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Oi todos!!
Things are continuing to go well, although i am realizing i am forgetting the english i once knew-- grammar and spelling i mean! oh well! Thins in Sao Jose are going well. I am staying busy, spending a lot of this week and the athletic club in our city with friends either playing tennis, futesol or doing aerobic classes. My friend Jenny from Germany and I quickly found we stood out far too much thsu today we hit the stores looking for spandex pants. thats right, in brasil all females wear spandex to work out in. its not a pretty sight. i mean-- they all look fine, and its so normal here, but on me? its not pretty. So today jenny and i found some really cool, (really cheap) spandex so that we stand out less. I think it will work. But they are really tight. they are actually pretty comfortable. My uniform pants also came in, but they arent the ones i thought i would get, most of the girls wear looser warm up pants, but mine are the spandexy ones also. its like living in the 80s but im enjoying it because maybe ill come back to the USA and start a new/old trend! haha. My red soccer shorts are soo masculine at the club! haha. School is still school. A teacher showed me a drawer full of books in english in the library and thus so far i have read 2 babysitter club books. yay. hah they are really entertaining and easy reading.The books i the drawer are so random but there are a few that i will probably read in the next few days. I send some mail home to the states today, so my family should be looking for that in... 3 weeks? i have no idea how long it will take, actually! It was quite the process tho, because apparently no one has envelopes so i had to go to a special shop to get enveloopes then to the post office and had to use glue to close them. quite the ordeal. haha. oh well. its fine. ta bom. The language is okay. its really hard an slightly frustrating. but i take refuge in knowing that ive only been here for barely 2 weeks and that things will get better. I understand a few things and have asked that my friends and host famly only speak in portugues to me from now on. its going okay. im not really a quiet person but the situation here has forced me to become one. when i find someone who speaks english as their first language i have a hay day. there is a boy in sao jose from south africa but i cant hardly understand him between his accent andmumbling and then my german friend is not completely fluent. but its all good. Im goign to sao paulo on saturday with the mesquita host family for a wedding and i am really excited. but before that on friday night im goign to the local discoteca for a smashing time, i hope. i ve never bee to one, anywhere. the closest is a dance at ike. but i dont think that compares. Next week i look forward to seeing my friend Kuba from Poland who lives a town over. He will probably come visit or I will go to see him and then next weekend we have a rotary meeting function for just local exchangers, i think there rae 8 of us in my area. im really excited. Today while i was shopping i also bought a new notebook to match the other kids at school and some pencis and colored pencils, hoorray! yesterday i got some haivaiana flip flops too. the most popular thing in brasil, besides soccer id say. they are pretty cheap for american dollars as well. oen pair is actually a ronaldo pair with his number and brasilian colors. eu gosto! i like! haha. well im in an internet cafe and im down to ust only a few minutes. things here are good... the days are long but im staying busy and am really trying hard with the language so i stop feeling so stupid. haha. hope all is well with everyone else, i miss everyone so much!!!!!!!!!!
by the way, the weather here is quite cold between 8 at night and 11 in the morning. but i survive and look forward to summer, kinda, except the humidity! haha
beijos!
Katie!
Things are continuing to go well, although i am realizing i am forgetting the english i once knew-- grammar and spelling i mean! oh well! Thins in Sao Jose are going well. I am staying busy, spending a lot of this week and the athletic club in our city with friends either playing tennis, futesol or doing aerobic classes. My friend Jenny from Germany and I quickly found we stood out far too much thsu today we hit the stores looking for spandex pants. thats right, in brasil all females wear spandex to work out in. its not a pretty sight. i mean-- they all look fine, and its so normal here, but on me? its not pretty. So today jenny and i found some really cool, (really cheap) spandex so that we stand out less. I think it will work. But they are really tight. they are actually pretty comfortable. My uniform pants also came in, but they arent the ones i thought i would get, most of the girls wear looser warm up pants, but mine are the spandexy ones also. its like living in the 80s but im enjoying it because maybe ill come back to the USA and start a new/old trend! haha. My red soccer shorts are soo masculine at the club! haha. School is still school. A teacher showed me a drawer full of books in english in the library and thus so far i have read 2 babysitter club books. yay. hah they are really entertaining and easy reading.The books i the drawer are so random but there are a few that i will probably read in the next few days. I send some mail home to the states today, so my family should be looking for that in... 3 weeks? i have no idea how long it will take, actually! It was quite the process tho, because apparently no one has envelopes so i had to go to a special shop to get enveloopes then to the post office and had to use glue to close them. quite the ordeal. haha. oh well. its fine. ta bom. The language is okay. its really hard an slightly frustrating. but i take refuge in knowing that ive only been here for barely 2 weeks and that things will get better. I understand a few things and have asked that my friends and host famly only speak in portugues to me from now on. its going okay. im not really a quiet person but the situation here has forced me to become one. when i find someone who speaks english as their first language i have a hay day. there is a boy in sao jose from south africa but i cant hardly understand him between his accent andmumbling and then my german friend is not completely fluent. but its all good. Im goign to sao paulo on saturday with the mesquita host family for a wedding and i am really excited. but before that on friday night im goign to the local discoteca for a smashing time, i hope. i ve never bee to one, anywhere. the closest is a dance at ike. but i dont think that compares. Next week i look forward to seeing my friend Kuba from Poland who lives a town over. He will probably come visit or I will go to see him and then next weekend we have a rotary meeting function for just local exchangers, i think there rae 8 of us in my area. im really excited. Today while i was shopping i also bought a new notebook to match the other kids at school and some pencis and colored pencils, hoorray! yesterday i got some haivaiana flip flops too. the most popular thing in brasil, besides soccer id say. they are pretty cheap for american dollars as well. oen pair is actually a ronaldo pair with his number and brasilian colors. eu gosto! i like! haha. well im in an internet cafe and im down to ust only a few minutes. things here are good... the days are long but im staying busy and am really trying hard with the language so i stop feeling so stupid. haha. hope all is well with everyone else, i miss everyone so much!!!!!!!!!!
by the way, the weather here is quite cold between 8 at night and 11 in the morning. but i survive and look forward to summer, kinda, except the humidity! haha
beijos!
Katie!
posted by Katie at 1:33 PM
4 Comments:
Yay my wonderful brazilian I am so glad you wrote! It is so fun to hear what has been going on with you. Dude, props for you to tell everyone to speak in Port. and not English. I want to talk with the other exchangers only in Spanish too but we know so little that it makes for a dull conversation. Later then I guess. My Spanish is coming along soo slowly...agggghhhh super frustrating. Love you though and you´ll have to get my a pair of havianas and I will get you one of the hats peru is famous for...lol the comfy winter ones with the ear flaps that claire likes to wear. lol yep, those. Chau chau my Staud!
is this german friend the same one who called america shitland?? also, i want some of those ronaldo flipflops!!
I wish I had the nerve to tell my host family to only speak to me in Gujarati!
Spandex.....well, i guess if it is the norm over there.....that's so awesome that you want to be talked to only in Portugese. well, sounds like you are assimilating at a fast pace, go you!
well, take care.
Staud! Where are you? Haha I need updates my friend! So close yet so far away! There might be secret border crossing one of these nights..
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