I bet you are confused.

I know I am. Well, not really.


My last post was goofy. It was posted at around 3 something in the morning, late late Friday night....or early Saturday, whichever you prefer. I went to another Formatura that night, which I believe I posted about before. It's a party for the graduating classes. They don't do a typical American "prom" here, obviously. But this is their prom. The night begins with a ceremony for the class, the whole teachers talking and students talking, and there's a video and stuff too. But unlike ANY event I had ever been to in New York, no second of the ceremony is boring. It's all fun and actually pretty quick. Dinner follows shortly after that. Then after some time talking and relaxing, the party begins :D hahahahaha my favorite.
This past graduation, I didn't go to the ceremony and dinner because well, I have no family ties in that class. The party after is for friends and even some people who graduated. All you need is a ticket, which I got SUPER last minute (thank you Layne) and we went.

The friends I've made here are just great people. Half of them can not understand a word I say, but somehow it works. I know four people that speak English, three are in my class, and naturally, I spend a great deal of my time with them hahah. I am learning Portuguese a little bit more every day, even when I don't try. I think that's pretty awesome. I find it so funny that in my first week or so here, no one would speak English to me, not even the ones who could, because they were so shy about it. They speak better English than some people back home, I swear.

Friday night was amazing and I had so much fun just dancing and getting to know more people. Everyone tries SO hard to speak English to me, and most of the time, it's better off if it's left in Portuguese. I love it though.

Nights like that make my life here so amazing. But days when I sit in my house, doing nothing, it's not so great. Now, it's not that I don't want to do anything...it's just that I have no idea what to do. My host mother was so excited when I came home from the party. She wanted me home by three, which seems reasonable, but the party was still going hard at that time. She was all smiles when I walked in the door though, saying "you need to go out more, and talk in Portuguese..." haahah sounds good.

I slept that entire next day away. I tried to, but couldn't actually. I sat in bed a lot. But FINALLY I'm sleeping again. Last night and the night before I got actual sleep. I slept in until 11. That is an accomplishment. Don't laugh at me for being excited. I love sleep. I missed sleep. I have the weirdest effing dreams though, really.

My mother bribed me with Disney. She said if I stay the entire time, she will bring me. And to Universal. I can't believe it. When I was a kid, I never went ANYWHERE....EVER. In big families, it's difficult to do that sometimes. The child that never got to be inside of me is super excited and yes, my first time at Disney would be at 18 years old. But who cares. I get to meet Cinderella, so forget you :D
To be honest, going there means little. It's the fact that my mother actually offered a vacation, something that has never happened before...shocking.

Anyway, the time here is starting to tick at an almost normal pace. Minutes don't quite drag on for hours and such. I still shock myself sometimes when I kind of just think, and realize that I'm in Brazil. I forget a lot, actually. It doesn't register to me that my home is thousands of miles north west of here. I forget that I can't say very much to people here. I'm getting used to not talking very much, but I do still talk, of course. I don't know how to explain it. I've been here a little over a month now, and I feel like a completely different person. I'll elaborate on that another time. Until then, thanks for reading! :D