i've been dying to tell you about the silliest christmas tradition in braga: o bananeiro. every 24th december in the end of the afternoon, hundreds of people start gathering in front of the house of the bananas. having been in braga for two days, believe me, i found 3 friends in 20 minutes and saw a lot of people i knew! EVERYBODY comes here, to do what? the warm up for the big eating: everyone EATS A BANANA and drinks MOSCATEL, a sweet wine. yep, banana and wine, doesn't sound very christmas-y to anyone, but hey, we can't complain the environment is really funny and light. and it really prepares us for an entire night of eating!
today i went to a soccer match.
the reason was the following: a three hours before the match mini calls and tells me he has an extra ticket. i say yes, we go. mini lived in poznan where he made and EVS that finished by the same time as mine. so it's nice to meet each other and talk about how things are going, tak tak. the city was already covered with polish men wearing blue and dead drunk in the afternoon. the people from braga are always very happy to see foreigners and all the retired people were laughing with them. and today i had this thought that, because it was so sunny and great - the polish were wearing only t-shirts - everyone was outside! so many people, it was great, i thought that i never had this feeling in bratislava, maybe due to the city' construction, i never saw a lot of people in the streets! well, but this doesn't matter! the thing is, going to soccer matches is super great, even if you know nothing about soccer! only seldom do i look at the field, the whole environment is great. there are the songs, the people really passionate about the team, and, my favourite, the bench coaches. oh how i loooove them! they swear everytime, the referee does everything wrong - except when the other team sees a card - and the coach of the team is to blame for everything that happens. i'm talking about regular people that, when watching a match, become crazy! the man next to me was so elegant but then he started saying all these things and i just laughed. i really want to repeat this. who cares about the game, these people say pearls! like "you referee!!! you are as tall as you are a son of a bitch!!!" ah minho minho. |
i don't understandnerozumiem ti means "i don't understand you" in slovak. a tradition, let's say. after not understanding anything in granada, now i don't understand anything in bratislava. Archives
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