dezembro: o fim e o começo

shutthefuckupouttahere. how is it december already? sorry, what a way to start an entry, right?! haha. I´m beside myself...how is it that it´s december? it just seemed like yesterday when I was still laptop-less and walking aimlessly around the streets trying to figure out where Comper was. Luckily, Comper is always easy to find.

Well, it is December, whether I like it or not. And it brings up a whole mix of emotions. I went to Kine´s (from Norway) festa de despedida/goodbye party on Tuesday...now she´s off traveling South America. I may never see her again... and it´ll be like that for a lot of the other exchange students that I´ve met here. As sad as it all is, I´m actually looking forward to moving on, exploring new places and meeting new people. It´s all a part of that re-newing process. And next semester, there will be a new group of exchange students...and new friends, new parties and most importantly, new experiences.

Since I´ve last updated my blog, a lot has happened: my Brazilian friend´s boob job. drinking with classmates after class. Thanksgiving. work. grades. beaches. Megan!!! receiving the skirt! host family drama...that´s all I can think of for now...unfortunately, I can´t write about all this...so let me just give some brief highlights :)

- My Brazilian friend S. had breast implants about a month ago...and she came to class, uber perky. I was in shock because it seemed so normal for girls to have breast implants...I personally didn´t know anyone else before her that´s had breast implants. hah, but I am in Brazil, the land of plastic surgery! Then two weeks later, we were at a bus stop, after a night at the bar. And somehow we were talking about her surgery, and she goes to me and my friend, Brenna, "do you girls wanna touch them?" and we´re like...uh.. this is awkward...but that´s S.´s personality, super open and friendly. So she undid her shirt before we could even respond, and BAM, there her breasts were, in full glory. Luckily, it was late and nobody was around but us to see them. I gotta say, it looked real. Then she encouraged us to feel it...and man, it felt really weird. To me, it didnt feel natural, but who am I to judge? the only boobs I´ve really felt are my own. haha! Just as we were feeling her up, a garbage truck passes by and all the men were howling at us cos we were feeling up another girl haha, good timing.

- Thanksgiving in Brazil. We had beer chicken, mashed potatoes, apple and pumpkin pie, corn on the cob, squash and salad...it was a good dinner indeed. Of course we also had caipriosky´s and beer. my first drunken thanksgiving! of course, that made all the food taste better...and plus we were all starving waiting for the chicken to be ready.

- Megan Mischler, who we studied portuguese with, came to visit from Montevideo! It was really good seeing her and showing her around Floripa! I´m so glad that this weekend we were able to go to the beach! Sunburned? yep. On her last day here, we ate at a seafood restaurant, (frutas do mar!!) and it was POURING! like thunder, lightening and heavy rain! Patrick and I arrived to the restaurant soaked. But other than that factor of being wet and uncomfortable, the food was so good! We had a sequencia de camarão, which is like this chain of dishes with shrimp, rice, and fried fish. soo good!

- In regards to the host family, let´s just say I don´t intend on living with one next semester. It is stressful shit. Let´s just say I have a "ruined" pie pan now. You can bet that next semester, I´ll be making pies!

- I finally have the skirt! I was so worried that it got lost in the mail, but it didn´t! It just took 1 month to get here from Ecuador! So now I have one more excuse to go wild in Latin America: I need to win. (that´s just the competitive spirit talking) For the next five weeks, I´ll be the 4-inch heel wearing, thong parading, fence-climbing, hooking-up vixen in a pink traveling skirt. oh, I forgot, and topless. (haha jk!)

btw, I´m in love with the journal. I´ll be writing in it lots for you girls to read :)