1st Annual Noisy Roommate Competition.

October 17^th, 2011:  I decided to participate in 1^st Annual Noisy Roommate Competition last night at about…3:30am.  Yes, I may not have had as much experience as my three Brazilian roommates since it was there 3^rd night in the row of practice as they again came in the room turning on lights and talking as if I was not even there.

Once they were finished, it was my turn.  Not long after the lights went off I had a chance to display my skills.  Getting out of bed at around 4:00am, I turned back on the lights as they tried to sleep and packed my backpack, banging around, dropping my locker door and repetitively pulled my backpack in and out.

It was laughing so hard inside but also aware that they might retaliate.  Three verses one is never good.  Yes, I am counting the woman too because she seems as tough as the other two guys.  In the morning, nothing was said about our competition last night as we did our usual pleasant greetings as if nothing happened.

A 300 pounder in his tighty whities doing a spread eagle

October 16, 2011:  Passing by a room in my hostel that seemed to have a lot of activity, my curiosity pulled my eyes inside.  I happened to see a 300 pound fat man on his back in his tighty whities doing a spread eagle with a tattooed man from Holland hovering over him.  The vision still makes me snack on whatever I might have previously eaten.

The backpacker from Holland was giving him a giant body tattoo.  People travel with strange things, but a tattoo gun?  I wanted to warn the man getting the tattoo not to fall asleep or he might get 56 stars on his face like the girl from Holland did a few years back.  But, I was told that someone already said it - and here I thought it was an original thought for a brief second or two.

The Brazilian Wax…does everybody have one?

October 15, 2011:  I am here on Santa Catarina Island which is somewhat of human magnet for those who are looking for a tan or a nice burn.  With all of these people in bikinis, it makes me wonder if the majority of people in Brazil proudly support a Brazilian wax.  Maybe the Brazilians enjoy getting the boring American wax or is it the ever so painful yet exotic Chinese wax – whatever that might look like…if there is even one.  I never did an internet search on this subject and truthfully, I am scared to see what the search will pull up.

Okay, I had to do it.  I just did a search on Google for “Is there a Chinese bikini wax.”  There is no such thing as a Chinese bikini wax, but I did learn that there is a French bikini wax…interesting.