{"id":413,"date":"2009-01-22T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2009-01-22T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T21:58:00","slug":"i-think-our-lifes-have-just-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"I think our lifes have just begun."},"content":{"rendered":"

The beautiful Fire, a friend from Cambridge, is arriving tomorrow morning in Brazil for the World Social Forum! I hope to show her the best of Brazil while we’re at it– four days in Salvador, a week in Bel\u00e9m, and three more days probably on the island of Maraj\u00f3.<\/p>\n

She also nudged me to post pictures from the last forever. So here they are.<\/p>\n

S\u00e3o Paulo<\/b>: (see more<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n

“A Party at Alex’s”<\/b><\/td>\n
The Brazilian Town<\/b><\/td>\n
The mall is full of it.<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Brasilia<\/b>: (see more<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n

Brasilia Cathedral<\/b><\/td>\n
Congress Building<\/b><\/td>\n
President’s first stage<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Universo Paralello<\/b>:<\/p>\n\n\n

Main floor stage<\/b><\/td>\n
Pratigi Beach<\/b><\/td>\n
Sand Sculpture<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

S\u00e3o Luis<\/b>:<\/p>\n\n\n

Down a street<\/b><\/td>\n
Over the “river”<\/b><\/td>\n
Overgrown building<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Lensois Maranheses<\/b>: (see more<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n

Dunes<\/b><\/td>\n
Dunes<\/b><\/td>\n
Dunes<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

As I get better at understanding Portuguese conversation, I start picking up on funky peculiarities. Like, the Portuguese word for “everyone” is “todo o mundo” (“the whole world”). A little voice in my head always translates it as meaning “even Thailand”. “Vamos pra o bar antes de restaurante, e o todo o modo fica feliz.” (Let’s go to the bar before the restaurant, and the whole world will be happy), and I imagine the Thai all parading through their streets. But there’s something beautiful about the phrase. In English, every time we say everyone, we reassert our individuality– that there are a bunch of us ones for there to be an every of. In essence, we say “I mean all of us here together– but don’t think I’m calling us a group!” The Brazilian, on the other hand, one day meets a visitor from Thailand and thinks “Oh, you’re who I’ve been talking about all along!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The beautiful Fire, a friend from Cambridge, is arriving tomorrow morning in Brazil for the World Social Forum! I hope to show her the best of Brazil while we’re at it– four days in Salvador, a week in Bel\u00e9m, and three more days probably on the island of Maraj\u00f3. She also nudged me to post … Continue reading I think our lifes have just begun.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}