{"id":4969,"date":"2019-02-26T20:34:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T23:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2019-03-08T21:03:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T00:03:04","slug":"thoughts-on-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=4969","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

H<\/strong>ere are a few insights on the wonderful Brazilians:<\/p>\n

1 ~ Brazilians love their Futball (soccer).\u00a0 On my 9th floor apartment, I can see a soccer field and a goalie training court.\u00a0 Brazil tends to get some amazing storms at times, which doesn’t seem to phase them.\u00a0 Below is a picture of the soccer field during a hellacious downpour.\"\"<\/a>`didn’t slow the game down.<\/p>\n

2 ~ The other day as I walked to work, I saw an electric unicycle go down the street at a pretty good clip.\u00a0 There was no seat, so the rider was standing up and wisely wearing a helmet.\u00a0 Didn’t have time to to take a picture, because it went by so fast.\u00a0 I did notice it had a red light in the back to show which is the front and which is the back.<\/p>\n

3 ~ One of the brew-houses my buddy Ricardo and I visit, has a pretty lady named Alice (accent on the second syllable) that I have gotten to know well.\u00a0 She has tattoos on her arm and is planning to get both sleeves covered with them.\u00a0 I ask her what she thought the percentage of people in Brazil who has tattoos, and she thought about half.\u00a0 That is what I figured.\u00a0 I am amazed at all the people with tattoos, and you know many have them placed discretely where they are not seen.\u00a0 I find it quite fascinating tattoos in Brazil are so prevalent.\u00a0 Below is Alice. \u00a0I am the ugly one.\"\"<\/a>This type of brew-house is common throughout Sao Paulo.\u00a0 Here is the selection of beers that they brew:\"\"<\/a>4 ~ Sometimes, I have to stop and laugh at my idiocy. The apartment building I live in, has bio-metric screens (finger-print readers) that we use to access the building.\u00a0 I do not fully understand Portuguese, so when they were taking my finger-prints for the access, they asked me to put my fingers on the magic little screen to record my prints, I obeyed.\u00a0 What I didn’t realize, is they were wanting prints for both “open the door” and “help! I am panicking!”<\/p>\n

The idea is, if somebody has a gun on me and wanting to follow me up to my apartment to rob me of all my furniture and possibly molest me, I am suppose to use a particular finger to get inside which will also alert the building security I am panicking.\u00a0 Again, since I lack the ability to speak Portuguese other than, “another beer please” and “where is the toilet?”, I didn’t know there was a difference between fingers.\u00a0 So, in the year they had this system in place, several times a day as I came home I was setting off the panic alarm.\u00a0 Every day.\u00a0 I remembered\u00a0 one time someone called me to see if I was panicking, and since I didn’t know what they were saying, I just hung up on them.\u00a0 What a silly thing to ask, if I am panicking!<\/p>\n

Well, they sent me a message the other day and after running it through Google Translate, I saw the humorous errors of my ways.\u00a0 So, now it has been corrected.<\/p>\n

5 ~ Here is a picture of morning the other day.\u00a0 Always nice to step out on my balcony with my morning coffee and sit with this in view.\"\"<\/a>Life is good if you are open to it.\u00a0 Until next time, smile always and grab the next adventure with a firm grip.\u00a0 D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are a few insights on the wonderful Brazilians: 1 ~ Brazilians love their Futball (soccer).\u00a0 On my 9th floor …<\/p>\n

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