Live Bait

3/6 – Live Bait
what’s the worst waking nightmare a person can have? To be sleeping under a mosquito net with a number of mosquitoes in it. But there’s more… while searching the white net under the fluerescent light bulb to murder the little bastards, you see none other than a tick – inside the mosquito net with you, inches from where your head had lain minutes ago. Paradise has its flaws.

Speaking of paradise, I finally was able to investigate and participate in the capoeira class I liked – basicly Jamaica’s. His class is on Resende beach at 4pm. I investigated it w/ zak wed and played in his roda that nite… other than badmouthing angoleiros, his class was awesome. We even did backflips! Zak enjoyed the beach and after an hour came over and watched. The night before in the roda, he did not get asked to play, so he was very disappointed thinking Jamaica did not like his capoeira game Monday nite and didn’t ask him…. Very interesting.

So we’ll go again today at 4pm. I abandoned the casa do boneco idea because they overcharged me for so many things as well as the classes they were going to have for zak (first private lesson for R$20, then with all the kids for R$25 and the pants I bought – used! R$30 for a kids, then they charged R$50 for the adult pair!) … so we won’t be going there. Hopefully the R$80 for the pants will help them accomplish their goals and be less scalping in the future…