Things have been fun and yet crazy… I’ve been really sick the past couple of days, but have been taking a good mix of tylenol and cipro and am starting to get back to somewhat normal. This past weekend was the São João (St. John) festival, and we took a tourist bus to Campina Grande for the celebration. It kind of made me feel like we were in the Texas of Brasil, lots of leather, traditional dancing… but instead of Mexicans there are Brazilians everywhere! And lots of food and drink.

Johanna’s full flickr set is available here.

Also, havaianas are the sweetest shoes ever, here are these awesome special edition kicks I got in Campina.

Forró (the musical style) is king here, its basically a triangle, an accordion, and a zabumba drum. And its EVERYWHERE. It’s sort of shitty folksy polka-ish music. I mean its good, but kind of sounds the same in the same way that all salsa music sound exactly the same. But people of all ages here love it in a really non-ironic way. I guess we are in too rural area for their to be arrogant hipsters. But man, I’ve been into Forró for so long now…

Other than that I’ve been keeping myself busy, trying to decide what direction I want to take my life in next. I’ve been reading The Razor’s Edge as well as some advanced Rails books.

More to come at a later date… Miss you all.

Related posts:

1. Update
2. Time to ponder…

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