May 19th or: the first caipirinha

We set off to start a new week of training. First thing, we gathered some more trainees from other shelters in order to scout for new talent. It worked out really well, and now we have enough trainees, some of which are really doing well. Also, a couple kids belong to our group now!

new learners .. instead of bending glasses, I taught them to fold boats

Training didn't really contain anything special, just the usual stuff. Progress of some of the trainees is great, others not so much. That's normal though. 

At night, we went to dinner with our host Michelle. She's a very nice lady who basically sacrificed her whole apartment for us -- she comes home, there's Germans there. She leaves, the Germans are there. Not that we spend much time here, but apparently more than she does. Anyway, we figured we should invite her to dinner. So we went to a brazilian bar around the corner, had some "pasteis" (deep-fried pockets of dough filled with ground meat or cheese) and "carne seca" (dried meat with onions) with fried "mandioca". Great meal, two servings were totally sufficient for the three of us. 

And after 10 days here, I finally had my first original brazilian Caipirinha. Very tasty, also very strong. More importantly, the don't use brown sugar for it, which makes it look less "dirty". Probably one of the biggest myths in cocktail culture.