2 months 3 weeks and 3 days and counting...

well...
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.

let the good times roll

I know it's been more than a week, but posting on a blog started out as really fun. now it's kind of boring. but i promised my mom i would keep it up so she could stay in the loop as much as possible.
So the life of an exchange student is pretty great! I love it here. Not missing home too much. sure i have my days. Not always good days but for the most part they are. I can't be happy everyday right? well as of now i'm happy and it's great here. I dont want to go home.
I was really happy this week to get to finally talk with my best friend from Canada DAYNA! I miss my friends it was really hard starting in a new place with no one you knew. no friends although i do have friends here now at first it was a bit scarry. So talking with dayna was very comforting.
One day i woke up feeling so weird. I don't really know how to explain it but it felt like i don't know my place. I didn't know where i was but it didn't feel like i shouldnt be here. It also didnt feel like i should be in Canada. WEIRD. But that's gone and this is starting to feel normal.
I just got the chance to start a surfing class. It was so much fun. Much harder than it looks by the way. I never did end up standing up for more than 3 seconds. But it was fun. Can't wait to show off when i get home :D
The weekends in brasil are the best part i think. I normally hang out with my exchange friends which is so much fun.
I got to go to balneario camboriu with Iliana (my mexican friend) and her family. It was so neat we went on the cable cars and on a rollacoster. I ate shrip by the beach. And i liked the shrim. these ones didnt have the head still on thank goodness.
I also was asking the waiter for the internet password but he understood me wrong and though i said whats the recipe to what im eating it was so funny, He got this other guy to come and tell me and i was like ummm okay but whats the password?? then when i was leaving the first waiter asked if i understood and everything and i couldnt help but laugh and iliana's host dad said yes thank you i think she'll make it at home every night. ahahah!
I tryed oster. It wasn't as bad as i thought it would be. but just the thought of what i was eating made me not enjoy it. Atleast now i can say i tryed it..
I'm still not sure of my next host family which i will be moving to in 2 weeks! I'm sad to be moving! I love my family they are really great. Also today might have been the last day that i got to spend with my host parents still aas part of their family, because they are taking a trip to the USA.

I think i wont be posting as much only when something worth telling happenes so i wont bore you too much :D
beijos.

here are some pictures of my week

PANTANAL AND BONITO!!

So last you heard from me i was about to leave to pantanal and bonito??
Well it started like this.
I went to the beach and to lunch with my friends thinking i had lots of time before my bus. Turns out i was five hours off.. On the way home from the beach i get a call from lea and darja who was also taking the trip and we were on the same bus to cascaval (were we would meet up with all the exchange students... anyways i get the call and they are asking me where i am? i say on the way home from the beach why? they say the bus just left and i was so confused. I thought it was a joke for about 5 minutes. but turns out they were seriouse. So i get off the phone with them and keep my cool well try to.. and i make the scarriest call of my life to my host dad and tell him i missed my bus. He told me to get home and make sure i have everything ready. I got home just before he did then he was looking up times for buses to get me to cascaval in time theere were none so he told me he would have to drive me 3 hours to catch my bus.. We left right away and ended up only having to drive 2 hours and we caught the bus i was so lucky i have a good family here. I'm so stupid for looking at the wrong ticket,, last time i'll ever do that!
but i got the bus and i have an amazing week.
day one:
Bus, bus and more bus!!! Our bus also got a flat tire!!
Day too:
Sun tanning (little burn) And more bus,
Day 3:
And so it began. Meeting everyone and 2 seconds later forgeting names. then we had a breffing of all the rules and put in to activity groups. I did walking first. it was hot and boring! then when we were done our activity everyone went swiming!
It was so beautiful in the morning and night. there were aligators (MY FAVORITE!) and birds, but we swam in a pool. not in the pond.
At night we got to go safriing to see aligators but the tractor was too nosie so we didnt see much.. but it was still fun.
Day 4:
I did horseback riding and fishing for prahanas. I was so scared for both.
Horses are so scarie but now i love them, and i could have done it all day. but i sure felt it the next day!there was this wild horse that wouldnt leave our group alone so we had to turn around and go the other way. The fishing was so neat! i caught 4 prahanas! they were scarry. but cute. if thats possible.
At night we had a big BBQ because it was our last night in Pantanal.
Day 5:
Our last activity was safriing. which sounds better than it was. we just drove 30 minutes on a wagon then stoped and walked a while.. but i seen the big McCaws blue and red ones!! so beautiful!!
Then we left right after lunch and the rest of the day was spent on the bus.
Day 6:
we started our time in bonito with snokeling! it was so amazing the water was so cold and clear. I'm so glad my camer takes pictures underwater! i took so many!
We had free time in bonito at night to look around at the shops and stuff.
Day 7:
We went to the waterfalls in the morning and got to swim in them and it was so much fun!

But i got boredshort rash so it hurt so much to walk.. but it went away the next day :D
In the afternoon we went rafting. It was so much fun. but i was disapointed that we only went down 3 little rapids. I did see a aniconda! A big one.. then we went swiming in the water after.. :D and we all made it out alive! YAY!!
we had water fights with all the boats we pasted and we finished in first started in last!! YAY!!! INTERCOMPIZZAS!
Day 8:
This day it was raining alot and we should have whent to the blue lagoon caves but it rained too much so we went to some other boring cave. it was neat but i was so tired and not intertusted at the time. Then It was our last night together so we had a big talent show and a big party and dance!
It was so much fun! oh and i was voted to have had the most things. i brought all my clothes that i had in brasil.
Day 9:
VERY SAD DAY! i had to say goodbye to some of my cloest friends. I know i've only known them for such a short time but we bonded so much and i really hope to see them again.
Day 10:
My bus was 2 hours late arriving home.
I love you Exchange students and miss you soo much!! PANTANAL AND BONITO♥
Håkon Wik Solberg er kjempekul!

I am unsure of what to call this :D

This week i have been trying to catch up on my sleep on thursday that worked out pretty well considering i slept all the way through my alarm.. I woke up at 11:30 to find out i missed the whole day of school.. Atleast i felt much better! then friday i almost sslept in again because my alarm isn't working so well.
Friday night i went to El Divion. It was so empty.. it was quite boring..
Now it's saturday and I leave for my trip to pantanal and bonito I'm soo excited!! I cant wait to tell you all about it. AHH
Also i get to hang out with my mexican exchange friends today. :D
Good day;

I am uns

Sleep PLEASE!!!

Oi, this week has been one of the best weeks in Brasil.
I didn't have school on monday or tuesday. So while you canadians were enjoying a nice turkey dinner I was enjoying one of the beautifulest beachs in the world.. I went to the beach with my exchange friends. We went to Joaquina beach. The sand was so soft. We took many pictures and met lots of neat people. It was a windy day or we would have went sandboarding too. My friends Iliana (mexicana), Andrea (mexicana) e, Lea (german) all slept over so at night we went to lagoa. It was nice. we had so much fun, I tryed konepizza. It's pizza in a cone it looks like ice cream. Then the next morning I made some CANADIAN pancakes. I don't like pancakes so they weren't that good, but my friends said they liked them :) School on wensday was so boring. No surprise.. It always is. but now i'm starting to understand more and more. I still can't speak very well but it's much easyer to understand. One thursday and friday At school we had the "olympics" I didn't go on friday because i was so tired. But thrusday it was good. :)
I went to a club on hip hop night. SO MUCH FUN! I stayed all night. But i only got 3 hours of sleep because the next day i had octoberfest. That was even more amazing! There was lots of german music and it was a really great party. I enjoyed it. But I was really tired the whole time. And that night i only got 5 hours of sleep. So right now i'm Very tired.

Live like theres no tomorrow

So i didn't go for a run. Yet. But i did go for a walk does that count?
Well I've been so busy this week. I went to the mall on Thursday with Iliana and Andrea, So much fun,, We met some bonitinhos.. It was funn.. But iwas a little late getting home because i got on the wrong bus. It wasmy first time at that mall and i wasn't 100% sure on how to get home. But i learned to ask the driver BEFORE you get on the bus.
My portuguese is getting soo much better! I had my first conversation with Sebastine It was so funny were were talking about drake and Josh (the t.v show) and he kept calling it drake and jorge. and i asked him what one he likes better he told me drake and asked me the same thing. I said Drake too. He asked me why so i said because he is Gatinho. That means small cat. But it also means cute. So i believe i confused him.. That was the end of our conversation. AHAHA
I can have conversations with people but, I don't say much. I can almost follow conversations but they need to be slow and i need to really listen and pay attention.
I went to my first club. It was so much fun. I enjoyed it very much. But it was really crowed and hot. But i love to dance so it was great.
I love being 16. I feel so powerful! :D
At school I wrote a test of many subjects and got 14 out of 40. I was so proud of myself. I didn't even get the worst mark :D

feliz aniversario :D

So on Friday night i planed on going to a mustash party.. *Don't ask*
but Arina and I both fell asleep while watching t.v :P Euro trip i believe..
Well on saturday we dicied to go to the mall. We were going to watch a movie at the cinima (love. pray. eat) but saddly it was sold out. :( so we looked around all the stores it was funn.. I baught two sweaters. We were home by ten. When we got home i was soo tired even though i didn't do anything the nighth before. But Arina asked if i wanted to go with her to lagoa. Hearing all the exchange students after their exchanges say things like you can always sleep later and never turn anything down, I agreed to go. SO GLAD I DID!! it was soo much fun. There was so much to see and do. I ate at subway.. Not the same as canada but it'll do. The man there was kind of mean. Then we just went around lagoa looking and walking.
On sunday i got up early no idea how i managed that. My host family took me out to celebrate my birthday on monday. We went sandboarding. Which let me tell you soo much fun. But i think is much harder than snowboarding. I fell a lot and i pulled almost every muscle in my body.

Dont i look like a pro??!
then we went to the top of the montain that looks out over lagoa.. It was soo neat you could see so far and so much. Then we went to a resturant where i ate CANADIAN soup.. It didn't taste good at all.. I don't think it was canadian there was nothing canadian about it..

On my brithday i woke up and got to eat waffles :) I was so excited right there it was my best birthday ever! then i was almost late for school :S but i ran so i made it in time. After a long day of school iliana came over and we ate brigdairo and cake.. Not just one cake but TWO cakes! :D soo good. It w\s the best SWEET 16 EVER!! :D
Today i went to the post office all by myself. It was easy. I understood what the lady was saying... kind of. I think they were asking me about beer and if i liked. I was just kind of like huh? But my letters got sent to my family back in Canada.
SO things just keep getting better and better. I love it here and am loving it more and more each and everyday.
My portuguese isn't too good but i'm trying my best. I will stop all englsih. I keep saying that. And i keep saying i will join the gym.
I think i love food too much. The rotary 30 wasn't a lie. It happens. So i should start running but i'm always too lazy. or tired. boo.. Everyday i just think ohh i'll run tomorrow or the next day and i never just do it. but it's hot out right now. I'm in shorts :) and early walking i was sweating from the heat. i have no idea how i will live here in the summer. i hope they dont get any record breaking heat days..

party all night.

last week was great.. I will be here one month on my birthday. October 4th. I really don't want my birthday too come not because i'll be older but because I want time to freez so i have time to do and try everything there is too try in brasil. I do want my birthday to come because i want to be able to say I've made it through my first month. And i will be old enough to go to clubs. I'm excited to try them out.
I learned so much this past week.
-I don't relly know english. (8.5 out of 10 on english exam)
-I'm forgeting english and spelling
-What to do when you miss the bus.
-How too get home from the mall
-That brazilian clothes are muito caro (very expencive)
-Lots of vocabulary.

This is only a small list and I still have soo much more to learn..

I will going on the pantanal and bonito trip. I'm soo excited for this because not only will i see a different part of brasil i will be joined by other exchange students.
I love going to portuguese class because i get to see iliana and Andrea aand Laura other exchange students. :) they are so much fun..
well i'm tired and want to go out tonight so i'm going to nap. because thats what we do in Brasil :) oh.. and we get out of school earlier. I LOVE IT HERE!!!

3 weeks. Holy cow.. this can't be happening.

So i've been here for 3 weeks. it's crazy. I kave no idea how the time flys!
I just got back from a meeting with all the exchange students in my district. Ohmigod. So much fun! I believe i made life long friends. they are so much fun. I learned about the trips and really want to do the amizon and the panatal and bonito. They look so amazing!! ahh.. i really need to get going with my portuguese. From now on i only speak portuguese with my host family and my school friends.
I did my presentation. I wish i was more prepared but i was proud that i did it. It was really bad but i learned from it.
I am loving the weekends here in brasil. so much fun. I hang with my friends from school. Who are amazing by the way. They teach me so much about everything and includ me which is good. :D
I went to a brasilian wedding. It was so beautiful. and so much fun I danced the hole night. But i'm so tired now.
Guarana is amaziing! soo good the tast is like nothing i've ever had before.

2 weeks and wishing time would slow down already.

So today it's been two weeks in brasil so far. The time feels like it's flying by. Well for the most part anyways. It feels weird to be here. I still wake up wondering where i am and how i got here. It all feels like a dream but when the day stars going it feels normal and like it should be. I love the people here they make my stay 1000000000000000 times better!!

I would like to tell everyone that has made this possible my biggest thanks! (muito obrigada!)
It's really a life changer.

My portuguese is getting better little by little. I can say apple and how much and i can say i don't speak portuguese which is really helpful when people ask you things (which for some odd reason seems to happen a lot).
The other day i also took the bus by my self.. it was easy nothing went wrong. I took the bus home after my portuguese class. Where i met another exchange student. He is from sweden.

At my school in lagoa there is a new kid. he's newer than me and not in my class. One of my friends from my class and i deside we would go talk to him. I was really happy to find out he knows english. And he knows a little about Canada :D i think i made a new friend.

Well things here have started to feel more and more like home. (mom your house will always be home and i will always count on you no matter what). I think i'm starting to settle in a bit more.

I've learned so much living her. Like bring something to do during class or you will be extremly bored! no joke. when you don't understand the teachers (other thank when they talk about jellyfish :D) it sucks..
well i should get going.

I still have a cold (resfriado.. or something like that.) but i thik it's getting better.
beijos.

Living life to the fullest.

Oii
Today i've been at school for one week and i've been in Brasil one and a half weeks.
I love it here still.. I haven't gotten homesick yet. Being here has changed me in so many ways already. I've become more confedent. I don't care as much as too what people think of me and I've grown up so fast. I'm much more indepentent. I can't depend on my mommy anymore:(...

I love school. never thought that would come out of my mouth. but it has and it's so true.. I never know what the teacher is saying but that doesn't matter because i make friends in school and i talk with them during class.. (still in english) but they are always teaching my portuguese so it's good.

Today i asked the teacher if i could go get water, i was so proud of myself.. I forget how to say it now. ahahah.. and just the other day I asked a chaseir how much the deritos were. It was neat to know i could do it! but he didn't understand me when i said deritos so Arina translated better. But still! :D

I had my second portuguese class and it turned out really well.. Much better than the first. i understood so much more. i also met another exchange student but she
isn't from rotary.. But she lives near me so we might meet up sometime.

My friends from school are planing on taking out sometime Can't wait! i want to know what it is they do for fun.

English class today was so BORING!! even in that class i never know whats happening... the teacher doesn't like me because i talk the whole class.. But today he was wrong! I swear!! he said the sentance should be : we should have drunk wine... But i think it should havve been: we should have drank wine.. I wasn't the only one in the class that thought this so i told him and we had this big disagreement but i just let it go in the end.

I'm sick with a cold and i hate it! But i think it was my fault from leaving my window open.. ahaha that'll teach me! i hope i get better soon.

Did i tell you i baught my first piece of clothing the other day? It's a sweater! I love it so much!! but the clothers here are SOOO much more caro (expensive)... like no joke 30 canadian dollars for a sweater that would be 20 dollars at the most in canada.. but my sweater was well worth it! :D

Tchau for now..