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Harry Potter and the sorcorer zach, mo and connor stone.

2010-11-18T21:33:00.000-08:00

I drink Brass Monkey and I rock well.

12:51 is the time my voice
Found the words I sought...
Is it this stage I want?

I hope you know this will go
down on your permanent record.

Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows!!!!

Ron is hot, he is one spicy ginger

Hey bloggin!

2010-09-28T22:37:00.000-07:00

I guess i have kind of blown at the whole blogging buisness, but that doesnt mean i cant still virtually express my feelings (talk to myself) now does it?!
So lets do this.
Let me just shed a little light on the past beautiesthat are happening in my new lifey in the great salt lake. 1- this relationship i was determined to develope with my new dog and i is a complete shame. My mom told me she was just like me, but i think she is partially mentally retarted, so i am not sure what she is trying to say. insulting perhaps?
2- accepting that the only summer glow that i am getting these next 7 months will probably be from florscent lighting, or mist on tans. I do miss that brazilian sun, thats for sure.
3- My new job at starbucks is such a dream. I now know how to make all those complicated drinks all the hip people drink. And i dare say that i might just be a human frappicino prodegy.
4- My love is coming to find me.

12: 48

2010-07-18T23:48:00.000-07:00

Its 12: 48 in the morning right now, and my mind is producing an unruley amount of thoughts on me (and not to mention the amount of sleep i havent gotten is kind of putting me into an awake coma. And i cant stop thinking of dolfins in life jackets when this happens). I am not sure where i am going with this, but i am letting it do the do. (none of this will probably make sense because i am probably not really awake)
First question to myself; how do i fix whats going on. All of it, because strangely enough i think i welcome the danger of friendship and heartbreak.
I love to see all your smiles , and it seems to me, that location has absolutely nothing to do with my ability to see them or not. Whether you are here in my city, close to me, important to me, or in another country. I find myself loosing those smiles either way.
The fact that you can be so close to me, but i cant see you anymore, is just as painful as being 3000 miles apart from me.
I miss you both. close or far.
I am here now, and i can not change that. And it would seem that my presence here is no different then my absence. I don't feel any different. I still cant have those i want. And i still miss those i love.
i dont know what i am saying. But i am seriously mixed.
This is so much harder than i thought. I am kind of terrified of what is happening. But i did it once and i know i can do it again.
Love is a magic that we all have in us, thankfully. But where does it take us.
where will it take me? What will i do for it?
i certainly can not give up, But it does sand down a lot of my willing components. It is all around me, but my hands just can not catch it. It feels like it will always be distant. In my head and also in the flesh.
I wonder what it will be to see you again, when i do.
Will my love surround me or hide behind my tail. Who can really say, is what i say.
I guess i just want to feel it, for reals, with no strings attached. No distance. No complications. Just love. up down and around me. It will come.
so onward to my own spanish galleon inside of me. To the death! Just me an me forever!

woops

2010-07-04T18:05:00.000-07:00

So i decided to give a read around of my last blog, and i am now realizing how many mistakes and unfinished things i posting. And i guess it turns out that i think i am writing everything i am thinking but i obviously am not. So i am sorry about that, so feel free to give things another read because its all punctuation and perfection from here on out!

goodbye home

2010-06-24T15:37:00.000-07:00

alright, so i know it looks like i have given up on my bloggin affair, but i assure you i havent, i am just really lazy and the 6th harry potter movie is always on HBO, soooo...... that is that, but i am back!

this would be me being taken by force from my friends in class, to play lady gaga, in a music video we had to do in english, of american singers. And being that i had blonde hair and blue eyes they were convinced i looked exactly like her. i do not agree. But either way it was kind of hilarious and the garbage man kept creepin and loving every second of us ladies.

Trip to pipa,

pipa is like the vencice beach of the northeast of brazil, if you are nice to a vender he will just give you free stuff because he likes your universal energy, or at least thats what he said to me.

We stayed in my friend julias clubhouse type thing, that was such a dream, it was hidden within a forest of her dads house, who by the way sports an unbearably cool dragon tatoo.. And since none of us had any money or food we just ate oatmeal and played uno the whole time, so good.

this would be me, 10 seconds after getting a gadge. It was traumatic and i almost whimped out , but it was completely liberating, although i did not like the fact that igor syked me out, and was like "here i just want to see it"... and then pull a fast one and just pushed through my earlobe. owww

this is my favorite beach, pirangy, this is the view in the morning, outside of igors balcony. So perfect

mall mustache party! the mall security were all over us, thinking we were really trying to pull something sneaky. And in all honesty i did accidentally take a sole marshmallow thinking they were free. They werent. oops

This would be my hena tatoo, that i got on the beach. Now i only got it because one of my friends who is gay (represent!) was loving the guy tatooing so he told me he would pay for it if i did it. unfortunately the minute the hena guy started tatooing, he only talked about how much he loved his woman girlfriend. It was a let down for rafael for sure. But i feel like i benefited fully from this, because wierdly enough i really loved it, and everytime i would pass by a mirror i would kind of check myself, i felt like such a rough up.

these would be the clay versions romantic pictures of igor and i that he made out of the clay i got him for christmas

why am i like 50 pounds overweight you wonder. well your guess is as good as mine, when i first saw them i wasnt sure if i should be happy and cutesied out or slap igor for making me look like is unfortunate chubby girlfriend. He confessed that he did everything but the clay wasnt having it. And to rap it up he ended by saying. "well most of the world likes curvy girls anyway" ahem WHAT!

This is our sacred beach, there is absolutely no one on this beach everyday all day, so all my brazilians and i clamed it as our own!

now this photo might just look like a good time, but when i did it, igor didnt really realize i was doing it, so this photo almost didnt exist due to the fact when igor realized what i was doing he crapped his pants and let out a whimpering shreak and yelled at me to get away from the edge.

this would be the last time i saw my bestie alyssa, and we figured it would only be right to capture our classic peace sign face. For those of you that dont know what that is, it is the face you do, that will literally get you out of anything. Example. you just killed someones cat, flash the peace sign and mumble. oohhaahhh sorrry i just didnt see it coming. opps i uh, feel really bad.
done, and you can leave with a clean conscience.

this one of my favorite exchange students, gavin, from michigan and i indulging in a rapist look.

igor's brother drew this of our crew

so the airport.... so heartbreaking. I was a hot dirty mess, i was emotional destroyed, and igor was sobbing, so terrible! if you look closely at his eyes in every picture hes eyes are red and teary... shear horror!

our last kiss! i will miss my favorite tall legs, curly hair and adventurous heart more than anything in the world.

my first and favorite host fam. they are so fabulous.

my host dad, totally started crying, and i didnt even expect it, but unfortunatly when he crys he gets this look on his face like he just got hit by a train.

my brazilian loves, the other side of my heart <3>
some of the exchange students!

future?

2010-06-12T12:41:00.000-07:00

so i am sitting here, i have been back for exactly a week, and in all the wierdness and getting used to things, i realized. i am graduated. crap. so now what? the only thing that comes to mind when i think of future is me getting a chaco tan, while being a river rafting guide. But you can not go to college for that. So now the question is, what do i do? what am i good at? i have always wanted be a fashion designer, but they make about as much as the little mexican man gorge who works for my dad. Which is unfortunatly, not to much. So then i thought. hmmm fashion journalism? aha! could be, except i know nothing about it and havent really done any doing of it. So now i am at a conclusion.... any ideas? please let me know !

and now im back from outerspace!

2010-06-12T10:51:00.000-07:00

so i have kind of been in hiding for like a week but i am offically back and american! so lets hang out!

1 month to go

2010-05-04T10:55:00.001-07:00

ah crap!

blehhh

2010-04-22T16:07:00.000-07:00

ahh man, i had a rough day today. never good. and country time difference is really killing me, i really need a friend

host mamas birthday smash!

2010-03-23T09:05:00.001-07:00

alright, so my new family is a riot, they are my favorite kind of people, granola chique, and not to mention my host mom is a local celebrity, because she is the hot news lady. So anyway it was her birthday on the 2oth ,where she set up all kinds of urbal goods up on our upstair porch. Unfortunatly for me i became best friends with her chocolate cake and ate so much i hurled. but i am not going to lie, chocolate cake is still good the second time around :S.

for all those have had the opportunity to meet my precious jesus sandals, you will be proud to know that i did, indeed do the sandal dance for all my relatives.

gooshy goosh

2010-03-18T14:02:00.000-07:00

so i am listening to a rather sentimental soung right, no i would like to write a bit of a girly feeling post. So what to write, well first of all, my friends, even though i suck really bad at writing back to all your emails, i love you. every single one of you! you are all my great mountain people, my favorite people. I am happy to have met you all, and lurked with you all. I am really different now (exchange reflection moment) but all good different, no more kicks in the face! only goodness and joyness! ok family, yeah they are a fine bunch of people. magnificent!and they are all mine! I guess i am as much as a happy go lucky, goof because of them, everyone that meets us wierdys has a little bit of fun :) yep thats it for now

summer lovin

2010-03-15T12:08:00.000-07:00

so here are some goods from summer that i found on my comp. But for those of you that don't know i spent the summer in a beach house 45 minutes away from my house, for a month. And to sum it up, it was probably the king of all summers, it was a dream. I lived in literally on the beach, and woke up every morning, took a dip in the ocean and adventured it up every single day. Here is just a little sample of things we did: fishing at midnight with hot chocolate and cookies, swam in the ocean at 3 am, watched the sun come up every night, skated (in secret because i was forbidden) dance parties, banana boat, snorkling, boat trips, cat naps, unos tornaments, twister tornaments (igor and i tagged teamed because we were all bend) made french toast, eat baby food, lizard tanning (except for me, my skin was apparently not having that.) sleepovers, sandboarding, camping on the beach, slept on the stairs outside, sat still for 3 hours thinkin, (now that was probably the wierdest thing i did. ) ate shaving cream thinking it was tooth paste, kayacked, drank lots of tea, surfed with a air matress, became best friends with the corn row braiders and hena tatooers. plus tons of other stuff, just cant remember at the moment.

the host sister and i, hangin

this was probably one of my favorite day, when i went snorkling with igor and his fam. Because aside from getting my snorkling satisfaction i found some cool shells and made friendship necklaces for everyone (new hobbie, i am a wiked bead master now)

beach day, with the air matress

alright now there is a good explanation for igor more fabulous side. Every week during the big party carnaval they have a day where the guys dress up like ladies and the ladies like men. its probably the most misterious day of the whole year, and i have to admit igor made for a really hidieous womam with his ridiculosly long toes cramed into some fancy flops

this would be raffinha and i, working a more beardy look, right after i got stitches from igor accidentally shutting the door in my face, ha! poor kid was mortified but i was actually really satisfied with it, its kind of got a harry potter feel to it.
manning it!

holy crepe!

2010-03-10T15:33:00.001-08:00

Alright so the 9th of march was my 7th month mark in brazil! and with my new giant crepe maker to my advantage, i called for a 3 man party, between Igor, my host sister Bel and I. It was great for many reason, but most importantely because i got to show my master crepe making skills to the world. mama crepe. she needed to spanchtulas for a good flip

Host sister working the photo skills

baby crepegetting a good victory scratch in after a hard days work.

my pup

2010-03-08T15:13:00.000-08:00

my new best friend is my new dog, whos name is life. she is a little lover. unfortunately this is the only picture i have with her, and it just happens to be super artsy because my host sister is crazy about being indie. haha its great.

schooly cooly

2010-03-08T14:47:00.000-08:00

so i guess never posted anything concerning my school, and so here you have it. Now remember most every brazilian school has uniforms as a way of using us as human comericals, great right? but besides the fact they are really itchy and not creative, it does make things less complicated. But our uniforms in particular consist of the school shirt and some either poopy green strechy pants or white jeans. I stick to the jeans to avoid to much body confrontation.

this would be rafael on the left and then diogo maia our professional bootie seaker, it is actually really impressive how he works it.

paranormal activity.

2010-03-03T11:18:00.000-08:00

so ever since i have been in my new room, in my new house i have nightmares every single night. literally every night, so i went searching for a dream catcher. no success. But then the other day i wake up with a square piece of my hair cut out on my floor, fliipp! so then the next night in my attempt to keep calm, my door starts to shake, and then does that slow creppy close, that doors do, when there is a ghost on the otherside! ahhhhh crap.

brazilian dreamin

2010-03-03T11:15:00.000-08:00

so 2 days i woke up in the middle of the night with a nasty urge to do number 1. so as i get out of bed and get in the bathroom i realize i what i am thinking, and its all in portuguese, and then i realized i just dreamt in portuguese. so there you have first dream in portuguese!!! well not really because i am sure i have had others i just have a horrible memory and can't remember anything when i wake up. but hoooorrayyyy for foreign languages!

heres what goin on

2010-02-23T14:57:00.000-08:00

so i guess this is kind of just an update/giddy about my life photo update, so enjoy it!

my new room which came wtih an electric piano and a stuffed owl!

my favorite giant fooot!

igor showing me what he looks like with no upper lip, i thought it was nice :)

this would be my new host sister, bebels art work!

Bel and I

my seeester

my love affair with my new owl

salvador!

2010-02-23T14:36:00.001-08:00

alright so for my summer travelin me and the fam went on a super long rode trip to salvador which consequently was like 3 days travel, no body told me about that part. But i loved every second of it, even the part when my 9 year old brother heaved strawberry yogurt, and i am not going to lie, it didnt smell all that bad either, kind of fruity i would say.

me and my bro pretending to be 10 year old girls with the giggles.

me having a mexican mustache with my headphones
first stop recife! we stopped there just for the night because my hilarious cousin raul and his family lives there, now mind you raul is only 11 but he is probably my best friend in all of brazil. And he is such a stud, he is this little chubby kid who loves every one of his bountiful curves and knows how to work the sensual eye. its great. anyway, recife was a brazilian dream, its this crazy cool city with all kinds of colorful rusitc goods, and not to mention its one of the most famous places on earth for carnaval. party five! wapow!

love!

this would be a billboard that is united states and argentina, with nicolas the exchange student at my house (from argentina) and i

city on the sea!

my host mama and i

coconut stop! so good

i made friends with this little homie, because her brother was playing some exotic instrument and she was giving out braclets, so long story long she gave me a braclet and we became best friends forever.

my host brother figured out how to take pictures in sepia on my camera, and snapped this one :)

alright so this was our boat trip day, where we went to 2 islands and hung out there all day. its was a fantasy and a half, minus the creppy man filming us tourists, to make a video, yeah he got way up in my buisness and after awkwardly filming me all day he decided to hit on me, and tell me that "all he wanted was me" and that he thought it best if we kissed. THINK AGAIN! strange man!

dang brazilian food takes its toll!

the lakey lake

2010-02-19T18:03:00.000-08:00

so this summer in my attempt for adventure igor and i found this insane lake, it is an absolute paradise, i am convinced the lock ness monster lives in it. because lets face it, it is probably the most fantastic creation know to man, take that MARCO POLO! anyway igor and i got his fam and friends together and spent the day there eating lemon pie cookies (which are the greatest lemony invention ever) and swimmin.

this would be igors bro touching up on the adventures of marco polo. he loves it.

igor being tall and color cordinatedwe are the same size in the measurment of adventurethe gang

so this is probably one of my favorite pictures ever, because igors brother bruno is infact a model so any chance he gets to work it, he does. so long story long, he is working this tree and making the rest of us look like idiots.ahhh brazilian brothers

igor is simply just making sure i didnt drown like my not so fortunate friend behind us.

sorry for the delay!

2010-02-04T10:58:00.000-08:00

alright, my apologizes for not blogging, i have been at my beach house for a month with absolutely no access to the web, but i will be home next week with all the goods!

christmas. new years. joy!

2010-01-08T08:25:00.000-08:00

alright alright alright, so heres the low down on my christmas goods!

soookay, In brazil everyone here celebrates christmas on christmas eve, so this is me and my host sister (the brazilian godess) having a quick foto shoot before the christmas dinner at my relatives house. The night was a such a success, i ended up getting a nice little foot scrubber from secret santa, (yeah no one knows what to get the american girl for christmas) and i must say that scrubber gets the job done! And to top everything off, i got to meet my moms crazy sister who like to wear feathers on her head and eat fruit cake, she was great, we ended up being bff´s by the end of the night.
those are my two host bros sitting and listening to ray charles and reggae, yep greatest christmas combo ever.
new years! ok so this new years was a complete dream, first off its brazilian culture for everyone to either wear white or a light color, and each color means a different thing, but the main message is white which means peace. So to kick the night off my decided to have a huge party infront of my beach house in piranji, with all her doctor friends, and let me just say there really aint no party like a doctor party. it was nutts. At 12 01 we all headed to the beach to jump the seven waves which is seven wishes that you have to make, and yes it is extremely difficult to come up with 7 wishes in 7 seconds. Then the fireworks started, and i impressed everyone with the size of my mouth, by putting 12 giant grapes in my mouth at once (spanish tradition). Then after having a quick photoshoot on the beach, we headed back to the house where everyone started getting sauced. But of course with champain there must also be dancing so me and my host mom got down to buisness. I cant say i have ever seen so many 70 moves, but i was proud to be a witness. anyshways, after a bit of dancing i spotted igor (brazilian lover) and diogo, from affar watching me dance and dying with laughter. So when i asked if i could go hang with them my mom told me i could go, only if they danced with her. so they did. It was great. And about 30 seconds later we were off to go meet up with igor´s brother and his friend rafinha (new bff). Then we hit the beach and just did some hanging and running around time. Then at around 3 everyone started to get tired (which can not happen on new years) so we discovered a nice little energy drink place where jesus works, called MAD DOG. and after about a cup and a half of that i was ready for round 2! So we all headed to the beach again, and as the sun began to arise, we thought it only right to swim in the ocean with our clothes on, so we did, after about 20 minutes of convincing our metrosexual friend that the ocean would not destroy his new pants. AHhh it was such a dream, when we came back from the nice dip, igor decided to dig a giant hole while i decided to build chichen itza. And to top the night/day we watched the sun come up and just simmered in the adventure. oh and as we were coming home i spotted a wallet on the beach with like 300 bucks inside, which led to an investigation, on trying to find the owner, when we finally found him, he was still a bit woozy so he offered to buy us breakfast, which ended up being 7 beers at 7 in the morning, yeah I THINK NOT! so we fleed the scence and just went home to snooze. so there you have it, one slammin new years in brazil!

me and my cuz luiza keepin it real
living long and prosper of course
my other cousin raul and i just being hardcoreigor in the white and diogo in the plaid making their debue at the party, and yes that is my little hand creepin on igors side
ahhh my brazilian stallion, he is the bean and i am the rice!

the fam

my rainbow connection!

2009-12-24T12:19:00.000-08:00

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!

2009-12-11T10:23:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-10T10:17:00.000-08:00

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!

2009-11-12T12:02:00.000-08:00

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

2009-10-31T19:29:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-10-31T19:19:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-10-31T19:09:00.000-07:00

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.

the orphange

2009-10-31T18:52:00.000-07:00

so i got to go to an orphange with rotary and give presents and hang with all the little homies. they were truley the best, there was one boy that was like a slap in the face of energy, and when it came time for treats, he offered alyssa and i some of his one piece of chocolate, my heart melted. i want to work there because i fell so in love with them all. And i am pretty sure there is a new handshake in town because i taught them all the parent trap hand shake and they loved every second of it.

so here are so pictures of all the kiddies!

although it might look like it, this little girl was loving the camera, and it did love her back

frienship! the fabulous 4

its wierd to think we are both are missing or parents right now.

second host family love!

2009-10-31T18:31:00.000-07:00

so i went to stay with my second family, while my current fam went on a vacay. it was a weekend of fantasy! i mean i lightly mentioned my addiction to cereal, my hunt to find peanut butter and to eat some bacon for breakfast (and here in brazil these guys think that a nude man running down the street would be less wierd as bacon for breakfast). so the next morning after being to treated to a pint of shrimp, i wake up to like 8000 bags on the counter, and my second host dad gilton, whips out 2 heavenly bottles of peanut butter that they found in some hidden market, 8 different kind of peanuts, salty, crunchy, grilled, sugared, cinammoned..etc. then comes my two very own boxes of cereal, and to finish it off, a nice ripe packet of breakfast bacon! i almost peed all over the place with excitment. anyway they took me and alyssa to the lake house, and no, keanu reeves and sandra bullock were not there, just us! it was such a dream, oh and turns out gilton has 3 passions in life, horses, wine and chuckling. which we got to see the best of! oh yeah and my host brother is a real beauty, yes!

morp goodies!

2009-10-21T15:36:00.000-07:00

success! i just found some dance photos from the morp dance that we had in may! the theme was beauty in the geek, so me and conner decided to go as den mothers. so enjoy!

all den mothered up!

nerdy lovers!

17 year old magic!

2009-10-12T15:01:00.000-07:00

alright, so my birthday was on sunday, first birthday in another country, and i got to spend my birthday weekend going to this a beach called sao miguel do gostoso! It was a dream! and thanks to everyone who wished me the goods! Anyway i woke up and all these late 40/ early 50 year olds started singing happy birthday to me in portuguese, and i have to give it to them they managed to hit some really high notes for people who were so hungover, so classic. they were really the greatest. And at night i met up with my host mom who surprised me with my deepest love, this gentle deliciousish brazilian chocolate cake made by a small woman named fatima. It was the best, and the next two days i got spend with the cake i kept sneaking pieces when no one was looking and i think i gained a good two pounds. so here are some birthday pictures i will put pictures of the trip up soon!

ahhhh mama love!

if you look closely you can see those are spark candles. they almost burned out my retna!

the wish is being placed.

hair cutty cut!

2009-10-09T08:32:00.000-07:00

I got my hair cut yesterday! unfortunatly when its all straight it looks like a really sad 7th graders hair but its okay. It is still reddish, why? i have no idea. Anyway enjoy the photo op!

oh ps. as for the flower, well i found at my school and it was so pretty that i decided to carry it around with me all day

its baking time!

2009-10-09T06:57:00.000-07:00

alright, so on my quest to bond with my brazilian homies, i decided to woo them with my cooking skills and backe them a nice batch of sugar cookies. It was just me and my maid at home and unfortunatly she had never heard of the concept of measure goods, so when i asked for a cup of sugar, she gave me a cup, with sugar in it. So ended guessing on everything, hoping they would come out famous. So after i had flour all over the house and all over me, the cookies were done! and man were they a slam dunk, only to me though, my family wasnt really having it, and my host dad brought home a giant chocolate cake that kind of stole my cookies victory. ha! anyway they were delish and i ate 9 of them in one sitting. fatty high five to me (wapow!)

ahh yeah thats it! cookie love!

just doin the mixins

walah!

workin space after 5 minutes of cleaning itdoughy delight!

trivela!

2009-10-04T08:23:00.000-07:00

alright, yesterday was one of the biggest concerts in the northeast region, and this little mama right here got to go! so here is just a little taste of what a brazilian concert is like both for small people, blonde, blue eyed people and foreign people. and trust me everyone knows your foreign, how you wonder? i have no clue? maybe because they take a huge waft of you when you walk by.
anywho onward! so concerts here are kind of a giant opportunity for everyone to get some lip action, with whoever, whereever and at anytime. Just walking around, everywhere you look there is some people making out. and you have to wonder if they have ever met, the likely hood of that is pretty slim. so doubt it. All you have to do is make eye contact and they come over and start workin the magic. As soon as i got in the concert i was informed that people will grab and my hair because i was blonde and blue-eyed. they did. everywhere i went the dudes were brushin my hair with their fingers and grabbing at me to kiss. its a brazilian thing i think. oh thats another thing, if they want to kiss they grab at you, they pull your arms back, grab at your clothes and try to hold your hand and some are pretty dang persistant i had to fling whip my arm out of this one guys kungfu grip. But there was this one 40 year old man who was like five two, who pointed at me from a far and started dancing toward me, so alyssa grabbed me and we started to waltz really fast to fend him off. it didnt work, he wasnt having it, so we started to run, through the crowd, as we look back, there he is trottin behind us with his little martini, we stopped because we thought we lost him. we didnt i looked behind me and his head pops up and hes like "you are zee one i vant". so we kept running. after a wild goose chase we finally lost him fewf! as a whole the night was pretty dang interesting. so as a warning, if you ever want to go to a show in brazil, brace yourself. these people have no problem gettin up close and personal. its classic.

darn you sickness!

2009-10-02T07:35:00.000-07:00

ok so about 3 days ago i was feeling good and healthy, so i decided to share with my host mom, how excited i was for not getting sick, because normally i am completly prone to sickness and i always get sick when i go to different places. Well turns out i jinxed myself, the next day after eating some lunch i started to feel like i was undergoing quimotheropy! i came home at about 11 o clock after a charity thing, and just lost it. i was freezin cold, i couldnt walk and my throat felt like the mount vesuvius volcano! it was horrific, so i popped in some pain killers and was off to bed. unfotunatly the brazilians drugs dont really work the magic, because i thought i was dying. but i ended up sleeping untill 2 the next day and i only left my room to get a piece of toast. and who knew walking to the bathroom that is only 5 feet away could feel like climbing the wall of china. anyway its been 3 day, i havent left the house once and i feel like chopped liver. and to finish it all off the only thing on tv is the baldwin brothers true hollywood story and dr. phil's thoughts on cougars! ahhhh

feelin good feelin fine!

2009-09-24T12:17:00.000-07:00

hello all my favorite north americans! i just thought i would give a quick update of things a happening here in brazil, so its been a month (and some change) and i am feeling super good. i dont know what it is, nothing has changed, still working on friendship whatnots and family bonding but i just feel great all the time, its wiked cool. plus i am having a friendship affair with this kid i met at a party here, who is from here but lives in chicago right now, he is going to M. I. freaking T, and he loves star wars, indiana jones, harry potter and lord of the rings, what a dream right! everyone here makes major fun of me because i like star wars they think i am such a square. its classic. anyway i hope all my ladies had fun at homecoming, as i wishing there i eased the pain with an entire pizza, granite, it was a mini pizza i still inhaled it. i hope everything is famous, i miss each and everyone of you, but i am liking it a lot here and me and my foreign exchange friend alyssa (from connecticut) are planning a costume party for our birthday on october 23. oh yeahhuuh!

here are some update photogs!

my brother just working on his calvin klein future, CAN I GET AN AMEN?

babe magnet

2009-09-18T07:29:00.000-07:00

ok so here i was just walking to school, and the walk is rather lenghthy but i never thought i would come across stuch a stud. I looked up and there was this 7 year old chubby kid with his hair well jelled wearing a white robe and a sash with some killer flip flops carring a roller back back behind him. what a hilarious kid!

foreign exchange masterminds!

2009-09-12T15:50:00.000-07:00

ok so why is it that the wierdest and most impossible things always happen to the white foreign exchange kids that cant speak the language and are left home while their parents go out to test drive a new bar! are you curious, well heres the skinny.
2 says ago after having some nice hang time with my new friend alyssa, it was 10 o clock and i had to go home. Unfortunatly alyssa parents weren't home so they just left alyssa with the gate key to get out. So when we get to the gate we put natually put the key, but the key doesnt fit, so as we are going for round two and trying the other key, we realize that the devil gate isnt going to open. So of course i was like "alyssa dont worry, i am like a limer, ill just jump it" so i started climbing this 9 foot gate and right as i am about to jump over some insanly loud alarm starts to go off like i just ropped a bank. i quickly jumped back and we made a run for it. after the cops calling and a brawl with a neighbor to get another key i finally got out. long story long, when you want to climb an impossible to climb secured gate, think again!

if you are lost it is only for a little while.

2009-09-12T15:30:00.000-07:00

i guess it i am at the blogging point where i rant and share my thoughts on myself and my cituation. onward!
well i am here, its wierd to think i live in brazil right now, for the first time in my life i dont belong to anyone, i am all by myself. i guess i saw things going differently. its really scary to wonder if i will be any different at the end of this thing, if i will even change, or just stay the same with a quick brazilian intrelude in my life. i feel like i might not know exactly what i am looking for right know and if i did i dont if i would want to know , with my new ugly mindset. i don't know i am just very unsure of things right now, and i guess i have to find brazil before i find myself.
i don't want to go home, but i just want to find a new one here, but i am still not quite sure i know how.
i miss my parents a lot, i guess i never realized how much light they have shed on me, and as much as i miss that light i am hoping that i will be able to make it all by myself.
its so crazy to think that there is a whole new set of people to influence and be influenced by here, and i can't wait to take part of all it!

happy birrffffdayyy alecccciaaaa!

2009-09-04T14:03:00.000-07:00

happy 18th little tiny prancer, and now that you are 18 you do realize that that means, no more scene it junior, no kids menus but a fabulous handful of sophistication and no more sissying around, you slamin adult, and now your and alice cooper can hang because "your an adult now"!

rotary trip to maragogi!

2009-08-31T11:36:00.000-07:00

i have just returned from the 3 day trip i took with all the foreign exchange kids in the north east of brazil. so heres the skinny.

day one

we started out getting on the bus for our 10 hour drive to maragogi beach, i met this kid that just got here and will be going to my school here, his name was david and he was and Austrian dude, unfortunatly he didnt speak portuguese and his english consisted of him always sayin. "oh thas goot, oh thas no goot." i also made friends with 3 canadians and got lots of canadian swag. everytime i talked to them i tryed to get them to say aboot, and sorry, so my first question to all of them was "so whats canada about" and then they would say "well its about...." or i would poke them, and then say sorry so they would be like "oh why are you sourry" but turns out my plan was foiled because they never responded like i hoped 2 of them just thought i was a nervous perv. when we got there i was roomed with completly silent roomates, one girl from germany, canada and finland. except the girl form finland dropped the "f" bomb every 15 seconds. But not to worry she gave me finish chocolate to compensate, which was a beautiful combonation of fluffy joy and joyness. then i got thrown in the beach with my clothes on by the Austrian kid which them spawned a plot for silent revenge. can anyone say "make up when he is sleeping" hah hah! later that night we went for dip in the ocean which i was freaked about, because of the high possibility of coming across andicondas!

canadian and austrian bro shot

turns out in austria their rotary jackets are acutally pimp jackets with a satin interior, all he really needed was a cane to complete the ansamble.

day 2

we woke up went to the beach for some swimmin time then napped for an hour. we then went to a 2 hour meeting where we learned the rules, but im thinkin the craziest exchanger will be the girl from taiwan because she couldnt speak enlglish or portguese. later we were put into teams for some activities, and they made me head captain because i came up with the group name "grfyndor," so everytime we won we could yell 10 points to grfyindor. we then played limbo and i brought the honor to the team due to all my bend. But to end on good terms we left our feelings on the dance floor and danced the night away.

so we prtended to take a picture of alyssa so that we could take a picture of this hilarious man.

i proposed a wrestling match and ended up keeping my championship right where i wanted. i am still undefeated. cant you just smell the victory.
foreign exchange homies

lightning bolt of the gods!

day 3

breakfast NOT in america
this little guy was just hangin havin some banana while we were eating, he had friends but they werent really people monkeys

we packed our stuff up and head home, on the way the mexican kid was sad he hadnt succeeded in getting his groove on so he ended up finding redemption by trying to make a baby with my friends hand. yeah freaky deeky dutch. then the austrian kid and the mexican girl started a love connection with eachother. who knew we were ridding on the freakin love bus!

there is a crazy person on the loose.

2009-08-26T14:08:00.001-07:00

ok so i would like to inform everyone who is reading this, that there is someone who is impersonating me on myspace pretending to be me and adding all my friends, but heres the thing i dont have a myspace. Im pretty sure i know who it is but there is nothing i can do about it. this really blows though becuase i deleted my myspace 2years ago, switched schools and now i am in brazil and people are still pulling this tom foolery on me. i mean really come on! its not cool, please stop and just leave me alone i mean seriously i am not even in the united states anymore and you are still going after me. darn you!

a moment on the lips a lifetime on the hips

2009-08-26T14:04:00.000-07:00

ok so here i have a maid who cooks and cleans all day meaning i really don't have to do alot in the moving department, and let me just testify that this brasil food, although truley delicious is making me fat, im pretty sure i will be a bonified heffer when i return because i can not stop eating, and its not just your basic meals, its cakes and pies and wierd milky fruity things. to say it simple i have really let myself go. but at least i can communicate through the language of food!

darn you indie/bicurious kids!

2009-08-26T12:37:00.001-07:00

time for another party, so last saturday was my friend ritas going away party for the united states. I was super stoked thinking it was going to be an innocent dancy brazilian party. oh man was i wrong, as soon i got there i realized it was an indie/emo/bisexual party/drinking party. Crap! anyway i kept my cool and started to dance some of the awkwardness away, but then the new foreign exchange kid from mexico who had just arrived the night before showed up. he couldnt even speak portuguese and as soon as he got in the party he started getting his game on with like 5 girls, and to sum it up im pretty sure he loves brasil now. anyway everyone started to get way drunk and then kissy kissying all over the place, so i quickly made a run for the bathroom to escape the craze! while standing in the bathroom i had this strange urge to put on my chapstick before getting to the buisness about 2 seconds later this girl busts open the door, and due to my russian yack reflexs i leaped behind the door, and she just let loose, she hurled everywhere including on me. i sprang for the door and ran out yelling. anyway the party was a bit nutts, but on the brightside, the only way to be truley indie here is if you speak english. uh yeah bonus!

ok this si the mexican kid showin off his goods

yeah just look where he is looking, ah priceless ah that is the sweet smell of success

so to avoid another hurl on the face me and the bro went outside for a simple photoshoot!

first day of school! reppin

2009-08-26T12:23:00.000-07:00

ok so monday of last week was my first day of school, and school here only goes from 7 to 12, which is good but it certainly doesn't seem shorter. anyway i only feel asleep once, but unfortunatly i couldnt understand anything so i just studied up on my portguese slang. the wierd thing though, was i thought people would be a little excited for a new kid, they were not. Note to self making friends in a foreign counrty is almost as impossible as it is in the United states. duh! i should have known that. people here just look at me when i am trying to talk and then laugh when i mid sentence, "hello i am foreign not brain dead!" anywho i found some sweet skate or die buddies, who put my board together, and it is fun to talk scars and falling with them. but its all cool because i still got 3 more months to get my groove on. so look out!

daniel and natalias goodbye partea!

2009-08-25T13:55:00.000-07:00

my first saturday here, and i was invited to a going away party for my brother daniel, who is headin to europe and natalia, is lifetime friend who is also going to europe. the party was a hoot and a half, and in this sleek zillion dollar house/hangout place.

to start i was individually introduced to everyone of his friends, a little awkward, but fun. then as i wondered around i came across this girl who i met 2 days back, named rita. she introduced me to her friend and the rest was chemstry, of friendship i mean, we giggled and wondered around for a bit talking about music. But onward, the next stage of the night was dancing, and yes i did shake what my mother gave me. and quite well if i may say so myself. as the night carried all the kids were getting completely sauced.(with all the alcohol bought by the parents) and this one girl kept telling me she loved my in english, she passed out abouta n hour later. then i met a genius kid who is going to M.I.T. that was educating, but while i was talking to the child prodigy this other kid came over that was really drunk but started talking to me in austrailian english. it was priceless. he was so interesting, the whole night he was talking about all the serious and gnitty gritty buisness of life, and death and everything else. it was actually one of the best conversations i have had, even if he wouldnt even remeber it the next day, anyway the wierd part was he was tall, had black curly hair and a nice snouze, like and old friend of mine, freaky deaky friday! and who knew that a common effect of drinking is brazil is talking in english, total bonus for me! any the part was sweet, and the whole time my brother was giving all the boys that talked to me the, "hey thats my sister face" it was hilarious.

this is rita and i hanging, not to worry i was the only one not drinkin at the party, that is a camera case in my hand.classic brazillian grubthe kid on the left was the really cool guy i was talkin with all night hector, and the other one is my brother, hector took the gold in this situation. metaphorically of course

trip to asul

2009-08-24T17:21:00.000-07:00

so my family went on a 3 day trip to asul the first week i got here, a town where almost everyone lives in poverty. So our job was to help them out. it was sweet. my parents were doctors so they did all the dirty work and i worked with the kids and in the dental section, teaching the kids how to man a toothbrush and toothpaste. the people were the coolest, and they had this clown guy for the kitties, who although very sweaty and a bit hairy was a way funny guy. unfortunatly my portugese was terrible so commmunicated through smiles, there was this one lady who had heard about me, so when she met me, she gave me the sweetest embrace of my life, then through out three days just kept saying "aih marina que bonita" and then kissing me. she was the greatest. anyway here are some photos.

here are some photos of the goods in Asul that i snapped.

ok so as we were walking to find a place to eat, there was this little guy with a white sheet on with this kick butt look on his face, in the simplest terms brasilian superman to be.

my hood!

2009-08-18T18:14:00.000-07:00

ok once again i apologize for the blog delay, i have pretty limited internet access and time to use, it because its bonding time with the family, not with the computer. anyway here is a look at my housa. it is a loft and a total dream. and the beach that we live by in particular is a surf beach, bonus! surfer dudes for life!

this is my room!

the view from my room, yes that ocean is real, not a life size poster

this the living room, with a lone hamock. it is so beautiful

the view from the living room window. we are on the 3rd floor, you can almost taste the salty surfy water.

ah brasil is attacking me! and i think i like it!

2009-08-18T17:52:00.000-07:00

ok i finally have internet access and i am ready to blog. i have been so busy and have not had anytime to do anything so there is quite a bit to catch up on. But to start i just want to say to my family which includes my best friend alecia, that you guys are the greatest and i am missin you like crazy, its way wierd seeing things change everytime i wake up, and its tough to not be able to share with my besties. so stay sweet!
and just a quick alecia intrulude, i would like to publically confess my love to my best friend. she really does complete me! there is not a person on this planet that is like her, and i am just glad that she shred some of her magnificent light of greatness on me. i love you dude, and for old times sake, you know why!

ok onward. just a little bit about brazil, things are nutts here, the driving is fun if you are into that, not knowing if you are going to live or die feeling. And the music on the radio is prieceless, they play 3 american songs, over and over again and that is beyonce, and fergie. and whenever it is the song "big girls dont cry" there is this faint black man sexy voice in the background saying the song in portuguese. As for the brazilian wear, it is flip flops and yes i was forced to buy some. i supposed i must also mention the party scence, here, let me just give a quick example, we go to have some innocent hamburgers, you know me and the other teenagers and my brother orders a half keg of beer, and its cool, everyone drinks, no matter the age, and the parents buy it for them as well. but not worry i am the american square here. but now for some family business. so i got here and my family is way sweet. My parents are doctors and both way cool. My 17 year old brother is always defending my honor, and my 11 year old brother jose, is a soap opera die hard, he loves it, he is so sweet. he will be such a dreamboat when he is older. and my little bro tito, who is 9 can't speak but he speaks through the language of friendship. all you have to do is hold his hand and he is happy, basically the most precious human alive. anyway thats just a breif summary of what i get to take part in everyday.

i am finally here.

2009-08-09T18:59:00.000-07:00

ok so i have been traveling for 2 days and i am finally here in Brazil. its nuts. and like always i got sick. after the longest flight, which was 10 hours. we hit the ground and as soon as the airplane came to a complete stop i hurled like 5 times. then after having to fill out my flue packet, due to the brazilians superstition that everybody is going to die from swine flu, i stood there threwing up in line for customs. everyone was freaked. the look on their faces was priceless. then after i got my luggage i sat there and had my last super violent barf sesh. but on a lighter note, i did feel like i had a six pack a brewin. oh and there was this wierdy glamourous man that looked like a huge human stake asking all the girls if they wanted candy. it kind of made me feel better to know i was not the only one having issues at that moment. anywho my family does not speak english so it is really hard to communicate but i am getting there. give me 3 months and i will be workin for the brazilian gov. but on the bright side the house is a dream, my room has this giant window overlooking the beach and i get to kick back to a wave soundtrack 24 sev. anyway. thats all for now. later!

uh wierd

2009-07-31T20:56:00.001-07:00

hey sky, look who it is.
so i found this on my grandmas night stand. look familiar?
think again. its my grandma's dad.
freaky deaky friday, am i right?

wingardian levio..harry potter!

2009-07-27T22:15:00.000-07:00

Ok so here is the snitch on harry potter the 6th.
so alecia, micah, conner and I all bought tickets to the midnight showing what a rush right?
so first i got dressed up as a blonde version of harry potter, and then convinced alecia to do the same by saying my classic catch phrase "oh but you only live once" works everytime! so then we all went to stand in line for 6 hours, it was so good. we played cards for an unruly amount of time. and i suprisingly won almost everytime. "ahem" yes congradulations to me. then we posed as all of the characters. as you can see in the picture below i was pulling a hermoine. And i just have to say if there is one word to describe professor snape and dumbledore, it would be glam. they look ready for vogue twenty four sev.

alecia being alecia!

we had coke to heal the excitment.

i will just say the movie was a masterpiece, very different form the others but very good. i wept a little. but it was only right. oh and my new celebrity crush is the black guy, dean. what a stud. oh and drako, that is my kind of evil.

dag nabit!

2009-07-22T20:37:00.000-07:00

yeah, so being a red head is a lie, its not as fun as leprokons make it seem, and maybe thats why its so hard for them to find rainbows, because they are always depressed becuase of their flaminyon red hair.

ok so i went to go get my hair done today, and all i wanted is for them to change my hair to my natural color which was like a shade darker, but they the hair guy was not so keen on that, he was like "oh no way, you dont want that, people come here to dye there hair away from that color" and i was like "well i would just really like to go to my natural color" i dont know if he was trying to pull a sick trick on me, but i now have red hair, yes repeat red hair, its looks like a copper-y, brownie, redd-y swimming pool. lucky for me i am fleeing the country, but it is kind of a blow to the health because my hair is falling out now. darn them!

2009-07-19T21:37:00.000-07:00

boardin!

please please please sister socretes

2009-07-12T22:41:00.001-07:00

It's just my mom and I right now, the others are all in lake powell. I miss them! especially my spanish galleon partner/sister, but not her farts, nope, i don't miss those but her yes. its is so lonley without them. (sample of brazil i suppose)
on the brighside i took my hedghog on a walk. but she kept thinking rash, she darted for every sewage drain in sight, it was hard to keep her safe.
just a reminder, if anyone is looking for a good time, new harry potter movie wednesday. be there!

droppin tail

2009-07-07T22:21:00.000-07:00

so this is our new ride, it is such a dream, but unfortunatly my parents want to sell it. So if you are interested check out craigslist, or ksl. It has even rekindeled a new friendship with our mail man, he was just full of highschool glory day stories about his old bug.

she's a real beauty

this could be you!

silver twinkie

2009-06-29T22:17:00.000-07:00

alright so this is our newest edition to the family, the airstream silver bullet, it is such a dream, but it hasn't been used for 15 years so unofrtunatly this old mair ain't what she used to be, but don't worry because a little bit of work and we will havie this baby purrin like a house cat.

that would be the bathtub

mantel place photo!

we tryed to take a classic picture in the mirror photo, except this mirror was plastic.

just checkin out the sleeping arrangments.

remnants of its past 15 years ago owner. barf.

friendship

2009-06-23T21:18:00.001-07:00

so the plan was to look like Colombian drug lords. misson accomplished. mental five (wapow!).

she is the C-3 P.O to my R2 D2

i accidentally whipped out a pedophile face.

just clearing my memory, on my calculator of course

lakey powelly

2009-06-23T20:39:00.000-07:00

here are some photos we took on our 3 day camping trip to lake powell, it was the best, i even got a skin beard from a wiked sunburn on my chin. awesome! oh and this trip we brough Nacho along, and it turns out he is not only a latino dog he is also a mermaid and can pull out the meanest belly flop known to man.

after we got done hangin, all of us went to climb this impossible to climb rock, and then sean pooped on it.

we were playing this net game and for some reason ally manned the whole game with one lone flip flop.

playing in the dirt.

day 2 we visited some nice indian ruins.

FIRE IN THE HOLE!by the end of the day my dad ripped a ripe one in our tent, and almost killed everyone, he said he was trying to keep it in the sleeping bag but it simmered for like 10 minutes.

smores!

taste my adventure fury!

2009-06-16T10:27:00.000-07:00

ok. so just a pre warning for this night, if you do poop your pants with adventure, it's totally understandable.

alright so we kicked off the night by going to conners hockey game, which was and adventure and a half, especially the part where i took pictures of everybodys bums, and when conners mom asked if i would take pictures of a kid on the other team (due to family relation) and although i felt like i was fratnizing with the enemy, i still did it.

singing showtunes before the game!

so after the game i met this little girl hurdling this giant sparkly rubber ball at her much smaller brother, we got to talking and then i was like "dang that ball looks heavy" and she was like "oh, yeah, threw it at my brother once, it wasnt pretty." long story long you don't want to come face to face with her in a forest of giant sparkly rubber balls, unless you want to end up dead.

hmmm, thats wierd, that kind of looks like a U.F.O. well THATS BECAUSE IT IS!!!!

we were just innocently driving down the road when i caught this quick looky at these wiked shiny panels and some sort of foreign machinery parts, so i whipped my head around and there is was, the mother ship. after going in to cardiac arrest we finally stopped and checked out the scene. OHHH YEEAAUUUHHH

Conner and I just coming in peace of course

yep thats living proof, in the sticker.

and to rap up the night we passed a super sweaty wet T-shirt contest and a really old man shreddin on a scooter. oh yeauh.

sun buckets

2009-06-16T10:06:00.000-07:00

Here are just some photos of when the sun came out of hiding

staring contest. i'm pretty sure i had that one in the bag.

Cori and Cerene fashion show, Fortunatly Alecia and I treated it like a football game, we were throwin out Woopdewoos all over the place, they didnt like that there.

oh look, theres Dan being a woman

my new brazilian homeland to be

2009-06-14T19:33:00.000-07:00

brother jose!

the view from the apartment, notice the surf squad towards the right absoultley "righteous"

my family, or in other words, a bunch of baberham lincolns.

oh but minus the oldest kid, he is going on foreign exchange as well.

2009-05-24T19:41:00.000-07:00

Conners suprise prom attack! almost caused a quick pee in the pants.

scouring the globe together

who's the gentle giant now?

i was about to karate chop the innocent little kids body

san francisco!

tipanogos cave!

here are some backround information/ photos, for all those i have not seen in a while

2009-05-24T19:33:00.001-07:00

hey guys! so i made this blog mainly to let everyone know what kind of knitty grittys im up to in Brazil, but i wanted to get a headstart on it now, so i can become a wiz blogger while i am on foreign exchange in Brazil. enjoy!