international ho

my friend, nenah, asked me to elaborate on what i was describing in the previous entry about people coming here to get their freak on.

i will. but before i do that...

for lunch i had some water, orange soda flavored soda, and some churrasco flavored potato chips. churrasco (sp?) is brazilian BBQ. essentially i had barbeque flavored potato chips, only they are different from the US version. US BBQ chips taste like BBQ sauce that you use when you are either going to make BBQ chicken or just to grill with. these chips taste like they were cooked on the grill. smokey. very interesting trickery on the taste buds especially since i know this is a simulated flavor.

anyway, when i move into an apartment (which i hope to do soon), i can finally make some of those fancy recipes from www.epicurious.com that i have always wanted to make but the ingredients are hard to find or to expensive. you can get so much here fresh and affordable.

so, back to the discussion. i am by no means an authority on this. it´s only what i perceive/witness here and what people share with me. i also read a little abit about it in the magazine. but my sense is that it is a common practice for people to take "sex" vacations here. moreover, this practice accepted in the sense that you don´t sting operations cracking down on prostitution. you dont have like an institution that combats this lifestyle. i mean for the individual (and on some level the state) it must pay off. so... .

this is not the most prevelant characteristic of brasil or even salvador. it should not be indicative of the people here or the people who visit here. it´s just magnified for me right now because i am not used to it. know what i mean?

i have to go because this boy who works at the dollhouse keeps bumping me with his butt. and some new italian guest just lit up a cigarette. ugh!!!