Week 11

This is my first post of being 17. It feels slightly odd, I suppose. The fact that I am one year closer to legally being an adult is crazy. The fact that I spent my 17^th birthday in another country and didn’t get to go to a restaurant of my choice is also crazy. On Monday, a few friends and some family members came over for cake. My second host mom who lives near my house now, came with my soon to be new 3 year old sister. It was pretty fun, my friends and I sat around the table and talked for like 3 hours before eating cake. One of my friends who can speak English got me the best card ever. No, he wrote me the best message in the card. It said, “I couldn’t find you a card with Lil’ Wayne, so I got you one with Snoopy Dog instead…” and then some other stuff, but it was so cute. I’m glad when looking at my ipod, one can tell who has my heart; Weezy F. Baby. :) While my “party” was going on, Anais was on skype with the family. She wanted to be there to sing happy birthday. I love my sister, she’s honestly the best. On Tuesday, my actual birthday, PJ happened to catch me on the computer right at midnight so I skyped with her for the first time since I have been here. We had another churrasco because it was Children’s Day. My other aunt, uncle, and their kids came over along with my grandparents. Once again, a lot of ping pong was played, and even some soccer. Mae decided she’d do my hair for me. It probably took a  good 3 hours because she washed it, I guess texturized?, (I don’t really know, the words she used aren’t in my Portuguese vocabulary yet,) then straightened it. It looked surprisingly good since we all know my hair doesn’t straighten well. On Wednesday I had to go back to school after a 5 day break. It wasn’t even dreadful. OBVIOUSLY I am not in the United States. Haha. On Thursday, I ran some errands with mae. She was telling me what she knew about my second host family and they seem really nice. I am friends with my 19 year old sister on orkut, which is like google’s version of facebook, and we talked. She is only home on the weekends since she goes to school in another city, but she definitely seems cool.

On Saturday, I went to dinner with the family. I had my first Brazilian hamburger. It was really thin, but tasted fine. It didn’t have the exact same taste as ours, but it wasn’t bad. After, we rented a few movies and I watched “The Proposal” with my parents when we got home. I have to say I can’t believe I went this long without seeing it, it is such a good movie! This week seemed to go slower than usual, even with the 2 days off school because I had no basketball at all. Oh well, I’ve got it tomorrow! :)