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b'Hi, what\'s up? Sabia que em Londres tamb\\xe9m tem escola de samba? :-) Pois no epis\\xf3dio de hoje do podcast Ingl\\xeas Online, eu falo um pouco sobre uma inglesa que desfila numa escola de samba brasileira aqui na Inglaterra.
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\\nSo have you heard that there are "samba schools" outside of Brazil? Here in London they call it a "school of samba", actually.
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\\nIt is called Para\\xedso. How do I know? I\'ll tell you all about it.
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\\nSo around October last year I started looking for a place to live in London. That\'s because I had to leave my old place, obviously.
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\\nI put an ad on a well-known website saying I was looking for accommodation and talked to a few people, and checked out a few places.
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\\nAnd then an English lady answered my ad and said she had a spare room she would like to show me. She emailed me a few pictures, I liked them... And then we set up a meeting.
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\\nA big yellow carnival headpiece hanging on a wall
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\\nSo when I first met Teresa - that\'s her name - face to face, she told me she loved samba and Brazilian carnival and she was actually a member of a Brazilian school of samba in London: Para\\xedso.
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\\nI was a bit surprised to hear that. I mean, I know many foreigners who are into samba and Brazilian music, but this lady actually went to samba dance classes every week and participated in an actual "escola de samba"!
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\\nJust to give you a better idea of just how much Teresa is into Carnival, when she was giving me a tour of the house we got to the dining room and I saw a big yellow Carnival headpiece hanging on a wall.
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\\nThat\'s actually a headpiece that Teresa wore in a carnival parade with her school of samba, Para\\xedso, a few years ago.
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\\nYes, Teresa dressed up in costume and paraded alongside dozens of \'passistas\'.
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\\nThe carnival I\'m talking about is an annual event in Notting Hill, London.
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\\nEvery year many different groups parade in the streets of Notting Hill, and Para\\xedso is one of them.
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\\nThey claim to incorporate all the main elements of a Rio carnival parade, although their group is a bit smaller.
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\\nA \'passista\' chatting with the London police
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\\nApparently in Rio samba schools in the Grupo Especial parade with up to four thousand people, whereas Para\\xedso puts two hundred and fifty people in the street.
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\\nSo this year I actually went to Notting Hill to see the carnival parade... I didn\'t get to see Para\\xedso though. It was raining, we got there around 2PM and my two friends wanted to grab a bite.
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\\nSo when we finally got to the actual area of the parades, Para\\xedso had already passed.
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\\nI got to see a few other groups, though, and listen to their carnival music.
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\\nI have to say - I\'m one of those Brazilians who couldn\'t care less about Carnival, to be honest!
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\\nI don\'t even like to travel in Brazil during Carnival, \'cause there\'s so much traffic coming and going to the beach (where else?), so...
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\\nIt\'s pretty funny that I ended up sharing a house with an English woman who\'s crazy about samba and Carnival.
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