August 31

Agosto 31

It has been about a week for me in Brazil. Not as hot as you'd expect but still pretty freaking hot. I love my host family and my host brother Everton has been the key to my success here. Portuguese is not that hard and i can understand most people if they don't talk too fast. I have played soccer with Everton's team 3 times already. The difference between players in brasil and the US is unreal. Everyone in the US is so worried about new cleats and how light their cleats are and spend 200-300 dollars on cleats that they hope will somehow magically make them messi because messi wore them. In Brasil you will find players with 30$ fake copa mundials that would violate any player on my team with ease. I like brasil and im going to the FBI today to let them know i'm here and to finalize my Visa. My first day of School was friday and all the kids were intruiged and scared of me at the same time. they would stare at me and when i looked back would put there head right back down to their paper. I was walking in a crowded hallway once and i to throw something out in a trash bin behind me so I turned around and immediately the whole hallway became silent, parted like the red sea, and stared at me as i threw out the wrapper. Super strange. Also i think my English is getting a lot worse, sorry Mr. Grove. I met the other exchange students yesterday, They were nice. I traveled alone for the first time to a city two hours away. Impressive right. My first week has been great and i really have no complaints. Tchau

August 23

Agosto 23

This is my very first blog post from Brasil. A warning to any readers, most of these will be short and sweet. I arrived Today after 20 hours of flying and layovers. I have meet my family and I really like all of them, Everton, Edilson, Sonia and the second family, Ivo e Terezihna. I think the first house has a maid, or maybe just a cleaning lady I'm not sure. The whole family is out so I'm choosing to blog now. I'm excited for tomorrow.