Bom (insert word here).

I was at the beach today, blending in quite nicely to what my mother called a colony of ants that situate themselves on the sands of Ipanema, when I started hearing a trend of sentences... "Bom trabalha".... "Bom appetite"...."Bom viagem"...."Bom dormir"... ok, maybe not the last one.

It seems to be a trend in Rio (and maybe in Brasil) to wish others well in whatever they do... the most common way seems to be saying "Bom" and adding the verb of whatever the other person is about to do at the end of the sentence. Afterwards, when I was longboarding in Copacabana, I heard the same thing "Bom skate-ista."

It's pretty funny, because in the United States we hardly wish others well in such mundane things like your standard meals, going for a run, going to a show. It's kind of nice, and seems to stem for the overall friendliness of the people in Rio.