Oiii there!Last year for Christmas, my Brazilian sisters Mari and Cacau brought me a few Brazilian gibis - children's comics - as a gift, and I just fell in love with them (the gibis, I already love Mari and Cacau, of course). I was never someone who read a lot of comics, but I just loved those, like a child. And what a great way to learn and practice Portuguese! These are the Turma da Monica comics, or the Class of Monica (they're basically about a bunch of kids getting into trouble and playing all kinds of tricks on each other). My favourite character quickly became - and still is - Magali, a cute little girl in a yellow dress who has an unending (and rather voracious, actually) appetite. For my birthday in the summer, the girls sent me a few more copies of the newest gibis. Needless to say, I'm hoping for a new batch in the new year :)
What does this have to do with anything right now? Well, it's almost the end of the year and 2012 is approaching fast, people are making all kinds of plans for New Year's Eve... I remember that I learned from the Christmas edition of the gibis last year that in the coastal cities and towns of Brazil (and that's some 8000 km or something!), there is an NYE tradition of jumping through the first seven waves of the sea in the new year (I guess ideally at the countdown). This is then meant to bring good luck for the whole year. I remember seeing the photos of one of my Brazilian friends taken during the NYE in Rio last year... well, all I can say is, it sounds like a fun thing to do to welcome the new year! Something I'd definitely like to do sometime :D
Whatever your plans are for NYE and whatever your New Year's resolutions may be... Happy New Year! :)
Bejios e vamos pular gente!
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