uzbekistan. Welcome to blog of Micha! Or Tictac Micha as people like to call me. I travel around the world for one year and play music for the peoples using the boxes of Tic Tac. I love performing and making shows with nice persons. It is my first time leaving my village Tashkent to see world, and I can’t wait to tell my family about all happy peoples I will meet. I hope I have enough the clean socks!
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