I have been pretty busy this week. My host mom got me signed up for a gymnastics class... Turns out, i do most of the teaching. The coach's just translate. It's a fun class.. (Gymnastics down here is a joke.)
I have also been running at the club everyday. I have been super sore, and rather tired in the mornings.
I went to a Rotary meeting last night, and I actually understood what someone said to me, IN PORTUGUESE!!! I think this a good sign! Also, I found out that there is a Rotary orientation this weekend! Yay for meeting new exchange students!!
Today, my host mom taught me some new words, I wrote them on cards, then we taped them up in the house! I learned escada (stairs), microondas (microwave), and lots more that I have already forgotten.
Also, in school today, we watched "Into The Wild" and it made me a little homesick, and that is the first thing that I completely understood in school... Which is rather sad if you think about English class here. (The English teacher speaks very poor English.)
Okay, I am going to watch "House" and read the Portuguese subtitles, hopefully learn something. (:
Tchau,
beijos.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Semana Uma.
Okay, I survived the 3 day flight, Customs, Immigration, 4 days of school, and two Rotary events.
During which time I have figured out that: schools here are like prisons, I have a new friend named Casper (the ghost) from Denmark, Guarana is really freakin' good, this city is huge, annnnnnnd NOBODY here speaks English, so Portuguese is a MUST. So far, it's coming pretty well. I learned ow to say pineapple, ring, bus, and crayon.. I noticed that when learning a new language, the order in which you learn things is: "Hello", cuss words, random objects. (:
Sunday: Landed in Sao Paulo, had cheese bread and hot chocolate, went home, unpacked, showered, "Snappled" (Skyped) my mommy, and went to sleep.
Monday: Woke up had breakfast, went to school, came home, room was clean, lunch was made, ate lunch, did nothing the rest of the day.
Tuesday: Woke up, ate breakfast, went to school, went to the club, at lunch at the restaurant, looked around the pools and gym, came home, got ready for Roatary, went back to the club, signed up, went to Rotary, met lots of oldies, SAW FELIPE, met Casper, went home, slep.
Wednesday: Food, school, home, food, club, home, shopping, food. Lots and lots of food. (:
Thursday: Food, school, home, food, club, 19 hour nap.
Friday: NO SCHOOL! Food, club, home, food, movies (Inception), home, sleep.
Saturday: Bright and early start, went to set up for the Paella, went to host grandmas house for lunch, went shopping for the Paella, went to host moms friends moms house for cake and tea, came home, got ready for the Paella, went to the Paella, cam home, SLEPT.
And that was my week one. (:
During which time I have figured out that: schools here are like prisons, I have a new friend named Casper (the ghost) from Denmark, Guarana is really freakin' good, this city is huge, annnnnnnd NOBODY here speaks English, so Portuguese is a MUST. So far, it's coming pretty well. I learned ow to say pineapple, ring, bus, and crayon.. I noticed that when learning a new language, the order in which you learn things is: "Hello", cuss words, random objects. (:
Sunday: Landed in Sao Paulo, had cheese bread and hot chocolate, went home, unpacked, showered, "Snappled" (Skyped) my mommy, and went to sleep.
Monday: Woke up had breakfast, went to school, came home, room was clean, lunch was made, ate lunch, did nothing the rest of the day.
Tuesday: Woke up, ate breakfast, went to school, went to the club, at lunch at the restaurant, looked around the pools and gym, came home, got ready for Roatary, went back to the club, signed up, went to Rotary, met lots of oldies, SAW FELIPE, met Casper, went home, slep.
Wednesday: Food, school, home, food, club, home, shopping, food. Lots and lots of food. (:
Thursday: Food, school, home, food, club, 19 hour nap.
Friday: NO SCHOOL! Food, club, home, food, movies (Inception), home, sleep.
Saturday: Bright and early start, went to set up for the Paella, went to host grandmas house for lunch, went shopping for the Paella, went to host moms friends moms house for cake and tea, came home, got ready for the Paella, went to the Paella, cam home, SLEPT.
And that was my week one. (:
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