There's this Brazilian thing called "ficarse" (ficar - to be, with a lot of extra uses, plus se makes it reflexive, so ficarse is kind of "to be yourself") that basically is a one-night makeout fling. I almost gave in in Araçuaí but decided not to ( Read more... )

Tattooed Brazil into the diary this morning. I've found the perfect tattoo artist... why does she have to live in the fucking Brazilian interior??? She's amazing; better than anyone I've seen in Seattle. She does every style plus custom and she does it perfectly. I am seriously considering coming up with a tattoo just to have more of her work ( Read more... )

All the people here think I'm crazy for leaving Seattle - a cidade do grungi! - to spend my summer in Brazil, especially here in the interior. I think the people here are so fucking rad but I miss my city... especially after reading things by Juliana, Garth, and Marie about CHBP and Sarina moving into the house and pride happenings and Atlas ( Read more... )

I FOUND HARRY POTTER ( Read more... )

Girl update: She's a scientologist. Definitely not. In other news, Raphaela and Maura keep sending me messages about visiting and staying at their houses ( Read more... )

I'm going to Ecuador ( Read more... )

The girl is 17. Or 16. I think this means I won't be having a girl fling here... that would be crossing too many social/legal boundaries just to kiss a cute girl ( Read more... )

I am in a isolated town of several thousands in Minas Gerais, which is why I haven't been posting. Myself and all of my belongings are perpetually covered in red dust and cane liquor. I fucking love it here ( Read more... )

Blargh. I decided last night that I had to finish my fifth of gin in the course of playing Kings. We're moving to another city today and I couldn't take it with me. So now I'm hungover in a gamers' internet cafe trying to interview Bruna over MSN in Portuguese about sensitive subjects and it is not working ( Read more... )

Today in Portuguese class I learned two fun things:
The word for dyke is sapotão... which literally translates to "big frog"
A bad word is a palavra xula. Xula is pronounced very very similar to a word I use all the time, chula, which is "cute" in Mexican slang. Whoops ( Read more... )