Not too long ago Rafael said to me, você ta andando descalça de novo?! (you are walking around barefoot AGAIN?!), as he usually does every day of the week. 'Do a Google search on bicho de pé', he recommended, 'and turn the Safe Search off'.
So I did. As it turns out, there are two types of bicho de pé, : the delicious, and the not-so-delicious kind:
Delicious bicho de pé
Not-so-delicious bicho de pé
After this, I realised why everyone had been screaming at me for walking around descalça for the past few months. Even the maid yelled at me the other day! But her reasoning was slightly different: 'your body is hot and the floor is cold! You'll slip! It's especially bad for young girls like you!' ....That was what I understood anyway. I'm not sure if I agree with her logic.
So anyway, this is why you should not walk barefoot in your brazilian home.
Haha, sorry, but I've grown up walking and playing football with my barefeet. And I never had any problem like that. And when I was a child there was no asphalt on the street and also no sanitation, the places you walk are like that yellow brick road of The Wizard of Oz comparing to the streets I walked when I was a child rsrs.
ResponderExcluirNowadays I'm used to use tennis and socks and only ise Havaianas when I get out my home.