The Biggest Gambiarra in the World

Gambiarra was one of the first Portuguese words I ever learnt, back in Germany, when some friends were an trying to get old radio to work in the student dorms.

It means 'a quick solution to a problem, makeshift object'.

For example - I used to have a leak in the ceiling of my bathroom here. The handyman kept sealing it up, over and over, but this only made a difference if the rain was light. Then, one day I awoke to a flood in my whole room. The landlord came and moved me temporarily into a different room. A few days later, they had put this on the roof on top of the leak:

Well, two months later and I am proud to say that the gaping hole in my ceiling was repaired yesterday. But I still had to share this extraordinarily large gambiarra!