Today we went to the Hippie Fair at noon. It was not very big. Yutong and I almost visited every small shop. We both interested in finding cute and colorful handicraft. Thus, visiting hippie fair was something we did interested to do. I wanted to find something that are quite special and can represent Rio to decorate my next year new apartment. And when I saw this small map hanging on the booth, I thought it was cute and it looked nice for my room. The old grandma who sold this small map told me that it was all made by herself and her daughter. I also found a really beautiful mirror at this booth. It was made of the tile of a car and I thought it was amazing! We also saw lots of other cute stuff here. Colorful Parrot made by lots of wires, a cute leather bag for packing drinks, lots of beautiful jewelry made by different materials like leather, wire, stone or steel. I also bought lots of stuff today. Like a handmade notebook which has a handmade real spoon on the cover, a beautiful favela painting on the cloth and so on. I think Rio is a really amazing city. People there no matter how old they are, they all really talent! Lots of seniors do their artworks here and sell to people. This is maybe what I want to do when I am old. Making my own art work and sell them to who like them!
I think Hippie Fair is an interesting part during this trip.Although the hand-making goods are not as elegant as the big shopping mall’s, it presents the simple thing from the folk. Hippie Fair is a good place to communicate with locals and understand their culture. From the experience, you can gain not only the cute goods but also the info from the sellers.
But I don’t like the bargin part. Do you feel like we are in China? Even though we can make the price lower than the seller said, I still feel unhappy with the process that you have to say no to them. I didn’t get too much goods because I think they don’t worth that much, and I don’t know their real value.
Most people chose to buy them are somewhat wise. Because you just bought them for fun, you don’t have to care about their quality, this simple idea made their life easier, but I can’t.