Mano

I approached the car and I already knew he was going to drive like a maniac. The two door black coupe of my student wasn't anything special, yet i immediately recalled the Brazilian Male's affinity for driving like a psychopath. One of my private students had invited me to go to the beach this past Friday afternoon, and as I had no plans, I indifferently accepted. It then dawned on me that the reason I had no plans that afternoon was because this very student had cancelled our class.
He refuses to speak to me in Portuguese and has impolitely criticized my Portuguese in front of others, but as an English teacher one has to make little compromises in order to hold on to your students. However I suddenly realized entering the car he had weaseled his way into a free 3 hour English lesson. He is traveling out of the country soon and wanted two weeks of intensive lessons however in less than a week he's already tried to change the originally negotiated conditions and price several times.
As he roared down the curling roads he honked or commented at nearly every woman aged 12-30, and velocity permitting halted the car to invite unsuspecting girls to the beach, all of this accompanied by a thumping techno soundtrack. This guy plays 100% into the sex-crazed, beach-loving Brazilian stereotype.
We went to a cliff where you can jump into the cold but deep water. Along the path get this, I saw a penguin. Apparently you can see many penguins here in Florianópolis, but, they are how can I lightly put this, corpses. Penguins have no business being this far up North from the South Pole, so chew on that Mr. Al Gore.
He expressed frustration with Brazil's new nationwide zero tolerance drunk driving program because of it's interference to his methods of seduction which consist of wine and skinny dipping.
After the sun went down we went back to the car where he received a telephone call from an ex-girlfriend. He switched between the stick shift, steering wheel, and cell phone as if he were an amateur juggler until he was pulled over by the cops for not wearing his seat belt and talking on the phone at the same time. Apparently you can do one or the other but not both simultaneously. The officer let him off the hook and the entire ordeal took no less than 30 seconds. Slightly thereafter he was peeling down the highway out of the vision of the policeman tearing off his cumbersome seat belt with relief. He's a character to say the least and truly gave me some insight into the macho culture that prevails so eminently in Brazil.