A new normal

It's been a week now, and I'm beginning to create something resembling normality. I still miss New Zealand an awful lot, but it doesn't hurt anymore. It feels odd to have a new routine, so different from my old one, in only a week. In the mornings I have no school, so my mornings tend to be fairly lazy. I get up whenever I happen to wake up, I read, I sit on the computer for far longer than I should, some days I go into town with my host mum, or something like that. I was supposed to have a Portuguese lesson today, but that got postponed til tomorrow, so now I have yet more time to kill. Then I have lunch, whihc is almost always rice, and usually some kind of meat/bean thing. The food is all really good, though I miss New Zealand dairy.All the milk here is UHT treated, and it's not as good. After lunch I go to school, which is the highlight of my day. The classes themselves are less than scintillating, but people are so lovely, and at least sometimes the language barrier gets to be hilarious, rather than just frustrating. I haven't yet worked out how the timetable works- there are bells that go at random times, but we seem to ignore 90% of them, and we just sit in one classroom while the teachers change, so I son't have to know what class I have next. So far my favourite classes have been art, because I understood it, and sociology, because I'm looking forward to being able to understand it. Maths was really frustrating- the work ought to have been way to easy, but I got things wrong anyway, because I translated the question wrong. That's one subject that I'm not looking forward to when my language improves. It's weird, but I miss doing calculus.

This is my school uniform. Except it's not actually a uniform, in that not everyone wears it, and it's not always the same. As far as i can tell the uniform consists of anything that is navy and white with the logo on, and you wear it when you happen to feel like. Rather different from East...

Yep, that's about me for now. I don't really know what people are interested in, so ask me questions and I will blog about them :)

Love you all
Sophie