BSB 07/06/85 Friday
Today is Saturday but I will tell you about Friday. In the morning I went to SAB and bought ingredients for the chocolate cake and made it. Then Renata called me and I asked D. Dora (she was our maid) to look after the cake for me. Renata was waiting for Jorge and Johnny (from her class) to do an assignment. When they got there I went to Ana Amelia’s, to help her cut the heart shaped paper for the ‘correio elegante’. Then Alexandra found me and asked me to go to the shop with her. Off we went, then I went home and waited for my mum to turn up with the pastry.
Around 1pm Alexandra came here and then my mum turned up. We fried them all really quickly. The three of us went to Cristina’s carrying all my stuff. We dropped everything off and Alexandra and I went back to pick up the ‘nega’. It was 2 o’clock and the arrival time for the truck was 14:30, but it didn’t arrive until 15:20. We finished assembling everything at 17:00 and went home to get ready. We got back at 18:30 (a bit late). Alexandra dressed as ‘caipirinha’ (red neck – or farmer) and took brigadeiro and aipim cake. Ana Amelia took ‘pe de moleque’ and white chocolate sweet (with leite Ninha) – bombom branco. I also took the meat for the bbq. A ‘boca de nega’ stall generated 50,000crz and at 17:40 I went to the sweets stall to help Renata. Stayed there for an hour and a half. Orlando was there and I sent him a secret message on the ‘correio elegante, for fun. He turned up and asked ‘Is there anything good in there?’ and I said ‘ME!’, Orlando started laughing but didn’t buy anything. What sold the most was ‘quentāo’ (a drink of hot cachaça, sugar, lemon, ginger, cinnamon) as it was very cold.
At around 21:00 I left the sweets stall and walked around the party. It was a failure, only about half the people we expected turned up and we only made 150,000crz. But even then it was fun.
Cristiane, from Renata’s school, introduced me to Julio and everyone was chatting to him, except for Cristiane who was with Mauro. I helped disassemble the stalls and at 23:10 we left. Alberto, William, and Julio showed up carrying a bike. We chatted for a bit. Cristovāo is actually called Clerio. Alberto was quiet as ever. After Alex and Ana left he completely changed and became fun…