And...I'm back!

I am back from Hawaii. It went tooooo fasst!

It was amazing, and is easily my favorite place within the USA. The weather was surprising, even though I've been there a handful of times it was shockingly chilly (ha.ha. like 85 degrees is considered chilly...well it is by me considering I live in a humid /hotter than hell swamp known as the Philadelphia metropolitan region.), with random showers that lasted for 3 minutes that could be seen moving from one side of the island to the other. And the water was surprisingly cold( but I guess I'm a water snob because I'm used to 85 degree water in Mexico) but none-the-less was inviting. Kauai was kind of rainy but I guess that's to be expected considering it is THE WETTEST PLACE ON THE PLANET with more than 550 inches of rain per year. For example, Sao Paulo gets 52 inches and Rio gets about 46 inches.

I'm a little bit drowsy right now considering I've been up for more than 24 hours, but once I get pictures uploaded onto my computer I swear that I'll be posting some wordless Wednesday faux artistic shots that I thought were nice, but probably actually suck. A lot to look forward to!

Interesting tid-bit: Only heard Portuguese twice on the entire trip. Compare that to last summer in Italy where I literally heard more Portuguese speaking Brasileiros touring around than Italian (it was Italy for god sakes) or English. I'm not lying when I tell you that the cruise that I was on for half of that trip last year was made up of Brazilians. They announced things over that annoying intercom thing in Portuguese before English, Spanish or Italian. This was before I actually had balls and used my Portuguese ability to talk to Portuguese speakers, so I just watched them creepily from afar listening to their comments about how beautiful the sites (me) were and stuff like that.

Bahaha.

Anyway, I probably have a billion spelling errors in here because I'm too tired to care about checking my spelling right now, and I need to relax because tomorrow is MOVE IN DAY at college. Meu deus I'm going to hyperventalate thinking about it. I don't think my room-mate even speaks any language except Japanese.

This. Will. Be. Interesting. (and scary.)

Ate logo gente! Glad to be back in your loving company!

Updates on my life, if you care.

Soooooo, I'm done with my internship (thank god.) It was starting to make me lose brain cells and I'm not kidding. I honestly couldn't speak in coherent sentences anymore, I had insomnia and couldn't fall asleep until 3AM most nights and I was up bright and early at 6:30 AM every morning. That compiled over the course of 2 months made me forget how to spell and talk in English. The Portuguese is more natural at this point for me when I'm tired, hell I even dream in Portuguese at this point. But anyway...I'm glad that's over.

And I leave for Hawaii @3:30 AM tomorrow morning! It will be wonderful! I don't think I'll have internet access except for my phone, so I think I'll be on a 2 week hiatus here, sorry to tell you. I'm super pumped.

College starts the day I get back from Hawaii. I guess I'm the worlds ultimate genius...planning vacation until the day class starts. That coupled with a 12 hour flight and 6 hour time difference will be extremely interesting on the first day of school. Kill me.

I finally got my dorm assignment! I have an on campus apartment with 4 other roomies. I don't know any of them. I'm a little nervous, but that's normal I guess. I was happy about getting the apartment because now I only have to share a bathroom with 4 other slobs, not 100. Plus, I didn't want to make all the other guys feel insecure when I was walking around the showers/bathroom obviously more "qualified" than most (TMI!!!!!) Joking but not really. But seriously.

Anyway, I got an email from my Portuguese teacher in Bahia, and I wanted to cry because I was so jealous. She was in Trancoso and I reaaaalllllly want to go there. Lucky Paulistana. Oh and my PORT book for this semester was supposed to cost $300, but because of this my school is not ordering it through the bookstore--but they still expect that you get the book. FML. I guess I'll have to return to drug dealing and selling my body so I can learn something.

Anyway, I thinks that's it for now! I will be able to respond to comments on my phone ( I think) but I don't like posting entries on my phone....but maybe I'll put pictures up...don't know. I'll talk to you later blogger friends. Love you all!

Ate breve,
Alex

Hello Cyberspace!

Hi there everyone!

Don't let the title of this post fool you! No, I'm not looking for you to take your top off on webcam (yet.) Also don't let the mushy name of the blog make you throw up too much. 

My name is Alex, and I currently attending college in the United States.

I'm going to tell you a little about me, whether you like it or not!
Ever since a few years ago, while watching the Victoria's secret fashion show on TV (airs around Christmas), and finding out the good hunk of the beautiful goddesses were Brasilian, I had my eye set on the place. They started the obsession, but I know now that there is so much more to be obsessed with in that tropical land than just the "glamazon" women that strut down the orla. I now am much more educated on the country, and I am madly in love with her. The language, the culture, the people. Just about everything. I know there are significant challenges that need to be faced in Brasil, but I know that deep in my heart Brasil is where I belong. I have saudades every minute of a place I have not yet been to. Sounds a little psycho but don't judge me!

This blog will track the steps that I will be taking in order to make my move imminent move to Brasil. I will use this to hopefully help other people in my position in the future, as well as for my stories that are bound to occur. I hope to make friends this way also, because from some of the blogs that I've read of American expats in Brasil, I am sure we would be great friends!

All right guys, I'm in this for the long haul. I don't graduate for another 3 1/2 years, but with my study abroad program that I WILL take to Sampa, I hope to meet some of you sooner. Oh yeah, I'm still weighing the options of where to live...Rio or Sampa...hard choice, right?

Valeu Gente!