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Backpack Party!!
Hey everybotty! I shall start by saying I friekin HATE that picture with a vengance!!!(do I really look THAT bad!?- why did nobody tell me, u bar stewards!!!) lol.
However, I have decided to utilise "it" as I feel I should thoroughly rejoice at the arrival of my lovely backpack!!!
(Lets all have a backpackparty, everyone!!)
I cant even remember what Ive told yall so far, and I cant be bothered to look back- it takes too long, so if I repeate(dig my random Portuguese vocab everyone!) then I apologise (not that sincerely!)lol.
hmmm...well yesterday wasn't that interesting in the daytime, apart from the arrival of the backpack!(Did I mention that my backpack arrived, anyone?!)lol. As I had to wait for it to arrive.
So, I decided to take the plunge, so to speak, and navigate myself around Brazil solo last night! (Thank God you're still alive I hear Amber cry in the distance- it's along story, everyone else, but basically, we couldn't even navigate ourselves out of a bar in Heaton Moor, nver mind around a country that doesn't even speak English!)
However, some may argue that even in England not that many ppl actually speak English either...they may speak "Chavish" perhaps? or, alternatively, "Gruntish"? lol.
Anyway, I survives the "Oblivion Kombi" (did I mention that "kombis" are old VW vans that we use here as a bus?) and somehow made it to Sebdas (equivilent to KwikSave.) and did not understand a single thing that anything was, apart from Peter Pan Peanut Butter...which was 23 Reals (about 5 quid!) and I thought, hmmmm...peanut butter...BUT NO, VICKY,NO! YOU'RE ON A BUGET!!!(and besides, that is a friekin rip off if ever I saw one!- most certainly not one of my favourite "BARGAINS!"lol)
So, me thinks to meself....try and blend in, Vicky...dont whatever you do look like a stupid tourist!(which I think I failed, as people kept on staring at me and I felt like it was that scene from ToyStory1 where all those little alien things start pointing and going "ooooo..."lol.)
Anyways, I somehow manage not to have a major panic attack, and just pick up a few things and pretend to look at the ingredients (obviously which I dont understand!) and end up with the randomest, most stupid mix of "foods" (I think) that could possibly exist in the world, and go to pay...
Upon arrival at the checkout 2 youngish girls were behind me, and evidently noticed (how could anyone NOT notice!) that I wasn't local! (This is a local shop for local people!-to quote the league of gentlemen!)
They were wll attempting to bully me and push past me to the till, even though there was, like, literally, only a centimeters ' space between me and the rail! Initially, I was like..."O.....*****" and was scared that they were going to say something to me...
But, then, my Stockport up-bringing kicked in, and I gave them my best death stare before I even realised that I was doing it! This workrd, and they backed off!!(Tshhh...Excuse.Me! Ive dealt with chavs in England every day of my life for years..a bit of Brazilian pushing aint nothing but a thing!!!)lol.
So anyway, I went back to CIADS today....the longest journey in the world!(luckily, not on an Oblivion kombi-I'd need admitting if I had to endure 4 hours of that every day!)-but on a normal bus! I am rather impressed, though by how cheap it is...its only about 50p...and its literally, like, on the other side of Brazil!(slight over-exaggeration-but you get my drift..)
After that, as there was no afternoon session, today (I dno why...) I decided to go and buy some materials for the project, as they have zip!!(and it is rather hard to teach without paper and pens for the kiddies, etc...).
I grab armfuls of paper, pens, foldeers, (and some face wash and nail varnish remover for me- essential maintainance!) and make my way to the till...uh-oh... you guessed it, another till catastrophe!!!
Picture the scene....354 irate Brazilians queing behing a dizzy, frizzy wigged English volunteer...who barely understands Portuguese, in the sweltering heat, eagerly anticipating their turn at the till so they can be free!!!free once more!!!
Sorry about that...you know what I get like at times...
So the girl scans all the stuff...22 Reals...that's cheap (About 5 and a half quid!!) and suddenly, I look in my purse and realise that I didn't put any more money in my purse since yesterdays shopping disaster!(I was traumatised, alright!) and I am greeted to a pile of coppers in half a pence denominations...and 1 5Real note, 2 2Real notes, and a few 1s too...
OOPSY!!!What do I do, what do I do, Vicky-think woman, think! (would she understand cancel-o if I make that word up? Probably not...)
Hmmm...best thing to do is just get out what you have and hope to god that the irate, overheated Brazilian mass behind you is feeling in an understanding mood...(which they evidently weren't!)
Anyway, after about 5 minutes-seriously-of counting out shrapnel, until my purse was empty-I can appreciate the shop girls annoyance- I have Next time served! I have emptied my poor, aching purse, completely...1Real short.
Luckily, the girl behind the till was actually losing the will to live, and let me off, and I had to peg it as fast as I could outta there to escape the verbal abuse, and eminant beating I was about to recieve...
HAHA Mum! The speed walk came in handy, as you said....you can't catch me!!!
Ahhhh...I live to see another crazy day In Brazil...its mint!
Im running out of things to write now, and I've been hogging the computay for ages...(I have practically bonded with the seat...numb bum-ouch!) so I will just randomly tell you about "funk Brazil" its so... amazin..it is literally funky.brazilian.music!Im gonna buy a CD to bring home so you can all appreciate the wanders! You will not be disappointed...
And to everyone who witnessed the randomness that was Natalie's 100 things for Vicky to do list when away....you can now be rest assured that I have crossed off "crazy booty shake" and "go partyboi crazy.." (thanks funky brazil- Im flying through that list now!)
Nuff said I think...
Going now am I! (My Yoda-ish side emerging!)
luv yall!!!!
mwaaa! Post me messages on the board, damn it! and speak 2 u all soon! Thake care!!
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