hoje (today)

today we had our first portuguese class and also registered our visas at the police station. this post is being typed from the computer lab of our school building, IBEU which could stand for international brasil estados unidos (which doesn't completely make sense), but i really can't remember. this keyboard thinks it's brasilian, but really, it's american because the keys say one thing but do another. like, the c with the goatee key is really the ; key like it usually is in the us. i guess they reconfigured it for our american fingers, but whatev.

i've gotten a bunch of emails and messages i should be responding to, but i hate electronic communication that requires the back and forth. way too easy to backed up in. speaking of getting backed up, i've retained my slacker tendencies and am a little behind with certain essays/readings. but i always pull through, after asserting i will change and then failing to do so.

i had a good weekend, but was kind of bummy. we went to the beach (praia) on sunday and it was one of the best beaches evarrr. seriously though. the water is very clear and clean and so is the sand. the wind is kind of bothersome though and the sand prickles as it's being blown into your face. other than the beach, i didn't really go out, so i declare that next weekend i will be brave and go out with karine (my sister) or jair (my brother) or wander the neighborhood, despite not being able to hold a decent conversation with anybody who isn't karine, jair, or my 13 year old cousin pedro.


in other, non-serious, totally non-program related issues: i desparately need to learn how to flirt.

the end.