Around 2 months...

LETTER
Hello Everyone!
Sorry it’s been so long since my last update. Honestly I have just been lasy. I can´t remember the last time I wrote in my journal as well.
In truth not to much has happened here. Life is just cruising on day by day.
I guess the last event that I left off with was Zaca´s birthday. (the other Exchange student in my City) He turned 18 in Brasil! What a fun experience to have! We all went to a curascaria (a meat BBQ place….Portland has one down town called the Brasilian Grill…really expensive ‘so I think’ but if you are craving a small taste of Brasilian culture…check it out! Anyway, it was pretty fun…we all talked, and so forth. Not as many people showed up as they said they would. Zaca wasn’t really accustomed to thins, and was slightly set to the side from it. But nothing to bad. I guess to me it was normal…seeing for all my parties I had out invites to who wants them(the more people the merrier!!!! Although I´m never quite sure who to give them to! Haha..so in the future if you hear I´m having a Halloween party and you didn’t get an invite…just ask me!!!) Anyway, my point is I´m used to never knowing how many people come…so I could understand where he was coming from..but I don´t know…it´s not that important.
Then the week pst that was kinda just a bluur….days move slowlys yet quickly here….The one of these past weekends I headed out for Brasilia with my Father, Mother, Brother, and one of my sisters. It was the weekend of a HUGE festival of my city…and my family didn´t like it, cause some people drink and smoke…I wanted to go to see what it was like (not the drinking and smoking part) but I didn´t fight back when my dad said no…I mean hey…Brasilia is still an event to attend to! So we headed out 12pm Friday…and made the 7 hour car drive there. We stayed with some friends and chilled out. The first night we went to a shopping mall…but we got there so late all the shops were closing. Which was a bummer…cause I don´t like buying cloathing in JP…way to expensive. But I ate Japenese food…stir fry and MISO SOUP! I was really happy! The second day we went to someone´s grandparents house and talked and ate food all day, I watched a movie called Troup elite’ with my new friends…(her name is Barbara (pronounced: Bah-bah-uhh) it´s a Brasilian film about the trafficking of drugs and policia, and corrupt policia in brasil. It has to now be my favorite film of all time. Afterwards my Friend and I decided we wanted to go see the second one in the cinema (it just came out 2 days before) so we went…but when we got to the front of the huge line…all the tickets were sold out…so instead we watched Resident Evil 3, no subs…but a lot of mpvies here don´t have English subs. It was an Okay movie..not to much really actually happened. But it was fun none the less. Although, I´m bummed I didn´t get to see the other movie…cause my city dosent have a movie theater…so I have NO idea when I will get to see the other Troup elite.
Oh also I started taking Capoeira Class..it´s a brasilian dance fight thing…it´s a BUNCH of fun! I love it. So now every ngiht of the week I have excersice…so I´m super happy!
Lets see….The school week kind of just rolled on after that. It´s day lights siaving times here now. We are currently about 5 hours ahead of you guys…and ITS ALMOST SUMMER! My GOD it´s unbearabliy hot here! One day this week I slept every class I had that day,c ause the heat knocked me out so hard…I couldn´t even lift my head up off the desk!!! So now that my body is adjusting again, it´s really tired all the time (like when I first got here!) I actually just spent all of today sleeping as well!
So last night I went to a friends house, which is more so at the end of town…in the country. So We spent the night looking at my photo´s (which by the Way Stephie, my mom sent the photo album you made me the night before I left…and forgot. Hahah) Everyone loved looking at the photo´s, and had fun laughing at all the different hair colors and styels I had through the time! Anyway, after that we danced the night away, and slept. But unfortunately to my dismay..the country hold WAY more insectos! I WOKE UP WITH OVER 50 BITES ON MY LEGS! HAHHA! My GOD, they itch so badly! Atleast I know when I come home…I will be like immune to American weak misquetos! Then that morning I woke up before most every kid…but my Friends mom was awake (she is my Ballet teacher) and we chatted away, then I hear a parrot. So I got up to look for it, and saw they they had 2. I made friends with one by doing my weird bird rattle thing in my throat…and fed him some crackers….he tried to jump onto my shoulder twice…but I freaked out and sprung away. I guess I watched that film ‘the birds’ to many times when I was young….I didn´t feel like having my eyes pecked at. GHaha. The we walked arounf there yard, looked at their cows, dogs, and picked some Mangas. OH also they have this fruit here…where it loks like a peper…but it´s actually really good. So I picked some of those, and ate them. Then Simone (the mother) told me you can use the juice of the stem to draw on yourself…it burns your skin kind of like the ´BIG RED´ gum wrappers…so she wrote an A on me, a heart on her, and My other friend (who had woken up as well) wrote something on herself…but in wasent the write type so it dident work…but My friend said her farm had the big kind, that you could write with…so next time we will have fun with that. Haha. I come home with Marcela, and went to sleep again…woke up at 4:30…ate lunch and snack with my mom…then got on the computer to read the updates of other district 5100 intercambistas!


Where are here is you want to read about other countires!

My Blog:
http://brazilliandays.blogspot.com

Molly's Blog: INDIA
http://currypotpie.blogspot.com

Richies Blog: MEXICO
http://richielg.blogspot.com

Erica's Blog: ITALY
http://www.italiareports.blogspot.com/

Jonathan's Blog: AUSTRIA
jonathaninaustria.awardspace.com

Emily's blog: FRANCE
http://emsinfrance.blogspot.com

Audrey's Blog: GUATAMALA
http://guatemala-loves-audrey.blogspot.com

Brendan's Blog: TIAWANN
ostlundsintaipei.blogspot.com

So that isent everyone…but it´s the address I gathered before I left.



So now I guess it´s time for me to talk about myself, and what´s going to happen from now on?
Through these past months I guess youc an say that I´ve grown a lot. I was reading Audrey´s journal, and what she says is PERFECT.
The days before I came here, every day was rushed. Every day I had to do something perfect, and immidetly before I could move on with my life…and School was my life. I remember thinking at the end of freshman year. ´That´s it…I´m just going to give into the system and work with the flow until I´m done with school…I can be myself after I finish with school.´and I guess that’s where some of you saw me change from hyper annoying sparky to calmer, and more blind Angela. I remember sophomore year I watched myself change into a more school oriented person. Unfortunetly I also became more agitated with some of the people I loved. My temper started to come back into the picture..and I think I wasent a kind person and I could have been. Don´t get be wrong..I wasent like one fo those girls off of Mean Girls…but I deffinitaly could have had more patience with some people. I just kept on thinking..I have to get thing done, I have to get this grade….my exchange counts on this..i have to do this. I just got so tired…and like a machine. But here I have had so much time to myself…so much free space to be who I want to be. I have grown. I realize that not everything should be as taken seriously. Of course take things seriously..but when something dosent go my way…it´s not the end of the world. A lot of things go the opposite way of what I want with whatever happens. I learned to be happy with whatever I am given with. To simply appritiate the few quite moments I have.
Sure I have some missing for my family, friends and home. But the other day I realized..(finally) that I´m not there. I´m not in Oregon. I´m not in the states. I´m not GOING to be there for a year. So Stop thinking about how I miss the rain, how I miss the people, style, rain, tea. Because as of now…my home is Brasil. My city is João Pinheiro. My language is Portuguese.
It´s time for me to let for of everything I have had before this. Because today is the first day of the rest of my life. What comes after it I´m not sure quite what.


I´m going to start logging on only once a week. I am tired of thinking in English, I´m tired of Dreaming In English. I just don´t really want to see the language anymore. I´m ready to become a Brasilian. :D

Love and Peace for all of you.

And for all my lovely student friends in the States. Take it easy. I know you have A LOT of your plate. Don´t give in. Always question why you are doing something…and if you can´t find a just reason behind it…question it, object it…find out WHY it is that you need to do it. Take every day as an adventures. When you get over loded…take a weekend vacation with some friends…maybe head out to the beach…take the moments you have an enjoy them.
Loving you all.