Other things...

This afternoon some friends and I are leaving for Morro de Sao Paolo for the weekend... so excited, it should be way legit! It's an island a couple of hours away and is supposedly one of the prettiest beaches in Brazil. There are 8 of us going - me, Jennifer, Lindsey, and Sarah (the three A&M girls - they're all in Kappa together there - they're fun and I spend a lot of time with them), and then Esther, who is from Greece and now lives in London and is sooo funny and is so much fun to hang out with; Renee, who is very smart but also very funny and down for a good laugh; Krista, who is a nurse and is ALWAYS smiling and is very bubbly; and Andreas, who is from Denmark and is a bit more quiet (at least once you get to know him) but will all of a sudden make a really funny joke that has you laughing. He also was the one who on the first day, said, "who is ready to party!!!" haha. (My kind of guy!) He works for Deloitte and is taking an 8 month leave to travel South America, which is awesome. He also works at the orphanage here for placement, and the other day the kids there painted his nails sparkly pink and he was showing them off to us and laughing. Anyways, all four of them - Esther, Renee, Krista, and Andreas - are a bit older, prob mid to late twenties or so. It's fun having that age difference, because they still love to have fun but it makes the group dynamic different than it would be if we were all college kids.

I'm way excited! I don't know if I'll have time to finish updating for this week, though, so I guess there'll be a really long post coming Sunday night (hopefully with crazy slash funny stories!) Everything is going great, though, I loveeee my placement and am excited because I really think this is going to be an opportunity where I can make a big difference. Other things... just random things about Brazil: a) I haven't yet taken a warm shower since coming here, b) I have many mosquitos bites on my body right now... ahh...., c) we have no air conditioning in the house, d) it's usually high of 87 degrees here, without humidity, which makes it feel prob 5-10 degrees worse. you can check out weather.com yourself for more specific details, e) i sweat so much everyday. just sitting on my bed last night at 8 pm, writing my blog entry - sweat was trickling down my leg, f) i have yet to wear makeup here! which is a nice change. well actually we put on mascara on tuesday night when we went down to the historic area, pelourinho, to listen to music. so i guess once. and we may this weekend at night for the party on the beach lol. but it's still a very nice change.

so we're going to morro de sao paolo, a small island with four beaches. there are also no taxis on the island, or something crazy like that! the first two beaches are more outgoing - especially beach #2 (they're all in a row and are labeled) which is the PARTY beach. there are luaus going on there every night, all night! then beach 3 is good for snorkeling, and beach 4 is supposedly the prettiest. beach 1 is good for surfing and has a lot of restaurants, apparently. I have to go to breakfast now, but you can google the island and there are a lot of websites saying more. I know we're going to have a great time!!! we're staying on beach three, where we got two of the last rooms on the island whoooo! and luckily in the same hotel. which hopefully doesnt mean we get there and we have the worst hotel ever. haha. but that'd prob make the whole trip even funnier, so, i guess not all would be lost.

ok that's it... talk to everyone later! send me emails etc!

oh and ps mom - it was john mayer (but good guess!). it's actually dave matthews band! two step! and the other song is belle and sebastian.