February 17, 2012

Teaching, Laundry, and Lots of Rain


This week, I got to teach for the first time. After being a student for 18 years, it’s an interesting experience. It’s more fun than I thought, especially when the students actually learn something. Of course, there’s always the bully, and the kid depriving a village somewhere of an idiot. But for the most part, it’s a lot of fun. I also did a presentation about multiculturalism, which went very well.

Since there is no dryer in the house, I have been putting off laundry for a few days. When I finally decided to do it, the washing machine was going for two hours and counting. It turns out that the ‘white’ load is six hours long, so I had to manually skip to rinse.

I went to buy something from a store nearby, and while I was there it started raining cats and dogs. Due to bad judgement, I didn’t have my umbrella. I waited a little bit, but it showed no signs of stopping. I ran back home, and in ten minutes I was completely soaked. Great Brazilian weather myth: busted.

After only two weeks of work, I have the whole week off for Carnival. I will be in Rio for most of it because I managed to get cheap accommodation. The amount of excitement I have is over 9,000. Do you know what I meme?

Later

Fun Fact: The population of Lebanon is 4,000,000. There are about 7,000,000 Lebanese people in Brazil. The current vice-president of Brazil, the governor of São Paulo state, and the mayor of São Paulo are all Lebanese Brazilian.

Bader

2 comments:

  1. When will be the Carnival? There is Carnival in SP?

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  2. It already passed. There was Carnival here, but I went to Rio.

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