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I'm living in Uruguaiana, Brazil as a Rotary exchange student. Uruguaiana it located at the very bottom of Brazil in the corner where Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina meet. Spending my sophmore year in Urugianana means learning Portuguese, living with host families, going to school, and NOT going home for Christmas, which many people believe. I've also learned that it means cutting 75% or your steak off since it's fat, that you don't need to do school work, cuz you can always copy off your friends and that Brazilians consider McDonalds trés chic. Sometimes it's hard, but I'm having a great time. Sure I miss the US sometimes, but Brazil is an incredible, strange wonderland. Te adorado, Brasil.
sorry, cant get to updating because i leave in a few hours for Porto Alegre to start a month long trip with rotary mostly in teh northeast of the country. i'll take lots of pictures, but i don't know how much time or access to computers i'll have, but i'ma document this trip in a little journal so it's easier to update when i get back
new page: holiday pics
December 25, 2007 Merry Chirstmas! Feliz Natal!
Ok. Merry Christmas, but I'll get into that later.
Honeslty, I don't remember a lot from the last 5 days. And it probably isn't worth that much to write down anyways. But, Bruna came home for the holidays on Thursday and I was excited because supposedly she was supposed to take me to go out and do some stuff. I was happy, although skeptical when she asked me if I'd like to take a voltinho or maybe it's voltatinho. Every other time I've gone on a voltinho it's been boring. I should be happy that I'm out of the house, but these voltas, as they're also called, usually end up with me just sitting a car driving around a city I've already wandered through in the dark, so it's not like I can see anything new, walking in the praça, or sitting idle in another person's house. One time I went on a volta with my counseler's grown son and I just sat idle in his house and had to meet all his family. It was made worse becasue I really, really, needed to talk to my counseler (his mom) and we didn't have a plan, so when they wanted to go somewhere else I told them I wanted to go home and I totally got a guilt trip. I think that's the word - when you think someone is trying to make you feel guilty. I didn't give in. I was just like "Yeah, ok..." and got out of that awkward sistuation.
So anyways, I was like "Ok, Maybe Bruna and I will do something cool..." but when I left later that night I was slightly bothered when Marli and Paula came to join us. The rest of the time I did nothing. First they had a planned stop at the praça to talk to some long-lost friends or something. And, when I though we were going home we just had to stop to talk to Tio Cesar and Tia Sandra. I mean come on, Bruna, you're here for the holidays, you can see them tomorrow. Ai ai ai.
The same thing happened on Friday, except it turned out to be a dinner with the whole family and my grandmas included. At least we went to a real restruant in Libres.
Saturday night we all went to a birthday dinner for a family friend. It was tri chic. No beef or chicken here. It was shrimp all the way. I don't feel like getting into the detailes, but it was like 1 in the morning and the whole family was ready to go, but we weren't leaving, and this conversation ensued.
Me: If we're all ready, why aren't we leaving.
Marli: I ordered some water (caterers were there) and it hasn't come yet.
Me: We have water at home.
Whole Family: **laughs at Ray**
They really got a kick out of it.
Later when we eventually left we sorta ran into a young couple fighitng and talked about it in the car.
Me: What was going on, were they fighting?
Marli: Yeah, even the girl's mother was crying.
Bruna: I wonder what it was about.
Me: She probabl just wanted to go home and drink water.
That was another good one.
I was suppsoed to go to a costume party at a club with Bruna, but it was 21 adn older event, so I couldn't get a ticket.
On Sunday I went to my friend, William's, house with the lieks of Carrie, Carlos, Lucas, and Daiane. We picked up some horror mocies from the US. The Marsh and Skin Walkers. They were both absolutely horrible. Not scary at all. I was looking for blood and guts and The Marsh was a try-to-be scary haunted house flick and the other was focused around werewolfs and the ending left you saying "Huh?" So don't watch them.
That night I tried to finish my Secert Sante gift for my aunt Eliseti. I was making a box like one I had made in an art class. Unfortunantly, it didn't turn out I wanted, so I opted not to give it and just buy a present tomorrow. It didn't look bad, but it wasn't the type of thing I'd want to give and be like "Surprise!" with. The cracelê didn't crakle engouh, the red wasn't deep enough, I pressed the flex paste in to hard, the picture was decoupaged unevenly...so I was sorta dissapointed, but at least I know what to do with the other box I bought.
Ok, Chirstmas Eve and Chirstmas will come tomorrow, cuz I'm going to Libres again like I did on Friday, but we're going to the casino, so I'll play craps until I can afford to oay my own way through college. K? That and maybe some roulette. The machines there SUCK and are way confunsing like woah.
This post has been a little skimpy, but that might be how it is is from here on out. If you'd like me to include more detail just shoot my a comment on my comment board. (Last link in the green box.)
August 07
Spetember 07
October 07
Pantanal Trip
December 07
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On:Keeping your word
Where: Rotary Club Sudeste Meeting
When: 18/10/07
Edna: Ok, I'll get all the things you need for your trip tomorrow.
Me: That would be great, because I need to give the travel agency the information by Monday
Edna: Ahhh, so I ACTUALLY have to get your information tomorrow!
Keep in mind, this was all in Portuguese. There are many others, but these are the good ones.
A while back I was on MSN messenger and was trying to say "sometimes I just like to walk in the city" ex, às vezes eu gosto apenas caminar na cidade, but I spelt caminar as cominar, which changed the meaning to:
