Waiter in Ipanema

Yeah, i finally get a job and i was actualy working in one bar/restaurant in Ipanema. For 3 days and 36 hours of netto working time my boss decided that she will try other person. Yeah bad luck. 

I think that she didn't call me because of my portuguese. I have things mixed up right now. I wasn't physically capable to work alone in that restaurant for 3 days. I feel like a loser again :-) Something is happening with my head. But for nextime.

Have to search for another job right now. Valeu

Job in Rio de Janeiro #3

Hey guys,
after never ending searching for job in Rio de Janeiro I started believe that I'm going to die here in my place full of rats and cockroaches. It was realy the worst situation I've ever experienced but not as that worst like working as stock broker.

I accepted that I'll maybe not be able to find a job here and get some money for surviving. I totally accept that I may have go back to my country with a shame of loser that I certainly am just like all of us. But what ust happend was awesome.

I just got a job!!

Yesterday I was in some interview in small restaurant in Ipanema. I explained to a proprietor that I'm here without carteira de trabalho (any work permission) and she hadn't any problem with that. I'll be doing waiter there and I'm starting today at 5.30 PM. It low classes work but I find that really better that calling to my clients that we just lost money in "our" portfoilio during the Greek election.

Reality helped me after I accept the worst scenario can happen. This is Brazil for me. It's fucking carusel.

So let's get a work! 

Job in Rio de Janeiro 2

Heh, working in Rio de Janeiro isn't that easy as I tought and wrote here :) I was working for one man who wants to make a tourist agency in Rocinha. I was creating the site and helping him to create structure of his company because evidently he doesn't know anything about earns and costs. But after some time I realized that he always leaves me when I asked money. Aftere 100x asking money he told me that unfortunately he right now doesn't have money to pay me but he is trying to get sponsor of his project. Men it sucks. I stoped doing everything for him. I once again believed someone that it will be OK.

Sometimes I live (you too) in dream that everyone is pure and has the best intentions. But the reality is only ilusion and this was my excuse for not holding my life in my own hands. I'm sure that I knew it but I didn't admit it.

And Brazil has one advantage: if you make a mistake, you will know imediatelly. What I want to say is that after making mistakes there will be no dealey after misteke and before reality will notice you. This means for me that I will loose other 5kg of my weight.

Projects on internet are in advantage stage of making money but money is too small for debiting and what is more important when I'm not brazilian resident I don't have any accounts here. I'm solving that problem too but during all the restrictions have to wait more than I can handle without the food.

So I have to find a job. I noticed a lot of people that I know for "helping" me find the job. But I know that I have to make this alone.

For any qualified and unqualified type of work you have to submitt a CV. So I made my CV in portuguese. I spend hours to send my cv on internet, but if someone rarely responded and asked me if I have carteira de trabalho, he thanked me for my time and when I have my docs all right I can call him again. This sucks.

What remains is print out my curriculum and go for street. I've visited almost 50 businesses for offering my services. Should be noted that I can work on any possition in their business and my portuguese is advanced but until now is without responce. It's/I'm starting to be crazy.

So wish me good luck I'll go for street once again.

Living costs in Rio de Janeiro

Hey I'm little delaying on posting here but it doesn't mean that nothing happened. I've search internet and I've found a lot of stuff about cost of life in Rio de Janeiro. Is it full of shits about middle class life and maintaining living standards etc. I just want to say if you want to come to Brazil and you don't have to enough money, you have to accept the fact that you will LOSE your life standards. And besides Brazil doesn't offer the same things as Europe offers.

And other thing, if you're afraid that you will lose something you should probably stay at home. Leaving your country you will lose so much that you expect. It's like some people want to start a business and don't have balls for losing money. It will always lead to hell.  

In Rio de Janeiro is a huge difference between poor and rich people. The poorest live in shacks. The most rich people lives in 500m2 penthouses with spectacular view. But don't be confused almost all the slums are located on hills and it's giving an advantage. You can get a spectacular view for less price. But probably the asphalt road won't be in front of your house.

If you want to rent small apartment in Copacabana or Leblon, you'll pay something around 1.300 BRL. But you'll need Brazilian guarantor if you never had a rented apps in Brazil.  In Rocinha the price for small "house" is around 500 BRL and you'll get 2 bedrooms, living room and kitchen. Usually unfurnished.

Let's say that you don't need too much electric devices and in that case you'll consume something around 50 BRL per month. Water consumption for 2 people is around 30 BRL. Water in Rocinha is for free but the quality is questionable (a little bit stinky).

Price of internet in Rio is around 30 BRL. The provider NET has for that price 10 Mbps. In Rocinha is that price for 700-1000 kbps.

Food depends on your personal desires and needs :D If you're fat pig that eats every 30 minutes you need a lot of money. But I think in low cost version is about 200 BRL if you prepare food in your house. Eating on street is quite expensive. I guess 30 BRL per day in low cost version.

OK comparing this expenses with a minimal wage in Rio de Janeiro 630 BRL it seems that life is impossible here :)

Police invasion against the drug dealers in Rocinha

I want to describe how is the situation in Rocinha after police invasion.

Let me describe situation in Rio de Janeiro first. In Brazil the homicides doubled since 1980 and looks like a constant problem in country where doesn't exist religious, ethnic and racist conflicts. Almost 50,000 people are killed in Brazil every year.

However,  the situation in Rio de Janeiro is statisticly better. According this document http://mapadaviolencia.org.br/pdf2012/mapa2012_rj.pdf the homicide crime is dropping down in last decade. In year 2000 was in state of Rio de Janeiro 51 homicides per 100,000 habitants and 56.1 in city Rio de Janeiro and its agglomeration. In year 2010 was half on both sides.

Drug dealers are responsible for most homicides. There is no dead bodies in Rio de Janeiro. Who is scared of violence are again middle and upper class. I believe, that you can be robbed in Rio, as the most people said but you can be robbed also in other bigger city.

Rio de Janeiro has approximately 700 shanty towns called favelas. Ten years ago was almost all of them occupied by one of the drug dealing gang. There are 3 biggest gangs in Rio that are occupiing favelas. Probably the biggest and oldest faction is Comando Vermelho (CV), Amigo dos Amigos (ADA) and Terceiro Comando Puro (TCP) which starts a "business" after masacre in prison Bangu where a part of CV splited and killed almost all of remaining command of CV.

Situation after 10 years was different. Politicans felt electoral power because 1/3 of habitant of city is considered to be habitant of favela. Goverment stared huge operation for throwning out dealers from favelas. In these pacified favelas are in charge police militias which are recieving money for protecting habitants against violence and drug gangs. Pacified favela is considered to be a "property" of PMRJ(Rio de Janeiro Police Department) and was distributed to high-ranking police chiefs who has profits of it.

In Rocinha was since 2004 in charge ADA but after November 2011 arrrest of Antônio Francisco Bofim Lopes also called Nem is considered to be pacified. On every corner is a police patrol with submachine guns. And indenpendent teams are patroling becos (small street).


The presence of guns is prety disturbing but you can used to it. Police is checking a lot of people and the worst situation is on night. It's not good to leave you home without identification. Sometimes I can hear gunshots but it's a far away. There is no sign of drug dealers but I can bet that some of the people that I know are.  

Baile funk - "music" of Rio de Janeiro

Last weekend I had honor to visit a local show. It's called baile funk and it's party. Its visitors are mostly poor people from slums, but there are parties for not too low classes on a borders of slums.

Baile funk is a party. There are MC's which play music simply called funk. It doesn't have anything common with funk that is known in Europe or USA. Texts content a lot of violence, social injustice and sex. It's very simple. Singers are trying (or even not trying) to rap the text.

Here is a great exaple of what girls are doing. The move is called bum bum

 On show was a lot of girls with big asses shaking all time in front of my face... I think that for person from western world is this a lot of temptation. Girls are very comunicative and provocative.

Frankly I had to leave very quckly because...

Make your opinion yourself.

My flat in Rio de Janeiro again

I forgot to post some fotos that I promissed. The flat where I'm sleeping is under rat atack right now. On terase is a lot of eletronic stuff such as trasmitors, loudspeakers, amplifiers etc. It looks like I'm living in trash.
A closer look:

The proprietor of the radio isn't a person who wants to change anything and in that case I have to convince him to do it.

Here is another picture of a street below. The fact is that I have security for free.

Nevertheless, I have to solve the rat problem because I'm really unconfortable with this. But sofar I didn't make nothing.
Any idea?

Usefull feature for solving this problem is to have a door on terrace. Let's see if it's possible.