I started this blog a little late, but I will now start to keep up with it.
I'm in my third month here and I can already feel the change in myself. I love brasil and now I call it my home.
My first month was like a dream come true. I was making friends, I went out all the time, my friends missed me. I loved it. It was like a fairytail. My second month got harder. I started tomiss home more then I expected.. I had a really hard time with the language and realized most of the people here aren't your friends. Don't get me wrong, I have lots of good friends here, but after the celebrity status fades, you just gotta learn to fit in. And I like it. The attention is a little over whellming sometimes. Going into the third month I am understanding the language a lot better and making progress speaking it as well.
The parties are crazy so far. They don't start till 1 or 2 and don't end till 5. It's a normal thing here. So I have gotten used to being up till 4 or 5 and up at 9 or 10.
The people are so welcoming and loving. Canadiens are so different then people here. Canadiens come off so rude, and bitchy compared to people here.
My host family is amazing. I love them to death. They make me feel so at home here. Even though the living ways are different, I still like it a lot.
The music is so cool to listen too. The funk is a good time and so is the country. There is so many different types and ways of dancing, but yet, every Brazilian can dance. I don't get it.
I get asked what I like in brazil on a daily basis. Of course my answer is the food and people. No matter where you are, there is always good food, people and coffee.
You don't really think about it, but almost every month, I go to the beach. A Brazilian beach, ocean, waves and beautiful sun and sand. Also I'm really tanned. I can't tell cause everyone here is dark, but comparing my back color to my bum, I'm soooooo dark. Be jealous.
I have gained weight. But I don't care, I'm nothonna stop eating the food here. I only get it for a year. And it's amazing.
School is very different. So easy. I love it cause I don't have to do anything being an exchange student. As I am writhing this blog in class because I can't really do much else during notes.
To me, being an exchange student means many different things. Right now, this trip is for myself. I am dOing it all for myself. I feel selfish, but at the same time I am thinking about the end of the tRip. In thefuture, I can do great things with the knowledge and experience I will have. Even though I am missing a year of school, friends and life at home, I think of it as I am aging a year of my life, because no one will have the stories I will have when I go home.
When I left, there was many people who didn't believe in me, didn't think I could do this, didn't want me to do this. But those are the people who make me stronger here. With them telling me that I can't or thinking that j won't make it, will only make me make the year. The people who are there for you like my friends and family are my balance, knoing I have the strenth to do it.
I keep thinking about when I gohome. How I am going tO be, who everyone else will be. What I'm going to do. All of these questions... But honestly, I can't control any of the answers. I just have tO sit back, enjoy my ode for the moment, make the most out Of the present and take my life here I want it to go, and worry about what come after when I get there.
Life is changing every second of everyday. Someone is born, someone dies, someone does something they regret, and sometimes makes a life changing decision... Everything you do it changes the rest of your life. Every decision you make changed something that can effect you or others lives.And you are gonna make mistakes and bad decisions, it just means to move on from them.
I have made and lost friends from this experience, it is a wild ride and one great experience.
Until next Time!!! Tchhaaauuuu <3
