Well, see ya!

I'm going to Pantanal for 10 days..

Miss me! :)

Go now.

No but really..

I haven't done much bloggggage for a while.. so maybe I should catch up now... maybe.. I'll start off.. where.. oh my! mmm, lets say last.. Friday? I think. Wait, it was Thursday. Alicia came over and we went to Shutzenfest with Emma, Annika, Bia and my host rents. We danced to German music, ate potato, Alicia lost her phone, Annika and I dressed like Bavarian Germans - though she is already German.. watched some fire works... mm, it was pretty alright :)

Then on Friday we went to a fantasy dress up party at london pub...

That's me, Alicia, Indianara, Emma and Naija.

When we got there we met up with Philipp, Dominik, Apenti, Honda annnnd probably a whole lot of other people.. It was fun! The funniest part was on the way home though probably.. hahaha, there was all these people in costumes walking around the streets are like 4am.. then we went past a group of nuns... guy nuns.. SO FUNNY! -start laughing.. maybe you had to be there..

Saturday.. hmm.. I have no idea what happened during the day.. but. OH WAIT! I don't know if this was Saturday or Friday... hmm I think it was Friday, anyway, all the exchangers from Jaragua went to a meeting at Philipp's house about how we felt about exchange and I dunno, it was so weird and frustrating.. doesn't matter.. EVENTUALLY got Alicia to the bus stop... ha. I rode to Emma's house to get Alicia's bags that we'd left there from the night before...

Saturday night we threw Naija a surprise party for her birthday that was on Sunday (10.10.10 = coolest birthday ever!) so once again all the exchangers were together (except Annika cause she went to SAO PAULO!!!)

Dominik, Emma, Phillip, Hannes, Me, Naija and Honda :):):)

Laterrrr, we went back to Shutzenfest, Naija and Honda didn't go though..

We found a giant beer..

annnd went home after 40 minutes.. :/

Sunday.... hrmmmm... oh, my host parents had gone to Laguna so Bia and I were staying with her Auntie.. she has THE most beautiful apartment you've ever seen.. WOW! And windows that open and close with a button?!!

Called up Emma and took her to a place we found....

:D:D

That's the best view I've found of my city without going up that giant mountain... here's a photo...

hmmmm, have some more photos!!

yey city!

Bia and I sat up there for ages..

Monday.. hmm.. didn't have school because it was a holiday.. sooo, Bia and I went back home from her Aunties to clean everything up, but when we got home the mess was all gone! Crazy! Thennn, Tiago (Bia's boyfriend) and Everton came over for a while.. chilled then at night Emma and I went to Jump.. wearing sneakers and headbands.. THAT'S RIGHT!

you can't see our shoes here.. but whatever.. it was so funny, this guy came up to us and asked in english "where are you girls from?" and we obviously said America and Australia, and they guy was like "I knew it!" so we asked how blah blah blah.. turns out he lives in Sydney, but was just in Brasil to visit his family for a few weeks.. weird! Then ANOTHER guy, comes up and he's like "You two look foreign." Hahaha, I'm so glad we dressed the way we did. Foreigners rock! :D

Tuesday... No school again because of the "Dia Das Criancas" - Day of the kids... or something. WHY DOESN'T AUSTRALIA HAVE THAT?!

Wednesday.. Thursday.. mmm.. school I guess, I doubt I did anything interesting :/

Friday was cool though! We went to a school in a different part of Jaragua, a public school! And played games with kids for a few hours.. Photos coming soon, I guess. Emma and I did jump rope.. ha!

So we were pretty worn out.. wanting to go during the night.. Emma's 18th was the next day so she REALLY wanted to go out but we couldn't decide... (well we could but we didn't tell her that;)) TURNS OUT, we were throwing her a surprise party :D heh! We skyped her family too, saw a whole heap of American food, and her dog :P then got distracted for atleast an hour I reckon, taking photos on her computer haha.

They were all pretty terrible.. because we were making faces.. but here's a good one :) just Honda isn't in it D:

So we stayed up until it was 12:05 - truuuely 18! and then scattered! Off the Blumenau for the weekend on Saturday morning.. 9:30.. so we arrive, I FINALLY meet all the new exchangers and thennn wait for our host families to pick us up.. I was with Alicia and Gabi.. in Alicia's next host families house - if that makes sense.. we had lunch at the Blumenau "club" where we plan to go in Summer because they have this really nice pool and tennis courts and things :) Then we met up with the exchangers again.. got given ridiculous bandanas, took a photo...

walked around the city for a while, looking at all the festive people that weren't at the festival... saw a band playing in the middle of the street.. that played Happy Birthday for Emma, went to a beer museum, a playground... annnd back to our host families houses to have a rest, get something to eat and then go to OKTOBERFEST!!!! I'd say it was fairly awesome, but just annoying because we had to go back to Rotary every hour to make sure we were alive.. and it took so long to get to them because they were in the middle of this giant room crammed with people.. Naija, Annika and I (and a few other exchangers) went on THIS ride..

which was actually fairly boring.. but we made it as fun as we could.. by screaming as loud as possible, then I did the "spit on the crowd" thing.. but it happened to go where no one was standing.. near the back of the ride.. fail.. but then Naija did it and OH. MY. GOD! funniest part of the night! It flew back up and stuck to her face.. aHahahahaah, over her cheek and eye and just above her eyebrow.. and the best part? She couldn't get it off because the ride restricts your arms from moving much... HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! oh man. IT WAS HILARIOUS!

So, anyway.. walking around later.. I find my friend Andre, which was super exciting! - Actually he found me.. - he ran up and grabbed my shoulders and was like "LUCI, LUCI, LUCI!!!" and yeah.. it was awesome fun haha :D

We both look terrible.. but whatever... I'll get more photos off someone sooon!

Here's one from outside the gate.. though can't see much - at all.

Behind that building are two other bigger ones, and then there's all the stuff on the right side that you can't see either.. hmm.. just wait for other photos I suppose...

Sunday we went to the parade at 9:30, which went for SO LONG! And it was aiight.. but yeah.. we were so tired.. so it was.. yeah.. After that we went home, had some lunch, sat outside for a while, went and bought a few tshirts and souvenirs... annnd then caught the bus back home.. annnd SLEPT!!!! woo! That was my week!

longblog.

this is it

DEAR DIARY, BRAZIL IS SOOOO MUCH FUN, I WENT TO OCTOBERFEST.

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Meet the Germans..

Want to see my city?

woooaaaaaahhhhhh!

My life is average.

walked into the shopping centre, and BAM! There's a huge robot dancing to music... completely normal.. :| I didn't have my camera but here's a video of the same thing in Blumenau....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se0EmnnfcKQ

and here's another..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yEJroV98cA

FINALLLLY

bought a Brasilian flag today :)

shh, it's hard to take webcam pictures without a timer >.>

This guy is my hero.

I'm afraid sometimes you'll play lonely games too, games you can't win because you'll play against you.

Do it.

Last night was awesome :)

Put me in the best mood. We (Philipp, Annika, Suki, Apenti, Honda, Naija and I) all went to Emma's house after our portuguese class and cooked or bought food from our countries. Two people didn't but that was okay! First we had hamburgers from America, then mashed potato from Germany, then soup and pasta from Taiwan, then pancakes from Germany then Tim Tams from Australia! OH MY GOD! I think I put on like 10 kilos last night. There were no left overs..

<3 my newbies
and our crazy mutual love for normal milk..

Today..

I saw a car back into a pole... hah. A really big pole too. With a massive sign on it....

Also, you should watch this.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1935205