So the last few days have been pretty average (except Sunday but I will get to that) but still awesome none-the-less. Last week was Dia Das Crianças like I mentioned before so last Friday, my whole class brought in a toy from their youth and dressed as little kids. That day was pretty slack compared to the other days so two of my friends brought in their guitars. They are both so good! They jammed to songs by the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, etc. They played and I sang with one guy who played and sang really well. We sang 'Come Together' which was so cool because I sang that song in Blues Band last year. We also sang 'Hotel California' which actually sounded really awesome. It felt so good to just jam like that.
That night was pretty chill actually, I just went home and hung out with my family. It was raining so hard that day, I didn't really want to go anywhere!
Saturday, I woke up and helped my host mom in the kitchen. We made rice, beans, prepared vegetables, and I learned how to make fresh suco de maracuja (passion fruit juice). She also brought out a little kids work book that her daughter had when she was little. It was to help learn Portuguese. She would choose a page and I would read it to her and then describe what was in the picture. It actually helped with my Portuguese so much, I am so happy she loves to teach.
Saturday afternoon I was supposed to go to the 'Pie Festival' with a couple other exchange students (Julia from Australia, Romain from Belgium). We were going to meet at my place and then take the bus there. We didn't end up going because by the time they got to my place, and we take the bus the festival would have almost ended because it is really far from my place. Instead, we decided to go to the supermarket, buy ingredients, and make chocolate chip pancakes for my family. My family loved this idea! So that night we had chocolate chip pancakes, maple syrup, blueberry syrup, peanut butter, coffee, and pao de queijo. It was probably the best supper I've had in a while. Everyone loved the pancakes.
That night I went to a party with Sandra (Canadian exchange student) and her host brother Renan. It was a party with Renan's university. I met tons of people and spoke lots and lots of Portuguese. It was really awesome. It was that night that the time changed to be an hour ahead so we lost one hour of sleep. Dang it.
I slept over at Sandra's that night and then on Sunday I went out with her family to visit some caves in Sete Logoas (a city an hour away).
That caves were AMAZING! You walk in at ground level and then you keep walking further and further down the stairs into the caves. There were different colours and designs on the walls. So many stalactites and stalagmites of different shapes and sizes. It was so amazing. I liked it in there because surprisingly, the air seemed more fresh. There was a sense of peace and silence in there that made it all the better. I'm just going to point out that on my drive home last night it was about 8:30pm and I looked outside at the temperature gage and it read 30 degrees Celsius. 30. Thirty. Like Three with a zero after it. 30. yeah. BRAZIL... WHAT! How is that okay? Anywho, I'm alive.
Today is Monday and I am writing this while I wait to go get acai with friends. SURPRISE! Acai again! Today is really freaking hot. I played soccer with the boys (and one other girl) in the blazing hot sun. I scored a goal, wooop!! They cheered for me and they kind of looked surprised but after that they passed to me! hahaha I don't blame them for not passing before, I was sucking pretty hard core.
Once again it was so hot out. I'm dying here and it's only spring!
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