Visitors

Yesterday Jennie's friend came from Rio that I guess is traveling throughout Brazil or Latin America, I forget. She brought with her a guy from Ireland and one from the UK. Last night we went to the place near Companhia da Pizza and just had some food. I got acaraje afterwards. We just spent the night talking about Brazil and things that they wanted to do while in Brazil/ South America. Today I'm heading to the beach. It's officially Sao Joao or St.Johns day. It occurred to me yesterday that  Sao Paulo was literally St.Paul and in the US we have St.Paul Minnesota.  Its funny I never really literally translate the names of things here, I just accept it as the Portuguese name. Last night because of Sao Joao, there were a lot of fire crackers that went off. It sounded like a war kind of outside with fire crackers. I will not be going to Cruz das Almas either like I wanted to. They didn't have enough space for me because Cruz das Almas is THE place to go. They stuff about 30 people in houses, but they're houses in the interior so they're small houses. So there was no more floor space. I'm kind of happy in a way I didn't go because this way it's a nice smooth transition on leaving instead of party and then leave. Either way would have been cool, but this way is just easier I guess. 5 days. Tres excited. Heather will be picking me up from the airport, it was going to be Chops, but he couldn't get the time off. FUCK U BJ's. Yeah so now that that is out of my system, I'm going tanning.



-Vaughn-

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Blah 2

Ok so today I just worked out a little bit and went to UFBA early to print some papers. After printing I just hung around and socialized with people. Our class started or end of the semester party I should say, and I passed in my papers and left. I got back home and did research on how to fix our lawn. It's really a project I want to do when i come back. I'm thinking about fencing off a square of the lawn and growing new grass in that spot to see what we have to do in the years to come :(. I"ll be wicked happy if we can fix the lawn. Tonight I'm just doing random researches, and prob. working out. I have to clean my room as well. Fabricio is telling me right now that there isn't room for me in the trip to Cruz das Almas. If anything I can just stay in Salvador but I'd rather not. We'll see what happens.

-Vaughn-

Vilas de Atlantico

I went to Vilas de Atlantico today with Denise and Rodrigo. Tanned, went to Pizza Hut where I literally was under a hut on a campus style setting for Pizza Hut. Crazy. I saw monkeys too. Call the rents today to say Happy Fathers Day although I wasn't able to talk to Ben. Worked out later on today. Put some more pics on Facebook and called it a night. Jennie was indisposed for the night and there was NO JOKE a fire across the street from us with fire engines and fire fighters because I guess an explosive, like the ones use to celebrate Sao Joao hit one of the houses. Yeah it was really interesting. Nite.

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Acarje da Dinha

Last night I went to Acaraje da dinha and met Cleber and Johannes there. I met a woman from Denmark, a guy from Cuba, and this girl named Vanessa that's from North Carolina. They drank, I drank a Coke Zero, and just talked about life in Brazil. At one point there was this guy that said something to the cuban guy that was a racist remark he didnt like too much, but this guy was really old that said it. So maybe it just how he was brought up. Not that thats an excuse to say it. I dont remember what it was exactly that he said, something to do with history.

Cockroach

UM ok so I've only encountered cockroaches in my life when I came to Brazil. Lets talk about how I was putting toilet paper in the trash and one just popped out. Sorry to say...I had to kill it. I wouldn't have been able to sleep unless I knew it was killed because I'd be scared to wake up with a cockroach crawling over my face. Even if I had covers over my face. I went to class today and left early. I on finished my paper today :) All I have to do is just revise it and I'm all set. I'm officially a free man in terms of work. I got invited to a party on Friday that I think I'll go to. I have to get more information on it. It's with Fabricio so it should be fun. We'll see who else is going.

Ilha Pics

I posted picture of my Ihla pictures on Facebook. They came out wicked good...well I liked a large portion I should say. More than what I usually say with a batch of pictures that come my way. I'm waiting for the pictures from the Forro at Club 2004. There was a picture I LOVED. I'll ask Denise for it.

-Vaughn-

Final Paper

So my final paper was 9 pages :) I was aiming for 8. Talked to peeps today. Found out Chris Doolin died :( R.I.P. But I did find it interesting that he had a garden made and asked people to bring flowers to plant in his memory. I've never heard of that before. I might copy. May god bless.



-Vaughn-