|
Feb 07
2010
|
Parading in Salgueiro, in Rio´s carnival 2010Posted by: Giselle on Feb 07, 2010 Tagged in: Salgueiro
  |
|
Parading in Salgueiro
For complicated reasons I am supposed to be parading in the samba school Salgueiro at about 3.30am Monday morning, in a sweltering hot padded costume several sizes too big for me. Currently its averaging 45 degrees in Rio during the day, near the sambodromo.
The two big problems this presents are the strong possibility of dehydration and the long hard slog I´ve had to put in to learning the samba. I didnt even like the samba when I started but fortunately it has grown on me.
Last time I collapsed in a Grupo Especial parade in the avenida from a hot costume I ended up on a drip in the Sambodromo clinic (under sector 11) but was up and running again in time to watch the end of Mangueira´s parade, 2 hours later. Nevertheless, its not recommended, and terrifies ones friends. But that was in a bateria, where you are playing at top energy with no water for 80 - 90 minutes. This time I´m in an ala so i´ll only be parading for 30 mins or so. And I´m going to hide a bottle of water in the costume, which is likely to be big enough to hide a second person. And the parade is in the wee small hours of the morning, when its a bit cooler.
This evening I will be joining my ala for the final tecnical rehearsal in the avenida, where last year´s winning school parades for the big light and sound test in the avenida. So I must stop writing this and get back to learning the last 3 lines of the samba.
If you are going to the sambodromo to watch the rehearsal, look out for me - i think my ala is 5th. If you get a chance to watch carnaval on TV, I´ll be in the Salgueiro ala that is carrying telescopes, probably tucked away in the middle at the back where I cant mess up the visual too badly. But if the costume is impossibly hot and I think theres a serious risk of collapsing in it, I´ll have to think twice about this.
