arte

the past few days have been great! i spent sunday sitting on the porch drawing with joao pedro. i was watercoloring and j.p. was color penciling the world, which consisted of the house, two of his friends and the estados unidos way off in the corner. on sunday we also (well everyone but me) had chirosco, traditional brazilian barbeque. huge chunks of meat on giant skewers roasted over a wood fire. apparently it was delish. we also drank more brazilian beer and caparinas, the national drink of brazil. caparinas consist of chausca liqour with lime and sugar. very strong.

later, we went to the town hot spot. it was a park by the river with a snack stand. there were tons of people sitting around their cars, which were parked on the grass, blasting bizzare brazilian techno. luis, ricardo, loiva and i drank some beer made out of cabbage. i put my feet in the river, which was the color of chocolate milk! joao pedro and i spent a good 30 minutes throwing rocks into the river and i unsucessfully attempted to skip stones on the surface. on the way home ricardo took us on the scenic route; it consisted of, literally, driving through the river, i thought the car was going to flood! loiva was berating ricardo very much at this point; he was just trying to show off.

it rained all day today so luis and i spent the day washing and labeling bottles of nectar peach (pessigo) and blackberry (amora). this was a nice break from scrubbing the insides of bottles. also, we found the best radio station yet, 90's rock! hell yes. luis made a loaf of bread which we ate for cafe de tarde.

i spent this evening with joao pedro painting. he saw me painting with my watercolors and wanted to paint so bad. ricardo went to the store and bought a little set of tempura paint and we sat around the coffee table and painted together. pretty much joao just wanted to pour the paint onto his paper, it took a lot of help from me for it not to turn into a total disaster. i guess im working on my portuguese comands! the skills i gained instructing art to small children at artopia came in handy for the first time in a long time.

i suppose that is all for now. tomorrow luis and i are going to watch the inaguration live on fox news (hahahahahaha)! so stoked. i bid you boa noite and leave you with some pictures.

the best sunset yet!

my painting from the porch