The People Forced to Take Care of Me

It isn’t fair that I haven’t posted anything about them yet so here we go. Lets start with my host family is awesome and Rodrigo is the only one who speaks English. Well I guess Beatriz does to, she’s learning. Rodrigo, as I said was my contact before I came and I am living with his family, but he is not, he lives with his grandmother. But Rodrigo is great and has been really helpful, we hang out often and have become good friends.

Sergio is my host dad and I love him. He is sooo sweet, and really funny. It has been great just seeing how well we get along and how close I feel to him even though we can hardly understand each other. I really feel like were good friends and often forget we can’t even communicate accept with the help of Bea, hand gestures, and our faithful dictionary! He is really just a character and it shines through even with the language barrier. My favorite moment with him so far is last Thursday or so I came home from class, and he was trying to ask me if I was hungry, it took me a while but I figured it out. Then he was trying to tell me something for like five minutes, and finally it clicked and I said “Are you trying to say ‘Me casa e tu casa’” he laughed and said yes. It was hilarious!

Beatriz is a saint. She is soooo sweet and I enjoy her company so much. We have been to the movies together, dinner, she took me and my friends out, we went to the beach together, she is just so great, especially all her gestures about Sergio and his crazy antics. She knows some English and is getting even better (faster than me and Portuguese). She is always getting on me because I talk so fast. She is very easy to get along with. Best story, Sunday night we found out a night club had samba, well it was superbowl so the boys didn’t want to go, but Karly, Samantha and I did, so Bea offered to drive us to the club and we were just going to get a taxi home. Well Bea stopped at the taxi place on the way there, and got the name and number of one of the cab drivers, hilarious. Then we got to the club she stopped and asked the valet car people something, then she parked and got out of the car with us, I laughed and said to Karly “ oh and she’s going to get out” and were laughing as we stand outside the club with our “mom” talking to the car parkers, then she walks us over to the security guards, then through the line to the people who check the lists and such. We are just cracking up because we feel 13 again! It was hilarious! I knew my mom would be glad someone was looking out for me. We just thought it was so funny! I love Bea, she’s always taking care of me.

Finally there is Amanda. Amanda is awesome, knows no English, and has been attempting to take care of my social life. I think they soon learned of my lack of fashion sense, and she being a big night clubber has helped me out. She invited me out to a club last Friday with her and her friends. So I found myself saying I have this, her responding no, and giving me first a dress, then shoes, jewelry, a purse, doing my hair, and finally my makeup when she handed me eyeliner and I laughed. She is very sweet and easy to get along with. I am having a good time with her and it is forcing me to use Portuguese.

In the Pictures: Sergio, Bea, bea's mom who i just know as vo (grandma). The group of girls i went out with, yea thats me on the end the white one, amanda is the one second from the left, that is twice as dark as everyone else, yep she is beautiful.