Brazil, few years ago…

Is the sex the engine of the world? I don’t know… probably… some psychologist lecturers are sure about that. As I’m pretty sure about one thing: we spent a lot of our time thinking about it… in fact the sex has always been a strong element of every culture. Some have made a taboo of it but some other has learned how to enjoy it… that was one of the reasons that brought me a few years ago to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on the carnival celebration period. It was not the first time that I’ve been in Brazil, but it was the first time that I’ve lived carnival at Rio. I was backpacking around Brazil with an adventures´ºfriend and as we were not to far away from Rio we decided to go there for a couple of days. We arrived to Rio at the dusk and even if carnival officially wasn’t started yet the party was already there on the street…at least it was for us! There were music in every corner of the city and the fun was stamped on people faces. We walked among these party people for a while looking for a place where to spend the following days. At one point, in the middle of the crowded street a guy told us: “parla italianos habla español, speak english, parle france…ganja, smoke, marijuana”… wow…. That was easy!!! And he showed as bag of the size of soccer ball full of a nice, green and very perfumed Ganja. We looked around and saw a lot of people drinking and smoking so it was really natural to bargain the price… the guy said “50 dollars 20 grams”… it could be a good price in USA or Europe… but not in Brazil… he said ¨English man paid 50 pounds¨… I said... “We no English…. vinte dolars cinqüênta gramas”… and we got it!!!! And of course we smoked it immediately…. To be continued…