Here in Brazil we have a Christmas tradition called "secret friend", in which we write the names of a certain group of people in little pieces of paper, mix them and draw the lots to see who gets who. You're supposed to buy a present to the person whose name was written in the piece of paper you took, and, after a week or so, everybody gets together to exchange the gifts. Most of the times you have to give tips in order for the participants to guess who is your "secret friend".

The main reason I went to São Paulo was to participate in the Brazilian fandom's Christmas "secret friend", which happened at my place, on Sunday. Everything was great and extremely funny. Pathetically enough, in a group of twenty people, my secret friend had to be magnun, one of my best friends in the world. I was supposed to give him a bottle of "Jurupinga" (a very weird Brazilian alcoholic beverage), but didn't find it on time, so I'll just have to pay my debt at the New Year's party.

Got back to Rio yesterday in a hurry for the yet another "secret friend", that was to take place at Julia's house. The only different thing about this one was that each of us had to choose a partner, and each couple had to buy two gifts for another couple. My partner was defexxx, who was still in São Paulo and had given me the money to but the presents. christycorr went to the party with me and ended up representing him since they're so much alike. Our "secret couple" was deadcinderella and Maya (who was also absent, and was represented by ofelix). On the other hand, we were Flora and Roli's "secret couple". I must tell you Deffie, they were so mad at you that they wanted to give your present to Christy.

On a side note, I'm getting really excited about the end of this year. Sounds extremely promising. magnun, porn_kid, wendybarrie_, and _isarma_ are coming from São Paulo and a bunch of people from Rio will be at Christy's for the party. Pity mum won't be in town, though. It'll be weird not to see her getting home at 11 am after a night out. *grins*

Post Scriptum I: ofelix has all of the RHPS songs on his iPod! *dies* I waaaant it!

Post Scriptum II: A late Happy Birthday, wendybarrie_!

Post Scriptum III: frinitrix, thank you so much for the Christmas card! It was lovely. Don't worry, I'll behave next year.