2 great weeks
Autor: Mat Gabel | Publicado: 2011-10-31T10:58:00-07:00

So when Sarah was here on the Tuesday we went to the local beach, Rincão. Sarah was pretty suprised with how deserted and quiet the place was but i think she liked that. We stayed at the beach for a while and i went for a surf, it looked pretty bad but i was keen as. When i got out there i had the best surf of the year, it was really enjoyable with some powerful waves and nobody in sight, the water is still quite icy cold though!
The next day Sarah had to catch a bus back to Floripa to catch up with her host brother and get her free lift back to Santos. So that day i slept and finihsed my Rotary Presentation. That night my mum and I went to Rotary and my&nbsp;speech was the main event. So after all my hard(ish) work I forgot to bring my page to read. So i had to do it off the top of my head. But it was all fine they said it was the best presentation they have seen by an exchange student. In the end i think i talked about my trips to&nbsp;Indonesia&nbsp;more than&nbsp;Australia&nbsp;or Brasil haha.
On Thursday i went to school and was shocked that there was pretty much nobody there, because of tests and things.
On Friday my mum and I went to Floripa and we planned to stay there until&nbsp;Wednesday, but we stayed there until yesterday (Sunday). I really enjoyed my time in Floripa during that week and a half. Logan and I went sandboarding 3 times and had an absolute blast. The first time we went with Strath, Theri and Daniella. Second time when we went by ourselves we walked from Lagoa instead of taking a bus, which is really far. We decided to walk via the sandunes for it to be faster. It was a nice but long walk looking like we were in the desert, kinda. and halfway to Joaquina we stumbled upon a sandune that had been modified with sand bag jumps and rails and things, it was like a a skate park set up on a dune really awesomeee. We were wondering how many people could know about it because it was so out of the way. So the third time we went, Keevon came with us and we&nbsp;trekked out way to the awesome dune. took like half an hour from the board renting shop, which was 10 reais for however long we wanted, good deal i thought. we stayed at the sand dune for a while and felt as if we were alone in a desert with nobody near by anywhere, so we went down the jumps in our undies and things like that, until 4 professional sandboarders and like 30 trekking tourists came past hahaha. It was real cool sharing the dune with professionals and seeing how amazing their boards were. I think i impressed the shit out of them doing airs on the crappy hire board. But we all had a great time and i loved it, will definately go back there again.
So apart from sandboarding, the first friday was logans birthday party, which was really fun and a lot of the exchange students went to it. Also we all went to the beach a lot, i went to school once with strath, went to the cinemas and just chilled out. But on saturday night was Felicias birthday so we had sushi with her and all her friends, then we went off to a replulica party which wasn`t a typical brazilian party at all, but more like what we have back home. And also my host dad arrived back last Wednesday so it's good to see him again. Strath left to go to the Pantanal and Belo Horizonte, so i stayed at Rudys place for quite a few nights while i was there. I think thats about it. I was told today that Volleyball and Futsal are on tonight so i hope that turns out, pretty keen for some exercise. Then tomorrow I'm off to see Ricky on the border of Brasil and&nbsp;Uruguay! So im pretty excited about that, I am going to stay there for a week, we are going to travel back to Criciúma for my school formal! exciting time, but i feel like this year is finishing quicker than i would like it to.