...and so was yesterday, and the day before. Every day is a day that I get closer to this country and its people. Every day I learn a word or two and maybe in a few weeks I'll know enough to actually tell the taxi driver where to stop instead of repeating aquiöö aquiöö?!?
What I have come to love by now is the way the brazilians just know how to take it easy. Life is for living here and the finnish should learn that. The brazilians know something important about life that many of us don't, and it has nothing to do with the warm and sunny +28° climate or the long sandy beaches next to their homes... Nothing. The finnish should learn how to relax, to be patient and remember that there's time tomorrow and the day after that. The finnish should stop moaning about the cold and the rain and the ticket prices and Matti Vanhanen and how the curtains don't match the carpet. The finnish should use that time to enjoy the good stuff. I should use that time to enjoy the good stuff. From now on I will try to enjoy the good stuff. And I have.
It's hard to believe I've only been here for three days. In those three days I have: Walked on the beach while eating cold acai with honey and banana, drank caipiroscas under a starry sky while the brazilian beat plays in the backround of the hidden beach restaurant, I have done mad poses for pictures with people I've know for a matter of hours, but who have been the best company even though we don't share a language. I have done so many amazing things and had so many amazing moments it feels like a lifetime. And I still have five months to go.
But there are people to thank for these experiences. Not all moments have been good. Every now and then you get reminded of how far away you are from home and how dangerous it can be in these corners of the world. We would be dead or at least stranded without Tulio, and I would have gone mad or had a nervous breakdown if I didn't have Niklas.
Every day is a better day. Every day you learn a new way to enjoy this mad place. Tomorrow we are going to what is known as the most beautiful beach in Brazil. It's a place where fish eat from your hand while you watch them through the clear blue water of the lagoon. It's a place I haven't been to, but I hear they have chicken. It's a place called Porto de Galinhas, and I won't send you a card.
You guys just have no idea...
...I'm so lucky I do.
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Just make sure they are not the kind of fishes that will eat your fingers too, ok? Please? :P
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