Rio é SHOW!

OI ALL!

Here´s my weekly post. First, explaining the title of this entry, people here use the word SHOW, to mean COOL! It´s pretty funny.

OK recap of this week:
On Friday night we went back to Lapa to the street food and drink fair which was a lot of fun, and we walked around talking to jewlery vendors, bought some earings. OH! there was this fantastic circle of people practicing capoeira right on the street, so we watched that for a bit and it was great!!

On Saturday a 3 of my friends and I went to Barra shopping which is the biggest shopping center in Latin America and it was HUGE. I bought some shoes and we walked around there and it was pretty interesting. The mall is a random mix of normal mall stores, and mattress stores, and washing machine stores, a few food courts, and then there is a fancy designer section with fancy american and european clothing, shoe and jewlery designers. then that night we went to a dinner at a churascarria paid for by the program, where they have about 8 side dishes on the table and then they continuously bring around meat and u can choose if you want it or not. that went on for about 2-2.5 hours, which was a lot of fun and you get sooo full. then on saturday night, some friends and I went to Lapa, and we went just with the intention of going to a bar to sit and hang out. and we did that for about an hour and half. but then, one of my friends ran into some of her other friends and we ended up going to a club called Manifesta. and they had a great mix of music including Brazilian funk, MPB (musica popular brasileira), forró, and some american music. and, we ended up staying at the club until it closed until 5 am! it was so crazy, and by far my best night here yet.
Then, on sunday we just spent the day lounging on the beach and went to an art fair, called the hippie fair in Ipanema.
Not much happened this week. This my last week of portuguese classes and then I am leaving for salvador on Saturday. OHHH, last night, my friends and I went to this thing called Cachaça Cinema Clube, where you pay for a ticket $2.50, and you watch some short films, and then there is free cachaça after, and then it turns into a night club. so, we went and it was really fun, but for SOME reason, and we dont have a clue why, all of the films last night had some aspect of sex or nudity or both in them. aka it appeared to be amateaur porn night in short films. but it was hilarious and definitely a random experience we will remember for a long time.

OK, thats all the news for this week.

Tchau tchau,
Hannah


P.S. i tried to upload some photos but it didnt work so ill try again later or when I get back from salvador.