so, after a bit of a break, i´m back to tell you all of my life in brazil!!
right now is a really chill time in brazil, because it´s january summer holiday. school is out, and a LOT of people are traveling to the coast to go to the beach. UNFORTUNATELY i am not one of them, but it´s all good. i´ve been spending my holiday n Belo Horizonte, with a bunch of different people, just going out at night, going to birthday parties, going away parties for the aussie exchange students, and stuff like that. it´s been pretty nice.
also, because of a series of events caused mostly by me, i´ll be moving out of timoteo. i guess i really already have, because i haven´t been in timoteo since right after christmas, and i won´t be going back before i move to my new city, Paraopeba, an hour outside of BH. I´m very excited to go there, Marco Aurelio, my counselor guy for the district, tells me that the family is excited to recieve me, and they have a twenty year old daughter who went on exchange to denmark a few years ago. I´m REALLY excited to meet her, because i´ll be working with her at the english school she works at, so hopefully we´ll be good friends. I´m not entirely certain when i´ll leave bh for paraopeba, but it´ll be soon, i think.
the other exciting thing on the horizon is carnaval, after which i have a feeling brazilian life will return to how it was before i left for the northeast, i.e. school and all that stuff. i have SEVERAL different things i could do for carnaval, i´ve been invited to go to salvador with joal, claire´s older brother, who gets here in a little more than a week, and also to go with my current host sister, natalia, to diamantina, in minas gerias, or i might go with rotex to guarapiri, on the beach in espirito santo, OR i might go with my friend mira and her host brother some where else in minas, i really don´t know, but i´m excited for three days of craziness! all of brazil is excited about it, whenever i meet brazilians, they ask me where i´m going for carnaval, and if i´m excited, so i hope it´s good. It´s from febuary fifth to the eighth or ninth, so it´s soon!
i should also probably say about my holidays. Christmas itself was actually really just sad and depressing. Brazilians just do something totally different, my family didn´t do any sort of gift exchange or anything, and so overall, it was just a sad day. i tried to make the best of it though, and hang out with my family. New Years Eve was FAR superior. By that time, i was back in belo horizonte, staying at my friend brendan´s house with my two other friend´s lexi and mira and the four of us went to his host parent´s party, which was this huge affair, two thousand people, lots of champagne and an open bar with food and all that, and everyone was all very chic and mira lexi and i spent hours getting ready, and we went and had a good time. It was the first time i´d been to a party like that new years, it was very fun, although we had to leave earlier than usual, around four, because Brendan was a bit too drunk to handle the party anymore. His family got home around nine. It was great.
So, that´s it for now. Lots of love to you all, and beijos until next time!
mary