(JUMP FORWARD TO ONE MONTH and some odd days...)
Okay, computer still not fixed...but I use my families a few times a week. :) The internet in my town is suuuuper slow, so I don't get that many pictures up, but you should see some, check out my myspace or facebook if I have you as a friend. :)
I figured I'd tell you about my normal day here! First my alarm goes off at 6am, I hit snooze for another 10mins :) Finally get out of bed, look out my 10th story window over downtown Joao Pinheiro, can't believe that I'm looking out of a 10th story window over downtown JP in BRAZIL, thank God for everything, get ready for school...usually my brother has to knock on my door and hold the elevator for me because they I run to the kitchen and grab a banana and crackers for breakfast, which I eat on the way to school, on a bus. :) Then school from 7am to 12:30, take the bus home for lunch, sit down with aaallll of my family, my mom and dad, brother Joao Gabriel (17 yrs old, go to school with him) Joao Carlos (older and moved out bro) sister Gabriel and her husband, and their baby Thomas (also moved out). :D It's quite an affair, I have another sister, my Rotary Counselor, but she has lunch with her family. I lived with her for my first 10 days because her parents, my host parents, were traveling. Then I usually nap or get on the computer until 1:40 when Carol (the exchange student here from Denmark) picks me up and we walk to school. Then at 5:20 school's out and I either walk home with friends or take the bus home. :D
Then, well it totally depends. On Monday night at 6 my whole family has a Bible study then dinner, I love that :). Even though they all speak Portuguese and I don't understand most of it, it's still a very nice time. On Wednesday nights I have a Rotary meeting, from 8-whenever you're done eating lol. I'll explain the meetings another, man are they different then the ones back home.
And JUMP FORWARD TO 6 1/2 MONTHS.... So, as you can tell...TIME SURE FLIES!!! That above chapter of my life, was my first 3 months here...figure I might as well post it...and try to update you about what's happened for the last 3 months of my life...if I don't get to, I'm sorry!
God bless!
~Sara
