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This blog is for anyone to follow me on my journey to Brazil on the Rotary Exchange. I am from British Columbia and I will be living for a year in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.

Thursday, 26 September 2013

Saudades/Singing

Saudades is a word that really only exists in Brazil I think. When you have "saudades" for something or someone is means you have a "longing" for them (so you miss something/someone essentially).
I have had a lot of Brazilians ask me if "estou com saudades do Canada, minha familia, ou meus amigos" And my answer is yes, I do miss some things about Canada like: Tim Hortons, peanut butter, and ceasar salad. Right now I have only been here for 2 weeks so I don't really feel like I "miss" anything or anyone too too much yet. I'm sure I will eventually.
What I do miss though, is singing. In Canada I sang ALL the time; at home, at school, on the street, in the car, at work, EVERYWHERE!
Here I hadn't really sang because I was just getting used to my surroundings and I thought it would be kinda weird to go into my bedroom and just belt it out.

However, the other day, my friends at school were singing familiar songs and asked if I knew any Rihanna songs. I said yes and started singing "Stay". I wasn't singing all that well, I just sang a few words so they would recognize the song I was singing. All my friends told me they loved my voice so then they kept making me sing different songs for them. They loved it so much that when we got back to the classroom, they made me sing for a ton of other people as well. Every day since that day that I first sang, there has been someone that has asked me to sing for them. It's weird because this has never really happened to me where so many people at school ask me to sing. (People at my school in Canada usually tell me to shut up hahaha).
One of my friends in my class said he plays guitar, piano, and bass and that someday he will bring his guitar and we will sing and play together, how cool!?!

It felt really nice to sing again, I am going to do it more and more now.

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