sloooooooooow doooooooowwwwwwwnnn

this is one thing i´m really having to learn how to do here, even though i thought i had it down pretty well already in the u.s. well, i guess that goes to show you how much your personal perception of time says about time...anyway, as sean has mentioned before about kenyan time, so there is also brazilian time, and from what i´ve heard and experienced here, they seem to be pretty similar.

in the u.s. we run on the notion that there just aren´t enough hours in the day to do everything we want to do or need to do, so we rush to fit everything in. in brazil, everything gets finished, just with its own time. today, for instance, i was supposed to leave at 11am for the beach...it is now 12.45 and i won´t be leaving until 1.30...maybe :) thinking, however, that we might maybe actually leave at 11, i woke up and right away started doing some stuff that i knew i needed to do and cut out others i thought i wouldn´t have time for...really, i shouldn´t have wasted the energy worrying. when it comes down to it, it all happens eventually and can´t really be planned...and in the interim, you have more time for yourself and to soak in what´s around you since you´re not just passing through in the rush to the next thing. this makes everything more memorable too, especially since the time you spend doing something, though it took longer to actually happen, happens longer too :)

since i´ve been here, when people speak to me in rapid portuguese, i usually have to ask them to slow down a little since i can´t otherwise understand what they´re saying...really though, maybe they should be saying the same to me.