Everything here is still well, nothing too exciting to report on. The language is going good and my friends are well. My friends and I are still trying to find some things to do around the town and our creativity is lacking a little :P Today was our last day of school and the summer holidays are starting :) I'm definitely enjoying the nice hot weather here.
A couple of weeks ago I finally got to go one of the famous 15's party here. It's part of the brazilian culture to have a big party to celebrate a girls 15th birthday. Turning 15 is like the age that you are considered to be entering womanhood. It kinda reminded me of the parties on the TV show 'My Super Sweet 16 Party' but for a 15 year old. They rented a huge room with a dance floor and a DJ and had tons of food. Everyone dressed up really fancy and had a good time. So much that we ended up leaving at 4 AM and the party wasn't even over yet.
Friday 25 November 2011
Tuesday 1 November 2011
3rd Month
So I've been here for a little over 3 months and things have definitely wound down a lot. Everything that seemed so new when I first got here seems so ordinary, like the very friendly people, or all the dogs on the street, and even the language! I can't say that I am fluent but I can definitely understand and hold up a conversation with people :P But right now I am feeling the slump. I try and think of new things to do, but since this town is very small it has pushed my imagination to it's limits and I have run out of ideas. I am awaiting the famous Northeast Trip that happens in January, which will take us intercambistas (a little bit of portguese for you guys) to all the important sites in Brazil like Brazilia, Rio, and most importantly some of the most beautiful beaches here ;)
But before this all happens I will be switching families. The exact date has not be giving to me yet, but I was told some time at the end of the month. I think this will be one of the most challenging parts of the exchange, cause I have grown to like my family very much. Since I wasn't really able to communicate with them very well in the begining, I wasn't really able to become comfortable with them, but now that I know the language a little bit better I am actualy able to communicate with them, which has made me like them even more.
On another hand I do have a funny story to share, well for you guys reading this anyways. In Brazil they don't have rapsberries, and somehow me and some people from my Rotary club got on the subject of Canadian fruits and such. So I wanted to describe to them what rapsberries were. So I started to talk about them and say 'they are red and about this big' and using my thumb and index fingure to make a circle in my right hand to demonstrate the size of a rapsberry. Kind of like a a-okay sign that we give in Canada. Once I finish my description, a few of the Rotarians are giving me some not so nice looks but I can't figure out why. It wasn't until afterwards that someone comes up to me and tells me that that a-okay sign that I was using to describe the size of the rapsberries doesn't mean what it does in Canada, and of course I had forgotten completely about what it meant to people here Brazil. So long story short, I basically gave a bunch of my fellow Rotarians the middle fingure by accident...
But before this all happens I will be switching families. The exact date has not be giving to me yet, but I was told some time at the end of the month. I think this will be one of the most challenging parts of the exchange, cause I have grown to like my family very much. Since I wasn't really able to communicate with them very well in the begining, I wasn't really able to become comfortable with them, but now that I know the language a little bit better I am actualy able to communicate with them, which has made me like them even more.
On another hand I do have a funny story to share, well for you guys reading this anyways. In Brazil they don't have rapsberries, and somehow me and some people from my Rotary club got on the subject of Canadian fruits and such. So I wanted to describe to them what rapsberries were. So I started to talk about them and say 'they are red and about this big' and using my thumb and index fingure to make a circle in my right hand to demonstrate the size of a rapsberry. Kind of like a a-okay sign that we give in Canada. Once I finish my description, a few of the Rotarians are giving me some not so nice looks but I can't figure out why. It wasn't until afterwards that someone comes up to me and tells me that that a-okay sign that I was using to describe the size of the rapsberries doesn't mean what it does in Canada, and of course I had forgotten completely about what it meant to people here Brazil. So long story short, I basically gave a bunch of my fellow Rotarians the middle fingure by accident...
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