August 12, 2008

• i got a shot. they were giving out free shots and Aninha said i need to save the someday-yet-unknown-and-hardly-thought-of future children i might have. so i got the free shot. rubella or something like that. i don’t like shots. and yet i want a tattoo. go figure.

  i ride the school bus. for the first time in my life (being homeschooled until college, and then having a car). i walk outside and watch the stars (since it gets dark at 5:45pm ) and wave down anything that looks like it might be my bus. normally, this is about 3 trucks and 5 other kinds of buses before mine finally comes. i haven’t figured out how to tell the headlights apart. then i sheepishly try to keep to myself and am rediculously shy while random people ask me questions about English. durn–i am supposed to be facinating because i am dazzlingly beautiful, not because i happened to pop out of a woman located in the US of A.

  this whole vegetarian thing is going too well. i must be doing something wrong.

  teaching at the school is going great. they figured out the schedule so i have each grade one time a day. it works a lot better than all of them mixed up and squished together. a couple glitches…some students knowing how to spell “Octagon” while others in the same grade cannot remember how to say the letter “h.” and one student (bless her little soul) refused to say anything at all for half an hour while the other students and i coaxed her on to attempt the beginning “Good Morning.”

  We watched the opening of the Olympics as a school, and i was surprised at how definate i was in cheering on anything USian. hmmm.

  also good news–the kids painted pictures and then had an auction–and raised $2000R for the children’s hospital in Recife. when Tele called the hospital to tell them, they didn’t beleive him. another friend had to call them and let them know it was for real. voluntary giving is not very big in Brasil. it is still rather a novel ideal.

  still no news about Daisy.

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