day 1

estou no brasil!

so it's about 9:40p fortaleza time, and i'm the last one up. the apostrophe is all the way over where the tilde usually sits. and the backslash is hard to find. and the semi-colon took a backseat to the ç. alrighty, but enough about the keyboard.

i arrived in fortaleza today around one pm, after a red-eye flight to sao paulo (where's the hat for the a?). i met most of the group in miami, where we were for hours. it~s funny how i~ve only known them for a day total but since it~s been constant, it seems like much longer. no comment on who's cool yet, but there~s supposed to be 18 of us in all.

brasil is very warm and night happens very quickly, being so close to the equator. right now we~re staying on this lovely place for orientation that has a man-made laguna right at it. very beautiful. simple birthday. cutting short for now, am apparently not last one up and other people need to use the computer. mais en o futuro

my portuguese sucks.