The 'Farm'

I am just going to start by saying that yesterday (May 13th) was my 8th month mark here in Brazil. Where has the time gone?
One minute you're getting off the plane onto a strange land, not understanding anything but trying to put words together in a language you have never really spoken out loud before... and the next minute you're out with your best friends, speaking that language more often than your natural language. Before you know it you're calling that strange land your home. The home you eventually have to leave to go home...
What a weird series of events.
They always warned us that this year will go by faster than you can believe... I am really seeing that now.

So now back to what I have been up to.
The week after the conference in Caldas Novas, I spend 4 days out at my family's farm about 2 hours away. Now, I call it a farm because it has horses and chickens and fields and stuff but really it's a beautiful property they own with a pool, gardens, 3 houses (a main house for sleeping, a house for cooking and eating lunch, and a house for hanging out with a sauna and a pool table)
It is soo beautiful there!
I got to ride a horse! actually this horse preferred to run so that was cool.
I brought my friend Sandra to come along as well. It was a really relaxing weekend of just tanning by the pool, listening to music, riding horses, and more tanning. Another nice thing was that there was no internet connection out there so there was no distraction by technology. We also got to go fishing in this big pond that was about 20 minutes more in the middle of no where. I caught nothing but it was a nice evening.
I forgot to mention that the food is amazing. They have avocado trees, tangerine trees, they grow their own everything! Fresh tangerine juice is super amazing.

This past weekend I went to a 'Churrasco' with my Rotary club. Churrasco means BBQ but it's not just any ordinary BBQ. When there is a churrasco that means that there will be steak, pork, chicken, sausage, other kinds of beef, and more. All at once...
The churrasco we had this weekend was soo amazing because they slowly smoked the meat. There was so much food and a live band. It was another Rotary club who put on this event to raise money to help send someone on exchange who can't afford it.

That night I went to that nightclub 'Swingers' I seem to always talk about. Each time I go there I meet more and more people, it's awesome!