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you "i see you driving round townwith the shirt i love and i'm like fuck you. i guess the change in my pockets just wasnt enough so im like fuck you and fuck that shirt too."to emily osfene's lets be friends "lets be friends so we can make out. give me that shirt and ill show you around"beatles help "help i need that shirt help not just any shirt when i was younger so much younger than today i never needed any shirts in any way"and now i am breaking the message into two parts because facebook has just old me "your message is very long" and wont let me send it all together Izzy and I ended things about a month ago. Im not really sure how to tell anyone because i hate the whole facebook thing and when people leave you those super awkward comments. its sort of hard to explain. but the distance made it too hard to keep going.so for the last monthish i've hated every tuesday because she told me on a tuesday. and i try my best not to think of her too often. i packed up all the things she gave me and put them in my suitcase so i wont see them again until i change families. my family here and i dont talk about it. i think they understand because i was so upset. now when i want to cry i just repeat "your bones arent made of glass" from amelie over and over again in my head. and its been working more or less. and i listen to a lot more lily allen and kate nash now. i told her i wasnt ready to keep in touch. im not sure i ever will be. when she writes me i get stomach aches. and i doubt we will ever be as close as we were because we are going to different universities once i get back. and im not sure that i want to be. so yup.your friend is like oliver twist? i dont think you know how jealous i am right now. thats so neat! wait how did you meet him if he goes to a different school? my friends at school definitely not have life stories this interesting. is he good looking? have you found the good looking french boys yet?CONGRATULATIONS on your tests! i basically avoid tests like the plague. as you read above when there are tests in every subject i just dont go to school. and if i dont want to take a test i dont have to. so the bio test was the only one i took. i basically only understand bio because my teachers draw pictures on the board and ive already learned everything in APbio last year so its fresh. i seriously have not used the phone in more than a month. once i tried to call my friend to ask about our friday night plans. but i only had her house phone and she wasnt home. so i had to talk with her sister
and ask for her cell number, which her sister tried to give me in english, but didnt know all the names of the numbers. and finally i asked for the numbers in portuguese. and then when i called my friend couldnt hear because my friends forgot to invite me out and she was already at the restaurant. so she just said someone would come and pick me up. and didnt tell me where they were or what we were doing. and i thought we were going to a club. so when my other friends got to my house i was in a very tiny dress. and we ate outside and it was chilly. and i hadnt brought a sweater. so it was a little disasterous. dont worry about what to send. im sure anything you pick out will be wonderful. i havent sent your package yet. apparently the post office here closes rediculously early. and barbara keeps forgetting to buy the flip flops. but i dont feel so bad now that i hear that you wont be buying the present for a while anyway. did you ever start that dance class? (not that you sound like you have to much free time between school and all that traveling)how are you spending your fabulous weekend?hows that for a novel. i think i have you beat...
Oh man. So, its the day after christmas and I finally got around to writing you back! A lot has been going on! First of all I changed host families! That was hard. Also a move you should never do while PMSing. Bahahahha I teared up when my first family was leaving, even though I was going to see them that night for dinner. And I didnt know I had so much STUFF! I have no idea how Im going to get it all in my two suitcases to go home! AH! However, I love my new fam which has three girls so you know Im having fun. Secondly, its VACATION! Well Christmas vacances, a much needed vacation if I do say so my self. The boys were driving my crazy the last week of school. Ive been making collages, shopping for Christmas, and eating way more than what is healthy. Somehow I managed to forget all my school books at school so homework is not possible. Whoops. Dommage. Hahahha Bad student. This afternoon, my first host sis is coming over and were doing our nails and making pancakes. Shes biffles with my middle host sis now. We all went running/walking this morning. Hahaha its freezing! Well actually its colder in Michigan but Im outside so much it feels colder. Tomorrow were going to the mountains. To go snow shoeing. Im excited. Im awaiting a box from my mother. It has my stuff for noel in it and my OFII form, a very important paper for my visa that I was supposed to turn in a month ago. The box took 5 days to cross the ocean and now has been stuck in Paris because of the snow for 13 days. Bahahahhahahha pas grave. Hopefully itll be waiting for me when I get back from the mountains. i am very very happy to hear your not as homesick now. i hope your not lying. there wouldnt be any point to that. i mean Im not your parents and if your trying to make me feel less bad about you, just stop. thats redic. if u are lying (which i really hope ur not) u might wanna think about this: there is no real point to be homesick. it is a waste of energy (dont take this the wrong way this is just what i tell my self whenever i miss my fam more than norm) there is no "normal" back home that u could return to. high schools over. ur friends rnt there. theyre in college leading other lives. without u. (that sounds terrible written down. try and think of it possitively like theyre leading happy lives and u should too) if you did go back home ud have to enroll in college and actually try at school (GROSS) and it would be cold. really cold. terrible. it snowed like 2 and when it did the whole town shut down. funniest most annoying thing ever. like the buses stop working. like i couldnt go home from school. but im told it will
only snow one more time. just more rain and cold grey days on the horizon for me. but im also told dec is the worst month and jan is better :) yeah! it is also the month of HUGE sales! YEAH!!!!Christmas : Ive eaten more than I thought possible. Christmas eve we ate with the uncle and grandparents of my h dad. That includes champagne, turkey, apples, nuts, wine, broken porcelain knives, crazy cousins, and of course a buche de noel. Then I had to do it all over again on Christmas with the other grandparents. That grandpa LOVES America because during WWII he was stationed with Americans. He loves speaking English randomly so I never know what language hes speaking when he tries to talk to me so im pretty sure he thinks im retarded because I always have to ask for him to repeat it. Hahaha Then at like 9 pm we went home and watched Princess movies. It was a great day. They did a very very nice job treating me like family and giving me nice presents and such. Theyre so kind! I hope you had an equal day! Tell me all about it! Whats your plans for new years??? Thats a big deal here. Everyone goes to parties.
Hello! Long time no talk to! Sorry!I'm very happy to hear you had a great Christmas.January turned out to be my hardest month here. I got stuck in a rut and then my grandpa died. Thank goodness for my awesome host family! I've come home crying way too many times and into their loving arms. My host sisters hold me while I cry while my host mom gets my bubble bath ready. They're the best. I think all my sadness has to do with the fact that I haven't seen the sun in like three months. It came out yesterday and today and all I wanted to do was lay in it. It was wonderful.I have started my dance classes. I absolutely love them. And sometimes I play footsalle with the boys at school but it's rather awkward because I'm the only girl and I haven't played in a year. Plus they don't believe girls play soccer here so.....yeah. But they're always very nice to me.I want to hear all about your crazy trip around Brazil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm dying to hear! TELL ME EVERYTHING! My Christmas was so much better than i could have expected. The day of Christmas Eve was very low key and we did a lot of relaxing. I called my brother on skype and we just talked about funny things we found on the internet and movies we had seen and what it will be like when im at Rice next year. and it was so nice to just talk. because i dont get a chance to talk to Conor very often and because it wasnt a conversation about what i had been up to lately or how homesick i felt, it was just us joking around and talking. I also talked to my mom and dad on skype. They are so adorable and my mom showed me one of dad's christmas presents that she hadnt wrapped yet while he pretended that he didnt know what it was and my dad talked about how he missed shopping with me for mom's present this year. and i was doing so well and not feeling homesick until we were saying goodbye and Pai told me he wanted to play his christmas CD for them really quick before i hung up. here it is rare to hear a christmas carol and i just wasnt expecting it and i teared up because it was something from home. As long as i was telling myself that this was Natal and it was brasilian i wasnt feeling homesick but for some reason when i heard We Wish you a Merry Christmas i realized how far i was from home.When i walked into the living room Mae and Barbara were making candies out of sweatend condensed milk and powdered milk that were red and green (they taste much better then they sound, sort of like cookie dough) and as they rolled them into little penny-sized balls i put them into very tiny muffin cups. and after a few minutes of helping i felt better. And i
told them how sometimes we made christmas cookies in the united states and Pai got excited and said i could make them after we got back from the party. I hadnt known that we were going to a party, but it ended up being one of my favorite parts of our christmas celebrations. It was at Mae and Barbara's church and there were christmas lights leading from the door of the wall surrounding it to the door of the church with foil stars hanging in the windows and a garland of fake flowers above the door. and when we walked in we each got a little pouch of candies with a golden paper that had a sort of fortune, like mine said "we wish you strength, peace, and happiness this year." and there was fake snow on the floor and a table with a sort of potluck of snack foods. and after everyone sat down different families went to the front and sang a song together or read a small speach about why they are so thankful. and one of the families had a son in england who couldnt visit for christmas. after everyone said a little something, the hugging began. everyone got up out of their chairs and started hugging the nearest people and saying "Feliz Natal" and "all the best for you in the new year." and it was exactly what i needed. this is why i love brasil. because all of those people that i had never met or had only seen once or twice hugged me like i was a member of their family. and they geniunely wanted me to have a great year. and they told me to "guard my homesickness in my heart." and there were so many people that i think i hugged some of them twice. and then we all gathered around the potluck table and ate and talked and visited. and Mae and Pai, who had been videotaping and fotographing eveything set down their cameras and joined us.I ate so much at the party that i didnt think we would have dinner. I started mixing the ingrediants for christmas cookies and Barbara turned on the Xuxa Christmas Concert that apparently happens every year on christmas eve and Mae turned on the oven to warm up the chicken and pork that had been cooking all day. When i put my dough into the fridge, Mae got out a fancy table cloth that she had embroidered and everyone helped set the table with fancy glasses for champagne. and Barbara whispered to me that we should go get our christmas presents, so we scurried to our room and put them under our two foot talk christmas tree and Barbara announced that Papai Noel had come. Mae and Pai were surprised because they hadnt thought that we bought them anything, but the day before when we stopped in Bauru to pick up the results of Pai's doctor appointment, Barbara and i had asked to be dropped off at the mall and spent the day shopping for the
perfect gifts. Pai loved the films we bought him - Barbara bought a Mazzaroli movie, a famous brasilian comedian that Pai loves, and I bought him the Hangover because its my favorite comedy. Mae was so happy when she opened the lotion that Barbara bought her and the new wallet i bought for her after hearing her say she needed one with more space. And since Barbara shopped toghether we knew what presents we were getting, but she loved the Marilyn Monroe coffee cup i got her to add to her collection of coffee cups and I love my Maria Gadu CD. Im hoping to learn the lyrics to her songs soon and maybe even the guitar parts... we were so stuffed from the party that we only ate a little and popped in Pai's Mazzaroli movie and watched it until we got tired. and as we put everything away and got ready for bed i put in my Maria Gadu CD. Christmas morning Barbara and I woke up and watched the Christmas programs on TV. There was a Secret Santa gift exchange with famous people from one tv station and a competition of talented teenagers singing christmas carols in english and a sort of game show where famous teenstars were on teams and played games like charades and 20 questions and had a dance off and a video game competition. Afterwards we went to Avo's (grandma) house for lunch and brought our leftover chicken and Avo had made two more smaller chickens (turkey is traditional for Christmas here, but since our family is small we had chicken) and Mau, my aunt, brought a pasta salad. After we ate, the cousins (Barbara, me, Natalia, and Andre) went into the living room and played videogames on our Aunt Bia's very ancient game system, think before nintendo. and When Bia got back form her boyfriend Danilson's she got out her guitar and Natalia got her's out of the car and we had a sort of jam session where we swapped things that we had learned on the guitar. We came back home for a little bit and i rolled out my cookie dough and made frosting and put on the sprinkles while Barbara made some more of the candies she and Mae had made the day before. and afterwards we went back to Avo's for dinner and finished off the last of the rice and chicken. and everyone told me they loved my cookies and wanted the recipe. I have no idea what were doing for new years. i know its traditional for everyone to wear white and its more of a family celebration than a thing you do with friends, but i havent heard anything about our plans just yet. Until new years im hoping to learn the lyrics to at least one song on my new CD, visit the athletic club in my city because i just found out i can get in for free, spend a day taking pictures of the holiday decorations in lencois, visit my YEO and his family
to give them their christmas present and watch his daughter's favorite animated movie, check the mail for cards and presents, watch Mr. Bean's Vacation (because Barbara watched it and told me its hilarious), and maybe plan a day or two with my friends from school, who i havent seen since summer break began. and then after new years i go on my big trip to the northeast for 28 days!!!I cant wait to hear about snowshoing! its so strange because here its like 90 degrees farenheit and im writing to you in shorts and a tank top. What are you doing for new years? When does school start again for you? (im sure you "forgot" all that homework on accident) and wait, YOU went running? details please
Happy belated Turkey day Wei! its so cute that youre english class had a thanksgiving party. pumpkin soup, but no pumpkin pie? the pies are always my favorite part of thanksgiving because everyone in my family gets to choose their favorite. our average thanksgiving has at least one pie for every person...unlike halloween, which every brasilian knows about because of horror films, disney, and the chance to get free candy, no one even mentioned thanksgiving. i googled what day it would be, and forgot shortly after. i think its easier to forget the holidays here because the weather is completely opposite. I am constantly losing track of the days and months because of it. The day before thanksgiving all the kids in my class decided they didnt want to go to school the next day. this is sort of typical in brasil, at least in my city. everyone just sort of agrees not to go to school and since there isnt really a penalty for absences, no one goes. so i slept in until 12 on thanksgiving. and woke up to lunch with my family - rice, beef, and a mayonaise salad. after lunch we went to Bauru to pick up some photos that Mae had developed there. It was so hot and everyone was tired and quiet. On the way home we stopped at Alameda, sort of like a mini shopping mall that has a lot of imported things. everything is fancy and expensive. We all ate cochinha, think like a deep-fried dumpling with either chicken and cheese, ham and cheese, or just cheese inside. Pai bought some fancy bread with ham mixed in and i bought the biggest danish i could find in the french foods area. they also had some bread that was dipped in chocolate and i thought of you and your bread form heaven. on the way out i saw a 1950's car (the size of a boat, a teal paint job, white walled tires, and my favorite part - a hood ornament) on display for taking photos and Pai and i did a mini photo shoot of me in it. The day after thanksgiving was much more eventful - Barbara and i went to Bienel, a modern art show in the city of Sao Paulo! It was so amazing! (the other day i learned that amazing in portuguese is "animal," before that i always thought my freidn felipe was literally calling me an animal) All the school groups were assigned a guide when they got to the museum and ours was so cool. At every area she would ask us what we thought the art meant and she took everyone's suggestions and then explained what the artist wanted to convey. The first part that was saw was this sort of installation that had all these antique cameras that, if i understood this correctly, were thrown away or sold for next to nothing and then this artist fixed and took beautiful photographs with. each camera was displayed next to this incredible photo that couldnt be achieved digitally
and the point was to make you rethink worth. and there was kodak brownie there just like the one i used on that day when you visited and we went to the beach!My favorite part had all these huge photos of people in tribal clothes. (sabrina, our guide explained that this was one partr of the carnaval celebrations) but none of the photos were clear. some of them were a reflextion in water. and some had people moving to fast to see anything very clearly. one of them was a combination of photos of a crowd, but it was a hallogram. and one of them had a glass overlay that looked like it had a photo of spilled oil on top of the photo. i liked it so much that i made my first attempt of the day to explain what i thought the artist meant to say. and i think it was about how nothing could be given a solid definition. like all the lines were blurred. and there was a photo of little shells arranged. and one was an equal sign. and right below it was an equal sign with a line through it. there were so many incredibele things there and even though we stayed for 2 hours, we only saw a few of teh things. we were always moving from one place to another so fast and i would get caught up looking at one of the works of art in between the one we just finished looking at and the next one we would discus. Barbara and i both thought that we needed to go back and spend all day looking at everything. We went to a shopping mall in Sao Paulo afterward (a major reason why most of the kids in Bah's class wanted to go to Bienel) for lunch. we ate at McDondalds, which is very exciting for everyone because we dont have one here in Lencois. but on the way home the whole bus was dark and there werent any bright lights or buildings and Bah and i just looked at the stars. and i told her about teh time Amee and i stayed up late and watched shooting stars. and how when clouds came we got in the car and drove to every park trying to outrun them until 3 or 4 am. and i told her about that song boats and birds. and we looked at a fashion magazine that i bought at the rest stop and planned photoshoots like the ones we saw. and i think it was one of the best days i had in a long time. oh and a little footnote about my fashion magazine - it had pictures of people in pea coats and Barbara and i were both like - oooooh thats so pretty. and i told her you have one in yellow and we both had a moment where we wishd it was cold enough here for peacoats. jealousy for cold weather exists:) and we are going to make you Babe the Blue Ox sunglasses
so everything gray will look green, or yellow depending on what cellophane we buy. So the word for rain is very close to the word for smell, and more than once i have said "its smelling!" and then wonder why everyone looks so confused. its slightly more strange when i hold up things that smell good and say "rain this." I used to tease Barbara because she likes to smell everything, but its definitely rubbing off on me. like i now smell things that are not thought of as havign a smell. like electronics. mostly because i like to say "cheroso" which is like one word that means smells good.so i havent encountered too much confusion with you and yous or formal you. here almost no one uses formal anything. but here there are a lot of words like avo and avo (grandma and grandpa) that i cannot tell the difference between. worse is coconut, crap, and boobs. they all are like coco, coco, and coco or something. i just avoid saying them...summer vacation starts next friday and my friends at school are throwing a churrasco (barbecue) end of the year party, complete with a secret santa exchange of - guess what, because you wont believe itflip flopswhen does your christmas vacation start? any exciting plans?p.s. i told barbara about your very french pencil case idea. and she thought it was very strange. and asked if she was getting the same thing. and i reassured her no. but she said even though the belt sounds cool she just wants an eiffel tower keychain or something like that. i am very excited for my shake and squeeze white out:)