Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Interesting facts I have learned (slowly but surely)


  • You don’t flush toilet paper here ( I learned this 5 days to late)
  • Buttons on the wall are used to flush toilets and they are the single most confusing things ever, especially the one at my house
  • Colored toilets are normal and I have learned that these really bother me, I like to see the color of my pee and cannot because of this fact
  • Rice and beans are the single most important thing to Brazilians
  • I don’t like Brazilian rice and beans
  • Brazil puts out a large number of soap operas, including the new most popular one which involves all Indians in India who magically speak Portuguese
  • There are 6 ways to pronounce and write each vowel using the following: ^ - ‘ ~ `
  • R’s are pronounced like H’s
  • I still don’t know what H’s are pronounced as
  • D’s are G’s but only sometimes….
  • “Nao Sou” is I don’t know, this one is key
  • Casa Do Pastels is the greatest restaurant in the world
  • Trash here is thrown away in little baskets like ones you find in your bathroom, even in the kitchen there is just a little trash can on the counter with a grocery bag in it
  • The trash has a little iron basket that you put it in outside your house
  • The houses up the mountain are the poorest but have the best views
  • Brazilians are big on buffets, 80% of the restaurants have buffets, but you weigh your plate and pay by the kilo, pretty ridiculous.
  • Brazilians eat the fattiest foods but are all skinny, I haven’t figured out how yet but I really want to know
  • All Brazilian women, at least here, were thong bathing suits, all of them, even the 80 year olds and the 250 lbs women, everyone
  • I am stared at because my bathing suit covers my entire butt (it’s the equivalent of going to the beach with bottoms that go above your bellybutton)
  • ALL the men wear Speedos unless surfing, ALL
  • Praia mole is not a nude beach, HA HA JK haven’t done that Uncle Brian
  • Brazilian birds apparently go “pew pew” like a little boy shooting a gun
  • I knew more Italian than I thought because I keep wanting to say “va bene” and “gratzie” and all my numbers are Italian
  • Night clubs are exhausting
  • I will never learn the samba
  • Lunch is the big meal that you cook for each day
  • Brazilians listen to all American songs, (and sing at the top of their lungs) but don’t speak English
  • Beach is Praia
  • The yellow busses have air conditioning and are actually yellow (not the yellow line)
  • Not all Brazilians are perfect and bronze ( Me and Karly point out the 1 of every 100 to make ourselves feel better)
  • Florianopolians hate the Argentinians
  • Never use the OK symbol
  • The answer to my blog is NO



  • In the photos: 1.Karly's balcony with a gourgous rainbow 2. the slums above Karly's house, all the kids go on the roof and fly kites, i could sit out there all day and people watch 3. the beach(can you see the bathing suits?) 4. Rodrigo attempting to dance with me 5. Johnathan wondering what i am doing

2 comments:

  1. Well, if you haven't learned the language ... at least you're learning some things! Love you! Miss you! Glad I got to hear your voice on Sunday! Keep having fun! Love, your sis

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  2. Please keep posting things you are learing in brazil. it makes me laugh at work and wish i was learnign things about brazil too.

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