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Brazilian Dance at the Sydney Salsa Congress 2010

January 18th 2010 10:27

LDA Samba Girls at the Sydney Salsa Congress

LDA Samba Pro Team

Brazilian Dance styles are invading Australia and the Sydney Salsa Congress has a Brazilian Room every night of the event.
Samba, Gafieira, Lambada/Zouk, Forró and Capoeira are spreading and thousands of dance fanatics are getting into their groove.
If you have never been to the congress you are missing out on the biggest event of Latin Dance in Australia, one of the top 3 in the world.
From 28th to 31st January 2010.
It is an amazing experience, more than 5,000 dancers in the parties, more than 80 shows and 75 workshops.
Three days of dance classes and four nights with shows then parties that will go into the night.
The energy is fantastic and there are different options of tickets. You can choose from one night to the full passes for the whole event.
www.sydneysalsacongress.com.au
I’ll see you there!

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To be brave enough to write...

December 16th 2009 04:00

and more incomprehensible Australia...
Here I turn to the “masters” and to me they are the writers of this genre in Brazil: Mario Prata (my personal master), Luiz Fernando Veríssimo, Arnaldo Jabor, among so many others.
From them I take the strength and the courage to say what I think: in capital letters and a large font.
After all, we would all be doomed without courage. Mario Prata would never have released a book about a pimp and his prostitutes, would he? Anjos de Badaró is a great book!
And the daily columns in many newspapers and media would be doomed to monotony, to what is agreeable to all and absolutely NO FUN!
I say all this because I was criticized for my last article. I will confess all I wanted to do was to hide and cry... Instead, hear I am again, smilling and all.
To prove my love for my Aussie Land here I will write a few new incomprehensible details. Good, but still incomprehensible!
The ridiculously organised crowds: New Years Eve in Sydney is a good example. There is no shoving, no screaming, no mess. The people bring the sleeping kids in arms and prams, and they manage to be 1 millimetre away from you without touching anything. When the inevitable happens everyone always say sorry.
The signs in car parks in shopping centres that advise you to “lock your car” were one of the first things to get my attention when I first arrived here. It crossed my mind simply: how come you have to remind people to lock their cars in the car park? We would never consider otherwise back home.
The buses timetables: I would be dumb stricken to see written that the bus arrives at exactly 10:17. All I could think was: impressive! I know it is not totally perfect but just by having a time table that states time like 9:23; 10:17; 11:54 is a serious indication of what we can expect. In my home land I would go to the bus stop and someone would simply say it all in a few words: the bus comes around once per hour. The acceptable margin of error would be one: one hour more or less.
No doubt one of the best nonsenses I have ever experienced was to be given money back from taxes by the Australian government. Only if you come from a land where a lot of corruption happens you would truly appreciate what this means. I would never believe it possible if I hadn’t seen it in my account myself.
I can now criticize Brazil with confidence, because saying you don’t like a part doesn’t mean you do not love the whole. I love the Brazil I carry with me, I’m proud of being Brazilian and having been born there. I love Australia, the new home. I have worked hard to be its proud citizen, even if I do not like Vegemite!

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Incomprehensible Australia

December 9th 2009 05:45

I love this Aussie Land, especially Sydney that is now my home. I’m very glad to be a new Australian Citizen. Although I have multiplied my Brazilian love to include my new nation there are some things around here that do not make any sense to me...

Foodwise:

Avocados are not for sandwiches. I try to explain to the natives that that is not how you are supposed to eat it, I think when avocados arrived with no instruction manuals someone thought the nice green colour would do well with the bacon in the bread. But they are actually much better as Avocado Frappes, Mousses and blended avocados with sugar (not salt!); Mouth watering hum?

Vegemite: most South Americans have tried the bread with the chocolate colour paste expecting a sweet sensation on the taste buds. Only to be almost knocked out of the chair by something salty, strange and very strong.

- What kind of pie is this? I ask.

- Cheese pie. Says the nice lady.

- Ok, may I have one?

- One minute later I’m back:

- Sorry, I believe you sold me the wrong pie. This is meat.

- Of course it is, they all are! It’s a cheese meat pie.

It was the traditional meat pie with a thin layer of cheese between the filling and the pastry.

In Brazil a cheese pie is made of cheese and pastry. It’s a cheese cheese pie.

In transport:

The changes of drivers in the middle of the bus route do not make any sense to me. The first time I saw it I thought I had gotten the wrong bus and it was the final stop. I stood there on the tip of the bench, all packed, ready to go. But no one else moved, not even to look to the front. So I waited while the driver packed and left with money box and all and a new driver got comfortable, set up the bus, restarted it and we all got ready to continue the trip. I find it funny every time.

Another incongruous thing is the same route number for buses that go to different destinations. I have found myself in North Sydney more than once having taken a “175” that usually goes to the city. I think they like to create crazy people, several times I thought I was losing my mind.

Another absurd is to be able to go to the city using one bus and not being able to catch the same bus to go back to the same stop because the bus will only stop there if someone is there trying to catch it.

The champion nonsense:

Supermarket trolleys: the ones from Australia are the drunkest ones I’ve ever seen. In my motherland the two back wheels of the trolleys are locked, that means you have much more control over the thing. I know there is always someone that will think the trolleys are much better here, but to that I can only answer: “are you serious?!!”

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My Father s Secrets

September 8th 2009 04:39

Dad, me and Mom

- Come on! Smash it again! Harder!
This is what my father heard when he arrived at his new fraternity house, where he was going to live while studying for his bachelor. He went to the backyard to find four blokes trying to get the pasta out of the pressure cooker after leaving it cooking for a long time

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RITMO Festival 2009 - Showcase of Brazilian Culture

June 26th 2009 01:53

“Ritmo” means rhythm and it is the name for this Brazilian Cultural celebration, an initiative of BraCCA, Brazilian Community Council of Australia. The event has been happening since 2001 and this is its ninth edition. Ritmo Brazilian Festival is scheduled for the 20th September 2009 at Tumbalong Park in Darling Harbour, one of Sydney’s most breathtaking sites. This event is so important that it has a reserved date in Sydney’s calendar every year.
Attendees are entertained with the range of activities, involving music, dance and food; this year to be extended up to the Chinese Gardens. Starting at 11 am RITMO is a major showcase of Brazilian culture in Australia and also the most important event for the Brazilian community in the country. Ritmo is sponsored by several companies such that believe in the continuous success of the festival.
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It is time for the June Parties

June 12th 2009 01:43

Time to meet friends, try delicious food, enjoy the colours and atmosphere.
The “Festa Juninas” are folk celebrations that take place everywhere in Brazil, from parties that engage whole cities to small family parties. They happen through the month of June in comemoration of the saints’ days: St John, St Peter and St Paul. They are about dancing, dressing in funny folk costumes, eating delicious food, drinks to warm up the heart and a lot of excitement

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Whatever ceis want! (Engilsh)

June 12th 2009 01:41

To be bilingual is an adventure; trilingual and multilingual must be even better.
It is common to hear Brazilians that live in Australia for some time complain that their English is not getting any better and the Portuguese is getting worse all the time. It’s inevitable to start creating mixtures of both languages

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The Gift for Mum

April 17th 2009 02:29

Most of us, BraCCA News’ readers, have our mums overseas. I keep imagining that here, this being such a new country with so many immigrants, there are not as many older mums around.
That is why I am giving some gifts ideas to send. Far away moms love to see the daughters and sons more than anything else. So sending a DVD (in a proper format that she will be able to see) is a hit. Whatever you say or do is not important, she will love it anyway

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The Chosen Mom

April 17th 2009 01:37

Mum and Me in Brazil

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Why become a BraCCA member

February 23rd 2009 03:45

A few friends asked me: Why should I become a BraCCA member? What are the benefits?
Funny that when I say “it’s the right thing to do” they look at me like I’m a bit nuts. Well I am a bit crazy but in this case I’m absolutely in my right mind.
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