Aula!!!

OI! Yes, I am still alive here in Brasil! It is as beautiful as ever! I started class four weeks ago now and they have been interesting. If you want to know how classes are, my answer is always, there in Portuguese…. As I am sure all of you know, I have a problem with daydreaming (especially in class) and I have learned that not knowing the language makes it so much easier to not focus… I should just tell you about my first week of class, it was eventful enough. Tuesday I have my recreation and leisure class at EIGHT in the morning (as much as I miss crew it was easy to get used to waking up late). Well I have to take the bus and its about an hour ride more or less, well I get to campus with ten minutes to spare, go to the list to find out what class room my class is in and learn that my class is actually on the mainland campus (about an hour and a half from where I am, and I have no idea how to get there). So with a collect call to Rodrigo, scrounging for change at the bus stops, I made it for the second half of class (class here is 3 hours once a week). I had to borrow money to make it back home, so needless to say, very interesting first day. The second day my class wasn’t till 7pm, Tourism Events, so Rodrigo was going to get his ride, my friend Gabby, to pick me up. Well at 6:30 he wasn’t there… so I had to bus and was 45 minutes late. I finally got it right on Thursday for my people management class (nao gosto) that was at 830. I was actually early, and the first one in my class till 840. Incase I haven’t mentioned, people in Brasil are ALWAYS late. Out of the 4 times I have been on time to class, my teachers haven’t, and 2 times I was late, my teachers still weren’t there. I fit right in…

In the pictures: My host family before a graduation party that was more like a wedding reception