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dotintheskyI'm by the sea! It's amazing here... though I'm already burnt as a shrimp after two days (I did use sunblock 30, I swear). It's also highly amusing that I leave my journal unattended for two days, and when I come back ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ephemeritis and wardytron have ripped a new asshole in some poor Livejournal troll. You guys are too mean! ;-P
I wish you could all be here with me to experience the beauty of this place. The village itself, Arraial D'Ajuda, is like a forgotten paradise in some remote corner of Brasil. The people are lovely and beautiful. For example, just on our way to this internet cafe, a young boy tapped our shoulders and said "hello friends!" Usually, I would expect him to then show us some necklaces or cheap sunglasses, but nothing of the sort happened. The people of Bahia (the state in which Arraial D'Ajuda is in) are incredibly friendly.
The sea is not far from our pousada. We have to walk down a hill made of stones until we reach the white sand and the flat sea. The water is cool during the mornings, and hot like a bath in the afternoons. You can swim as far into the sea as you want; it's peaceful like a giant swimming pool. Because the Summer season is over, there's hardly anyone here. We walk the beach in the mornings and run into very few people. When we sit down for some coconut water, young guys sit with us and talk about where we come from, my brother's drawings (he's using all his time here to work on his art) or what we think of the place.
The only two negative things so far are my "severe" sunburns and a conversation we had this morning with one guy. He told us that all of the businesses in Arraial are being bought up by foreigners, that the money no longer stays here. Because of that, a lot of the natural beauty of the place has been affected and some of its wildness lost (i.e. golf courses being built, a Club Med not too far away.) Nevertheless, I should have pointed out to him that these businesses also bring jobs to the people here. Something positive always comes out of the negative, non? Another thing that is bothering me are the huge amounts of foreign hippies living here. I'm generally indifferent to hippies, but there's something parasitiac (is that a word?) about these ones. They go around trying to sell their little beads and I just want to tell them "I'd rather give my money to one of the many people here struggling to sell their work, then to you. Go back to your fucking country." Wow... I need to keep my xenophobia in check. Seriously, I don't mind foreigners coming to Brasil (it is a country, after all, built on immigration) but these fucking hippies seem to me the kind that would sell their mothers to you as long as you bought one of their cheap necklaces.
Anyways, just wanted to give everyone a quick update.
P.S. Osho was a cockmuncher and a gayer. I'm glad he is dead and I hope he's enjoying his reincarnation as a cockroach.
ephemeritis and wardytron have ripped a new asshole in some poor Livejournal troll. You guys are too mean! ;-PI wish you could all be here with me to experience the beauty of this place. The village itself, Arraial D'Ajuda, is like a forgotten paradise in some remote corner of Brasil. The people are lovely and beautiful. For example, just on our way to this internet cafe, a young boy tapped our shoulders and said "hello friends!" Usually, I would expect him to then show us some necklaces or cheap sunglasses, but nothing of the sort happened. The people of Bahia (the state in which Arraial D'Ajuda is in) are incredibly friendly.
The sea is not far from our pousada. We have to walk down a hill made of stones until we reach the white sand and the flat sea. The water is cool during the mornings, and hot like a bath in the afternoons. You can swim as far into the sea as you want; it's peaceful like a giant swimming pool. Because the Summer season is over, there's hardly anyone here. We walk the beach in the mornings and run into very few people. When we sit down for some coconut water, young guys sit with us and talk about where we come from, my brother's drawings (he's using all his time here to work on his art) or what we think of the place.
The only two negative things so far are my "severe" sunburns and a conversation we had this morning with one guy. He told us that all of the businesses in Arraial are being bought up by foreigners, that the money no longer stays here. Because of that, a lot of the natural beauty of the place has been affected and some of its wildness lost (i.e. golf courses being built, a Club Med not too far away.) Nevertheless, I should have pointed out to him that these businesses also bring jobs to the people here. Something positive always comes out of the negative, non? Another thing that is bothering me are the huge amounts of foreign hippies living here. I'm generally indifferent to hippies, but there's something parasitiac (is that a word?) about these ones. They go around trying to sell their little beads and I just want to tell them "I'd rather give my money to one of the many people here struggling to sell their work, then to you. Go back to your fucking country." Wow... I need to keep my xenophobia in check. Seriously, I don't mind foreigners coming to Brasil (it is a country, after all, built on immigration) but these fucking hippies seem to me the kind that would sell their mothers to you as long as you bought one of their cheap necklaces.
Anyways, just wanted to give everyone a quick update.
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on 2005-03-14 05:07 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-03-14 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-03-14 05:13 pm (UTC)Omg me too....what a fucking prat! =o\
Seriously, I don't mind foreigners coming to Brasil (it is a country, after all, built on immigration) but these fucking hippies seem to me the kind that would sell their mothers to you as long as you bought one of their cheap necklaces
That would really piss me off aswell, don't worry, you don't sound anti-immigration in the slightest here - those bitches are everywhere!
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on 2005-03-14 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-03-14 05:15 pm (UTC)i'm tryin to see the ocean
haha, your bit on the hippies was funny. you're right though, there is something different about the hippies selling glass blown beaded hemp jewelry in San Francisco [i got an anklet and one of them kindly tied it for me] and then the ones selling their goods in another country where the native people are in need of money. however....the twist: if the native residents are not selling beads, and just the hippies are, then the equilibrium is maintained and no harm is done.
but if they're the sell-you-their-moms kind, forget it.
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on 2005-03-14 05:18 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-03-14 05:45 pm (UTC)it would bother me too, no matter how much i claim to attempt at balance.
go swimming, already :D
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on 2005-03-18 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-03-14 06:09 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-03-14 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-03-18 01:17 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-03-14 08:13 pm (UTC)the huge amounts of foreign hippies living here ... trying to sell their little beads
Keep your eyes peeled, and see if one of them is that bloke who used to be in the Manic Street Preachers. He's supposedly been spotted in more locations than Elvis, and it's usually under circumstances like this...
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on 2005-03-18 01:20 pm (UTC)LOL!
on 2005-03-14 09:07 pm (UTC)Re: LOL!
on 2005-03-18 01:21 pm (UTC)Re: LOL!
on 2005-03-18 05:19 pm (UTC)Re: LOL!
on 2005-03-19 03:13 pm (UTC)Re: LOL!
on 2005-03-20 03:56 am (UTC)no subject
on 2005-03-14 09:30 pm (UTC)Os Hippongas são um saco!!! Dê preferencia ao artesanato brasileiro, assim eles voltam pros países de origem, mesmo!!! Pô!!! Que negócio é esse!!!!
Bjos e continue se divertindo nesse pedaço de paraíso!!!!
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on 2005-03-18 01:21 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-03-14 10:51 pm (UTC)mas quem eh esse Osho????????????????
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on 2005-03-18 01:23 pm (UTC)Ja estou com saudades!!
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on 2005-03-19 03:51 am (UTC)ah, jah sei...quando a gente encontar alguem bem chato a gente pode chama-lo de osho!
eg. putz, fulano de tal eh um tremendo osho!!!!
ah, noticia triste. um filho da puuuuuuuuuuta jogou veneno no quintal da Leci, e quatro gatos morreram!!! Eu tou chocada e muito triste ate agora!!!!!
a Leci entao...coitada!!!
ela me disse que iria registrar queixa na policia (ela sabe quem fez aquilo)....foi um safado que ja matou muitos gatos na vizinhanca!!
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on 2005-03-19 03:22 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-03-20 05:43 am (UTC)a mãe dela ficou arrasada!!!!
pode deixar que eu mando, sim!!
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on 2005-03-20 02:12 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-03-20 09:17 pm (UTC)o cara que fez isso é um idiota louco sem coração que mora perto da casa dela!! Parece que o cara já matou uns 15 gatos na vizinhança...porque ele não gosta de gatos!!!
filhpo da puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuta!!!!!
hollie-oliday
on 2005-03-14 11:03 pm (UTC)I agree about the hippies. I think it's reasonable to assume if they have the money to travel, their crafty poverty is pretty shallow in the context of generations of struggle. I like granola and vegetables as much as the next guy/girl/squirrel, but every hippie I've ever spent any time with turned out to be extremely judgemental, uptight and stingy. The only thing relaxed about them is their hygiene.
P.s. What's with the p.s.? Kinda weird. Why a "gayer"? Did you write that or is it a quote?
P.P.S. Check out my journal for the news.
Re: hollie-oliday
on 2005-03-18 01:25 pm (UTC)We took tons of photos and my brother will send his to me by email. And, of course, youll get to see the ones I took!
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on 2005-03-16 08:47 pm (UTC)mesmo assim eu quero ir para Londres (tô dizendo isso pela 986º vez) hahahahahahahaha
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on 2005-03-18 01:27 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-03-25 01:53 am (UTC)I should keep my xenophobia in check, too... At least about hippies and that specific type of catalan hippies: the "cumbas" (some kind of mix between a hippy and a nationalist).
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on 2005-03-25 03:40 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-03-27 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-03-27 02:36 pm (UTC)