26/01/2014 Hitchhiking in Brasilia Between 1984-1986 our preferred mode of transportation was hitchiking. Growing up in Brasilia seemed so safe we never once felt we were in any danger. Even so, we’d never give them our correct phone number (some people asked) or told them exactly where we lived. I…
BSB 08/12/1986 Monday
BSB 08/12/1986 Monday 32c in a city with a beach is fucked up. Now imagine 32c in this city in the middle of the cerrado, with a poluted lake and the club is closed today… It’s hell! My hand is sweating just from the writing. I like sunny days, but…
BSB 06/12/1986 Friday
BSB 06/12/1986 Friday Me, Renata, Alexandra, Juliana e Armando went to Velha Elite yesterday. Everyone got drunk, except me… Ginho and Ro showed up too, and later me, Alexandra, Ro, Ginho, Leo, Arnaldo went for a spliff to some guy’s house. When I got back home my mother was really…
RJ 14-02-1988 Sunday
RJ 14-02-1988 Sunday Monday – smoked two cigarettes, met Daniel. Tuesday – Nothing happened. Wednesday – Bought 24 Garfield cards, Luciana and Patricia called me! Thursday – went to Daniel’s house to see the kitten he found, went to Sergio’s. Friday – Most horrifying day of my life. I went…
BSB 20-02-1987 Friday
BSB 20-02-1987 Friday School restarted on Weds. Today after school Lara came up to me and said: “Fabiane died!” I was in shock. I ran home and then went to the funeral with Lara, Celia and Patricia Figueredo. Lots of people from Caseb where there already. When we arrived everyone…
BSB 31/12/86 Wednesday
BSB 31/12/86 Wednesday New year, new life, tomorrow, same thing every year. I’m a pig in the Chinese Horoscope and I’m feeling optimistic. I feel a bit down, as I have my period and a fever, but that’s ok. I’m spending NYE in Copacabana, with my mum, Carmen and people…
RJ 28/12/86 Sunday
RJ 28/12/86 Sunday We got back from Friburgo today. I’ve never spent so much time indoors! It just rained and rained and rained. All the time. Not only in Friburgo but also here in Rio and in most of Brasil. For a week, non-stop. I miss the sun, and I’m…
BSB 17/12/86 Wednesday
BSB 17/12/86 Wednesday This is the show I went to watch last night with Renata at the Teatro Nacional. Amazing! Legiao Urbana. We saw the show, which was on for two amazing hours. We had arranged I’d call my mum and she’d pick us up. I called her and told…
BSB 14/12/86 Sunday
BSB 14/12/86 Sunday My father called yesterday. I haven’t seen him for over a year. He’s so distant he might as well not exist, but I do miss him. From the little I know of him, he’s a good person, simply good. I feel in his voice that he wants…
BSB 13/12/86 Saturday
BSB 13/12/86 Saturday Last night Renata, Alexandra and I went to Gilberto. We sat at Asa Delta, and had a caipirinha, then we had another at Saugu’s. Then we went to Barril and drank beer. I was dizzy by the time I went for a walk with Renata, and we…