Zohan was typical Happy Madison. Funny for what it is, but Portuguese subtitles are distracting. http://tinyurl.com/6njrud

I am up in my hotel room having some chocolate amargo (bitter/dark chocolate) with a banana and passa tempo© cookies for dinner. The chocolate is locally made. The banana is locally grown. The cookies are simple small rectangular vanilla cookies with browned smiley faces. Something about the simplicity of that combination makes me feel at ease, and is very satisfying…plus I could never get away with this as a meal at home. :)

I think I’ll go over to the mall in few minutes and see Zohan with Portugese subtitles. Another thing I couldn’t get away with at home. …the Adam Sandler part, not the subtitles.

Ok, let’s get this out of the way first. I came to Brazil and while I will haven been here — what is the correct verb tense for something you are simultaneously doing, have done and will be doing in the near future? I think Douglas Adams may have written about this. — I will haven been eating “traditional Brazilian” food several times. (That’s tiresome. I will now switch from past, current and future tense randomly as it pleases me.) I like Brazilian food. I like trying “new” things. I respect the culture that I am surrounded by. However, I also like wide varieties of food. I don’t judge food when I travel because it isn’t “local”. Not to mention that my time here spans eleven days and there is no way in aitch-ee-double-hockey-sticks that I am going to eat the same food every meal. Porto Alegre is a modern city and it as interesting to me to see how similar the food stuffs are to my own modern city as it is to see how different they are. (I am a hypocrite at some level though, because — despite the mad advertising blitz that plagues the city — I will not go to Outback Steakhouse. I wouldn’t do it at home and I won’t do it here.)

So if you’re going to judge me, I will give you ample opportunity here at the beginning of this post. If you can manage to withhold your disdain for a screen or two, though, maybe I’ll reward you by talking about actual Brazilian food…although you may still judge me after that.

Out to lunch with the boss, then I’ll make a few brazil posts.

should i shower? go to the nearby park? hole up in my room watching tv in Portugese?