Some events that happened last week took all the energy I had left to write about daily life in Brazil, but let’s try anyway:

→ I started adding whey protein to my diet for fun, and a few days later, when I started to feel less tired, when I noticed my energy had improved, I realised I wasn’t eating enough meat. But how can one eat properly when the price of all meats in Brazil are so high?

→ yesterday I bought a cane at Daiso for my injured knee. It is made of plastic even though it looks like it’s made of wood, and it’s so light! A simple book must be heavier than this cane.

→ people on Twitter are going insane because another Brazilian actor was accused of being a horrible man on set. We can tell some people are trying to destroy his career, as they did with other established actors, but time has changed and it will take more than public opinion to ruin the professional life of an actor only because he is a (straight) man.

→ Amazon must be losing its juice. Prices are very close to the ones we see in a normal place that sells things, making it pointless to take the risk of buying products online - we never know if we’re gonna receive exactly what we bought, or if the product will arrive damaged. In my head it’s safer to go out to buy what we want at the store (just sayin…).

→ I started reading Arnold Schwarzenegger’s book, Be Useful, but stopped for no reason. I really want to go back to it and make something useful of my life. Days go by and we stay where we are because it’s so goddamn hard to change our habits, and one I need to change is my weight. I’m not fat, but being a little overweight will be enough, from now on, to make my knee hurt (maybe a nerve is being pressed?).

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Anne Rios – Brazilian girl writing about Brazilian things