vagueamento, trabalho, vivendo em brasil: mais o menos

yesterday was a plus and a minus. on the plus side, luis and i got a lot of work done for ricardo and luja. on the menos, we fucking washed bottles for 10 hours. those last three hours were pretty tedious, boring and tiring. also, the day before luis and i were performing the same task and did not get nearly as much acomplished, i think that ricardo was a little disipointed. thus, i felt i needed to redeem myself. as tedious as the work is, the concept is great; ricardo uses recycled bottles for his organic juices. if he did not buy the bottles (1 real each= about $.30)they would just be thrown away. i support that. standing around a giant tub filled with dirty bottles, water and chlorine-i suppose i support that. eh, im just griping because im tired. i have seriously got it made, i wear a bathing suit while im working!

i bought a pair of havianas-this is portuguese for hawaiian. in the us these sandals cost around $20.00, which is ridiculous as they are made of rubber. i bought them at the supermarket for 11,00 $r which is about $5.00 us. whooo!

today, we worked and guess what we did? washed bottles all day long. it was a little better today because i asked loja for a radio, but it was seriously jerry-rigged. the antena didn't really work so we taped a huge peice of wire to it and then had to lean the wire against a ladder to prevent it from falling over. the only station that came in clear was italian polka from the next town over, petropolis. i guess it was better than static, crap, american pop.

if i understood correctly we DON'T have to wash any more bottles tomorrow (oh, please). i believe we will be bottling suco de ova (grape juice) in the recently washed recycled bottles. i think this is what loja told me, i hope! i ususally understand about half of what she is trying to tell me. im just going to believe my little pipe dream. plus, there isn't any more room in the vinicula (the building where they make wine, juices and dulce de leite) for the bottles anyway and in the last three days we must have washed over 500 of those suckers.

this morning i resuced a little bird (avio) from the house. it had flown in and gotten itself stuck. loja tried to chase it out unsuccessfully with a towel. it almost hit me in the face when i startled it trying to go up the stairs a few minutes later. it flew into the bathroom and tried to fly out the closed window, poor thing. i managed, after many attempts to catch it in a towel and carry it outdoors. it was pretty calm when i was holding it but once it saw the open door it escaped my grasp and flew to freedom. poor bird, it lost a lot of it's feathers in it's excursion into the casa.

man, standing in the sun all day long has got me exausted. i had a lot of coffee with cafe de tarde (dinner) and i still managed to unwillingly pass out for about an hour afterwards. i tried to do some drawing after i woke up, but i just felt like a zombie. all i managed to do was sit on the lawn and grunt in response to luis.

luis and i have been planning out next move, and it looks like iguazu falls is on the agenda. it is a waterfall on the border of brasil and argentina and is one of the 3rd largest in the world definitly, bad ass. according to wikipedia it is 275 falls all converging in a 1 mile radius. i can't wait. the only downer is that it will be a 30 hour bus ride one way, but flying is a total rip off price wise.

in other news, i called human resources in yosemite yesterday to check on my seasonal applications and... i qualified for the gs5 and the gs7 positions! yes! my application just needs to be cleared by the hiring official and then im golden. whew. i suppose that is all i have to say for now, and i've said quite a lot. boa noite! or for those of you in the states, good afternoon.