Brazil Trip Report

[dennis roadman]

Damn thats unfortunate to hear I was definitely hoping to check out atleast one.

I've been studying portuguese the last 3 months so I know a little bit but none of us are fluent. My guy who lives in Sao Paulo is going to be coming up for a few days to help show us around so I'm sure that will be helpful too

yeah you're good, in fact cariocas are gonna like you as americans more than your paulista friend

3 months of portuguese will certainly help, just dont let yourself get overwhelmed. how have you been studying, you got a tutor?

as far as museums, there's an african art exhibit at museu nacional de belas artes, but it's one part of a huge museum. it's right near the biblioteca nacional, which should have some interesting stuff on afro-brazilians, i never got to check it out. both of them are in Cinelandia, where you should go anyway

 

[Primetime21]

yeah you're good, in fact cariocas are gonna like you as americans more than your paulista friend

3 months of portuguese will certainly help, just dont let yourself get overwhelmed. how have you been studying, you got a tutor?

as far as museums, there's an african art exhibit at museu nacional de belas artes, but it's one part of a huge museum. it's right near the biblioteca nacional, which should have some interesting stuff on afro-brazilians, i never got to check it out. both of them are in Cinelandia, where you should go anyway

I've got an informal tutor we practice conversational skills, then I'm using rosetta stone and watching movies, reading kids books in portuguese, etc. I will be sure to look up the bolded

 

[dennis roadman]

I've got an informal tutor we practice conversational skills, then I'm using rosetta stone and watching movies, reading kids books in portuguese, etc. I will be sure to look up the bolded

enjoy breh

you know about Saci?

 

[Primetime21]

enjoy breh

you know about Saci?

Nah whats that about?

 

[dennis roadman]

Nah whats that about?

brazilian folk tale, probably indigenous but with heavy african and portuguese influence, which is why it's so well known, because that is the foundation of brazil - portugal, africa, indigenous

a one-legged kid who does magic. you can watch youtube videos of him to practice because most are made for kids. there's a famous book about him that a lotta elementary school kids read, and a lotta comic books. im into folklore so it appealed to me a lot

 

[KeysT]

Anybody have a heads up on which website to get an application for a tourist Visa? I tried googling and got confused. If you have to apply in person that might be a problem for me seeing as I am deployed.

@dc007 @Primetime21 @Malta

 

[dc007]

Anybody have a heads up on which website to get an application for a tourist Visa? I tried googling and got confused. If you have to apply in person that might be a problem for me seeing as I am deployed.

@dc007 @Primetime21 @Malta

You have to do it through the brazilian consulate. You can mail in your stuff to them it does not have to be in person. If you google the brazilian consulate all the information on how to apply through mail will be on the site.

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

black history museums, you gotta go to the northeast unfortunately. Salvador is full of those, but Rio has none. i was in Paraty, a small town in rio (the state), and it was the first portuguese settlement there, and there's laws barring people from changing it to preserve the history. which is all well and good until you get to the re-enactment. i saw a singular black man dressed in slave clothes standing on the shore. i just looked at him like

it's invaluable to know someone who lives there. any of you 4 travelers speak any portuguese?

actually Sao Paulo has an Afro Brazilian museum in Ibirapuera park that I went to...its aight..im surprised Rio got nothing...u sure?

http://www.museuafrobrasil.org.br/en/mab/introduction

 

[dennis roadman]

actually Sao Paulo has an Afro Brazilian museum in Ibirapuera park that I went to...its aight..im surprised Rio got nothing...u sure?

http://www.museuafrobrasil.org.br/en/mab/introduction

good look breh, i didnt even know about that ibirapuera is the GOAT municipal park

i never saw any in rio, and i just asked my coworker, who is carioca da gema and black, and she said she didn't know of any

 

[The Coochie Assassin]

good look breh, i didnt even know about that ibirapuera is the GOAT municipal park

i never saw any in rio, and i just asked my coworker, who is carioca da gema and black, and she said she didn't know of any

yea that park is awesome...best place i saw to hoop....they got some ballers there on the weekends ....and the women working out

 

[Primetime21]

Anybody have a heads up on which website to get an application for a tourist Visa? I tried googling and got confused. If you have to apply in person that might be a problem for me seeing as I am deployed.

@dc007 @Primetime21 @Malta

I actually went through a third party visa agency called A Briggs
https://www.abriggs.com/

Some consulates are now adopting policies where they are not accepting applications that are mailed in so if you aren't close to a consulate you may have to go through a third party. The one I linked above is pretty good in fact I got my visa yesterday and I just mailed the application in last week.

 

[dennis roadman]

yea that park is awesome...best place i saw to hoop....they got some ballers there on the weekends ....and the women working out

i was hoopin there last fall with some skinny ass kids from some academy in SP. they were good but they'd get worked on blacktop in the US

the thing that had me was the requisite old man with the chest passes and pick and rolls. except he was japanese this time because it was SP

 

[MrFettuccinnePockets]

I don't speak a lick of Portuguese though...

 

[dc007]

Have you used these? If so can you give a review?

 

[Larry Lobster]

brazilian folk tale, probably indigenous but with heavy african and portuguese influence, which is why it's so well known, because that is the foundation of brazil - portugal, africa, indigenous

a one-legged kid who does magic. you can watch youtube videos of him to practice because most are made for kids. there's a famous book about him that a lotta elementary school kids read, and a lotta comic books. im into folklore so it appealed to me a lot

shyt always seemed a lil bit racist to me.
Why is he smoking a pipe though?