Roberta´s birthday

Hey again :)

From another nice evening with Roberta's birthday.. Friday at Emilie's and Roberta's place. Well, the biggest trouble was getting her to her own birthday - because it was a surprise party, and she initially decided not to stay home for the night at first. Luckily Emilie, her roommate, managed to persuade her to come after all :) The photos speak for themselves - enjoy the atmosphere ;)

Madrid-trip. Cumpleaños de Roberta

After all the wine & cookies & snacks & chats, some of us decided that 4 AM is not too late to arrive to the center of the city. Arriving in front of one bar where a friend (an ex-flatmate from the exchange semester times) was working, we discovered that it was kind of lateish after all... That means we couldn't get into the bar, all closed... So we stayed outside on the street, chatting.

After 15min, we saw a fight. Well, I don't know how much you can call it a fight, if some people throw a bottle over somebody else's head, and it passes the head too close, and that person gets a bit pissed off, and decides to put some sense into the throwers' heads, and just starts slapping around with open hands :) It was kind of interesting to observe, and got us preparing our fists in our pockets, just in case the mess got out of hand. In the end, we managed to keep our hands clean, and the 4 bottle-throwers had to admit that the 2 slappers were right and the four should get out of that street and go home...

The fight got our conversation turned towards the interesting life in Brazil. Tanain, who is from Rio, told us a lot and more about it. For example that you need to know the rules of the game when you go to parties in Rio, and you need to know which one of the 5 different police to talk to if you're in trouble. And how to behave when you are on a party that is organized (and guarded) by the criminal organizations. And what happens to you when you dance too close with a girl who belongs to one of the gang people.. BOOM!
And a lot about the rich and the poor, and everybody playing football, and some about capoeira, the traditional martial art/dance/game. See the next posts, I will hopefully upload some capoeira photos/videos.. Simply beautiful ;)