How to pull in a favela

Well, the receipe is simple. You need to be at least 12. You should have been to the gym for the previous 5 years and not shy about showing your muscles. Being topless to show how strong and mean you are is a must. You should additionally wear a big gold chain around your neck and preferrably being tattooed all around. This all sounds like a cliche, like a snoop doggy dog video, but that´s the way it is.

So once you find a target in the favela club you should move straight to it, not loose time by asking any question or even talk (who cares for the name or the age of the target anyway?) and go straight for the mouth. If the target is a bit shy or unwilling try a bit a talking, but don´t push it: 1mn is more than enough. If you have followed the above recommendation you will be successful. If you are not successful, read the beginning of this post again. Next phase of the process (i.e. 5mn later, when you are done with target No. 1), find another target and repeat the above.

Well, all this to say that people in Brazil are pretty straightforward, and are more straightforward in a favela. I know all this because I went to a favela party last night. The favela (a favela standing next to the ´city of god´ favela, remember the movie?) is pretty safe as it has no drug lords and is mainly controlled by the police (mind you, I am not sure who is the worse in Brazil, the police or the drug lords. I have heard such stories about the police here).

So basically the night went OK, apart from the music (Brazilian hip hop) being really shit. We were a bit worried as we got there but the organiser kept saying there was absolutely no problems. We left around 5AM. On the way back our mini bus had to stop at the entrance of a tunnel: the tunnel was blocked as the police had apparently encountered some drog lords inside and serious action was going on in there. We were finally allowed through after a 15mn wait.

Every occurencies in Rio...