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Well the summer is gone and fall has just arrived. I regret I did not report any of my fun times. Im sure it would had been fun to read it now and remember of very each felling I had. But, oh well... I can try to recall and write it down, however my goal with this post its register memories from the present time.Im glad I had a awesome summer here. This place is just gorgeous, how cool is live by the beach? well It is not literally by the water but it is very close.The kids I take care are just so cute and the family that is hosting me couldnt be nicer. Dina is soooo funny and Oh my God, she cooks wonderfully. They dont know but I just loooove living with them. Im having a good time here.I enjoyed the cookouts in the beach during the summer, sailing with Petah, hanging out with Barbara, Marina, Jaque, Camila... I remember I could stare at the sea for hours from the Croker Park (one of my favorite spots in marblehead),,, What a view! I also remember drinking a lot... its not typical... but I did and regret overdoing it for a couple of times. Im sure I did more stuff, but cant really remember.I know its October and one month has passed since my classes at Harvard started. Its been really hard to manage work and study. Although I have class only once a week, the homeworks that is given to us is just too much... So everyday after work I try to get some homework done... sometimes I get desesparete by the end of the week when I realize that I still have tons of it to be done, so my only options is to be awaken till dawn working on it.So, I dont really have time to have fun right now. Its not being fun at all. I cant take weekends trips 'cause I have class every saturday, I cant go out after work with my friends to go to a bar, or the movies, or even go over to Barbaras to sing and dance on the wii(like she keep asking me to) all because I have homework to do in the evenings and sometimes Im just so tired that I cant really concentrate.I wanted really bad to take this class in Harvard and I know i'll value it a lot once its over. But right now im just pissed that I cant enjoy the fall, the color change of the leaves, the nice weather. I'm up set 'cause I dont have the time to go zip lining, or canoeing as I had planned; i cant even go to the movies, or play laser tag, or do a tour around Boston and this time take PICTURES; I probably shouldnt be wasting time writing this 'cause i'm a really slow writer. But as everything has price, thats the one I'm paying to able to find a decent job when I go back to Brazil.Hopefully I'll be able to have
fun in the Halloween. I still dont know which costume am I gonna wear but I'll certainly go out; either to salem or to gyspy as we were planing or to a short cruise...Tonight I got home and saw my host family decorating the house. They have a nice set up of decoration; i loved it. Cant wait to take pics.I was about to close the post but I just remember 'bout the party we had last week. The oktoberfest at Amys house; we talked so much about it during the summer that I cant really believe that is already october and party had already happened. It was great, one person was missing, but still we had a blast, good beer, good food, good music, just perfect.My list of thing I wanna do US keep getting bigger and bigger,,, Just remembered I refuse to come back without watching a Bruins game, a Celtics game and a PATS game!!!Please time dont fly by!!!!
Vacation day 5Los Angeles, CA.On saturday, march 17th we new we were heading to Las vegas, however we did not had much information about how our schedule for day the was going to be like, since the tour guide for Vegas was a different one. Our last three days we spend with tour guide called Mark, a very funny and laid-back guy. Personally, I liked him way more than the other tour guides we had during our vacation on the west coast. Mark used to make jokes about chinese people and different from his co-workers, he had a good spoking english, making easy to understand his instructions... Anyways, we got to the hotel lobby at 7:00 o'clock that morning and it was chaotic down there, a as a crowd trying to find their respctives tour guides and the right bus to hop in. The majority people there was chinese, so we had to be patient enough to wait until the tour guide starts speaking in english. I spoke with every tour guide in the room and we werent in none of their list, so I headed outside to see if the guide i was looking for would be outside, was then when I spotted someone with the company uniform rushing his way inside the hotel, it was SAM, the tour, guide that would take us to Vegas and he was late of course.After we got in the bus we drove for a couple of hours, then had one quick stop to eat and afterwards we drove for another hour or so stopping at an outlet that it was half hour away from Vegas. We had two hours to shop and eat. I started walking in one direction and my brother and Fernando went in a opposite direction. We met after one hour on nike store, the boys were going crazy with the low prices. I run out and went to gap store, ten minutes later Fernando called me asking about Doug, for sure doug went completely nuts wanting to buy everything forgetting his friend behind. Fernando doesn't really speaks english, he can understand a little bit but still needs to improve his speaking skills. So, Fernando met me at Gap store and we visited a few other stores and headed to the food court to grad a bite to eat. When it was almost time to leave we spotted doug caring a hand full of bags looking for us, he only had time to order a sandwich to eat on the bus.When we arrived in Las vegas we had about one hour to do some site seeing, we walked around and took lots of pictures. Vegas filled my eyes at first site, i just loved it and couldnt wait to see the city at night!!! It was all what imagine and more, it was over-the-top!!!Already at the hotel, we had about two hours to settle in and get ready for our night tour. The good thing about the hotel and Vegas is that we would stay there for three nights so we
didn't have to worry about packing every morning like we did before.The bus left for our night tour at 7:00 pm, and our first stop was at the Mirage hotel, where they have an spectacle artificial volcano that "erupts" nightly from hour to hour. It was amazing and we could even few the warmth of the flames on our face...Afterwards we crossed the street and headed to the Venetian Hotel, they have a gorgeous replica of Venice's Grand Canal, that is about a quarter of a mile long, and you can have a gondola ride for $16 with the gondolier singing romantic songs... How cool is that huh??Our next stop it was the Bellagio hotel; they have the most magnificent, breathtaking conservatory and botanical garden on the interior of the hotel, we also visited the Jean Philippe Patisserie, located still inside the hotel which holds the largest chocolate fountain in the word. On the outside the hotel we watched the fountain show, one of the most complexly choreographed water shows on the planet, it costed about 75million to be builded. I absolutely loved how beautifully the fountains dance. The way the water moves paired with the lights - spectacular!The last stop of the day it was at "old town", I was so tired and so hungry that I didn't bother walking around to explore, i just followed the crowd. So far I've forgotten to say that it was St Patrick's Day and the city was packed. When I realized where we were heading to, it was too late to make my way back, we were in the middle of crowd staring at a stage with a rock band performing, on my left side i see a bunch freaks dressed and painted all in green and on my right i see a bar with semi naked girls dancing on the top of the counter and my brother and fernando staring at it... We were at Freemont Streer, the second most famous St in Las Vegas!! After taking a couple of pictures together I left them and started searching for food, at this point of our trip i couldn't stand fast food anymore, i needed decent food, but i couldn't find it at that time of the night, of course. After one hour or so i head back to the bus and saved some places on the front of the bus for Doug and Fernando so we could be the first ones getting out, arriving then at out hotel room faster.
Its 2012 already and I haven't been on my blog since last year which sucks 'cause it would have been great to come back here and read about every experience I had last year. It wasn't big adventures but still, I had a good time... So, what I will do for now is just post some pictures from the last semester and then try to make a short post about "situations" from last semester that I think is worth to be mentioned here. Halloween Harbor Cruise - Boston - MA. 2011 Halloween 2011 - My CostumeCamila, Barbara and I - Halloween 2011Salem - MA - AKA "City of Witches" - Halloween 2011Marina, Barbara and I - Halloween 2011Octoberfest - 2011 - MA - Dina and I (My host mom)Naty, Danie and I - Octoberfest 2011 Lila and I - Octoberfest 2011Gwen, Barbara and I - Octoberfest 2011My dearest Friend Marina and I on a Sunday mornig at the pier after a nice BrunchSeptember - 2011 - MA Vacation day 1Los Angeles, CA.Our vacation started today, my flight from boston to los angeles was 7:00am. Charlie took me to the airport, we left the house at 4:45am; my brother's flight departure was yesterday at 11:10pm .I arrived in Los Angeles at 10:30am local time (three hours difference from boston) went to grab my luggage and then headed to the american airline terminal to wait for my brother and his friend, their flight arrived one hour later than mine.I was so exited to see them, i wrote in a paper their names as if their were strangers arriving somewhere waiting for some random person to pick them up. I gave my brother a big hug and also Fernando and we started to chat, somehow i was confused with the languages and sometimes would only speak in english with them, which was weird. The folks from our tour took us to the hotel, once we got there we put away our luggages and went out since our hotel room wouldn't be ready for another two hours. The hotel shuttle took us to Disneyland where we only visited the open area... By five o'clock we were exhausted, because of the flights and the time change, (normally it would have been 9pm already) so we headed out of the park to the pick up/drop off area waiting for the hotel shuttle to pick us up.Now, already at the hotel room we ordered food from a restaurant in front of our hotel, took a shower afterwards and the only strength left in our bodies it was to get ourselves ready for bed. Ok. Here's a story: I met Jaque, Camila, and Marina no longer ago.Jaque is dating, Camila is almost dating and Marina is married with american guy. Oh... I can't forget Barbara, she is also dating an american guy that happens to be Marina's husband's friend.So what happens is that somehow they want to introduce me guys too.On friday, the day that I left my host family in marblehead and also my birthday, the girls invited me
to a cookout in the beach. When I got there, the first thing they said it was: "Oh, Peter just left, he went to take shower but he'll come back" and I'm like "Who the hell is Peter?" "Why do I want to know where did he go and when is he is coming back?"(Peter, If you are reading this, Dont flatter yourself!!!)And then they said they wanted to indroduce him to me , because he was really cute.The cookout went really well, I had a couple of beers and was just chatting with the girls, I was relieved for had left the house I was living.One hour later the so called handsome guy showed up. Oh God, He was really gorgeous!When the girls spotted him, they were like female dogs in heat. God dammit!!! It looked like they were first meeting him and that they were competitors in a race for a prize.So they wanted to get closer but also looking casual; they said: "Lets go over there, close to table and pretend we are just going there to toss our trash and get another drink and casually introduce one to another".Oh fuck, those things doesn't work with me... Too much pressure...Everyone looking and expecting some sort of love at first sight, some sort of instant connection... Suddenly, all I wanted it was get the hell out of there. I ended up not talking with him... just a few words...The girls invited him to go to Boston because we were planing to go to a club later that night, he said he would come... But he didn't.Later that weekend the girls talked about Peter and I figure that he dated a german girl who was an au pair here where i'm living. That's why he's friends with this family.On monday I came back from Boston and I was home by myself when Peter showed up to feed and walk the dogs. It was 4th of july that day.When he came in, I was in the kitchen sitting at the table with my computer, it was soo hot in my room that I decided to come downstairs.He must have felt sorry for me that day; hahaha... In such a important holiday I was home while everybody else was celebrating, so he invited me to go have dinner with his family and watch the fireworks at the beach with his friends.Off course I accepted. We had hamburguers, salad and corn for dinner. Afterwards we head out to watch the fireworks in the Nahant. It was fun.So I ended up seeing him everyday in that week. On the following day I went watch the fireworks in his friend's boat; On thursdays we had a barbecue here, he were the one cooking; And on saturday we went sailing in his dad's boat. It was awesome, in the begining i felt a bit of sea sick, but I got used to it.So, to make a long story short, all I wanted with this post is to say that, although he is really handsome, and dispite all
the pressure of everybody in hoping for something to happen between us, I'm just not into him, and his not into me either!!He's really nice... hopefully we'll be able to keep on with this friendship 'cause I enjoy hanging out with him.Last saturday we went out on Jackson's boat to go tubing... It looked really really fun... But I didn't have courage to actually do it...That's why I like hanging out with them, they do fun stuff! ;)
Vacation day 4Yosemite Park, CA. March 16, 2012.At this point we already are at day 8 and im gonna try to recapitulate every step of our day 4.What i remember most, is that we spent a huge part of the day at the bus, because yosemite park it was around 4 hours and half away from our hotel. The day 4, friday 16th, we woke up at 4:00am and the departure time from our bus to leave it wast set for 5:00am. Our first stop it was 2 hours later for breakfast at mc donalds (we didnt have much option) then we got back to the bus and drove another two hours and half.At the park we the had three stops, the second one it was to see the waterfall.Yosemite park hold the second largest waterfall in the entire United States, to get to the waterfall we had to do a" light" hiking into the woods, where we were able to take gorgeous pictures; we only had about half hour to be there. The total amount spent in all the stops it didnt pass one hour and thirty minutes, it definetly wasnt much compared to the time we drove to visit the park, but it was worth it.The drive back to LA it was tough, it took us so long to get back to the hotel, especially because there were some folks in our bus that needed to be droped off at the airport first, so we not only were stucked in the traffic because it was rush hour on a friday night but also went to the airport first instead of the hotel.When we got to the hotel, i went face the huge line to do the check in while the boys ran to the restaurant across the street to get us some decent food. We had dinner, took a shower and hitted the bed. Oh God! Finally the Dogs days are over.Since I got in Massachussetts its been like hell.Everything was so different from what I experienced in North Carolina, and I think this also made things harder on me, 'cause I couldn't stop comparing the houses, the way that the families behaved, the peacefulness that I had in NC and all the fights and screaming and yelling that I watched constantly in Marblehead.* To start, I have never had a schedule, It was awful do not knowing when I had to start working and when I was going to be off... So, even though my host mom was home from work already and I've had worked my 10 mandatory hours (the maximum hours per day) I was still working... Sometimes it was because she had to run some errands, or simply because she couldn't stand spend some time with her own daughters.* There was days when she would called me from work to say that she would get a extra shift wich means I had no choice to work the whole day too but with the difference that I wasn't being paid for that. So in those days I
worked pretty much from 5:40 in the morning untill 12:00 am of the next day.* There was weeks wich I completed 80 hours of work but never earned one dime more for those 35 extra hours.* She sooo thought she was fooling me; It was so typical of her to knock in my door to ask "favors" (work for free) . What she didn't understand is that if I was in my room in my time off it was because I was too tired to go out and not because I didn't have anything else to do. So she never missed one single opportunity. Everytime I was there she would knocked in my door asking me to watch the girls saying: " The girls are fine, you can stay here in your room and just go and supervise them in a while, It doenst make sense for me to bring them since you are here"... And then the "hell" would start, either the girls would come to my room and mess everything around, or they would put fire on the house, they could never play together because it always resulted in fights. Meghan used to kick her sister in such a strong way that I feared that some day i would have to bring Colleen to the hospital. Meghan have never listened to me, she asked me to shut up all the time, she taught me bad words and said I was dumb for not knowing them.I was getting tired of that, because I started to feel that I couldn't stay home anymore and also that I had to run away everytime I was off. Sometimes Kathleen (my host mom), would takes hours to come back home when asking those "favors".At some point I became some sort of maid. I wasn't just doing the kid's laundry anymore, I was doing hers too. One day after dinner she got really mad at me, for have just cleaned up after myself and the kids. She said it was unacceptable and every time that she'd cook dinner I would have to clean everything up and that she would do the same if I were the one cooking dinner. But that definitely didn't happended. In the days I cooked for the girls because she wasnt home at dinner time and the girls were hungry AAAND I didn't even know I was suppose to cook, my host mom not only did not clean up after the girls but also cooked her own food and left all the pans and dishes in the sink for me in the next morning. She wasn't cleaning up herself anymore.* Now The Dogs: Kathlleen told me that was the girls job feed them and let them out. But Meghan seems to have her hands tied when it comes to take care of them, she never did. I have to feed them and make sure that there were always water in their bowl and let them out at every hour because Toby was sick and also had to wipe his pees around the
house all day long due too his sickness.... Too much.After one week living there wasn't hard to figure why the last au pair left. The girls are too naughty, misbehaved and nasty! No wonder they became kids so hard to deal with. They were raised by nanies while their only parent, a single mother, whos work over hours to provide evertything to them doesn't have the pacience to deal with them in her spare time...Not to mention Kathleen's drinking problems. She drinks everyday and drink too much, she is the one who says all the time that to be able to deal with her household issues and with her daughters she has to drink otherwise she would be having lots of pills and her kids would be in a orphanage. She used to say that not just to me but also to the kids.She used to ask me to go to the grocery store to buy her some wine.There's also the part in which she asked to the friends of the last au pair to not get in touch with me! Off course she knows she doesn't have a good track record. I got shocked when I heard from those au pairs that they were sorry they didn't get in touch with me earlier 'cause they feared kathleen.It was all coming together; Diana the area director also asked to some au pairs to not tell me about my host family history, the girls' behavior, the moms' behavior, the extra hours of work... Its was definitely not a professional attitude.It was then when I met one of the au pairs who lived with kathleen too. She got in touch with me trought the facebook and shared with me some stories of the time she was there in marblehead. This Australian girl also introduced me one of her good friends because she said if needed anything this girls could help me. And this friend of hers happens to be a Brazilian girls who lived in US for over 6 years and is very very kind.So I met this Brazilian girl personally and we talk, I told her about kathleen but she knew a lot about my host mom already. She had the opportunity to meet some au pairs who worked from kathleen as well.To make a long story short, the Brazilian girl introduce some other friends that introduce me some host families who needed an au pair.They encourage me to leave that family and move in with them if necessary.In the next day I had an "interview" with a prospective host family. Everything went well and I left the house I was leaving and also the agency with no warning fearing what kathleen could do.Kathleen initially thought I was going out just for the weekend. What she didn't know is that my friends were there earlier and had picked up all my stuff. So she would notice just later...I sent an email to my area director to warn them I was leaving that family, and to let them know what I had to put
up with while living there although I'm pretty sure she had an clear idea of what was going on already. I haven't heard from them so far.I moved in with a family friends with the family that i'm working for now. They have an au pair too and they are hosting me until I move with to the new house. The family that i'm working for now have never had an au pair before. So they need set up a room for me there. While its still not ready I'm here living with their friends, which by the way, they are awesome! Very receptive.Everything's been great so far. My working hours are really flexible and Im enjoying what I'm doing.Thanks God things got better for me!That is how I put an end in my crazy moments in marblehead.