Friday, July 2, 2010

Cultural experience

Today I experienced that quintessential cultural experience of watching Brazil play a world cup game from a Brazilian living room. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out like it should have, so we did what any mourning fotebal (soccer) fan would do: we went down to a bar on the ocean and had steak and beer. There we found masses of other forlorn people in yellow, green, and blue jerseys to commiserate with by shooting off fireworks, eating and drinking, and occasionally dancing to loud music. It was a sad scene, but I hope this proud nation can hold on down the road to recovery. Murilo is going to need comforting, so if you feel inspired you should write him a poem or song about how much you love Brazil and send it to me at meghan.cok@gmail.com and I'll forward it on. ;)

What a city! I tried to take pictures today but my camera battery was dead, so you'll just have to wait until tomorrow. Louisa (sister) is my official professora de portuguese, and I'm afraid she's being slightly abused as translator. Luckily (for me) she has an english test coming up so translating for me also serves as review for her! Brilliant! The city here is beautiful, abundant with sailboats and other boats that camp out around piscinas naturais, or natural pools that are formed by rocks and sand in the middle of the ocean. Kelson (father) was telling me about the boats and pools and all the fish that gather in them. We are going to adventure out in his boat to see them first hand, which he was telling me about. His boat has an electric motor and when he was telling me about it he also made a rowing motion, which I think means that it doesn't always make it back to shore... Should be fun!! Hopefully my battery will charge for this experience :)

Pictures to come!

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