Beach Bum

So silly me thinking that I´m now tan enough that I don´t need sunscreen. I got a nice little red tint today...it´s ok though, I know it will be gone by tomorrow. I washed my clothes today (by hand...yes with my own two hands...hope you´re sitting down mom). I was just going to drop it off somewhere and pay someone to do it (my normal thinking process), but instead I did it myself...there´s a first for everything. I felt like a housewife from the 1950´s though...it´s fine every once in a while when I´m in another country or something, but I will not ever succumb to the housewife persona when I get older.

Laid on the beach all day today after my fun with clothes washing. I was daring and brought my iPod, but I was really careful and discreet with it. It´s good that I feel comfortable going to the beach alone and not getting robbed. I don´t get scared very easily and I´m super laidback, so I constantly need to remind myself that I need to watch out for myself. This weird guy asked me if I had a pen today on the beach so he could write down his "contact information" for this girl he was talking to. He asked me in English assuming that I was not Brasilian...hmmm wonder what gave it away (apparently I have American written on my forehead). He was nice but a little off...I think he was taking too many hits of something. He´s from San Francisco but has lived here for 5 years and I think I speak better Portuguese than him haha.

So that was my excitement for the day...enjoying the beach and laughing to myself about how crazy some people are (while that guy was talking to me). Everytime I go to the beach I just soak it all up and enjoy every second of it because I know that in a month I will be beachless.

Oh and one thing I forgot to write about...when we got back from the island on Sat we were in the Cidade Baixa where the boats dock (super shady at night) and this crazy old man came up to our group with a syringe and was like injection...injection trying to offer it to us or something. I literally turned around to a man sticking a syringe in my face. I was like are you serious??...no I don´t want to shoot up whatever you are "selling". He was dressed like he was trying to be a doctor or something...so shady.

So three and a half more days in Salvador...two and a half in Morro de São Paulo (an amazing little island two hours off the coast of Salvador and where I´m spending my bday) then off to Rio...wooo.

Love and miss all my family and friends! I´m really torn...I can´t wait to get home and see everyone but I love it so much here and I know that I´m gong to love Rio and BsAs too...it will definitely be hard to leave.