BSB 01/06/1985 Saturday
Renata invited me to go to the club but I didn’t want to go, so we just went downstairs, with Ana Amelia. Alexandra didn’t want to go out and we just sat on the curb thinking of what to do. We remembered the ‘old times’ and decided to have a picnic. We all went to our respective homes to grab some grub. There was nothing at my home so we went to the commercial area and I bought some finger foods. We got back, I grabbed a box and we made the table. We sat on the grass in front of the A block. Everyone was staring at us and we pretended to be shy, but loving it, like we were 10 years old again.
We were full and there was still some food, so we called the shoe shinner and gave him our food. His little friends went all shy! We had a little ‘interview’ with him, his name is Reinaldo, he lives in Pedregal. He’s 11 years old and earns 15 to 20 thousand a day shining shoes. It costs 500crz to shine a pair. Such a friendly little boy. We went home at 11.
The weather has changed completely: dry, blue sky and cold, 17c on average. In the afternoon at 15:40, Alexandra, Ana Amelia and I went to a June party at Imaculada school. It was average. It cost 1000crz to get in for non-students, so we lied and said we were students and got in for free! Alexandra didn’t have to lie, as she actually studies there. It was bit dull but at least I met Luciano, a boy Alexandra always speaks of. Cute. There was a fight, Cleiton and Evio. At around 18:00 we went to the doorway outside the dance academy for the meeting, we only stayed at the doorway, as Realce is closed on Saturdays. Only the three of us, another girl called Cristina, Andrea, Lucinha, Cristina our dance teacher were there. As having a reunion outside the doorway of a closed dance academy is ridiculous we went to Cristina’s house (the student, not the teacher), a studio flat. We will be organising a Junina party next week and we will have to organise everything very quickly. Alexandra and will be looking after the ‘Buraco da Nega’ stall (basically a board with a hole in it for the balls to be thrown at, for some bewildering reason it, the hole is a black woman’s mouth?), and we need to make the balls and the nega. We left there at 19:38. Went down again to go to the baker with Alexandra and after that I stayed in, with so many parties tonight.