Today,
February 16th, 2020 has been a different
day.
I have wakened up early for Sunday standard, it
happened at 7 in the morning, I have had my breakfast, and I went to the
municipal market to have their typical cappuccino. When we arrived there, my
mom said she didn’t feel like drinking a cappuccino because she still had the
breakfast taste in her mouth, I have told her that she has agreed to have a
cappuccino after our breakfast. As we got too early there, and the café was
still closed we have strolled around for some time to look at shop windows before
she has had a small cup I have had a big one.
If we reflect deeply, we can notice how coffee
taste is not much better than its smelling, and it is unhealthy for many
people, such as me: I can not have a cappuccino or a simple coffee everyday. Although I am aware it energizes many people during their everyday routines, maninly to not feel asleep in the periods of work or studies. Another point, how many employees a café should hire to serve its customer! In the small café, where we had been, I estimated they have have more than six employees. Taking advantage of being in the market, I decided to buy some kinds of nuts that I love, for instance, cashew nut, Brazilian, walnut, baru nuts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipteryx_alata), dried plum, and granola. I know they provide us many calories, that is why I do not eat so much, their are delicious. I eat them in some different manners, including only them, with or without milk or yogurt, the only inconvenience is that I have to chew them more than if I eat them without anything else. I figure out how they are expensive, even the ones which are produced in Brazil.
Also,
we went to a central handcrafted fair, but in fact, they sell many other things,
for example, pastel (a kind of fried dough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastel_(food),
coxinha (another sort of fried dough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxinha),
sugar cane juice. Some Brazilian people adore having pastel or coxinha with
sugar cane juice.
About sugar cane, Brazil is the most
significant world producer of it. Nevertheless, there are many others, for
instance, India,
China, Thailand, Pakistan, Mexico, and so on. I do not know if other people
like sugar cane juice; it is delicious but not healthy to drink it so
frequently, mainly for those who have diabetes due to its so high sugar
content.
The
weather was amazing to walk on the streets, it was cloudy; however, around 11
am the sun appeared too much strong, of course, I have used sun blocking, and I
was wearing my Panama hat (I like hats and caps much). Unfortunately, I have
not had my cellphone to take a picture and show how outstanding the day was.
I think my mom has decided to spend some money
today; our cappuccinos were paid by her – she has lost a bet for me, the prize
was to pay one cappuccino for the other). She has bought a kind of cap for her
walking in the parks, two games for her grand-daughters, an overall for
herself, and of course, she paid for our sugar cane juices. We bet on the
lottery, but I paid our bets, the prize should be around USD 40 million for
next Wednesday. Do you imagine that?
Then, it was unfair to prepare lunch at home or leave her to pay
for our lunches after having spent a reasonable amount of money. We have been
to a self-service buffet (it is a type of restaurant that we pay per weight,
probably many of not Brazilian people do not know it). I have seen some only in
some American cities, although they were not so common as in Brazil.
I am not sure why I was not hungry after midday, I have eaten
about 300 grams; I usually eat a little more. Probably, it was because of a
medium glass of sugar cane juice I had.
After this atypical day, I got tired at home, and I had many
intellectual things to work on; however, I took a shower and slept almost all
afternoon long.
I suppose it was fair to relax a little. I had been much busier
in the last two years than the others, and I wanted to conclude my French
language and literature course at the university in the previous December.
