Missing Brasil...

I've only been home a little over a week but have been missing Brasil ever since I left. None more so then when I first arrived back in Darwin and it really started to sink in that I'm gone. Sydney was a good distraction from reality with the sight-seeing and UFC event to watch. But once I was on that plane back to Darwin and reality sunk in, the Post Brasil (Rio de Janeiro) Trauma started to sink in too.

Post Brasil (Rio de Janeiro) Trauma
I never knew it existed until I found out I had it. Symptoms include the longing for, missing or need of (in no specific order):
- training with a bajillion black belts everyday.
- Acai.
- beautiful women at beaches.
- Brasilian food.
- white sandy beaches and surf waves.
- having the option of quality training 3 or more times a day if you felt up to it.
- walking around in boardies, havianas and shirtless... like it was a uniform.
- sunny days.
- "freeballing"
- get smashed everyday in class, yet feeling you've learned something.
- speaking what Brasilian Portugues (whatever little vocabulary was available to you)
- watching the old black belts in the gym muck around like kids.
- beautiful women at the mall.
- agua de coco (coconut water).
- fresh fruit juices.
- beautiful women on the streets.
- crazy brasilian guys in the gym. Every gym has AT LEAST one crazy guy.
- people talking to you in Portuguese and nodding like you understand.
- having a roll with that one guy in the gym around your level that pushes you and makes you work.
- beautiful women in bars and nightclubs.
- caldo de cana (sugarcane juice).
- the "good" sore feeling after a good training session and the feeling of having accomplished something for the day.
- beautiful women. period.
- getting shown a cool technique from a famous jiu jitsu person.
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- getting shown a cool technique from a non-famous jiu jitsu person.

Other symptoms may also include:
- Pronouncing out loud (or in your mind) all your R's as H's e.g. Raphael = Hafael, Rolls Royce = Holls Hoyce
- Saying "Descupla" instead of "Sorry"
- "Obrigado" instead of "thank you"
- Feeling the need to say "Ca rai yu" or "Porra" in every other sentence when having a banter with friends.
- Crossing a "busy" road easily and leaving your friends behind, after improving your techniques crossing the mean streets of Rio de Janeiro


Hmmm I just noticed quite a few of these symptoms could be the title of facebook groups.