Sireia
The size oranges.
The hand seems to do a dance, the orange circles in and leans against the blade as a head on a cushion. Wheel with rhythm and regularity.
In a single gesture loses its orange color to capture a new image, the ball becomes a spiral. Another spiral falls to the ground.
time caju. When the wind creates small vortices, the dust rises, it's time to caju.
routes sweetish smell of fermented fruits. The Candonga double height, loading bins and cans, yellow and white, twenty or fifty liters. From the capital empty, make sure the roof with fishing nets. They return
well stacked heavy and slightly alcoholic, plugged with leaves of the same tree.
spread quickly to Bissau, will be drunk, swallowed like juice, but much more frequently as wine.
The market for shoes.
The illusion of choice and prosperity.
There are several ways to get a pair of shoes here. You can go to the shoemaker, scattered here and there, hunched in small containers, or on the streets. Usually create magical inventions with the old tires for soles and goatskin belt. You sit down, resting his foot on a piece of paper, newspaper, ... and you're done. As a child, I surrounded the hand, finger after finger, a hundred times, the shoemaker repeatedly tickles your footprint. Only a few days, and you'll have a pair of custom-made footwear.
Another way is that of supermarkets, shops or Chinese ... but for the standardization of the country are certainly not so accessible. Definitely win in terms of choice. Last
away, a bit 'more tiring, but no less interesting, is that of recycling.
is not so easy to explain but in summary: the choice is not going through the model, and then rule on the measure, but rather the contrary.
Of that number, there is only one particular model, a well-defined brand. And not only
. Each pair of shoes are cleaned daily (probably being used or waste, who knows why), dried with care, only to be exposed. The stalls overflowing Puma, All Star, Adidas, Reebok, Nike ... as we say in our part, we take what the house offers.
A number, a color, shape, brand.
Espresso Queen Bijagos and Africa.
Traghettone fifties, all metal and bolts, blue and white. Heavy
even at the sight. Within a mixture of
tenativonuovomoderno in the seats, as measured by the old wrought-iron chairs near the bar, and a small round table fintomarmo.
Four classes. In reality, very few differences between the first and third.
The first class costs a thousand pounds, the second hundred, The third pain and fear.
First Class dodicimilacinquecento francs, the few places, maybe thirty, well in the bow, listening to the voice of Cesaria Evora.
Behind one door is always open, the second class seats themselves first, an old television loop that projects in all videos of Michael Jackson, seven thousand francs.
With five thousand francs you sit in third, divided by the second class from a wall that encloses the engine (petrol) ... and of course the soundtrack. On the roof
breathe the ocean wind and looked away.
In the final class you are not even allowed a window.
Actually it is not included in the draft, is not in the drawings, plans, or on security plans. It is not difficult to guess that is a hole in the Valley, built between the two holds on the lower floor, crammed with plastic seats like those in waiting rooms in the old stations, acrid smell of sweat, heat, moisture, food, children and old mix, trample, crush, squeeze for three or four hours in a dimly lit Canton where I could not stay longer than five minutes. Boarding at two whistles three times every quarter of an hour. At three o'clock we sail, Bissau is becoming smaller and less threatening, the air flows back into the lungs, the hot sun and cool ocean wind.
mind already beginning to be more lucid.
more relaxed.
Fishing
Africa.
The water is stirred as ribollisse.
one time with each other, without notice.
Only at one point, a circle, a kind of vortex uncontrollable. Here they are, silver, jumping, would be almost happy. In fact, the small silver fish escaping from a predator's largest (and much tastier!): Sireia. Swimmer peel hard and shiny, and yellow fins, sharp.
And now that the boys enter the water, some people throw the fishing rod, who juggles with a wire. Start the battle. I love enters the fray, becoming prey and hunter.
The effort is enormous, given the tonnage of this animal. Leaves, resume, rest, fight ... the muscles are understood, arms like iron as a heart throb. Full adrelina.
until, exhausted, the animal surrenders, is being drawn on the ground where he will await the final blow.
But sometimes (not a few in fact) Sireia wins, nobody loses deception, or has driven the blacks muscles that try to tire him. Defeats the predator, will assume his likeness and hunt relentlessly.
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