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.

the orphange

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!

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!

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!

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.