speak portuguese please

2 months on and the process of adaptation in Brazil is pretty slow and it is proving to be very painfull.It is not easy and at times i think people here think that i have some sort of problem,mental problem or i am taking the piss out of them which it isnt the case!
Well in the supermarket i go the other day and asking for things gets harder and harder.I am either lost for words or there is this silence coming from me trying to find the right word to fit in that is extremely embarassing taking that i am from here.And the more i get nervous the worse it becomes and the cashier dont help by staring at me with that brazilian smile only we have..the queue is long and i am holding it to make it worse for my compatriots as if we dont have to wait in queues in Brazil enough..

Now talking about queues there is something about them that drives me mad..Living in the UK i have learnt that time is gold and time is very precious there,the English simply dont like to stand waiting too long and i knew that coming back to Brazil i would have to be very patience and brave

And them once i past my mental ilness and my statering the machine in the supermarket dont work,the system is old and they send you to another part of the supermarket to get things done and usually the person in charge is away sorting something else or simply moving at the speed of the turttles and my patiente that i have to sell,now is over, but i cannot just leave the market as i used to years ago cos my shopping is full so i stand there and wait again.
Now it seems that in Brazil you need your NI or CPF as we call it here for everything you do and when you have a name as long as mine time is not at your side...maybe i am getting older or maybe i am actually out of date with the brazilian life that i sought with my heart because i was done with the running about but hey i can confess this is too slow for my taste!!
Jane my mom sends me to get some fruit and veggie at the veggie shop just outside our building and for my embarrasment she thinks that i am still at the age of 16 and give me a list of things written down on a piece of paper, of course straight away i refuse as if i want to prove to myself that i have grown up or grown up from my mental ilness too..LOL
I take the lift down and as i past by the porter he asks me where i was going.....stop a bit....let me tell you something about porters in Brazil.They are not only porters they are some sort of multi task special people that can do everything you can possibly think about.In my case Jonh unblocs pipes in my house,clean windowns,repair old tv sets,helps with moving of the heavy bed and so on...so i think they think they have some sort of rights to ask us in the building as if they are part of the family so returning to Johns question 'where are you going George'my aswer to him was 'Eu vou ao veggie shop'witch translates half the sentence was in english and the other half was in portuguese....so now John looks at me with the same smile as the cashier at the supermarket as if he didnt get anything i said or as if i am from another world!
Crossing the road half way off my misery i approach the veggie shop and this lovely young blond lady greets me with 'Hello George your mom has just phoned and we were waiting for you' ..i smile back with a sight of relief and the man at the back of the shop brings me a bag full of things ready to go...
wow i dont need to talk or ask anything all was there ready for me so i could just go leave the shop and comemorate my succsess ....
She carries on and say 'Hi George i am Ana and we know your are Janes son who used to live in the UK'
'Yep thats me' i replied
'Please to meet you George and before you go take this fruit as i welcome you here in Brazil'
'Oh thanks' i say leaving the shop and half way ahead still within her sight i turned around and say
'Wow Ana thanks for the grapes they are delicious'
she replied 'No problem George anytime but they arent grapes but "jaboticabas"'
It seems that i have forgotten a lot more than just how to speak portuguese...