Português

Today I had an interesting day of Portuguese. Today at school I was playing can-can (it is like uno only some rules are different), and I laid down a wild card. I had all red cards left I was for sure going to win, then when I said what color I wanted I said "amarelo"............. then once the person laid down the next card in my head I was like "droga" (dang it). For those of you who do not know amarelo in Portuguese means yellow, I wanted to say vermelho for red cause I had all red cards -_-. O well, I guess I learned my lesson. Also, today I was invited to a host Rotary Club to present my time in Brasil so far. O did I mention it was all in Portuguese, yeah well that actually went really well I think!!! :) I was kind of proud of myself for doing that. Well, that was the Portuguese adventure for today até logo!!! BJS muahhhh

Natal!!!

I went to a friends house today, which was tons of fun! Cold Stone just opened up here so we went to that. It was her first time going, and she loved it haha, but then again who wouldn't. Then we went to the mall because she wanted to show me the Christmas decorations, and they were so cool!!! It had a theme, which was Christmas Circus. They had elvis flying from the ceiling (fake ones obviously), and Santa was giving out popcorn, and he was tight rope walking hahaha it was very cool.

Chuva

O my god when it rains here it really rains! Like so much rain is falling at one time that the streets are flooded, with rushing water, and it covers the street. It's not like there is poor drainage it is just that so much comes down at once that there is no where for it to go. Also, this all happens with in 10, 15 minutes!!! It is crazy!!!

Holiday

Today was a holiday so I didn't have any school!! This, morning we went for a bike ride. In São Paulo since there is no safe place to really ride your bike they have made these bike lanes on the street. It is actually really cool! It feels like you are going to get hit by a car though cause you are riding right next to the fast moving cars, but it is still a really good idea. I had fun riding my bike today, but my legs hurt so bad haha.

Jogos Vorazes: Em Chamas

I just watched Catching Fire for the second time today!!! Hahaha I have seen it twice already, and it hasn't even come out in United States yet :) The first time I watched it I was in Itanhaem, so the movie was completely in Portuguese. Since I had already read the book, I kind of understood what was going on, but I missed a couple things. Today I watched it in English! O it was like watching it for the first time haha. O I just love the movie so much. I went today with some friends. School got out at 11:30 today so we went right after school. We took the subway to the shopping mall, where we watched the movie (cause the theaters are inside the malls). There were 11 people including me. Yeah I know that is a lot of people we basically took up an entire row. But, I had so much fun! Also, it was Paula's birthday today! We went to this really cool Italian restaurant. They made it look like you were walking through Italy. They had you enter through this fake ally, and I felt like I was in Italy. O was soo cool. Well, I am going to bed cause I have done a lot of walking today. Tchau boa noite!!!

Fun Facts!

You wanna know some fun facts about Brasil!! Ok!!! First off here it is not common to have a middle name. Yeah I know how different. Usually they have both the mom's maiden name and the dads sir name. Yeah that is why sometimes names can get really long cause they just keep adding the names to the kid's name. Most people will take away one when they get married. How cool is that! haha ok next fact! Here they eat dogs with mayonnaise and potato sticks.... you know the potato chips that are in a shape of a stick. Yeah I remember when I ate my first hotdog I was so excited cause I hadn't eaten a hotdog in a while and I thought you know hotdogs were a universal taste, but I was so confused when I got this hotdog with potato chips on it. Haha it was ok. I prefer my hotdogs chipless, but I will still eat it. Also, they do not have hotdog buns. Yeah instead they use like french bread. It still taste really good, but since the bread is wider usually people will have 2 hotdogs inside of one bun!!! So, as you can see basically everything is different here even hotdogs haha. But, I love all the different stuff it is exciting, and is always surprising me. Well, that is all for the fun Brazilian facts for today have a nice rest of your day tchau!!! :P :P  

Speech

So I had a speech today in Philosophy. I was extremely nervous cause I had to do it in Portuguese, and pronouncing is an extremely hard thing to do. But, I just love everyone in my class it made me feel less nervous. My friend and I spent like a whole class period just going through the speech, and helping me pronounce things. Then when it was time my class was dead silent, and if you don't know my class it is never silent. I guess everyone wanted to hear me speak in Portuguese. The beginning was hard with some confusing words, but the end was easy. Everyone said I did really good! Yayyyy!! Today I also played (well more like tried) to play soccer. Haha I did ok. It wasn't like a real game we were just trying to get in the goal on one side. We didn't want to play a real game because it was so freaking HOT!! My god, and they told me that it is just beginning to get hot it apparently gets worse! Well I wanted hot so I guess I got it. Enjoy the snow Wisconsin!! :) Tchau

Updating

Well hello I kept getting yelled at for not posting anything in a while, so I will give you some updating. First, I went to Hooters with them some friends, which was so much fun! I ate chicken fingers and I really missed chicken fingers so that was nice. Then another day I went shopping for some balada clothes ( balada is the club) because I was supposed to go this weekend but that didn't end up happening. But, I bought 2 outfits, a pair of high heels, and a little purse to care with me. I am so excited to go (when ever that may be). It's Brasil everyone parties a lot, so I can't wait to be part of that everybody. Other then that not much has really been happening. I have discovered I can kind of have a conversation in Portuguese if it is just me and one other person. More then one person talking I get lost, and tired cause I am trying to translate it all, and it just isn't working. So, yayyy that's exciting. Summer break is almost here! Well that's it for not tchau tchau!!