Rotary Weekend

Rotary meetings here are much better than our Rotary meetings in America!!! It was really fun this weekend! Every foreign exchange student in our district met up in a city called Salto Grande. I met many people and made a lot of new friends. I found three other exchange students that are living in my city so I'm going to meet up with them soon! On the first day of the meeting it was pertty boring but it got better as the days went on. The second day was a free day so we all just hung out and swam and did other fun stuff. My friends from Taiwan brought a lot of tattoos so a bunch of us went around and got about 60 people to have Taiwanese flags on their foreheads ahahah. That night we had a festa de junho, which is essentially a shotgun wedding party. It was amazingly fun! We did redneck brasillian dances and ate good food! On sunday we all went home with an addiction to guarana, a extremely tasty soda in Brasil!

Tchau amigos!

2nd Day!

Ah so much to talk about! lets start with the plane rides, from Des Moines to Atlanta the lady next to me puked :S and then from Atlanta to Sao Paulo was long and I only slept 3 hours. But when I got to Brasil, around 8 in the morning, it was awesome! Sao Paulo doesn't smell that great but it was really fun! We went to 25 de Marco, a famous street in Sao Paulo, it was crazy, awesome, crowded, and really cool all at the same time! Everything there was so cheap! I wanted to buy so much but I restrained myself haha. I tried my first Brazilian food at the top of a shopping mall in Sao Paulo, it was great! Salty but still really good! I think my favorite food so far is pão de queijo, check it out, it's really good! We then drove home to my city, Marília and I went straight to bed! The next day I moved into my room and then learned some portuguese and then Lu made stroganof, it was very tasty! Played poker with my family and Lu's boyfriend then made some American chocolate chip cookies! It has been awesome so far! I'm off to Salto Grande tomorrow for a Rotary meeting. Won't get back till sunday and I have my first day of school on monday! I probably will not post again until next week so its bye for now and I miss you all! Tcahu amigos!

Of to Brasil!

Hello everyone! I decided to start a blog instead of an email list because it's much easier than having to type in 50 some emails everytime. Well, today is the day! My plane leaves Des Moines for Atlanta around 4:30pm and then I will be leaving the country around 9:15pm tonight! I will post pictures of the first day when I get to Brasil! I will miss the USA greatly but Brasil is gonna rock! :D Good luck with school starting everyone and enjoy it haha. Well tchau for now and please follow me!