New kid

Ahhhhhh I am officially not the new kid in school anymore!! :) Someone new started in my class today. It is an amazing feeling cause I finally feel like I fit in with my class :) :) I don't really know how to explain how nice it feels, but just trust me it is a good feeling!

bargin

How to get things cheaper.
1. step one telling them you are an exchange student
2. step two if you have blue eyes make sure that they see them

If you follow these steps it should go a little like this
Paula (I will write in English, but they were talking in Portuguese) : Excuse me how much is this pin?
Seller: 20 reais
Paula: can we get it for 10?
Seller: no how about 15
Paula: O come on it isn't for me it is for her. She is an exchange student.
(I turn around and look at the seller)
Seller: oooo your eyes are blue! They are so pretty. Ok you can have it for 10 reais.

:) and that my friends is why you should all be exchange students.... it works every time ;)

color festival

Today was one of my favorite days while on exchange! I went to this color festival, which is like a Indian thing to celebrate spring by throwing colors at each other; only it had a little Brasilian twist to it :)  I went with some exchange students, and some rebounds. Also, some of the rebounds friends were there too. But, it was sooo much fun! We threw colors at each other for hours, then there were bands playing all day; so we danced all day too. There were so many people here too like thousands of people. It was awesome because this was the first year São Paulo did it, and I got to be apart of it :). O I had colors everywhere cause it is just a powder; so it feels like sand, and it sticks in your hair like sand too lol. Literally, I probably had an inch thick of paint in my hair when I got home. The best part is you just throw colors at everyone even if you didn't know them. Like people would just come over and dump a full tube of paint on your head haha. O I love so much Brasil :)

Futebol

So, I had a major Brasilian moment today. I didn't have to have algebra class today because we went and watch the guys play futebol :) hahaha soccer always comes first ;). But, it was between 2nd year (my year), and 3rd year. 2nd year won cause you know we are the best year. But, meu deus was this game ever intense. People are screaming, and swearing everywhere haha. Even I was getting into it (I wasn't swearing), but here what you say is vai! Which, means go! So, it goes like vai, vaI, vAI, VAI!!! hahaha it's a lot of fun. I love it!! :)

Zoológico

Today I went to the zoo!!! It was so much fun! I love the zoo, and seeing all the animals. There were some Brasilian birds, and cats; there were some other animals too, but they had the common animals you find at the zoo. They had elephants, giraffes, and monkeys (they also had apes Dad lol) :). But, it was a very nice zoo; I liked it very much. On a totally unrelated note it is raining really hard outside right now......... I guess it is because spring started yesterday :)

Festa da Primavera

So, today I went to festa da primavera (spring party) at my school. It was soooo much fun!!!!! I mostly liked it cause I got to hang out with my friends, but they had games, food, and some kids were dancing. There were these little girls in flower dresses dancing to beauty and the beast, and it was the most adorable thing ever! They even had flowers to dance with lol. Also I eat a crepe, which is like this well I don't know how to describe it really it is a brasilian thing. But, it is this fried coating over either cheese or chocolate. I had the chocolate one of course. It is kind of like a pastel only sweeter I guess hahaha não sei, but anyways it was good. For supper today I made my family kraft mac n cheese. I miss it soooo much!!!! I though for sure they wouldn't like it, but they loved it!!!! I will make them homemade mac n cheese sometime cause that stuff is 10 times better!!!!!

churrascaria

Well first off on Friday I went to my first party!!!! It was fun. Then on Saturday I went to this video game thing that Rotary was hosting and won 200 reais. There were these competitions in Just Dance, and Mario Kart and I won!!! Well I guess my obsession over those 2 games finally paid off. Lastly, today I went to a churrascaria!!! Ooooooo it was soooo good! They bring these slabs of meat out to you, then just cut you off a piece. I was so full afterwards I felt like I just ate a Thanksgiving dinner. But, I loved sooooo much. O I also ate a chickens heart there :/. I tried it and thought it tasted really good. Then when they came around again to give it to us they actually told me what it was; so when I ate it I felt a little freaked out and it didn't taste as good lol.

Writing

So, my two friends are going to try to become exchange students!!! They are twins so they will be going at the same time. Bless that mom she is brave haha. So, for some odd reason they have to write introductory's about themselves in English even though they speak Portuguese....... really doesn't make sense, but o well. Anyways, since they have to write it in English I was helping them correct it! :) haha it was a lot of fun. I like writing, and I miss doing it so it was nice be able to do it again. It was hard though this whole time I am trying not to think, or speak in English then all of a sudden I have to come up with all these words. I can't even remember some words to be honest haha.

banana maçã

Today I ate banana maçã, which is a banana, but it kind of had an apple taste to it (O by the way maçã means apple). But, the banana was a little harder then usual. I think it is some genetically engineered fruit where they pollinated a banana, and apple together to make this fruit. It was good, but I like regular bananas better lol.

English

When your english teacher is teaching you a sentence that is so wrong you just want to leave the class room. Here I wrote it down so I won't forget it. Ok this first one the girl's car is broken ok so here was the next sentence she wrote "She hasn't to go to work" -_- oy vey. O this one is my favorite. The girl didn't have any money, so here was the next sentence " I need take some more to buy bread" I am not making this up this is quoted. I want to say something, but I don't want to seem like a know it all you know? What ever on a happier note I got presents from home today!!!! I got a box of pancakes, syrup, 3 box's of mac n cheese, and an American flag! Yeah I got the flag cause apparently me and the other girl in my district from United States didn't get the memo about bringing your countries flag with lol.  

Itanhém

So I just spent the weekend with my family at their beach house in Itanhém!!!!! Ahhhh it was soooo much fun, and thank god for us it was nice, sunny, and hot this weekend! So we went to the beach, and me and Paula walked along the shore. We were looking for shells to take home, and o my I have a lot of shells now haha. They are so pretty, the shells are pink. I have never seen pink shells before!! Also we found a coral, and a sand dollar but we accidentally dropped it lol o well we found plenty of other cool things! We had sea food for lunch, like actual sea food. This stuff was probably caught that morning. I had fried squid, which surprisingly I really liked. I also had this small fish thing. It was fried, but you could still see the outline of where the eye used to be, and it still looked like a fish. Then when I bit into it you had to eat its tiny bones too, and at that point I was just done. It creeped me out so much I couldn't do it.  I also eat fried shrimp, and different kinds of fried fish. Which wasn't too bad; not my favorite thing in the world, but I will still eat it. Also, I got to drink coconut water....... out of a real coconut!!!!!! They had the coconut then they put a hole in it, then they put a straw inside, then you just drank from it! OOO it was soooo awesome, and it tasted soooo good. I can now check that off my bucket list. Then when you are done drinking from it they cut it, and you eat the stuff inside! I wasn't a huge fan of the taste of that, it was just really plain. Paula and I went to see Despicable Me 2. I love minions they are so cute. I must say though I am a little sunburnt :/ ouch. I swear I put sunscreen on too, and I didn't even get in the water, cause it was freezing!!!! O well it doesn't hurt that much, but if I get burnt from the winter heat imagine what the summer heat will be like. I will have to reapply sunscreen every 5 mins lol.

Today when we got home we went to eat at my host dad's mom's house. We had this really good pasta thing. It was Italian so of course it was delicious. After that we went to a family friends birthday party. But, it is nice cause she is a friend from Rotary, so my Rotary friends were there too, so I got to hang out with them!!! :) I love hanging out with them they are so nice. I wished we went to the same school haha. We played Call of Duty, Mortal Kombat, and Scattergories. Only the rules were a bit different, and in Portuguese so I just watched, and kind of helped my friend with hers lol. I was also informed that the Packers lost their first game :( O well, good news is Giulia cheers for the Packers at her house yayyyyyy :). We were going to have some troubles if that wasn't the case hahaha just kidding. Whew long blog sorry. A lot happened this weekend, and I probably forgot something lol. Tchau  

language

For those of you who don't know how listening to converstions in another language goes here is a pretty accurate example. ljashoehjkahdfkjhsojehowahfjs Taylor Swift lkajsadhf;oasdjo;hgooasjl......... So you hear something you know listen, then while listening you have no idea what they are saying, and go back to spacing out.

Bahia bracelet

Sorry I have neglected to tell you about this, but there is this thing here that I love. There are these bracelets from Bahia that you tie 3 times and with each tie you make a wish, and once the bracelet falls off naturally then you wishes come true!! Almost everyone here has one, they are muito legal! Also someone has to give it to you, and each color means something. Mine is multicolored and I tried looking up what it meant but I could not find anything. But, I think someone told me at one point it means luck. Also, on another note there is this thing that 2 kids in my school do that I think is hilarious, and I have no idea why. They have tape, and they take peoples stuff and tape it together. Like they have done pencils, bags, erasers, and water bottles. Hahaha I seriously think this is the funniest thing ever.

Police

Today I had to go to the police station to officially be able to live in Brasil. Of course it was insane, and things were difficult, but that is how all these things end up like right! haha O it was fun though I had a good time. I saw a girl from my district 4420 there too getting her documents too, so what are the chances of that happening. We also went to star bucks and I drink a Brigadeiro coffee!!! O the best thing in the world!!!!! I loved it so much!!!! Also, one other thing I love watching soccer (futebol) here! I do not know why, but it is much more exciting, and people are a lot better at it. No offense but hey we are really good at football in United States, so you can't be good at everything right.

woodchuck

So today I taught people in my class how to say "how much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood" then they taught me some tongue twisters, and hahaha it was so much fun! Today I gave my short speech in Portuguese, and I really did not do that bad I think. I was the first to talk, and of course everyone clapped when I was done because that is just what Brazilians do haha. I have decided that you will have to drag me back home because I am never going back :)

Filme!!!

First off today I went to a Rotary Kids meeting. Rotary Kids is a Rotary group for well kids. I am in Interact, which is like a Rotary club for teens, but I decided to come check out what the Rotary Kids meeting was like. I also thought we were going to talk about the Halloween party but we never got to that hahaha o well. Usually the Interact and the Rotary Kids meetings are together, but I don't know why they weren't today. O well next Sunday we have it with both groups!!! Today I also went to a movie with some friends!!! We went to see Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters!!! It was really good, even though it was in Portuguese. There really wasn't much talking that went on since it was an action movie, so I understood it pretty well. But, for the talking parts someone helped translate what was going on for me lol. It was a lot of fun! My first Brazilian movie how exciting!!!!!!  O also I have to give a small speech in Portuguese tomorrow :/ yikes!!! Wish me luck!!!!!!!  Ahhh well I am going to go to bed cause I have to wake up at 6 -_-..... boa noite!!!!!!