Time's already flying
Already three weeks in Rio - it's not a surprise, but still incredible how fast time passes!
Due to the German Unity Day, there has been a reception on Tuesday which I was invited to.
It was held at the residence of the German Consular in Santa Teresa. As the sun sets very early, so that it's dark at about 6pm, I don't have any good pictures. The residence is like a sweet little castle with a stunning view from the terrace. There were many different people from economics, science, the consular itself, other important people - and us. Yeah, we fitted in there pretty good. Anyways, we enjoyed plenty of brazilian and german food and even more Caipirinhas. It was a very nice evening!
As I am pretty busy with work and (very little) thinking about the Bachelor Thesis, there really is not much happening in the week to tell you guys.
So, what did I do this weekend?
We started the it with a few drinks in Lapa, a district downtown, which is known for a good night life. I enjoyed myself a lot! We've been to a bar and there was a group playing some live Samba Music. It was crowded, people sang along and danced just a little (because it's been so ful you couldn't properly move around). The drinks were incredibly tasty. As an example, they do mix Cachaça (the alcohol which we mainly know from Caipirinhas) with some kind of maize juice which is very sweet and so delicious. When we were about to leave, there's been some shooting close by. It was very surreal for me because, actually, it didn't bother me at all and we were perfectly save where we were. But still it was just around the corner, people waited inside the bar for a while, police was passing by. Everyone was calm and didn't care too much, I guess it happens every now and then.
On Saturday I was still a little wasted because the drinks are actually way stronger than they taste like. So we enjoyed the sun on the beach for a couple of hours before we headed downtown to watch some capoeira. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art. I hope you can watch the video to get an impression (it's not good quality and I obviously have no talent in video taking at all, but still I wanted to share this with you). It is a very traditional thing here and incredibly interesting to watch. They have to be very focused on the other person and have to control every movement and keep the tension of their body. On Sunday, we finally did some sightseeing. Starting with the museum of tomorrow (white, fancy building) over to the "Eduardo Kobra" Graffiti Wall and the "Escadaria Selarón". The graffitis are supposed to be the largest street art murals in the world.
They were pretty amazing, with very different styles and also some hidden criticism of society etc.. The "Selaron Steps" are an art-work with colourful tiles and elements from all over the world. This "never-ending" project used to changed a lot but was kept the way the artist left it when he died. I also found a tile from Hamburg! We then drove up to a district, which is called "Santa Teresa". It's a lovely "Hipster"-District with a great view, sweet little shops, cozy cafés and some life music in the weekends. In the evening I joined some colleagues for the "Ensaio" of a drums & dance group called "Tambores de Olokun". It was pretty amazing! It's a carneval group and they practice from October until February for the Rio Carnival in a park close to the Flamengo Beach. Because of the public location, everyone can have a look and join the celebration, enjoy the drums and the dance choreography. I'll definitely go again! So much for the weekend.
Just a few things which are nice to know:
I think I haven't told you about the food here yet. They have really good (also unhealthy) stuff like Bolinhos de Quijo, which is basically bread balls filled with cheese (they generally love to put cheese in and on everything), Tapioca, which is similar to a pancake made of manioc starch, Coxinha, which you can compare a little with croquettes usually filled with chicken but also with cheese and/or heart of palms. There's plenty more, but these are also the most usual street foods.
Another interesting fact is, that there're very few people who do not have any tattoos. I love it! Most people do have several, often quite big ones and very different syles! Makes me want to have another one...
I think that's it. I am already too lazy to translate everything into german language, so I hope that google translator will do a good job for some of you! Sorry about that.
Due to the German Unity Day, there has been a reception on Tuesday which I was invited to.It was held at the residence of the German Consular in Santa Teresa. As the sun sets very early, so that it's dark at about 6pm, I don't have any good pictures. The residence is like a sweet little castle with a stunning view from the terrace. There were many different people from economics, science, the consular itself, other important people - and us. Yeah, we fitted in there pretty good. Anyways, we enjoyed plenty of brazilian and german food and even more Caipirinhas. It was a very nice evening!
As I am pretty busy with work and (very little) thinking about the Bachelor Thesis, there really is not much happening in the week to tell you guys.
So, what did I do this weekend?
We started the it with a few drinks in Lapa, a district downtown, which is known for a good night life. I enjoyed myself a lot! We've been to a bar and there was a group playing some live Samba Music. It was crowded, people sang along and danced just a little (because it's been so ful you couldn't properly move around). The drinks were incredibly tasty. As an example, they do mix Cachaça (the alcohol which we mainly know from Caipirinhas) with some kind of maize juice which is very sweet and so delicious. When we were about to leave, there's been some shooting close by. It was very surreal for me because, actually, it didn't bother me at all and we were perfectly save where we were. But still it was just around the corner, people waited inside the bar for a while, police was passing by. Everyone was calm and didn't care too much, I guess it happens every now and then.
On Saturday I was still a little wasted because the drinks are actually way stronger than they taste like. So we enjoyed the sun on the beach for a couple of hours before we headed downtown to watch some capoeira. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art. I hope you can watch the video to get an impression (it's not good quality and I obviously have no talent in video taking at all, but still I wanted to share this with you). It is a very traditional thing here and incredibly interesting to watch. They have to be very focused on the other person and have to control every movement and keep the tension of their body. On Sunday, we finally did some sightseeing. Starting with the museum of tomorrow (white, fancy building) over to the "Eduardo Kobra" Graffiti Wall and the "Escadaria Selarón". The graffitis are supposed to be the largest street art murals in the world.
They were pretty amazing, with very different styles and also some hidden criticism of society etc.. The "Selaron Steps" are an art-work with colourful tiles and elements from all over the world. This "never-ending" project used to changed a lot but was kept the way the artist left it when he died. I also found a tile from Hamburg! We then drove up to a district, which is called "Santa Teresa". It's a lovely "Hipster"-District with a great view, sweet little shops, cozy cafés and some life music in the weekends. In the evening I joined some colleagues for the "Ensaio" of a drums & dance group called "Tambores de Olokun". It was pretty amazing! It's a carneval group and they practice from October until February for the Rio Carnival in a park close to the Flamengo Beach. Because of the public location, everyone can have a look and join the celebration, enjoy the drums and the dance choreography. I'll definitely go again! So much for the weekend.
Just a few things which are nice to know:
I think I haven't told you about the food here yet. They have really good (also unhealthy) stuff like Bolinhos de Quijo, which is basically bread balls filled with cheese (they generally love to put cheese in and on everything), Tapioca, which is similar to a pancake made of manioc starch, Coxinha, which you can compare a little with croquettes usually filled with chicken but also with cheese and/or heart of palms. There's plenty more, but these are also the most usual street foods.Another interesting fact is, that there're very few people who do not have any tattoos. I love it! Most people do have several, often quite big ones and very different syles! Makes me want to have another one...
I think that's it. I am already too lazy to translate everything into german language, so I hope that google translator will do a good job for some of you! Sorry about that.
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