brazil 15 [eng]

hello dear friends

a sunny day at the beach is coming to an end and so i would like to provide you with some information and stories that will hopefully make you smile. Have fun reading...

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28.1. - 3.2.

my today's start into this new week was very relaxed.
I spent the morning writing a blog entry and doing all the necessary formatting on lolita's laptop, working with a decent computer with a keyboard makes it easy to create these simple but quite elaborate posts.
I also started fulfilling my promise to gabi and lolli and prepared baking an apple strudel. that's not that hard at all. Unfortunately, the dough was not so perfect and I probably should have bought another apple variety ...
but that's why i do it, to learn from it, but the result can be seen and tasted anyway.

In the afternoon, one of the heaviest thunderstorms I've ever experienced occurred. what made it even more special is the fact that I live here on the 18th floor, so almost in the clouds, and the thunders sound like they are being created just outside the balcony.
I put myself into the cuddly hammock and chilled the afternoon with a good ginger tea, listening to the spectacle and reading my book.
When Lolli returned from work in the evening, she surprised me with a fruit that she had bought, a so-called atemoya. this is a greenish yellow, about fist-sized fruit, with very interesting texture.
The tender meat is whitish and tastes perfect when ripe, like the mix of pineapple and mango. you have to be careful only on the many seeds that are stuck in the flesh.

With this enjoyment and other reports, from Lollis travel to her family on the weekend, we sweetened the evening and then went to sleep quite early.

I woke up well rested and then, right after the breakfast, i went to complete and publish the blog entry.
Listening to music, I danced through the kitchen and washed the dishes from yesterday.
then i talked to the dear ennio for a long time and we talked a lot about the golden future, which both of us expect. i also introduced him to trello and hopefully he will work his way into this fantastic organization tool so that we have a good basis for our future collaboration.
i continued with more breaking bad in the hammock and another impressive thunderstorm.

In the afternoon I met Carita at the O de Casa Hostel, a few streets away. i had met her as well as lolli during the last visit here in são paulo and i am very pleased that we met again. she has been working as a receptionist and booker here for some time, besides, she had promised me a cold free beer and so I was twice tempted not to be late, which despite everything, i did, of course not manage.
we talked a lot and she told me about her life here in são paulo, she had married about 3 months ago and decided against going to japan with her husband.

she also told me about her plans to spend the carnival in caraiva, a small coastal town in bahia, maybe that suits my plans too and i visit her with bruno as soon as i leave in the northern direction.
back in the apartment lolli told me about her day and a serious mistake in one of the jobs she is responsible for controlling.
I tried to comfort her and then I went again to meet with gabi in liberdade for a good dinner. exhausted from the most eventful of the last days, I fell asleep.

I slept for a long time and after the short and fruity breakfast with lolli I went back to bed again, then just before lunch to which she had invited her work colleagues, I took a shower and put on some sociable clothes.
I also noticed that my new sunglasses definitely have to be round.

When Lolli arrived with her friends / colleagues, we cooked pasta all together and ate them with a very good pesto that a friend had brought.
In the afternoon I walked a bit through the neighborhood and looked at a few houses that have been here for some time.
As the usual afternoon storm set in, I pulled myself back up into the hammock and followed the exciting adventures of Jesse and Walter in the fight against the cartel and the DEA. At some point there was sun again ...

Together, with Gabi visiting me in the evening, I cooked some pasta and because we were too lazy to move into the rainy night, we watched a horrible movie, it was some comedy, about a man with the voices in his mind could hear the women. real hollywood bullshit ...

apparently yesterday I had made a statement while shopping with gabi, which went against the line, because when I wrote to her in the morning, there were problems, I had said something derogatory yesterday about the city of são paulo itself, so not really, I only said that I would not wish to live here. i justified this with the argument that there is too much smog, too much hectic, too few trees and parks and just a lot of stress.
I also believe that it is bad for people to live a two-hour bus ride away from a beautiful lake or untouched nature.

she probably took that as a critique of herself and her lifestyle and reacted very blocky.
In retrospect I can say that I should have put it better because my European perspective is consumed by so much and for someone who grew up in Brazil, São Paulo must be something like New York, the tip of the iceberg.

This bumpy start to the day gave me a thoughtful breakfast and I used the mental energy to summarize some more days of my trip to Argentina and write a lot more mails regarding the summer planning.
I also wrote two letters, one to the family from the Schnilskindskopf, with some photos for his parents and the second went out to Edda in Berlin, who would celebrate her housewarming party in a few weeks.

The next day I spent with wonderful videos of Paul Robinson, he is a master of the construction of wood geodesic structures and the dome that I built at Johnny was mainly done with his plans.

https://www.youtube.com/user/pauly1060

I started to design my own ideas for a kind of roof over my camper-van and worked on the most diverse versions of designing such a complex structure.

In the evening I cooked together with Lolli and her longtime friend, Carol. Great fish fillets were baked in the oven, with all sorts of root vegetables and brown rice. lolli can cook really great, she could sometimes take more time to do it...;)

today I wake up in time for breakfast with lolli and when we finished eating and she went to the street and work with the elevator, I take a shower and then go back to the modeling of the three-dimensional design on the basis of a geodesic domes.
meanwhile I heard wonderful music from cass mccombs, a real recommendation to you, the album mangy love, i hear this one, since i discovered it, over and over again.

For lunch I eat a bit of the fish left over from yesterday. Then I start shopping and brought the two letters to the post office.
I spend the evening together with Lolli at the balcony and then I watch a movie, I think it’s called: the skin I live in.

Early this morning, I was very happy to welcome Cathi to our apartment, she had come from Florianopolis to São Paulo and would first stay for the weekend with Lolli and me, she will sleep on the balcony.

First we ran down to the pool together and she told me what she had experienced during the last weeks in Argentina and south Brazil.
Some time later we had breakfast together with lolli and steph, the girlfriend of lolli. then we set out to check out a few nearby hostels to find a place to sleep for cathi's other nights in são paulo.
the prices are quite strong and so, at the end, she booked a bed in the o de casa hostel, where we then meet again with carita.
then it went on to the flea market at parca benedito calixto, which always takes place here on the weekend and is quite comparable to the mauerpark (park of the wall) in Berlin, a lot of stuff, vintage stuff and various things from past decades. finally i found and bought these wonderful sunglasses.

Also, I saw this baby here and i was so tempted to buy this record..

on the way back from the park, we strolled along a street market in vila madalena and also visited the beco do batman, a very small neighborhood with some cross streets where every wall is covered with street art. I've been here with Carita for a few months already, but only in the evening. In daylight, the colorful pictures and patterns are a lot better.

Running back to the apartment, we stumbled into a market, where we stocked up with fruit.
We mixed them into delicious smoothies, which we sipped in the afternoon, at the pool of the apartment complex where Lolli lives.

The afternoon was stressful because of a misunderstanding with a friend and that's why I spent the evening with Cathi together in Vila Madalena and O de Casa Hostel, making jokes of other gringos.

After yesterday's night, today would be a bit frisky and when I had showered, I prepared some first-class creamy hummus, together with Cathi.

A friend of Lolita visited us in the afternoon and we all made a plan together to drive to the beach at the next weekend. Actually, yesterday we had also considered whether we should go to paranapiacaba today, but we rejected this plan and then spent almost the whole day with lolli and ana at the pool, in the shadow behind this surreal house.

the cottage, which we booked in praia de boiçucanga, is a rustic cabana in the so-called mata atlantica, the atlantic rainforest, which stretches over large parts of the brazilian coast. unfortunately, the euphoric cheer photo is a bit out of focus ..

Then we went to a pre carnival party in the evening, so to a bloquinho a street party near the metro station república.
we were warned firmly by lolli, to pack our valuables and phones well and not put them loose in your pocket, but nevertheless it happened, looking for steph, who had found a place to dance far in front of the music. We pushed our way through the crowds and made our way to the front, when I wanted to buy a beer, I realized that my purse is no longer in my bag.
I was robbed. After another check, I was sure it was not there anymore.
So we moved out of the crowd again and lolli shared her internet with me, so that I could pick out the correct phone number and could lock my two visa cards with my bank. such a theft is a terribly unnecessary action that causes a series of further problems, as you will see in the other posts.
the rest of the evening we spent at smaller street parties in the center and danced alternately to brazilian and electronic rhythms.

Since Steph lives here very close, we went also to her home and then drove back with a uber, to the apartment, where we all quickly fell asleep.

already a whole week has passed here in brazil, next time i write about our trip to the beach and some wonderful people that i got to know. bye for now...

love
pauli

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