Welcome to Borås - what YOU don't know about YOURSELF others can tell you

00.21 Borås - Sweden

Welcome to Borås - what YOU don't know about YOURSELF others can tell you!!

Yeap, this is the city I'm from. Everyone knows everything about everyone. They even know more about you than you know. I just want to add here, that I'm not like that at all!! As my "boss" in Brazil said to me: "You're not Swedish, you're not English and you're not Brazilian - you have become something different now". That is soooo true!!

Nothing have happened, so don't be alarmed - I'm just relieving the truth about people from my city. I had almost forgotten about Borås, how people talk... I was suprised to hear so much bullshit.

Example 1:
A girl comes up to another girl saying "ohh my god do you know what your friend's boyfriend did?!"
Girl 1 is answering: "No I don't"
Girl 2: "He flirted with me all summer, he is a true player" 
Girl 1 knows that Girl 2 is lying (because she always is, but it didn't matter because they weren't together that summer anyway) so she just tell Girl 2 that they weren't togehter anyway.

Ex-boyfriend got to know about the lie and is answering very suprised:
"Who is that?.... oh, her.... she is my friend's friend.  I felt so bad because the only things I have done to her have been mean. We were out and she came to say hello, but then another person came to say hello so I forgot about her."

Example 2:
Two girls jumps in to a cab with three guys. 5 minutes later this rumor can be heard at the pizza shop at the other side of the town center.

And if you want to know anything about yourself, there are always people that can tell you that!! Isn’t that great!! You don’t need to figure that out by yourself. Maybe I should go and found out who I am… or that would just make me more confused!! Hehe
 
Boa noite

In a big big Borås...

17.37 Borås - Sverige

Boa noite (it is dark outside),

Saturday - me, Evelina, Maria and her baby Zara were on a "cultural" tour in Sweden. We went around Borås to enjoy... ;)  .... all the art around Borås.

This is Pinocchio, it is a 9.5 meter high statue that Borås has had an internal fight over. The statue was introduced in Borås last year after a big argument, because some people thought that the statue wasn't a nice signature for Borås. I mean people from Borås are not made of wood and they don't have "long" noses...

Now, the Pinocchio statue is famous in Sweden and has become a tourist attraction here in Borås!

The picture above is of me and Evelina standing in front of Borås beautiful, but polluted river, Viskan, in the center of Borås. Here, in this river, especially in the center of Borås you can find a lot of things. It is very common to find beer cans, empty plastic bags, bicycles and shopping carts in the river.

There is even a man that was in the newspaper because he made a lot of money finding bicycles in that river that he pimped up and then sold. But still I don't know what they have done to that river to make it produce bicycles...

Evelina, Maria and her baby Zara.

In the background of this picture, you can see the bus square - it is very busy there..... rsrs

As Sweden is a cold country, we have our swimming pools inside. This is the building where we go for a swim... Notice that this is still the dirty river, Viskan, in front of the building and as it is dirty and a lot of bicycles in there people usually don't swim in river (only in the pools inside of the buildings). But there are some crazy people - I wont mention any names... hmmm.. ok then... me ;) - that do crazy things just to be a part of a strange group at high school - so I took a dirty swim in there once - rsrs

This is a Swedish bus - everyone have their own seat - haha

Soooo nice!!!

This is beautiful Borås and in the background you can see the clock tower of the church that my brother was baptist in today.

Eve - always crazy!!!!!

To spend saturday night at home is typical Swedish - so that was exactly what we did me, Eve and Maria. To make the night even more special we decided to make a three-courses meal. And as we are sooo traditional we just had to watch scary movies. Actually, a ghost came to visit us later and scared the crap out of me and Eve.

On the picture to the right: Maria with her baby (that slept to her first scary movie yesterday night) and Evelina. On the plates we have our starters that we made up by ourselves. It is  tomato filled with fried zucchini, spenat and mozzarella that we heated up in the oven - a very healthy tomato!!

To right: The scary movies we rented - the first one to the left was a girl with ugly clothes and some lesbian porn (we were laughing the most of the time - scary? - NOT). The middle one was very exciting and so was the third one but we havent finished it yet...

And as we are so good at cooking we made crepes for a main dish  filled with creme fraiche and seafood and then we had panncakes for desert... haha

We also made our own ice-cream (yoghurt) with mango and raspberry!

It was very good actually.... ;)

Now, I have to go to the gym but I see you later - até logo!

Beijos

Get to know Borås - eat Brazilian in Borås

02:17 Borås - Sweden

Boa noite!


Just a minute ago me and Evelina just finished watching a horror movie - we are not going to adopt any kids - for sure! Eve didn't even feel like smoking any more - it could be a small girl standing outside hiding somewhere...

It took us two hours to manage to put the movie on! So when we finally managed to not only hear the sound of the movie but also to actually see what happened in the movie - we had already finished the big bowl of chopped fruits and the popcorn! We couldn't eat anymore, so we watched movie without snacks... rsrs

Earlier today - or more like yesterday now - I went on a small tour in the rainy town, where I live – unfortunately it didn’t rain as traditional but anyway… rsrs

Rainy town – also called Borås – is not a very big town. But almost everyone I know in Sweden lives here. There are 100 000 people in Borås and almost everyone knows each other in one way or another.

My dad, my little brother and me

My brother is looking at me like: are-you-serious-another picture-come-on!?!?!?!

This is called Stora Torget - which means The Big Square. Notice that we have a very nice fare on the square at fridays (you can see the small tents on the right side of the picture).

The building in the background is a signuture of Borås - that is the court house and it also use to be a prision over there - so a lot of bad guys use to hang out there. It is also were my Dad and his wife Linda got married so it is a place of joy as well. Furthermore, there use to be a nice pub/club there but as they did some illegal stuff they had to close down (they actually closed down like three times!!!)

Linda, dad and babybrother Jack

My mum and my other little brother :)

Both today and yesterday I made some Brazilian stuff for my family. Yesterday I made some for my mum and my brother and today for my dad, his wife and my best friend Evelina. Almost everything turned out really good but I wasn't very good at mixing Capirinha - so I need to learn better.... haha. But I made one with Cachaca (without ice) that was alright... Anyway the rest was great - and I actually managed to make some really nice stuff out of Tapioca to fix my dad's balcony haha...

The tapioca didn't really corporate with me so my dad and his wife can be very happy if they can just get the fork out from the tapioca mixture that I made - haha!!! Sorry....

Evelina was the one making Brigadeiro - haha!!! Very messy!

The pao de queijo was actually very popular and finished very quickly - it was actually very good with parmesao in it. My dad and Linda asked me to send them some of the flour from Brazil. They loved it! The called them cheese doodles, but less messy!

Everyone in Sweden have so far been very amazed by the “typical Swedish knäckebröd” that is from Brazil. This is a close up comparison between a typical Swedish from Sweden and a typical Swedish from Brazil!! Can anyone see the difference?!?!

About the typical Swedish one from Brazil - I can tell you that everyone actually loves it!!!

My best friend Evelina and me!

My little brother absolutely loves to suck on his baby Havianas - how cute!?!!!!

Time to go to bed!

Beijos