Alive
Saturday, November 8th, 2008For these three months I haven’t updated this blog, a lot of things changed. I won’t talk about all of them because I don’t remember everything, and what I remember, it’s annoying to talk about all over again, because every time I write about something I remember of this and that and the shape of my post is gonna be all weird and I’ll feel bad.That said, today I went to the house of Paul Lemieux, an American boy which is 17 years old. He studies in Fairview High School, a badass school close to my host parents’ house for the South of the city - even though it doesn’t have windows at all, it’s a pretty cool school. - and he is very smart. Nancy - my host mother - and some other members of the RC’s committee interviewed him for a long time and since he wants to go to wonderful Brazil I was there talking about the country, what’s different, what’s the same and what he has to expect. He already has a very good Portuguese and so does his mother - even though she is very humble about it. - and they have relatives in São Paulo. So it was a pretty interesting day.
Right now I have a cold that is getting better, but what has been annoying me a lot is something on my ear that makes it hurt a little bit and won’t come out even with some bamf medicine. I tried “Swimmers’ Ears” for it and it’s still obstructed. I hope it’s because of the cold, and I’d say it feels a little bit better now that I’m almost okay.
Changing the subject, I miss Brazil a lot. Americans are a lot colder people and sometimes I feel like there is no one I can really talk to about what I miss, because no one seems to understand. That leads to feeling alone and that leads to missing Brazil. In other words, a chain reaction that looks endless. It’s getting better, though. I have been working on Panther TV, a program we broadcast on the school every week and the friends I got because of it are amazing. I love all of them and I hope I can hang out with them for the whole year. They are really nice.
Weather couldn’t be better. It’s a midterm between warm and very cold, it varies and it’s unpredictable. I haven’t yet seen real snow but I’m looking forward this week - Monday looks like the right day. Aside from that nothing more to complain about when it comes to weather.
The Unites States as an experience has been so unique I can’t really describe. I have bought a lot of stuff - and then I became a poor student that couldn’t even buy his own lunch hahaha - and that made me feel more independent. A lot of other small things make me feel the same. I can now hang out with my friends on a car and they can drive and they’re sixteen, and that feels good. I can do my laundry, I have my own computer, I keep my room tidy and not someone else. Even though in some of these things I’d rather have someone doing them for me, they come with this feeling I’ve come to a point where I own my life at every aspect and I should do something better about it. And that’s why, since I got here, my dedication to studies have gotten better. You shouldn’t think I’ve became a genius, though. Studying isn’t and won’t ever be my main priority. I have just realized how important it is. I noticed how close I am to going to college and how that matters in my future. And how much fun I will have when I get there. :) All the people I met during these three months are mostly amazing. Some people are a discomfort but I won’t talk about them because they are not the ones that make me happy. I should think and talk about the good people, like my Rotary Club that is amazing, the other exchange students from this district and from the one up in Wyoming, my friends in school and everyone else. Americans are great, kind people on the most and that’s what they should keep being.I love Rotary Youth Exchange so far, and I don’t see any indications that this is going to change. In my next posts, and I’m sorry if they are too far from each other, are more going to talk about my days instead of my judgment on the exchange. This one is only bigger because I wanted to give a broader view of how I’m feeling.
I’m sorry for my bad English (This one had to be here hahahah)
