Woke up and decided to prepare a breakfast treat to my host thus went out to the nearest Chedraui supermarket and bought a warm baguette, sweet rolls and fresh butter. Back at the flat, prepared a plate with a sweet roll, some chunks of bread with butter and some with Philadelphia cream cheese and a glass of cold orange juice.
Tried to get Internet access but no go so went to next door neighbours and Claudio told me that he reckons that they haven't paid the internet bill so the line has been disconnected. No worries, we just have to make do with the Cybercafe or Burger King.
We got dressed and got out of the house towards the Shangri La beach as we planned to assist a talk on just living of water and sun (no solid food of any kind). First we passed by Conny's (next door neighbour) workplace then all 3 of us took a taxi to the beach. Ari was discussing with the driver because he charged us 30 Pesos to a ride that usually costs only 15. On the end we just told him that we will leave it to his guilty conscience. After a couple of phone calls we found the place and met Lucas (a good looking 35 years old Argentinean dude) and his really tall mom (Dutch genes!). There was about 12 people at the talk and soon enough a black dude, with some great muscles and some strange tattoos. For a guy that supposedly does not eat any solid food he looks very healthy. Soon the mystery will be unveiled.
With a London/cockney accent he introduced himself as Jericho Sunfire, and asked if everyone understood English. Not all did so he asked if one person would be kind enough to translate his words to the whole group. Thus, I sat next to him and started translating everything that he said into my own Spanish/Portuguese mix (ha ha ha ha) It was a fun challenge because I understood his accent and words fully but sometimes I struggled with some words as I didn't know or remember the Spanish equivalent.
His talk was not on living without food as we thought it would be but instead on “going raw”, which is a roughly new-ish approach to diets.
Basically, the whole idea is to go back to prehistoric times where humans didn't prepare or cooked foods as they would survive on fruits, nuts and some vegetables. There are many opinions on the matter, some say that the human evolution dictates that we need cooked foods, others swear by a raw diet. The fact that matters is that there are many people that some way or another converted to Raw Vegans every single day.
Jericho talked about the benefits of such diet and explained that after going raw for a while, you can just eat fruits followed by juices then finally to the level that he is today: No solid food, only water and sun.
He stressed that once we go raw, sooner or later we have to pay the piper because everything that we have been putting in our bodies all these years will have to come out some way or another, thus a painful detox will take place. There's no escape! Hmm with that being said, who wants to go RAW???
The talk lasted about one hour and I suppose we all learned something, at least to approach foods with a different perspective.
Do I believe that he goes on living without any food? Hell no! That does not matter though!
The funny thing is that he never mentioned that he does not eat anything until someone shouted out: “Is it true that you haven't eat anything in 6 years?”
Jericho was at the talk to preach about going raw and cutting the chains that we have with cooked foods, nothing else nothing more. I really think that he wouldn't have mentioned that fact had he not been asked about it. He seemed very genuine and I thought that a lot of his bullet points made a lot of sense.
There was a cool moment that he got asked if he ever gets hungry at all. His epic reply was: “Do you see that girl? - whilst point to a pretty girl – She is very beautiful and so I feed on her beauty!” Hmmm, that was such good line, I gotta use it to pick-up girls.
On the end everyone clapped and several bowls with sliced fruit and walnuts were passed around.
Jericho thanked me for being the translaTOR and offered me a training session for the next day at 7am. Cool!
On the way out, Conny grabbed several pieces of watermelon saying: “I'm starving man!”
We left and went to have a splash at the beach (You know how much I love sand, salty water and stuff!!!) for a while then Lucas invited us to an Argentinean birthday party in the vicinity.
We got to the party and what a party it was.
A nice sized pool with lots of green vegetation around it, a bar with lots of beverages, a grill with tacos, burgers, etc, a really talented DJ (turns out that the DJ is the birthday boy who also spins the decks at a local club. Cool!), lots of friendly surfer dudes in shorts, lots of gorgeous women in skimpy bikinis dancing sexy, even the house beagle dog was seen cruising around the pool.
We talked with lots of people, drank lots too, some of us smoked that funny stuff (…), ate some tacos and delicious burgers (uops! Aren't we supposed to have started the RAW food diet already? - well I think I saw Conny eating some broccoli – You go girl!), and danced the night away to some amazing tunes.
A few hours after, when the booze was all but finished we called it a night and went back to the house.
Ciao 4 now
~ Paulo ~
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment