I´m here!

Oi everyone! I made it to brazil in one piece and am happily in my host brother´s apartment fresh off my flights. Yesterday was probably the longest day inthe history of my life and saying goodbye was the hardest thing i´ve ever done but now that i am here i see that everything will be okay. My brother gabriel is extremely nice and cute and was very helpful picking meup from the airport. he is fluent in english and apparently lived in canada a few years ago. so thats been great because its helpful to be able to speak to someone rather than not at all. or something. either way im in his potery-barn-esq apartment in sao paulo---- a crazily huge large city that is colorful and tropical with many birds chirping. seems like it has not yet set in that here i am in brazil for a year. Besides LAX airport being a huge mess and too large with no clocks, my trip was fine. I was confused because we stopped in Lima, Peru to pick up more passengers before heading to Sao Paulo so i asked many people and was finally convinced when, .. we boarded the plane? haha. Everyone was pretty helpful and pretty friendly considering how long i was traveling. I met another Rotary girl from Cali who is headed north of sao paulo to a place i dont know the name of. she was really nice, her name was caitlin and she doesnt know portuguese either--- so i felt good about that. haha. i was so happy to see her in LA that i talked her ear off. haha. It is a wondeful feeling finally being here, altho i have yet to meet my whole family. and apparently they won~t be my family? í´ll be staying with a different family but i dont know who they are? should be good. haha . im not worried tho. This weekend i am with the Mesquita´s and we will be going to ¨The Ranch¨ for the grandpa´s bday. I smell bad thanks to the Peruvian security who felt like being tough and taking my deodorant. and my luggage is in Gabriels car so oh well! i think we leave today, this afternoon, for The Ranch. I´m excited to learn the language!! But now i must go and detach myself from the computer. I might watch wedding crashers in portuguese because gabriel rented it. or the OC because they have that too -- or Friends. Things here are kind of like america its slightly odd. I will blog again another time.
Until then, beijos--- tchau!