Meat market

Rio is just simply too much fun. I now know why I didn´t come before. All I have done the last couple of days is see how I can stay. Last night we went to a club Castelho do Pedras in Recinhos, a favela here in Rio. It was a total meat market. At first they hustled all the foreigners into the VIP section so that they had space to dance. It seemed a bit boring to me so I bustled my way down to the sweat shop down below and proceeded to get almost molested by all the attention. Some English girls had a hell of a time trying to get some aggressive brazilians off of them. my strategy was to hang next to some brazilian girls who seemed to be on top of not letting annoying men get the best of them as they were great dancers. The music was brazilian funk and a lot of undulating ass shaking. Of course I had a blast. Some guy was trying to chat me up but i let the girls have a go at him to protect me. He didn~t seem that interesting and quite intrusive.

I have to admit the feeling is completely sexual there. the men are walking around shirtless with sculpted bodies and some of them not seemingly wearing underwear. It is a bit like mating season as the guys pass by say something charming, they go back and forth talking and then it is tongue action. This girl that I befriended told me that the kiss from the guy she found was very delicious. Then the guy disappeared, and came back. Like an open buffet. i don~t even think that she got his phone number. she got another guy´s phone number. It was quite amusing. The same thing happpended the night before with a friend Ana Paula. I turned around and she was kissing this guy. I thought maybe it was her boyfriend. i later found out that she doesn~t know his name and she has a boyfriend elsewhere. two girls I met have boyfriends almost twice their age. Joyce, the girl from the favela is 19 got married when she was 16 and has a 2 year old. she manages a restaurant.

I was at a samba school on Saturday night. Mangueira. I had dreamed about going to a samba school here for a very long time. It is a bit like an open shopping mall with an open ceiling. the drummers are up on a platform overlooking the ground floor. the center is flags and tons of people dancing. It was amazingly fun. It was still going full force at 430 when I left.