The first few days...have been very disorienting. Everything is soo new; I can not think straight. The flight [or flights, rather] were very long, but, thanks to the other two American AFSers, not unbearable. When we arrived in the São Paulo airport, there were tons of other AFSers from all over the world who would be in Brasil with us for the next year or semester; it was a very exciting atmosphere. Me and the other Americans thought `great, now it is time for us to look like idiots since we are the only ones here who can not speak a lick of Portuguese!´. To our suprise, no one spoke any Portuguese; what a relief! Even more to our suprise was the fact that almost everyone there [especialy those from Europe] was relatively fluent in English. My first night with my host family was amazing. I went to my first [of what I hear will be many] party followed by an amazing concert.
The food here is also amazing. My host father is Italian, and makes delicious meals [if you think you have had good lasagna, you are sadly mistaken!]. The Brazilian idea of a BBQ [churrasco] is very different from ours, and very delicious!
I had my first day of school today. I got the jist of my first 3 classes, but am still trying to figure out what my fourth class was, haha.
Well, thats all for now. I hope you all are well. I will make another post when either I get into somewhat of a routine, or I begin to speak more Portuguese [hopefully the second happens first!].
Tchau tchau,
Patríck
