Fomos para uma cerimonia de Candomblé. O que posso lembrar mais é o cheiro; doce e enfumaçado. Toda a gente estiveram usando roupas brancas, e toda a cantavam. O rítmo dos tambores foi forte e hípnotico, e muita gente estavam dançando num transe. As crianças puderam correr e mudar como queiram, ou participar cantando.
No Pelourinho conheci com algumas moços do bairro Ribera. Eles trabalham numa fábrica, e me mostraram os calos nos seus måos. Foi um encontro que sempre lembrarei. Por algum ração senti um troque autentico de perspectivas de vida. Eles tentaram vender me uma pulseira de corda e me chamaram "muñeca." Me mostraram seu "massa," que foi bem marrom, seca, e com muitas semitas, mas eles tiveram muito orgulho por que cresciam la na favela, no seu bairro. Eu tentei explicar como e "normal" fumar massa. O primer pergunta que eles me dåo foi "onde você mora?"
Capoeira me interessa muito. Gosto de olhar o mundo de um perspectivo diferente, literalmente. Senti o sudor correndo na minha espalda e senti bem. Toda a gente lá também me interessa muito; todos de partes diferentes do mundo, juntados por um obsessão com movimento e o filosofia
Falo bem com a empregada da minha casa, Lúcia. Ele me disse como quando ela era mais jovem, andava desde Barra para o Pelourinho e também em volto. Ela nåo poderia pagar o ónibus, e queria conhecer com seu namorado. Acho que essa é uma coisa que eu seja tåo maluca fazer também, se quiser. Nunca tenho sido robado o amenizado em ninguém lugar, posso imaginar como esta cambie como se pensa sobre seguridade.
É interessante que tenham nas ruas algumas placas que mostram o perigo de dano por o sol tudo dia. Tem mais que cinco categorias de pessoas com niveles de perigo diferentes para cada categoria. Tem categorias como loiros e claros, morenas, morenas menos claros, morenos mais oscuros, e oscuros e negros. Os claros e loiros sempre tem mais perigo que os mais oscuros. Nunca sabia que tinham essas categorias bem definidas.
Sometimes it is hard for me to remember why I came here, or what my focus is. There are so many awesome things I could spend my time doing.
Went to a Candomble ceremony. What I can remember most is the smell: sweet and smoky. Everyone there was wearing white, and everyone was singing. The rhythm of the drums was hypnotic, and a lot of people were dancing in a trance. The children could run and move around as much as they wanted, or they could participate and sing.
In the Pelourinho I met some Brasilians from the Ribeira neighborhood. They worked in a factory, and they showed me the callouses on their hands. I will always remember talking to them I think. For some reason I felt an authentic exchange of completely different perspectives on the way life is. They also tried to sell me a bracelet made out of cord, and they called me Barbie doll. They showed me their pot that was brown, dry, and had a lot of seeds, but they were very proud of it because they grew it in their neighborhood. The first question they asked me was which neighborhood I lived in Salvador.
I am really intrigued by Capoeira. I like to see the world from a different perspective; upside down. I felt the sweat running down my back and it felt good. Everyone there was also really interesting; everyone was from different parts of the world, but joined together because of their obsession with movement and philosophy. The philosophy of Capoeira seems to have a lot to do with self confidence. I like it a lot because one "plays Capoeira," not fights.
I get along really well with Lucia, the empregada of my house. She told me how when she was younger she used to walk from Barra to the Pelourinho and back. She couldn't pay for the bus, and she wanted to be with her man. I think that this is so naive it sounds like something I might do, if I wanted to badly enough. I have never been robbed or threatened in any place, but I can imagine how being robbed could change the way one thinks about things.
It's interesting that in the streets here they have signs that show the danger of the sun UV rays every day. The signs have more than five different categories of people with different levels of danger for every category. The signs have categories of skin color like loiros e claros (blonds, redheads, pale), brunettes, darker brunettes, brown skinned brunettes, brown skinned, and black. The blonds are always a higher level of danger than the dark skinned. I never knew they had these categories that were so clearly defined.
Música de protesta contra o dictadura de 1964 até 1989
Chico Buarque:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T19mxQe2aAI
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