Day 11 and 12: Weekend Updates.
The weekends are far more relaxed than the week itself so I decided
to just sum the days up in one post.
On Saturday I woke up eager to finally go to the beach, but I
lost my glasses in the ocean. Waves here
are vicious. Once again I saw the Brazilian jeitinho at work, as my host mom
called in “favors” to try to get me new glasses, unfortunately it was a holiday
so most people were out of town.
At night we went to celebrate Sao Joao with my host families’ real family. They were adorable. The
grandmother was very feisty and I liked her a lot, she made me laugh so much. Although
during this holiday people eat a lot of corn based foods, we really didn’t have
that much, which was fantastic because I was tired of corn. There was a little
black kid there, and since the family wasn’t black I asked who he was. Apparently,
he lives in the favelas, which are slums, and the family really likes him
because they are so sweet so they take care of him.
,My host mother took us to a super nice resort in the middle of nowhere for
lunch, and you can’t say no to a Brazilian, no matter how bad your eyes hurt. It
is a Brazilian thing to be very obliging, people do not use the word no. they
simply agree to everything, and then don’t follow through later if they really don’t
want to do something; I think it’s kind of funny.
After the nice lunch we went to a Porto Do Galinhas, port of chickens. When the slave trade was abolitioned,
and people were still bringing slaves to Brazil, the sellers would say that the
chickens were here, so that people did not know it was actually Africans. Even though
it has a sad history, it was a truly gorgeous beach. My host mom did her
graduate work in marine biology, and she talked to us about the reef and the
water there. She was really sad about the trash on the reefs. I love walking
with her, she knows everything.
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