Arraial D'Ajuda - Lets Live Here... All of Us (apart from Osho's fan club)

[dotinthesky]

I'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 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.

Comments

[suede.livejournal.com]

You the anti-osho goebbles! hahaha

[violentlyhappy.livejournal.com]

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.

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!

[i-am-scowling.livejournal.com]

mmm. that ocean sounds delicious.

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.

[ephemeritis.livejournal.com]

Teehee.

[tete-glitter.livejournal.com]

Argh, esses hippies q vendem "artesanato" barato são os piores. Odeeeeio qdo eles grudam e começam a fazer propaganda das coisinhas q eles vendem, tira a graça de qq passeio... Eles são pragas nas áreas mais turísticas aqui do Rio tb...

[tonight-we-fly.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about the sunburn. You don't get that with properly moderated London weather.

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...

LOL!

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miss ya! & .. I'm glad your having fun!

[la-magarita.livejournal.com]

O lugar deve ser lindo mesmo! Já ouvi maravilhas daí!!!

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!!!!

[roguejournal.livejournal.com]

eita via boa, sô!!


mas quem eh esse Osho????????????????

hollie-oliday

[wink-martindale.livejournal.com]

The sea sounds like something out of a dream. I'm still waiting for the photos!! Does your brother have a scanner at home? I'd like to see his drawings too. It sounds so wonderful there. I'm sure you're soaking up every second of pleasure, even if it may be in the shade for a while now...

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.

[hunterjr.livejournal.com]

nossa, esse lugar deve ser lindo mesmo O_O
mesmo assim eu quero ir para Londres (tô dizendo isso pela 986º vez) hahahahahahahaha

[gorecky22.livejournal.com]

Wow!! That sounds amazing... I see that if I ever go to Brazil, I only have to follow the places you've been talking about!!

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).