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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Things I am going to missss

nossasenhora que saudade que eu vou sentir......

I will miss the delicacy of eating pao de queijo and salgados in school between classes,
the way you can walk into a store and drink a cafezinho, and how friendly and helpful the workers are,
the beautiful efficient words and the sound of Portuguese,
the sun on your legs and playing soccer beneath the trees,
the endless little shops of shoes, clothes, and everything you could imagine walking down the street,
the MUSIC! samba, sertanejo, funk, mpb, choro
going out to eat acai or a milkshake with friends,
barbecues!!
going to the roca with family,
the sheer dream of being a foreign exchange student and having the world at your fingertips,
dreaming about visiting the beach, Rio, the Amazon,
getting to meet so many new people and tell stories about your coutry and birthplace,
being in contact with friends from all over the world,
sharing dreams, cultures, songs
people calling me "Joellieeee"
Every day a new different delicious food, fruit, vegetable,
fruits and flavors I had never imagined,
the simplicity in life,
watching Brazilian TV,
having time to read books,
capoeira class, when I felt like I met the avatar
and then became one myself,
playing the cavaquinho, violin, guitar
pronouncing correctly and teaching the English
talking and playing with little kids
learning how to dance again,
writing in my journal,
the beautiful trees and creatures eveywhere...
and how beautiful I felt,
staying up late,
Festaaaas! Shows!
Michael Telo, Ivete Sangalo, Joao bosco e Vinicius,
running home in the rain,
running up the stairs on the break of the new year to see the fireworks
always turning around and being amazed by something new,
the deep, true friends and brothers that I have made,
and always having something to look forward to,
realizing what is important in life,
and the excitement of finally coming back home in the end=)

Monday, January 3, 2011

New Year's Resolution

Today is the first day back at home after we went to Sao Carlos for New Year's. It is finally setting in that I have just these 2 weeks left here, but I feel good. I feel like I have done what I needed to do here, and that it is time to go back home, and start studying again to finish what I need to finish back there. I feel like everything is finally coming together, and I am actually getting a little excited to come back!!

I thought hard this year, and came up with some things I want to really keep up and remember for 2011:

-learn from mistakes, don't let them push you back, use them to get forward

-keep in touch with old friends

-don't let activities get in the way of friends and family

-keep up what I learned in Brazil: be more organized and clean,

-go back to my health-consious self, stop drinking soda, and integrate new healthy foods and habits into my routine when I come back

-this is only the very beginning- the whole rest of the world is out there to be discovered/saved

and most of all
-Never forget what I did and learned here in Brazil