Oi!
I feel like i haven been in Brazil forever, but as i look at my calendar it hasn't even been a week! I think this is a very good sign, im starting to feel very comfortable!!!
Monday was the first day of class, but it was more like 2 hours of a get to know your professors and what to expect in the program. We were done with class by 12pm, so everyone returned home for lunch with our host family, then we hit the beach! In Salvador it is winter right now, but the beach was warm and wonderful and packed with tons of people! I cant wait till it even gets warmer and i can work on my tan :) Everyone in my program is so friendly and wonderful and everyone is just looking to make friends and have a wonderful time, so the beach was really fun, there were probably about 30 of us there total! After the first day of "class" I already had homework assignment due the next day, to read a 75 page excerpt and analyze it to find the authors thesis and all that junk... definitely a bit out of my element but it will be great!
Since class has started i have a definite routine, i have class from 10-12 then go back home for lunch and then i have class again usually around 1:30 or 2pm.. but whats weird is that lately ive been eating a lot of meals by myself. If my host parents don't make it back in time from work before i go back to school i miss them, and since dinner isnt a big thing usually i eat dinner by myself. buts its all good because usually leo is watching tv nearby so im not completely alone!!
Last night (tuesday) one of the girls from my program had a birthday so EVERYONE from EAP (all 38? of us) met up and went to Pelourinho. Pelourindo would be the equivalent to the "downtown" area... it is the historic center of Salvador and it is gorgeous! If you googled Salvador, with out a doubt majority of the pictures (besides ones from the beach) would be of Pelourindo. Tuesday nights is a big thing in Pelourindo, there were guys playing african drums all around and people were dancing, it was so fun to watch! I really felt like i was immersed into South America! all 38 of us went to the same bar where there was salsa dancing! I am definitely not the greatest, but i am hoping by december i will be like a salsa dancing master. I had a little trouble communicating my plans to my host dad, so i resorted to google translate... i typed in what i wanted to say and he read the translation on my computer, kinda lame and awkward but we figured it out! thank god for google!!!
Today after class me and a couple other people went on an adventure to the mall... it was my first time taking the buses in salvador! I was a little worried, but it wasn't bad at all. I was thinking it would be super crowded and i would have to really watch my back. but we went at like 3:30 in the afternoon so it was perfectly safe (dont worry mom and dad). My goal at the mall was to get my phone working. My host parents gave me one of their old cell phone to borrow, which is great! theres no need to have a fancy phone that only draws attention and this way i dont have to buy one! but what i needed to do was buy a sim card and then charge it with credit. No phones in south america work on a plan like they do in the US, everyone puts a certain amount of money on their chip and then calls and text cost a certain amount.... but of course when i got to the phone store i needed to show them my passport which is didn't have, so the phone adventure will have to be another day!
So instead we decided to go check out some brazilian bikinis. At the beach on monday, all the girls in my program were the only ones in normal sized swim suits! brazilians sure like to flaunt it and unfortunately none seemed to fit me... but there will definitely be some bikini somewhere that is calling my name!
this weekend acbeu has a 5 day weekend!!!! yaya! tuesday is Brazils independence day, which of course means monday is a holiday too. So theres going to be a group of us from EAP who are going to go to a neighboring island, Morro de São Paulo. I've heard that this island is so beautiful and the beaches are gorgeous, so that is what i will be doing all weekend, laying on the beach and working on my tan!!!
Im loving Brasil!
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