Paint the Town

One of the first things I noticed about Lins was the color. The people here have no reservations about painting their buildings any shade, from amythest to zucchini. It makes the city really cheerful, especially on a sunny day. Here are some pictures of the brightest buildings in town. And, since I've had some requests (ok, one request, Single Follower) to put up pictures of me, most of them include my head.

Here you go:

Turquoise/Turquesa

A wall that says "Tutty Collory"--I'm not sure what that means, but it sounds like it could mean, appropriately, "Many Colors":

Red/Vermelho:

Peach/pêssego:

Purple/roxo (purple does not adequately describe this building. It is outrageously orchid, insanely indigo, egregiously eggplant):

Pink, green, yellow, and blue/rosa, verde, amarelo, e azul:

I'm sorry all these are so close to my face. I only have my little video camera with me, and so I can only take horizontal photos and the "zoom out" isn't very great. But back to business.

Yellow/amarelo:

Primary Colors/cores primárias:

Blue/azul:

Chartreuse phone booth/phonebooth chartreuse:

Peptobismal/peptobismal:

And finally, green. I walk past this house every day on the way to school, and I love the bougainville. I wanted to take a picture here, but another problem with the video camera is that I have to take a video and then choose a frame later. In this case, I thought the video of me trying not to be blinded was so funny that I just put the whole thing in. So laugh at the squinting, love the bougainville, but don't forget to notice the green/verde house:

Today at dinner I told my first story in Portuguese: "Hoje eu fazo fotografia em Lins. Mas eu acho que gente acham eu loca." If these words mean what I think they mean, I said roughly this: Today, I make photograph in city, but I think people thinks I crazy.