Brazil is....

There are so many things that are typical of Brazil that I keep wanting to write about but forget, so I thought the easiest way would be to write a "Brazil is" post.

Brazil is:

- A slow internet connection!
- Coco gelado on the street corners
- Getting an electric shock whilst trying to turn of the shower
- Havaianas of all different kinds
- Fat people, old people, thin people, flabby people, all wearing the tiniest bikinis and speedos on the beach
- Buses driving at breakneck speed
- A large enough group of people on the side of the road consitutes a bus stop
- Amazing fresh fruits and fruit juices
- Capoeira music, capoeira pictures, capoeiristas in the street, capoeira everywhere (in Bahia anyway)
- Açai
- X Burgers (pronounced cheese burgers)
- Waiting for buses or taxis for hours
- Taking your time to get anywhere and therefore never being on time, except there is no "on time"
- Haggling with street/souvenir vendors
- Guarana, Coxinhas, Pao de Queijo and other typical foods
- People "PSHIOU"ing you and everyone else everywhere all the time
- "Moça/Moço"
- Having to use little bits of paper in shops and restaurants to list what you're buying and then going to present it to the till to pay
- Being rude
- Favelas
- Jungle and tropical surroundings all the time
- Stunning beaches
- Loads of blood thirsty mosquitos
- Insects everywhere(literally! and not in a European way)
- Cheap manicures and pedicures
- Going from sweltering heat outside to artic cold inside shops and banks and buses
- Weird turnstyles on all public buses
- A fast food chain called Habib's
- Street vendors getting on the bus to sell you snacks, drinks, ice cream, sweets, for instant gratification
- When it's raining INSIDE your bus
- Peanut flavoured ice cream

- And many more things for me yet to think of and write down here!!