my rainbow connection!

ok, oh man, so do i explain whats going on in my head, in a blogging manner, well i am just going to ramble like i my favorite person used to tell me to do. ok, so its christmas eve, and i found this picture on my computer, it was from the morning that i left, me and alecia, mr. pitters and mr. tickles. This week has been insane, i finally got to talk to my best friend on skype yesterday after all sorts of bad communication, on my part, and misunderstanding, and i just want everyone, and her to know how much i love that fantastic cenaruzabeita. if we were talking about model face profiles, she would be "my good side" yeah ok that didnt make any sense... but it didnt really need to, because she knows! There is no difference between her and my family, and when i come home she is the one i am going to re-northamericanize with. And for all you fellows that get the opportunity to see her everyday, you should feel lucky, because there isnt much i wouldnt give to see her, like you guys get to. so dont waste anytime asking my best friend about me, because if you know anything about us, you know we are kind of the same person, so i am only 100 percent happy, in brazil or not, when she is. So there you have it :). anywhoos, that is my second declaration of love! i really miss you dude, and i can wait to come home and listen to the jonas bros and taylor swift with you, eat cafe rio in bedroom, talk about the 7th harry poter book, and give you the sweetest embrace of your natural born life! until then...
love mo

and yes we are both wearing out matching starwars shirts with our freshly done manicures!

good things come in brazilian packages!

alright friends, i have kicked sadness in the pants, and i am feelin kind of fantastic! i am loving it here, the food, the parties, the fabulous old ladies, the love affairs, yes thats right i said love affairs, holla! the weather, the dancing, the beyonce, the swimming gear, and yes there is a huge difference, well actually in this case it would be small difference, very very small, tiny, miniscule difference, yeah the swimsuits here are probably illegal in north america, and i just bought my first yesterday, because i am feeling couragous. hooray for courage! Lets see what else, ahh yes, i no longer look at beer as a nasty smelling drink, but rather a nice way to cool off at a show, now i know this sounds wierdy, but what i mean is, you really can not go to a single show, party, etc, without getting beer whipped in your face, because lets face it, it gets hot and these guys like to twril it above their heads. its fun. I still am in the process of making friendies, but i am loving it anyway. So long story long, i know that things are rich, because i got teary thinking about leaving. darn you departure! Anywho, i am in love with my giant south american home :)

paranormal activity

so after i saw paranormal activity with some brazilian homies, aslinn and i went home to have a sleepover. And that is when i found her camera and her super sweet skelton jaket, yeah thats right it glows, in the dark. ahh poop. Anyway aslinn told me she does she does not like taking pictures, but lets face it, secretly every girl love a good photoshoot, so i indulged her.

Pantanal BONITO trip!

ok, so i just got back from my nine day trip to pantanal with some rotary homies from all over brazil! its was slam dunk and a half! i got to meet all kinds of kids from all over the world, a very slim tall australian man, an american who will correct you if you ever say fishes instead of fish. A world of war craft german master. A mexican who never wore a shirt, and when he did no one recognized him. Another german boy that ate more then java the hut and managed to have the toightest bum i have ever seen. Another mexican who took his laptop and coke with him everywhere, including breakfast lunch and dinner, and enjoyed the true talents of madonna. all that and many more. They were are the best, and the best part was, if you left the exchange students alone for more then 10 minutes they would start a massage and back scratching train. It was classic, but i always sat at the front and then when it was time to switch i was like "oops i have to use the bathroom" or "dang it i have to go, I am really hungry!" got them everytime! But i would have to say the best part of the trip was getting all the germans to say "welcome to booty town" it never seemed to not be funny. anywho here is a day by day summary of the trip!

day one

wake up, go to airport, get on plane to go to sao paulo, lucky for alyssa and i, the most famous soccer team in my city was on the plane. It was dream HOT SOCCER PLAYER SLAP!* we made friends with them and are now official vips! success! Ok, Onward! arrive in sao paulo realize how good looking everyone and then head to the hotel. get to hotel, and then i spot a bueno candy bar, leap to it, rip it open and then inhale it. and then realize i had to pay for it. dang it! later that night meet up with more exchange students and walk aroung sao paulo, so great! go back to hotel, and then sleepin time!

day 2! wake up, meet more new kids from all over the world! eat breakfast, take advantage of the all you can eat breakfast and wrap up 3 crossaints, 2 cheese balls and five crackers in some napkins and save them for lunch time! its a good thing i am slick like a minx, or i never would of pulled it off. next get on a bus called ASS TOURISMO, and travel for the rest of the day until 12 oclock. then go to sleep in a new hotel.

reppin!

day 3

wake up steal more food from the continental breakfast, save it for lunch, make friends with exchange students on the bus, watch pirated movies, and sleep. then arrive in pantanal, lather eachother in mosquito repelent. i personally walked behind alyssa with my sweater swating her every move because mosquitos love her. we then hopped on this bus that smelled like death and kind of looked like it too. i loved it! we then picked up adventure man, who i my opinion was worth the whole trip, he was the most extreme man i have ever met, that was so excited about his life and job, he was from uruguay and spoke portuguese, english and spanish all at once, kind of hard to understand but his extreme actions spoke louder then words. 1 30 hours later we arrived in our hotel at 9 30, we settled and ate dinner then got some nice tshirts and backpacks, from adventure man, who said congradulations, everytime he handed us one. and then went swimming!

day 4. woke up at 6, ate too much, then went on our safari adventure, and what an adventure it was, because our guide was adventure man, he was all over the place, he was leaping off the back of the car to tell kiko the driver to stop, so we could enjoy the scenary, i asked what his favorite animal was, and he said jaguar, and then got extremely excited and had to wait a minute to calm down. he then explained mating patterns of the parrots there. turns out they do it for 10 seconds with 30 different birds a day. ha! we then bidded him adeu, and went on little boats to got pirana fishing. I was the only one that caught fish and i caught 4! it was so fun, i know understand why its an extreme sport here, i was feeling the heat! after all that adventure, we went home, went swimming, cat napped, and then went on our into the jungle tour, where alyssa and i just insulted all the mosquitos hoping they would go away. mission failed. after that we went back and just hung out the rest of the night. until bedtime where i wanted to talk deep and asked my roomates to tell me their stories and their lives. very fun!

adventure man!












this ginger was snappin! snail love

day 5.

woke up, ate, and headed to the horse for some horse back ridding. i discovered that i am extremely afraid of horses, and everytime my horse started getting fresh and decided to run i would fly like 3 feet in the air. NOT COOL. But we became friends anyways, i named her nicole kidman, because i thought it would be a good idea if we named all of our horses, celeb names. mine was the only one that stuck. after that i got home and passed out into a comma, and then just hungout until we went alligator spotting. who even knew, that alligators eyes glow in the dark! how insane is that! then we ate some fried bananas by a fire that adventure man slaved over and prepared by hand for us. After that me and the ladies went star watching and talked about the end of the world. so good.

shampooooo plant

wizard staff

day 6.

wake up, take bus for 6 hours to bonito. arrive in bonito 8 hours later, went swimming! played water games. then massage trained all over the place, chatted and then went to bed

day 7.

woke up, experimented all the cereals, then headed off to this wiked cool cave. where of course i accidentally dropped a rock and then got glared at by the guide. The cave was so cool, but physically and temperaturely! i loved it! after that we ate lunch in bonito, and then checked out the bonito scene, alyssa and i decided to go and have a photo op through out the city at random stores and locations. classic. and i unknowingly bought gadges that fit. adventure! then it was off to RIVER RAFTING! yes future career! it was so the best part of the trip, and i was a head paddler. and turns out our river rafting guide was river god! physically and mentally! so i started talking with him, he invited me to a local party and ended it all with a wink! i know what you are thinking, river rafting affair right? wrong! after i saw him later that night when we were all strutting around town, he started to get his creep on, so i bailed, or so i thought, at 12 o clock at night when i was sitting there checking my email with my texas friend, all the sudden he walks in my hotel, my heart stopped. he was really ready to get up in my business, so i ran away and hid! success! he headed off. but not for long, the next day he accompanied the camera man from the rafting buis, to my hotel, for round 2! i saw him and booked for the kitchen and tryed to fend him off by eating lots of salad and beans with my mouth open, i feel like it worked, because it was all over the place.

wedding shotjust catching some sea basssweet embrace with a sweet metal manawkward prom picfeeling the adventure

day 8

wake up, breakfast, try to snap out of a extremely tired funk, head to snorkling sesh! go into a quick coma on the bus, then arrive at the snorkling place, pass out again for an hour due to the rain. Then frantically wake up to a canadian trying to move my head around, still dont know why that happened. get wetsuited up in we go! the water was ice and it was raining, but it was such a dream so i couldnt resist, and since we were the last group we got the extreme guide who paddled around our every move in this giant boat to take pictures of us, i hope it was worth killing some innocent plants you crazy lady! so to get some silent revenge we all secretly grabbed on to the back of her boat. it was priceless she was paddleing so hard. ok now i feel kind of bad, but she was nutts! after that it was freezing and raining, an i realized i had to pee like crazy, so i ripped off my wetsuits and let loose in the wilderness,... sorry wilderness, nature calls! ha pun! anyway after that we went to give gifts to the underprivilages kiddies, which was great, my plato was a hit! after that we went home and prepared for our rotary talent show, i convinced all the ladies to do the classic chin people. it was a hit!


we went in mysteriously, and then wiped the chin out!

day 9

last full day. and unfortunatly i can not really remember it. But i do know we went to go hold a giant snake, which in my opinion is a great party idea. The man there was a hoot, he kept cracking jokes but no one understood them because we are still pretty fresh exchangers, with no idea how to speak portuguese. After the serpente party we went back to the hotel for a unexpected costume party. So i decided to be harry potter. It was fantastic, i really think i nailed it this time. The dance party was great, and alyssa and i taught all the europeans to bootie pop. classic.

we decided to have a vogue shoot

harry just taking a break

day 10 and 11

drive home on a bus, tell ghost stories and get massages from the mexican

sad mad time

ok so i have had a really rough 3 days and alecia used to tell me that writing always helps, so here goes.
1.i was told by a person living in my house, i looked really ugly for my 17th birthday party, and that all the parents were talking about how bad i looked. so much for feeling pretty.
2. i am sick of being bossed around to do everything.
2. just because i am an exchange student doesnt mean i know how to handle stress or guilt yet, so please dont put that on me!
3. i am bummed that i still have no friends.
4. i miss alecia
5. i miss my family, my moms pancakes and red hot chilly pepper blow outs, my dads 20 second hugs and fun! my sister in general, everything about her, my brother and his random rants on the meaning of life.
7. i am stuck home blogging on my favorite holiday, and i didnt even get to wear my harry potter costume!
6. i feel like poop right now, and i am not sure how to handle it.
hmm, i feel a little better, i am in a deep funk this time i guess

surfs up!

i am taking 3 surfing lessons a week, in exchange i am teaching like 40 under privelaged kids/my suffer class, english, i am all chayfed up, and i have my first surfing scaps, and let me just tell you, it is NOT as easy as all the pro make it look. My biggest obsticle was just sitting on the board, i almost knocked like 3 dudes unconscience because my board kept flippin out from underneath me, but they cant complain because they know i will through out all my english craze all over them. so it works out. and i tell them everyday after i biff really bad, that its going to me hanging with kelly slater, in the end. they just think that is hysterical

curly mo!

so in my quest to further freak my brazilian family i decided to curl my hair, but not with a curling iron, because i do not have one of those, but i remember seeing somewhere how to curl your hair by cutting pieces off of a towel. and after a 20 minutes of trying to get my maid to give me a towel to use, i finally got to buiness. it stayed for 3 days. so thank you pioneers for all your clever tricks. and i mean all things considered, it is the curlies that get the girlies, yeah ok, they dont have a saying that applies to girls, but its all pretty relative.