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Como os meus avós se conheceram
A grandchild tells how their grandparents met in São Luís in June 1975: Graça replaced a sick friend in a Bumba meu boi group, the rain sent everyone under a tree, and there she met Raimundo, soaked and laughing. They married the next year, and the family still goes to the festival every June.
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Hauptaussage
1. What is the story about?
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How the writer's grandparents met at the Bumba meu boi festival in São Luís in 1975.
Detail
2. Why did Graça dance that night?
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A friend who played the matraca in a group got sick, and Graça took her place.
Detail
3. What was Raimundo like when Graça saw him?
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Completely wet, laughing non-stop and without his hat.
Schlussfolgerung
4. Why does the family still go to the Bumba meu boi every June?
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Because that is where the grandparents met: the festival is part of the family's story.
Wichtige Wörter
- o Bumba meu boiJune folk festival of Maranhão, with music, dance and an ox character
- estar em festato be celebrating
- a apresentaçãoWortperformanceIn PhrasenEle só encheu linguiça na apresentação.Você mandou bem na apresentação!
- a matracawooden clapper played in Bumba meu boi
- tomar o lugar deto take someone's place
- molhadoWortwetIn PhrasenIsso é chover no molhado: todo mundo já sabe.Dizer que o trânsito está ruim é chover no molhado.
- sem pararnon-stop
- a correriarush, scrambleIn PhrasenTô naquela correria de sempre.
- nunca maisnever againIn PhrasenDepois disso, a gente nunca mais se viu.Moral da história: nunca mais saio sem guarda-chuva.