Winter Olympics in Brasil

After watching a lot of hockey and a lot of curling, one brasilian girl thought that Brasil should have more than 5 athletes at the next Winter Olympics... She thought that the best way was to create a new sport! It doesn't have a name yet but it's a mix of curling and hockey and what you need to play is a broom and a frog that appeared in your living room - magically!

So what to do is 1) turn your eyes from the TV to the frog 2) go in the kitchen to get a broom (any kind works - even though some might have more power than others) 3) get as close as possible to the frog without scaring her 4,5,6) open the door, broom the frog outside and close the door - all this should be done in 2 seconds or less - if you ever hope to take part to the Olympics...

You have to stay very calm or some bad things could happen 1) you could never notice the frog 2) you could not find the broom in the kitchen 3) you could scare the frog while getting closer to her 4,5,6) you could forget to open the door - so the frog would explode on the closed door, you could kill the frog with the broom even before it is outside the house, you could not hit the frog hard enough and close the door on her - so it would explode and you would lose a few points...

Here is how the points work 1) you get some points if you do everything in the right order (so you lose some if you try to hit the frog before getting the broom 2) you make points if the frog is still in one piece after you hit it 3) you make points if you don't faint after doing such incredible thing 4) finally, you make points for the time you take to do all of it

There might be an adaptation of this sport for the next Summer Olympics - an adaptation of lacrosse - which would be called - take this bat outside the house... :)

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Besides all this creativity that Brasilians show, the Winter Olympics were a big deal here in Brasil - We could watch them almost from everywhere - even when you would expect to see a futebol game in a bar - because it is summer here - there were some hockey games or curling games on the TVs! It is very common to walk on the streets and to hear Kevin Martin's name in a conversation as it was also common to hear people guessing who would score the winning goal in overtime in the men's final! (ok... maybe a little bit of exageration, but still... - it is true that the commentators discussed how Brasil could get some ice rinks to practice curling and to take part to the next Olympics...) I also watched Johannie Rochette's last performance in a japonese restaurant in Sao Paulo - almost everybody in the restaurant was also watching!

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Finally, it felt good to be canadian for 17 days, but now it's time to get back to my real identity: quebecois of course! (just kidding)