semana santa

/jj/turned 21 this week. quick summary: almost all of us study abroad kids hung out on the beach. eating. drinking. provided by our new ´´friend.´´ capoeira-instructor. bartender. man of the favela. Juca. [i mean we did pay. but you just wish you new Juca.] his little stand on the beach appears to be the lemonade stand i had back in the day. legit. caiparinhas. some fish okra mishmosh stuff. on the beach. what more to ask for. after hung out at an outside bar in rio vermelho.

[note: juca is to the left of jj. you´ll know who jj is.]

/walked/ in a club/bar. requested lady gaga. denied by the dj. b/c? ´´i hate her.´´ after i ask why. ´´she´s ugly!´´ exact words. yes. they were said in english. whaaaut. since when does the dj get to bring in politics. more exactly. he´s not allowed to deny a request. esp a lady gaga request. don´t be takin her music for granted back in the states.

[right before some of the ppl had to be escourted home]

/just/enough money left to get us a cab back to barra. buy some grub. more specifically. get us to suco vinte-quatro horas [24 hrs.] for some açai and xis-burgers. walking home. tiffany almost got robbed by a little kid. peter chased him off.

/today/is good friday. i am left here in salvador knowing quasi-no one outside of my host-family that are still here. appears a lot of reading will happen. good thing. reading in portuguese takes a while. i have to look up ever other word. well had to. i´ve got it down to about 5 words a page. improvement is improvement.

/i/ feel like i´m reading shakespeare in portuguese. i am in the middle of reading ´´the posthumas memories of Bras Cubas´´ [in portuguese of course]. interesting reading a dead man reminense about his life from his funeral backwards. [i should probably spend time to read it in english sometime.] i am told and have read that it is the best piece of literature out of all latin america. it is over 130 years old.

/chocolate/enormous eggs. filled with individually wrapped regular sized versions. incredible. my host-mom gave me one yesterday. it is gone. i am going to buy one now. [easy to find. they are everywhere. all sizes. all types of chocolate. i think i´m going to buy the ferrero rocher. expensive. oh well.]