Random Things
Some things that make me laugh:
- Alex and his tweezers to pull out the three chest hairs he has. Seriously. (Note: it’s actually six. Sorry.)
- The bus ride to the top of Sella Negra when we had to get out and walk!
- Getting really drunk and deciding to wear heels to the forró party – just for the fun of it.
- The time the man with glasses talked to us at Bompreco and kissed us and halfway through Tora said “the lips” quietly cos he was trying to kiss us on the lips. Ewwww.
- The stairs at the forró party that got a shit-load of action.
- Diana and Michaela calling Dagan Cabeça de Camarão.
- When Yuri showed me the picture of the quejero’s and said it wasn’t cruel to the animals, but then I found out he’d got the picture off the PETA website.
- When we went camping, we slept on the floor and the next morning I had bruises all down my back in the spots where my spine was touching the floor. Like a long red spine.
- At Metropolis I was dancing on the little round stage with Tabajerus and fell off and accidentally pulled him off on top of me. Oops.
- Tora couldn’t get into Metropolis cos she looked too young.
- Getting soaked by the sea while waiting for the “perfect photo” with Neno.
- Drinking a little too much beer at Sevé’s, and telling everyone that I’m descended from a Guaraná bush. Wtf???
- Having a couple of drinks on a Wednesday night and going to Burburinho’s for a long chat and wearing heels just cos “when are heels ever too much?”
- When I visited the prison and had buttoned my shirt wrong. I was in the middle of re-buttoning it while I was introduced to some of the “nicer” prisoners, who couldn’t keep their eyes off my shirt. But I couldn’t stop or they’d be a huge gape and everything would be on show. Only funny in retrospect though. At the time was incredibly embarrassing and made me feel REALLY dirty.
- Living here for over four months and never buying a can opener. Instead we spend ages searching for equivalent products that don’t need a can opener and agonizing over whether the difference in price is worth it. And in those unavoidable situations when we have to buy a can, we spend a good 15 minutes and a selection of kitchen utensils to cut it open.
- <!–[if !mso]> <! st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } –> Sebastião at Bradesco. We made so many jokes about him, but the funny thing was, we did actually need him.
- Steph had a cold, so we looked up the word for cold – resfriado in Brasil, but constipação in Portugal. So then we looked up constipation. It’s called a prisão do vedre, which literally translates to prison of the belly. Hahaha. Haha. Hahaha.
Some weird things:
- Pizza in Brasil doesn’t have a tomato sauce base.
- Cleaners in the mall use rollerblades cos of the distance. In gas stations too.
- Phones.
- Money. There are two different kinds of 5c, two kinds of 10c, two kinds of 25c, one 50c and one R$1. It makes it so difficult.
- Kombi vans with giant speakers.
- Bicycles with giant speakers.
- Toilet paper doesn’t have perforations for easy tearing.
- People who go to the beach and take their own food and seating arrangements, are considered farrofeiras…stingy kind of people.
- Some words I always think in Portuguese even though I obviously learnt the English word first and used it for 23 years. Some examples: ferias, canela, abacaxi, pipoca, hoje, amanha, guadanapes, também, sim…
- A lot of brazilians use block letters all the time…inculding on the computer when writing official documents.
- Brazilian men are the most jealous men in the world. It’s kinda ironic.
Some things I haven’t done since leaving NZ:
- Taken any medications.
- Eaten any pink buns.
- Had a hot chocolate.
- Used a scale.
- Felt full!
- Used a can opener or vegetable peeler.
- Straightened my hair.
- Buffed my nails (tear).
rosieinrecife said,
August 5, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
Update 1
Ah…I had a hot chocolate the other day at one of the beach shacks – and it was flippin good! Like those Italian hot chocolates you can get at that flash deli in Newmarket.
Also, I went to the birthday party of a friend, and they had a proper feijoada – and it was so good and I ate so much that I felt really full!