Vamos para priar!
Wow, its been forever since Ive posted a blog! My apologies! Things are going well, Im staying busy and learning more and more each day. Lets see, last I wrote i was planning on going to Sao Paulo with my fam for a wedding, so Ill start there.
Sao Paulo with the family was really fun. We ate at an athletic club that has over 80000 members! SO MANY PEOPLE! hahah i was in shock! After we ate, I did somethign totally crazy. First of all, let me just warn everyone--- if you are living in Brasil, Portugal or any other portuguese speaking country--- and you dont actually know how to speak that language-- you reallllly shouldnt get a hair cut! What was I thinking? I mimed my way to REALLY short bangs and i lost about 3-4 inches off my hair hair. GAHHHH how awful! my bangs are starting to grow out but for the most part it is jsut not a cute look. My best friend here, Pri, told me that i was lucky Im not ugly or the hair cut combined with my looks would be catastrophic. I guess i took that as a compliment? haha. After the hair cut, I went with my family to a comedy play where I understood very little of what was actually being said but still laughed really hard-- i gues theyre really good actors when they can make you laugh at their actions and facial expressions alone. The next day I went to a wedding. It was pretty small, but the family is huge because my host father has like 12 siblings so there were like 30 first cousins! ahh so many people to meet! My host mom was like "im going to introduce you to people now and you wont rememebr their name tomorrow".. or try 5 minute later. I had a good time tho, and the dancing was pretty dang fun as well. Brazilians throw a great party-- thats for sure. The food was also very good. The reception was in a beaaautiful building that was just recently built and the view was very pretty.
So that wa smy weekend in sao paulo--- slightly crazy!
Since then I've been enjoying myself here in Sao Jose where I pretty mcuh know my way around.. at least to eh ice cream shop! My friends and i like to go shopping-- but its more like browsing because the clothes are expensive and Im not ready to dish out the big bucks for some clothes i dont really know if they wear yet. I went to the discoteca for the frist time t00.. which was really quite the experience. It was more like a bar,, it was really loud, i cant understand portuguese and i dont especially like 30 year old guys grabbing my hand saying something in portuguese. the whole night my german friend and i battled the guys and it was slightly exhausting. Overall, i dint really enjoy the experience too much--- but i think thats because no one from school was there. Im going there again tomorrow night i think-- but this time ill probably go with more friends so i think well have a better time.
School drags on but Ive had a lot of opportunity to read-- mostly babysitter club books tho, because thats all my school has, ahah for the most part. I also read Tom Sawyer, but it was the simplified version, whatever taht means, thus it wasnt as good as it probably could have been. I really like my classmates and friends at school but it is soooo boring. today i slept for like 3 hours. gaaah. I do anything to stay awake but ran out of gum so yeah. haha. It makes me apprecite school at Ike more, because even tho i complained so much about Ike and classes, they are way better than here! I successfully entertain my classmatesby trying to speak portugues and by relaying messages back and forth between friends.. i think im mostly saying bad things but its still pretty funny and i appreciate that they talk to me! haha.
Last weekend i had the joyous pleasure of going to the beach for Brazilian Independence day--- take that portuguese! yessss... We went south to Guarujá, which is about 1.5 hours south of Sao Paulo--- a whopping 5 hours from my city. Ooooh i looooved every minute of the beach! It was my host mom, my grandma, my best friend Pri and Pri's grandma. We had such a great time. We stayed in my grandmas apartment, just a block from the beach. We were there from Thursday to Sunday. Pri and I had so much fun. I forgot ot mention i bought a brazilian bikini before i went and boy is it small. Pri liked to help me wear it by pulling it up my butt haha saying it needed to be higher. ahhh sooo high! Pri called me "bunda branco" which is white butt and i called her "bunda gostaza" which is like, big butt. haha. We spent the mornings laying in the sun or walking on the beach and spent the afternoons at little shops along the water. I drank alot of coconut water (the best thing ever) and i even got a tatoo! a HENNa tattoo that isss.. so its almost gone now. Its pretty tho, its of a flower on my right hip bone. haha. it was only 5 reals so i couldnt resist. my mom got a tat on her back too. it was fun. The people watching at the beach was so good it rivaled the gorge, id say! There were many many pretty boys as well. muahah
On thursday night we had quite the experience when our car was towed! A few hours later and a hundred reals later we had the car back. too bad it was pretty damaged by the towtruck and my family was really angry. they kept saying "this is brazil, katie, this is brazil" talking about how complicated it was to get the car back and how there is basically no way we can get the car damage paid for. it was a major bummer but it taught us to watch where we park!
On both Friday and Saturday night Pri, my mom and I hit the local bars/discotecas! both nights we went to a place that is a whole bunch of restaurants in one small area.. kind of reminded me of a fair becaus there were restaurants but the seating was only outside and there was alwalkway in between and loits and lots of people. and one bar had a dancefloor. so on friday after getting nachos at the mexican food restaurant we went dancing kind of at the other bar. it was really fun and we made friends with a few gjuys who spoke english. the one guy who spoke english realy well was pretty fun and cute so it was a pretty good time.. On saturday we had a much better time. We went back tot he same place and the same guy from the previous night got us into the good dancing bar without having to wait the 40 minutes for a reservation. Pri and i had a good time trying to find cute boys to hang out with. which was easy as we were pretty well surrounded. haha. I eventually found a cute guy named Diego who might be my husband. haha. Hes very cute a futebol player who lives at the beach. very very very beautiful. too bad he doesnt speak englihs. oh well! We had so much fun at the beach and ate so much we both gained 2 kilos (4 pounds) and got a tan and gosh, i just had a great time i didnt want to leave and i miss it so much!!!!!!!!!!!!! haha
This week has gone so slow since the beach but tomorrow is my sisters bday so we are going to celebrate and then saturday i might be traveling with rotary and on sunday we are celebrating her birhtday again with family and then on monday my friend jenny from germany is having her birthday! whew so many birthdays means sooo much cake! i cant wait!
I went to my frist rotary meeting last night and the peopel were so sweet and welcoming. The club is tiny as tehre were only like 12 peopel in attendence! oh well!
Well this is my update...
i had a harder time earlier this week what with 9-11 (being here was very very weird) and i dunno just kind of a crappy beginning of the week when i was really really missing home but im feeeling better today and am really happy tomorrow is friday!!!!
i miss yak and the usa so much but am liking things here very well overall.
thanks for reading. Beijos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (love you fam!)
Sao Paulo with the family was really fun. We ate at an athletic club that has over 80000 members! SO MANY PEOPLE! hahah i was in shock! After we ate, I did somethign totally crazy. First of all, let me just warn everyone--- if you are living in Brasil, Portugal or any other portuguese speaking country--- and you dont actually know how to speak that language-- you reallllly shouldnt get a hair cut! What was I thinking? I mimed my way to REALLY short bangs and i lost about 3-4 inches off my hair hair. GAHHHH how awful! my bangs are starting to grow out but for the most part it is jsut not a cute look. My best friend here, Pri, told me that i was lucky Im not ugly or the hair cut combined with my looks would be catastrophic. I guess i took that as a compliment? haha. After the hair cut, I went with my family to a comedy play where I understood very little of what was actually being said but still laughed really hard-- i gues theyre really good actors when they can make you laugh at their actions and facial expressions alone. The next day I went to a wedding. It was pretty small, but the family is huge because my host father has like 12 siblings so there were like 30 first cousins! ahh so many people to meet! My host mom was like "im going to introduce you to people now and you wont rememebr their name tomorrow".. or try 5 minute later. I had a good time tho, and the dancing was pretty dang fun as well. Brazilians throw a great party-- thats for sure. The food was also very good. The reception was in a beaaautiful building that was just recently built and the view was very pretty.
So that wa smy weekend in sao paulo--- slightly crazy!
Since then I've been enjoying myself here in Sao Jose where I pretty mcuh know my way around.. at least to eh ice cream shop! My friends and i like to go shopping-- but its more like browsing because the clothes are expensive and Im not ready to dish out the big bucks for some clothes i dont really know if they wear yet. I went to the discoteca for the frist time t00.. which was really quite the experience. It was more like a bar,, it was really loud, i cant understand portuguese and i dont especially like 30 year old guys grabbing my hand saying something in portuguese. the whole night my german friend and i battled the guys and it was slightly exhausting. Overall, i dint really enjoy the experience too much--- but i think thats because no one from school was there. Im going there again tomorrow night i think-- but this time ill probably go with more friends so i think well have a better time.
School drags on but Ive had a lot of opportunity to read-- mostly babysitter club books tho, because thats all my school has, ahah for the most part. I also read Tom Sawyer, but it was the simplified version, whatever taht means, thus it wasnt as good as it probably could have been. I really like my classmates and friends at school but it is soooo boring. today i slept for like 3 hours. gaaah. I do anything to stay awake but ran out of gum so yeah. haha. It makes me apprecite school at Ike more, because even tho i complained so much about Ike and classes, they are way better than here! I successfully entertain my classmatesby trying to speak portugues and by relaying messages back and forth between friends.. i think im mostly saying bad things but its still pretty funny and i appreciate that they talk to me! haha.
Last weekend i had the joyous pleasure of going to the beach for Brazilian Independence day--- take that portuguese! yessss... We went south to Guarujá, which is about 1.5 hours south of Sao Paulo--- a whopping 5 hours from my city. Ooooh i looooved every minute of the beach! It was my host mom, my grandma, my best friend Pri and Pri's grandma. We had such a great time. We stayed in my grandmas apartment, just a block from the beach. We were there from Thursday to Sunday. Pri and I had so much fun. I forgot ot mention i bought a brazilian bikini before i went and boy is it small. Pri liked to help me wear it by pulling it up my butt haha saying it needed to be higher. ahhh sooo high! Pri called me "bunda branco" which is white butt and i called her "bunda gostaza" which is like, big butt. haha. We spent the mornings laying in the sun or walking on the beach and spent the afternoons at little shops along the water. I drank alot of coconut water (the best thing ever) and i even got a tatoo! a HENNa tattoo that isss.. so its almost gone now. Its pretty tho, its of a flower on my right hip bone. haha. it was only 5 reals so i couldnt resist. my mom got a tat on her back too. it was fun. The people watching at the beach was so good it rivaled the gorge, id say! There were many many pretty boys as well. muahah
On thursday night we had quite the experience when our car was towed! A few hours later and a hundred reals later we had the car back. too bad it was pretty damaged by the towtruck and my family was really angry. they kept saying "this is brazil, katie, this is brazil" talking about how complicated it was to get the car back and how there is basically no way we can get the car damage paid for. it was a major bummer but it taught us to watch where we park!
On both Friday and Saturday night Pri, my mom and I hit the local bars/discotecas! both nights we went to a place that is a whole bunch of restaurants in one small area.. kind of reminded me of a fair becaus there were restaurants but the seating was only outside and there was alwalkway in between and loits and lots of people. and one bar had a dancefloor. so on friday after getting nachos at the mexican food restaurant we went dancing kind of at the other bar. it was really fun and we made friends with a few gjuys who spoke english. the one guy who spoke english realy well was pretty fun and cute so it was a pretty good time.. On saturday we had a much better time. We went back tot he same place and the same guy from the previous night got us into the good dancing bar without having to wait the 40 minutes for a reservation. Pri and i had a good time trying to find cute boys to hang out with. which was easy as we were pretty well surrounded. haha. I eventually found a cute guy named Diego who might be my husband. haha. Hes very cute a futebol player who lives at the beach. very very very beautiful. too bad he doesnt speak englihs. oh well! We had so much fun at the beach and ate so much we both gained 2 kilos (4 pounds) and got a tan and gosh, i just had a great time i didnt want to leave and i miss it so much!!!!!!!!!!!!! haha
This week has gone so slow since the beach but tomorrow is my sisters bday so we are going to celebrate and then saturday i might be traveling with rotary and on sunday we are celebrating her birhtday again with family and then on monday my friend jenny from germany is having her birthday! whew so many birthdays means sooo much cake! i cant wait!
I went to my frist rotary meeting last night and the peopel were so sweet and welcoming. The club is tiny as tehre were only like 12 peopel in attendence! oh well!
Well this is my update...
i had a harder time earlier this week what with 9-11 (being here was very very weird) and i dunno just kind of a crappy beginning of the week when i was really really missing home but im feeeling better today and am really happy tomorrow is friday!!!!
i miss yak and the usa so much but am liking things here very well overall.
thanks for reading. Beijos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (love you fam!)
posted by Katie at 12:07 PM
2 Comments:
Katie gone wild! just kidding, but it sounds like you're having a blast. so you should take a pic with your new hair. well take care.
GAH Staud..I heart you blog and it sounds like you are having sooooooooo much fun! Man, the beach...sigh..beach time for me isn´t till December. Haha-white butt...I love it. I don´t even know what kind of suits they wear hear but I´m pretty sure I can fit the white butt and big butt description :D I know what you mean about 9/11...it was really weird, I´d have to agree. Keep me posted! Take care and have fun!
LOVE YA!
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