Well. It's been another real classy week down here in Brazil except for one thing. Everybody here likes to shower! And sometimes like 3-4 times per day. And I'm here all thinking eh... shower every other day is good so I don't have to wash more clothes (we'll get to that later). And then they ask me if I want to shower and it's like that Book of Mormon story: I don't think that I stink! It is really humid and warm, but I feel like I'm wet before I shower and then I'm wet afterward so what's the difference?
This is the papaya that we ate one day for breakfast. Just FYI, don't eat the seeds. The seeds taste really good on the passionfruit so we decided to try these ones too. Bad idea. But the fruit itself is good.
We went to the Friday market they have here and this guy was selling leather sandals and these hats from a city up North. We've heard that the sandals smell pretty bad and they did so we didn't end up buying them. Also, the seller guy was about to charge us extra cause he knew we couldn't understand but fortunately our friend stopped him. It was cool to walk around with her and learn the names of the fruits and vegetables. We also ate crepe de suiço which are pretty much crepes on sticks. Really yummy.
This tree was especially beautiful. It has all sorts of different things growing on it--lichens, mosses, other plants. Really cool.
After Ricardo left us, our meat loving friends decided to take us to the espetinho which is like a Brazilian barbecue but the restaurant version I believe. The meat was awesome, as were the rice and beans and Manjoka. They also put this yummy powder stuff on the rice and beans.
These are our friends who took us to the espetinho place. It was really fun trying to communicate with them in our broken portuguese. I also tried Pitanga juice. All the juice here is so good.
K so, here's the reason for the blog title. Most of the people at the lab go home for lunch, but because we live kind of far away, we've been buying lunch from the supermarket everyday. They have these really good meat sandwich things. But the other day, we weren't feeling like we wanted to eat meat, so we bought this avacado (this is a small avacado compared to some of the ones we've seen), and some rolls to make some avacado sandwiches. We went back to the lab to eat it and our friend Marcos saw us and thought we were crazy. Apparently he's never seen someone eat avacado with bread before. He said we had to try it with sugar.
We tried the other half of it with sugar but it wasn't really as good. But later Guesa made us some avacado with lemon juice and sugar and we liked that a lot better.
On campus there are all these really cool fruit trees. This is the guava before we ate it. It was really good.
As Dr. Johnson (BYU professor) says: As long as there are plants nearby, you have some friends.
So, we heard that a lot of people here in Assis are really into martial arts, and thought we would try it as a sort of cultural experience. Our friend Vicky goes to Muay Thai (a sort of kickboxing thing) several times a week and invited us to come with her for a lesson. It was pretty fun except it involved a lot of running around and around.
These are some of the guys we work in the lab with--Thiago and Lucas. Lucas is probably one of my favorite people we have met here. He was in charge of training us in the lab, and Ricardo said he wasn't allowed to speak to us in English. But he is so patient with us in speaking simple Portuguese, and has the best funny faces. He's super cool.
Guesa took us to get Brazilian hotdogs. They were huge! I think we got the special which had not only two sausages, but some ham pieces, bacon and sauce and potato things on top. It was really good.
Sometimes we say things that people think are really funny. Like I told Ricardo that we ate chupa-cabras (I was trying to say Jabuticabas). Eh. So some words are hard to say, like paralelopepido. Then they tried to make us say Portuguese tongue twisters. Like "o rato roeu a roupa do rei de roma". So that was fun.
We found the culprit! The lady who feeds all the campus cats. When she pulled up in her car, they started coming out of drains and from behind rocks and it was like she was a magnet! She's awesome.
This is the lake where we went fishing. Apparently Ricardo's dad caught 90 last week, but we didn't catch any with him.
These kids speak really good English. And are also decent soccer players.
The farm where we went fishing had parrots and macaws and peacocks and these strange long-legged chickens.
We caught the bait with a net. It was pretty sweet.
This is our friend who took us for a boat ride. I think maybe he owns the place?
He took this picture of me. It's funny because the cow is going to eat me right???
Our friend Iara from the church took us swimming. They have a really nice pool that we almost had to ourselves.
And of course. More ice cream.
And these glorious things. Brigadeiros.
Anyway. It was a great week. Awesome people, good times. It's nice.
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