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I've been going to surfing class. I've been to class around 4 times and I once rented a board with my friends. it was so much fun i caught my own waves and didnt need the instructor's help :D I've gotten so much better than before because before i could hardly stand up now i'm standing up all the time and i don't fall so much..
In the past few weeks i've been feeling so weird. i've been changing so much and it wasn't always for the good. I had well still have crazy mood swings and i'm always tired and sometimes i'm mad at the world. I really thought i was going crazy then i thought well maybe this is just a faze. But I was so glad when talking with other exchange students they are going threw the same type of things. It in exchange student terms is refered to as culture shock. When I applyed to be an exchange student I always thought oh yeah I'm not afraid of culture shock but i really had no idea what it was or what to expect. So when i started experiancing it i though i wass crazy. Goodthing i recived an email telling me about it and i had some of the signs and i was so glad i found out whats going on.
There are times when i just get really depressed and miss home so much and wonder what the heck im doing here. There are times i just sit in my room alone and cry for canada and my room there. But then i think what am i doing? i'm in brasil having the time of my life how is it possible that im so sad?
It's so good i know that when I'm having a bad day that tomorrow will be better. I try to think positve and not focaus on whats not going my way or else I get discurged.
I have beeen improving on my portuguese little by little. Although i think it could be better i'm proud of my self for learning this much. Going to a new country and think your just learning the language is crazy you learn so much more. you need to know the rules and what polite and whats not what's common for people to do and say and whats rude. You learn a whole new culture it's so amazing.
At first coming to brasil i thought it was so much like Canada. now i wonder how i ever could have thought that. They are so different! but I love them both.
I get to be the luckiest exchange student in the world to be living here i n floripa. I go to the beach all the time I get to meet so many people from all over the world becasue this is such a touistic place. today i went to the beach (got too much sun so nowim burnt) but i heard so many different languages being spoken. it's really neat.
It's a small world.
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