RJ 22/12/1984 Saturday
Today was the first time I’ve seen my uncle since I arrived. He leaves home at 8 and comes back at nine at night. As today is Saturday I finally saw him. There’s a black bird here, the ones that can be left out of the cage (but this one hasn’t been let out yet), Zezé said it’s a Melro. It’s so cute. If I call him, he lowers his head and asks for a tickle. But yesterday its cage fell on the floor and it’s a little bit scared since then, attacking everyone, but it doesn’t really hurt.
Maira told me, I think it was on Thursday, that Gilberto is going to give my aunt a Volkswagen BettIe for xmas. I think she’s going to die of happiness. A few years ago Gil sold her car to buy a motorbike. Now, she always complains she can’t go anywhere, he is going to give a similar car to her. But it’s really hard to pretend. I think that Gil and Zezé are hiding something from Maira too.
Maira told me that Nostradamus predicted that on the Year of Youth, on a great gathering of young people from all over the world, in Latin America the ground was going to open and a lot of people would die. They say Nostradamus has never made a mistake, but… The ground where Rock In Rio is taking place is above moving earth, and it could fall at any time. But I don’t believe anything like this will happen as the organisers of the event can’t be that stupid (but just the fact that he knew about a large gathering of young people in Latin America, is quite an achievement). I think this is gossip spread by people who can’t go there.