Daily life in São Miguel is pretty much the same. However there are some destinguishing events during the week.

Monday: This is one of the day's for fresh fruit, as one of the fruit/ veggie stalls receives their fresh produce every week on this day. But, only go in the afternoon, or early evening, as before around 3 o'clock, you won't find anything fresh.

Tuesday: Nothing out of the ordinary happens today.

Wednesday: The second grocer receives his batch of fresh produce. Again only available later in the day. I have not yet found out which one is more expensive, but I think it's the one that receives it's produce today, as the Monday one tends to run out of food faster.

Note: Both grocer's sell a variety of fruits and vegetables, plus herbs. The Wednesday one also sells cheese, ham, and yogurts. I believe, he sometimes also has sausages. The types of vegetables I can find here are: tomatoes (I know some will say tomatoes are fruits), onions, cucumbers, green pepers, cabbage (white and purple), carrots, and beetroot, potatoes, sweet potatoes, macaxeira (aka mandioca). The fruits I find are: abacaxi, apples, mangos, oranges (which here are green btw, and not orange), papayas, avocados, bananas, guavas, passion fruit, and a few others whose names I'm not yet familiar with.

Thursday: As far as I´m aware, nothing happens special happens today...

Friday: Today is the start of the weekend... And from around 21.00 hours you have blasting music in the town's square... This usually lasts until around 3/4 o'clock in the morning and then gets repeated on Saturday night. So, if you're thinking of falling asleep, think again, especially around midnight when they tend to play Gangnam style...

Saturday: Meat day! Woohoo! Until you see the conditions perhaps... A cow, pig and sometimes a goat as well are killed on Friday evening, they are left over-night (no refrigeration) to bleed dry. On Saturday (very very early... if you want a good piece you should be there at the shop at around 6.30 in the morning...) the shop (which usually is a frozen goods shop; ie. drinks, ice creams, etc) is open for meat sale. The way meat is sold is very rural... The various animals are hung from the ceiling, previously skinned ofcourse. There is a plastic on the floor to catch any blood dripping. Then the butcher stands behind a wooden table (note wooden... not very clean...) and takes orders, he then proceeds to cut of the quantity that you desire and weighs it on a very old-fashioned scale, comes probably from the 1950's... or something. You're piece of meat then gets put into a plastic bag and you can take it home, after paying ofcourse Oh right, did I mention the hundreds of flies around the meat???

Saturday is also market day, now-a-days the market isn't as big anymore, but there are still quite a few farmers from the surrounding areas that bring in things such as fresh corn, or cow's milk.

Sunday: Obviously church day. Overall the town gets pretty quite today, a lot of people tend to leave town after church and go visit relatives in the surrounding areas, so pretty much a peaceful day.

Most weeks we also get electricity cuts and so also water cuts, usually it lasts only a few hours, but I've heard they once had almost three weeks without power, and so water had to be carried from other places.

Everyday, around 30 kids/ young adults get together around 17.00 to play ball. I have been asked to join them, and have, I go most days, depending a bit on the weather etc. It gets quite fun, and it also allows me to get to know more people.

Most evenings are spent in front of the television watching the brazilian series, either at your own home or at someone else's. It gets dark quite early (+/- 18.30) and so people also tend to have dinner quite early.