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
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• 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
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