so, as claire requested, i´m writing more blogs, or will at least try.

i went to bh last weekend, with my host family. we stayed at my dad´s neice´s house, who lived fairly close to savassi, which is the neighborhood where people go out, since it has lots of clubs, etc. the weekend itself was nice, although one of the only flaws about bh is that the showers, for some reason, are always cold. that, and it´s slightly more expensive on some accounts, but in other ways it´s cheaper. i went out with all the exchange students that live there again, friday we went paintballing, and saturday, we went to a club because it was this girl from canada´s birthday, and after we went to her house for wine and pão de quiejo. the next day, max, luciana and i went back to timoteo. i really don´t like making this trip, because you can´t really sleep, and it always feels longer than it should. But, the bright side is we get to stop at this really nice canteen thing everytime, which has the best juice in the world, and they have good coffee too.

the rest of this week, i just had school. i followed the history teacher, marisa, so i learned a bit of brasilian history, which is nice, and since i am understanding more, school is less boring. my portuguese has gotten to the point that i don´t have to work so hard to understand, or to talk, but some words still stump me. it´s totally fine though, eventually i will be fluent, so that is all fine.

we didn´t have school on friday either, because it was Dias das Crienças, which is kid´s day? and it was also Dia de Nossa Senhora, which is like the day for the virgin mary. This meant going out thursday, to a really cool bar here, called Big Ben, which has a band from Bahia that plays there, and has really good beer, AND, it´s fairly clean, which is pretty rare for bars here. Before i went there though, i went with rianti to a dinner party at the wine store that our rotary counselor owns. (tip: chilean wine is crap, but argentinian is awesome) This was quite fancy, like..i had caviar, which i have never had, and never will again, because BOY was it gross. gallll.

anyhow, that´s really the haps here. i´m just sort of hanging out, and waiting, waiting, waiting, for the northeast trip, which will be awesome, it´s in about a month, so YAY! i hope you´re happy with the update clar!