Week #8

God, I can't believe it's already been 8 weeks since I first got to Brasil. I don't want this to end. Every weekend has been getting better and better!! This week, my weekend started on a Thursday night, completely unplanned, completely out of the norm...I don't know where this feeling came from but i got off the bus from UFSC and was just like...you know what? I don't WANT to read my rats, I don't WANT to just go home and sit in my room til I pass out, I don't WANT to eat scrambled eggs...

I was thinking that I had had a long week in the lab trying to collect 12 hours of data from videos I had recorded during my experiments (which by the way...I totally learned my lesson, haha...read while you do the experiment, I put myself behind a week cause of that crap!!!!), I had been working very hard and deserved a break...I thought I'd just walk down to the Blackswan, sit at the bar since I was by myself, could maybe talk to the bartender or the owner, have a couple beers, maybe a sandwich too. Sounded great! That's not what happened. Ended up at John Bull...had a completely different experience than the first time with Andre and Marco...obviously a much better one :) It was definately what I had been needing for a while...like I went to work the next morning and got soooooo much work done, haha, I don't know...it just felt good to change the pace a little bit and to just throw yourself out there not knowing what would go down next...I think I've been saying "greatest weekend ever" since I got here...but that for sure was the greatest weekend ever. period.

Then Dom and Gabe came to visit Floripa...haha, kind of a joke considering it was raining its ass off all weekend...just didn't put Floripa in the best light. There's not a WHOLE lot to do here and the things that people do come down here for...like going to the beach and sand dune surfing would not be practical to do. It was more like a bonding weekend I think. It was fun for sure!!! Dom found another scandalous, sexy outfit for the night...she let me wear one of her sweater dresses...she insisted that I try it on...so I did, and walked out to show the gang and Dom looks me up and down and says..."yeah, I like your tits"...I have to admit, I was kind of sad...what about my face?!?!? or my hair?!?! haha...loved the dress, felt great on!!!!!! I thought about stealing it but...We went to the Blackswan again, of coarse, where the band rocked out to some Justin Timberlake...I don't care what you think about that, you can get ovvvvvver it...ate some super spicy chicken curry and I was ready to call it a night, haha. God, I felt old. I justified my lack of wanting to go out and get TRASHED by bringing up the fact that I pretty much didn't go to bed Thursday night and that it was raining and NOBODY was out! Glad Gabe was in the same boat as I was...we went home...Britt and Dom decide to go to 'Made'. Great!!! Have a good time, call me if you need anything...holla!!!! The situation was set up perfectly. Gabe and I were in my room and heard Dom and Britt walk into the pousada...SOOOOOOO, Gabe and I started making noises with the head board of the bed and i started making moaning sounds...Dom and Britt's chattering came to a completely hault...LMFAO!!!!! Gabe and I couldn't stop laughing...i walked out of my room and Dom and Britt were hiding in Britt's room...ahhh, it was great...just wished Gabe and I had played it out longer through the morning...maybe next time, maybe next time. Ended the weekend by going to Praia Joaquina in the rain and playing in the surprisingly warm ocean water :)

Posted above is my "Blackswan Gringo Picture". We've got a French/German who SAYS he's written a book about all his famous people encounters and apparently has a "weekend brasillian" girlfriend, an ex-wife, a baby's mama, and a newly discovered daughter...aka his "Irish daughter"...cause baby's mama was Irish and come to find out, she wasn't lying about being pregnant...draaaaaaaaammmmmmmaaaaaaaa.........I'm representin' America, quite beautifully if I should say so myself (except for I'm totally talking shit because I was NOT feeling sexual at all that night), the blond girl is straight from Germany, south of Berlin, her name was Annette-she got here a week ago and is studying tourism???? whatever, sounds good to me, I bought it at least...then there's Lee...who is from South Africa and owns a Havaianas store north of the island...interesting group.