Saturday night there was a party at the Japanese Country Club (Nipo) where there's usually a lot of Japanese food on sale. Unfortunately, I was also invited to go to a sushi night at my friend's friend's place. I was caught in a big dilemma! Sushi is one of my favorite foods but I ended up going to Nipo because everyone said it was cool and only that one night. I might get a chance to go to someone's place and have sushi again.
The day started off where my friend Patricia drive me to her house. She's living with her uncle's family and they have a huge house and pool and everything. The house is in "Lago Sul" which is on the other side of the bridge where all the rich people live. They ONLY have houses over there. The first thing I see is fire in a land full of tall grass and trees. This fire ended up spreading crazily! Its a 5 min drive from the house but there were ashes flying all over us and the pool. It was horrible. I still don't know if it was deliberate or not.
The funniest thing I've seen since being here happened within 5 mins of getting into the house. Patricia accidently dropped the 2L of Coke we just bought, off the patio and it bounces off the ground and FLIES across the yard onto the neighbour's roof!! It was so cool, DEFINITELY worthy of YouTube!!! hehe. I loved it. Made my day, it reminded me of the Coke with the mentos video I've seen before. We played some soccer in the backyard and sat by the pool. There was construction to have another little house built in the back with a sauna, snooker room and storage room.
Prior to Nipo, I rarely ever saw any Asians in the streets of Brasilia but Nipo proved they did exist in the city. It was 8pm and there were already hundred's of cars parked everywhere! This was definitely the place to be. The food wasn't great especially for me because I've tried good sushi before but I tried some Yaksiba, which I don't think I've ever had before and Camarao (fried shrimps). Sadly, I didn't even have any sushi. Everything was kinda expensive. The Yaksiba was 12$ reais and the shrimps were 10$ reais. Whoever thought of this festival was BRILLIANT! Seriously, it was just getting the manpower to make and sell the food and you could easily make $30 000 reais in a couple of hours. My friend who's lived in Japan for a year also didn't think the food was amazing but I guess its the atmosphere. The thing was, the whole night was mainly just eatting and chatting with your friends. There were no shows, music but it wasn't even Japanese. A little lacking in substance.
One of Patricia's friend (Sheida) wanted to go see some of her friends sitting far off and so she brought me. It was probably the worst social experience I've had here. They were really not friendly. They just said hi and I tried to speak to them in Portuguese and then they just continued talking without really acknowledging me. When they did talk about me, they asked Sheida instead of me but still were pointing at me. It was so awkward. I just wanted to leave.
Anywho, it was an ok experience, I ran into some AIESEC friends and so it wasn't so bad. I normally love meeting new people but here it's almost becoming stressful because I can't really talk, I feel so mute.
Then we went to Melting Lounge to eat and I tried Sheesha for the first time with Mint and Citrus flavour in it.
Next week I'm off to Rio de Janiero for their Corpus Christi holiday to have a reunion with some of the trainees I met at the Brazilian conference. Hopefully it all works out! Stay tuned for pictures. I just need to figure out why I can't post them?!
Quote of the Night:
Rogerio: "Wow, there are a lot of Japanese people here!"
The day started off where my friend Patricia drive me to her house. She's living with her uncle's family and they have a huge house and pool and everything. The house is in "Lago Sul" which is on the other side of the bridge where all the rich people live. They ONLY have houses over there. The first thing I see is fire in a land full of tall grass and trees. This fire ended up spreading crazily! Its a 5 min drive from the house but there were ashes flying all over us and the pool. It was horrible. I still don't know if it was deliberate or not.
The funniest thing I've seen since being here happened within 5 mins of getting into the house. Patricia accidently dropped the 2L of Coke we just bought, off the patio and it bounces off the ground and FLIES across the yard onto the neighbour's roof!! It was so cool, DEFINITELY worthy of YouTube!!! hehe. I loved it. Made my day, it reminded me of the Coke with the mentos video I've seen before. We played some soccer in the backyard and sat by the pool. There was construction to have another little house built in the back with a sauna, snooker room and storage room.
Prior to Nipo, I rarely ever saw any Asians in the streets of Brasilia but Nipo proved they did exist in the city. It was 8pm and there were already hundred's of cars parked everywhere! This was definitely the place to be. The food wasn't great especially for me because I've tried good sushi before but I tried some Yaksiba, which I don't think I've ever had before and Camarao (fried shrimps). Sadly, I didn't even have any sushi. Everything was kinda expensive. The Yaksiba was 12$ reais and the shrimps were 10$ reais. Whoever thought of this festival was BRILLIANT! Seriously, it was just getting the manpower to make and sell the food and you could easily make $30 000 reais in a couple of hours. My friend who's lived in Japan for a year also didn't think the food was amazing but I guess its the atmosphere. The thing was, the whole night was mainly just eatting and chatting with your friends. There were no shows, music but it wasn't even Japanese. A little lacking in substance.
One of Patricia's friend (Sheida) wanted to go see some of her friends sitting far off and so she brought me. It was probably the worst social experience I've had here. They were really not friendly. They just said hi and I tried to speak to them in Portuguese and then they just continued talking without really acknowledging me. When they did talk about me, they asked Sheida instead of me but still were pointing at me. It was so awkward. I just wanted to leave.
Anywho, it was an ok experience, I ran into some AIESEC friends and so it wasn't so bad. I normally love meeting new people but here it's almost becoming stressful because I can't really talk, I feel so mute.
Then we went to Melting Lounge to eat and I tried Sheesha for the first time with Mint and Citrus flavour in it.
Next week I'm off to Rio de Janiero for their Corpus Christi holiday to have a reunion with some of the trainees I met at the Brazilian conference. Hopefully it all works out! Stay tuned for pictures. I just need to figure out why I can't post them?!
Quote of the Night:
Rogerio: "Wow, there are a lot of Japanese people here!"
Pre-packaged goodness, I have no idea what they were but they were EXPENSIVE!
The sign says "Camarao" which means, shrimp. They seriously had like 100 people working behind the scenes that night.
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