Yea a good friend of mine in HS was a foreign exchange student from Brazil.
I remember seeing him in study hall, looked like an Asian kid but dressed very unlike one lol. In his broken English I quickly found out he liked bud so we got along great. I introduced him to mushrooms which he later told me was pivotal for him.
Anyways this dude was the nicest guy but he had the craziest stories that just didn’t seem real coming from his chill demeanor. He has been standing so close to people when they were shot blood splattered up on to him.
His first time trying LSD he told me this story, “so then me and my friend went and fucked this prostitute in, oh how do you say?... Butthole.” The shit he’d say was next level funny as fuck sometimes.
But as I said he was just this super chill laid back guy. Until one night we were at a party and some older guys started talking shit to us telling us to leave. As we were going one of the guys got too in his face and in the smoothest quickest moves I’ve ever seen hit him once so hard he dropped and as he was on the ground he knees him in the face.
There was no emotion, no getting mad, it just was what it was. Then he casually got in the car as we were going nuts, the guy with blood pouring out of his face.
That’s what I think of when I think Brazilian people. The most first world 3rd country IMO with US not far behind at times.
Another thing that didn’t add up was his finances, this kid somehow had like thousands of dollars in an account he got set up there. He just didn’t seem like your typical rich kid, and the money was so disposable. Couldn’t figure that out either...
Years later he got ahold of me on FB and told me how much it meant that I went out of my way to make him feel welcome, especially where we lived. At the village he was living they were really beginning to use DMT which he was telling me about. Good dude that I hope to see again one day.
-GC