Futebol!!!!

This past Sunday was the championship match of the FIFA-Confederation Cup between the U.S.A. and Brazil in South Africa. This is the tournament which serves as a prelude to the World Cup next year. At halftime, the U.S.A. was winning 2-0, which was incredibly surprising, since earlier in the tournament, Brazil beat the U.S. 3-0. I filmed my hosts/friends at half-time. You can tell how surprised and anxious they are about the game.
But in the second half, Brazil scored two goals very quickly. Then they scored a 3rd goal which wasn't counted because the referees really messed up--it was quite clear in the replay that Brazil scored. (I guess they don't have a slow-mo replay challenge rule in soccer.) Now everyone was really mad, because Brazil SHOULD have been ahead, but they were only tied. Finally, with only a few minutes left in the game, Brazil scored again. The film tells the story about how happy my friends were. In fact, they were in my face for the rest of the day, and the neighborhood made miming gestures of me crying for the next day or so. A good time was had by all!

A moment of sublime absurdity

A quick post: I just discovered that for the last two months I've been using the word for "recipe" as the word for "receipt." So every time I've gone to the store to buy materials for Quilombo Zeferina, and hired workers for jobs at QZ, I've asked them for recipes instead of receipts. If that's not sublime absurdity, I don't know what is! :-0