Sao Joao festival

23.06.2016

I didn't manage to make it out of the house until at least 1 pm today. Luiz snoozed all morning and I cleaned up and read a book.

It was nice to finally not be in constant pain. I guess those pills worked, even if they were only painkillers.

When Luiz woke up he made us lunch and I made a salad to go with it.

Luiz had class at 2 pm so we went over there and I printed out my new contract for work. I got a nasty anonymous message from some guy on couchsurfing about how terrible it was at the university I was about to work at in September. Then a few days after that, the original school I signed a contract with pulled their offer for some reason unclear to me. It was all quite bizarre. In the meantime, my recruiter found me another job still in Guangdong but no longer on the beach (with fewer hours), so I needed to sign this new agreement and send it back ASAP.

So after doing that, and taking a photo to send to Alison my new boss, later, I went to the Centro historico to see all the museums I missed yesterday when I was busy at the hospital. Actually there was not that much to see. Some artefacts and model boats, a few churches.

Later that night was the big party for São Joao or festa junina. I waited around (without a beer!) kind of sucks to be on drugs all the time. Unless you want to buy bottled water, which I do not, there are no healthy alternatives to beer. I never really noticed how awful the choices are at these festivals. If you don't drink beer you have to drink pure sugar, funnel your money to some horrible water company or nothing. I believe soda is worse than having a beer, honestly, so I just relied on my bottle of water I brought from home.

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