Ola!
Look! I have a blog! I actually made it ages ago, back when I was like yay, brazil, must do all the things. Now I'm more like aaaaaaah, brazil, must do all the things, can't, eek, help, die. So that is where this blog begins. The plan is to blog at least twice a month (this is the deal made with my sisters, so must of course be stuck to like glue). It is yet to be seen whether than actually happens. My understanding is that such resolutions have an approximately zero percent success rate, but I'm an optimist at heart :) I don't quite know what the appropriate tone for one of these things is- beautifully edited poetry? whatever runs through my head, complete with nonexistent grammar? I'm leaning towards the second. I can do that.
On to the purpose of this blog... For those who don't know (people are actually reading this? who am i kidding?), in exactly eight weeks minus a few hours I'm hopping on a plane, and heading to Brazil for a year on an AFS exchange. I will be living with a Brazilian family, and going to school, and hopefully learning to speak Portuguese (if I don't i will die, so lets say yes definitely learning to speak Portuguese). So pretty much the biggest adventure of my life so far. It is taking quite a bit of effort at the moment to remind myself that this is an adventure, and it is something I want to be doing, and it will be good; in the face of the dawning realisation of just how huge this is. A year. In which I will see no one who I have ever met before in my life. In a language that I couldn't talk with a five year old in. Living with strangers. It's huger than huge. I'm currently feeling all the emotions that you can possibly think of about the whole thing. Which gets messy. But it's all good.
Yeah, that's about me for now. I will be back when exciting things like host families happen.
Tchau!
I think you should do beautifully edited poetry. In Portuguese.
ReplyDeleteIf that's too hard I guess I'll accept English ramblings (ok, I like English, I speak that one. We encourage English blogging, whether poetry or not).
You are going to be really awesome at this. I know it's scary, but you are good at meeting people, and you have a family who have chosen (for whatever reason) to have an exchange student, so they presumably will want to get to know you and be friendly and helpful, and you'll have other exchange students and people at school to meet. It's huge, but it'll be an awesome year.
So far my Portuguese poetry looks like this:
DeleteA menina esta correndo.
A menina tem uma bola
A bola e verde (pretend the e has an accent thingy)
You like?
And you will get letters by the bucketload!
ReplyDeleteI will keep a special bucket just for the purpose :)
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