Translation & Subtitles: thoseguiltyeyes | scandal-heaven.com ⠀ Hello! RINA here.
I'm at the airport right now.
Today, we'll be taking a one-way flight that takes 30 hours
and going to Sao Paulo, Brazil for the first time.
At any rate, this'll be the longest we've ever traveled,
and I'm kind of nervous about getting there safe and sound.
But I hope we get there safely,
put on a good performance,
and have some fun.
I bought a neck pilllow from Yogibo.
I'm kind of looking forward to using it.
We have a layover in Dubai.
So first we'll be flying for a little over 10 hours,
and then we'll have our connecting flight to Sao Paulo.
We don't usually do night flights,
so it feels kind of new and fresh.
The view looks nice from the airport.
I downloaded a bunch of videos and drama series.
I'll be boarding the plane now.
It's embarrassing to film solo at the airport.
I'm off!
We're boarding now.
Until a few days ago there were a lot of open seats,
but in the past 2-3 days it totally filled up.
A lot of people are going to Dubai.
We've arrived in Dubai.
The flight was about 10 hours.
That was a piece of cake and went by in no time.
They served two meals.
The entire time I was watching the videos I downloaded.
I watched "Love Transit."
It was interesting.
Our youngest female manager was recommending it for the longest time.
I decided to watch it on the plane and looked forward to it.
10 hours went by in no time.
There are 20 more hours left.
So long.
Right now, as we've just arrived...
It's a little before 5 am.
I'll eat breakfast now that we've landed.
We'll spend another 5 hours at the airport,
then take a 15-hour flight and arrive in Sao Paulo.
I'll be taking it easy at the airport.
We've arrived in Sao Paulo.
Yesterday...
I think we arrived at night.
I was so tired that I couldn't film.
Then I slept for a day,
and today...
We have interviews and M&Gs with fans.
That's our day today.
Traveling for 30 hours...
The last 15 hours were more damaging that I thought they'd be.
You use up a lot of stamina.
But since this is something we probably won't experience much,
it was a really crazy experience.
It was so long.
The amount of time that passed after our layover was really long.
Like, you'd go to sleep and wake up,
but there'd still be 10 hours left.
It was crazy.
It was so long.
We did fly to the other side of the world, after all.
But, firstly, I'm so glad we arrived safely.
It's midwinter here.
The seasons are the opposite of Japan's.
That's why it was really cold when we arrived.
It was colder than I thought it'd be.
When we asked the local staff about it,
they said that the temperature dropped a lot starting yesterday.
Until then, it had been a bit cooler and more comfy, apparently.
We're finally getting to meet our fans in Brazil after 15 years,
so it feels really crazy.
It's really something, waiting for 15 years.
Ever since we started our social media accounts,
we've gotten a lot of messages every day from South American countries
like Brazil and also Chile.
This is our first time coming to Brazil,
and when it was announced that we were appearing at this festival,
the reactions were crazy
and it made us happy.
Now that we're finally able to meet,
we're going to do the best we can.
We have no idea when--or if--we can see each other again,
so we'll go all out before heading back home.
We have a meet-and-greet before the concert.
I'm looking forward to it.
I also wonder what we'll be asked during the interviews.
The questions we're asked by Japanese press
and the ones asked by overseas press
are always completely different from each other.
There are a lot of things to look forward to.
Also, I was looking through my YouTube channel
and realized that it's been a year since our world tour.
It's terrifying how fast time goes by.
Way too much stuff happened on that world tour.
It was tough.
We toured Japan, then the US, then Europe.
All of us in the band got COVID when we were in the US,
and we had to spend 2 weeks recovering at a hotel in Chicago,
unable to go back to Japan.
We had to cancel half of our US tour.
There's so much regret there.
That was the first time we've had to outright cancel concerts like that.
That's why there were so many things that we felt for the first time.
When I thought about how it's been a year since then...
If you don't take each and every concert,
or each and every day, one at a time,
it'll go by really quickly.
This year's also already halfway over.
When we get back from Brazil,
we'll be preparing for an important event in Japan,
so we'll be going closer and closer towards that goal.
I think this performance in Brazil will be our only overseas one this year.
It's a little unusual for us.
We usually play a few overseas concerts each year, after all.
So I hope we can deliver some good music with this one.
Now then, I'm off to do interviews and the M&G.
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I think it's different for each of us.
Before a concert,
we usually will eat snacks in the dressing room.
We'll eat a lot of snacks.
Today, some pao de queijo (Brazilian cheese bread) was prepared for us.
We're eating dinner.
We're all eating churrasco.
It's the best.
The veggies are self-serve,
while the meat comes around to you.
Wow.
A lot of meat came by.
This is awesome.
It's crazy.
This is really good.
It is.
-It's totally different from yakiniku. -Right?
It's been a while since I've had this.
So good.
Thank you!
(The family next to us celebrating a birthday gave us some cake🥺)
Will I be able to cut it?