so... its been a while since i last blogged. i loose track of the days here. no joke idk what day it even is. well for all of those who havent heard i got a shinny new host fam. and just let me say they are great! i have a mom and 3 sisters. but only one lives at home and here name is raquel. i knew we would get along the first day i got here. cause guess what? she likes mami ink too!! who would have guessed. another kindred spirit to add to my list of fellow kindred spirits. but on the down side she does study a lot! (school is so over rated). my mom however, kind of scares me a tad bit, her name is bianca, but she is really sweet. but i do know i dont ever want to see her mad. oh did i mention she does acupuncture? how different is that! she is going to do it on me.. i just dont know when yet. no going to lie i am a bit scared to have needles poked in my skin. its kinda ironic you get needles poked into you so that you feel relaxed.. hmmm. well i do have a story. the first week i am with this fam i got myself into a little rut so to speak. and this is how it went down. i had my "mom" drop me off at my best bud olivia's house so her and i could get together and do nothing together. well we decided to go to the mall see a movie, the whole shabang. well after of course we go out of sushi. cause well needless to say i have a huge weak spot for the food. being the sweet girl that i am and wanting to seem like the great host daughter that i am i sent a text to my sis and mom seeing if they want to come with us. we hop in a taxi (olivia and that is) and are of to sushi brasil. well a little more then half way through our oh so wonderful meal my mom calls olivias phone to see why i am not at olivia for her to pick me up. needless to say she wasnt so happy with me. good grief if it werent for olivia i think i would have started to cry i was so worried. i couldnt even enjoy what was left of my salmon skins. and when that happens we all know that there is something terribly wrong in the world of caiti, sabe? when i got home i waited up for my mom. freaking out. you all dont even know. when she got home i waited by my dorr trying to get the courage to go and talk to her before she came to talk to me. cause i wanted to show that i am responsible and all that sort of stuff. not knowing if she was really mad or just wanted to lay down some house rules for i walked to my sisters room imaginaing that she would starte screaming at me in portuguese and me not understanding. oh it was terrible!! luckly all she want was to tell me how things worked in the house. so all was well in the end. but right now i am afriad that i am just too lazy to type any more. but i will try to blog more often and get pictures up for you all!!
tchau beijosss
rain rain rain
its raining. again. i am not kidding you, it seems like for the past month it has rained everyday. i look out my window past the city and into the sky. and you know what i see? clouds. cotton ball clouds, you know the ones that you just want on jump from one to another. dark clouds. flat clouds. but no blue sky. i swear i am doomed to life of rain here. tchau beijoss
where'd i go?
so a lot has happened sense i last blogged blogged. so i think i will start first with... CHRISTMAS IN RIO. after a 20 hour car ride, which i must say was not all that bad, it consisted of stopping for food, bathroom stops, sleeping, listening to the ipod, and getting lost with meu tcho (my uncle) and sergio (who works for the fam and whom is very cute in an older guy kinda way). but it all turned out fine, we ended up getting arriving there on christmas eve day. when we came into view of the beach i was about ready to jump out of the car and run into the water as i turned to olivia to share my excitement to see that water was coming out of her eyes (she likes the beach). that night we had a nice candle lit dinner and went to bed. christmas day felt just like another day, we got up, went to the beach, and met a few nice guys. ok now that i think about it it isn't like another day. but in the world of brasil it is just another day. the best way to describe it would be... hmmm "pass the butter". but it was good all the same. by the way the i stayed at ipinema beach. here is a link if you feel the urge to look it up http://www.ipanema.com/.
THE WEDDING... we left for the wedding on christmas day. the wedding took place in teresopolis. which is way up in the mountains two hours away from rio. and let me tell you. it is beautiful. and that is even understatement. it is green all over. not just green green but a rich green. filled with trees and vines and fog. beautiful. we stayed in a country club. yeah i know super chic. here is link to see pictures of it. http://www.teresopoliscountryclub.com.br/. no joke it was just as beautiful. the next day some women arrived to do our hair at 7:30 am, however, olivia, lenora, and i didn't get up till 10:30... ooopps. haha our hair looked good though. well once we got it done. naturally we were a tad bit late for the wedding and had to pull off a very lady like run in hills down to the wedding. and it wasn't easy. we had to walk down steep stone stairs with nothing to hold on too. i had to take off my shoes. the ceremony took place in front of a lake. i teared up a bit. we all got to throw rice too. after though... well... we went up and had a party! everyone was dancing and having fun. it lasted till the sun went down. keep in mind that the wedding started at 12 am.
NEW YEARS.... in brasil it is a tradition to wear white on new years. because white means peace so if you wear while the new year will bring peace or something of that sort. but did i have a white dress? no. cause i have no clothes here. we went shopping. but sadly didn't not find anything till we stopped at a store down the street and around the corner from my house. liv and i both found dropped dead gorgeous dresses. that my dad kindly paid for. depios, my dad, ju ju bee, a oltra julia, olivia and i went over to laura's house for the count down. laura is Julia's best friend and is is just as much as a little sister to me as the julia is. it was nice we all sat down and relaxed. talking, eating, drinking (i drank coke. don't worry), and listening to music. we all got together in a circle and counted down with champagne. i will admit i felt a bit silly with my champagne glass filled with coke but, but it was all good. we clinged glasses and said feliz ano nova, saude, with a hug. DEPIOS... olivia and i went to real party. festa do radio clube!! tons of people. loud music. and an open bar. who could ask for more? jk jk haha sadly my dad bought us normal tickets and not the vip. but would that stop me? caitlynne jan reier? i think not!! we snuck. or should i say i snuck. olivia tried. and failed. haha but i got in :P but she eventually get in though. i was a little disappointed though. here it isn't tradition to kiss someone on new years at the count down. but not worry a certain friend of mine kiss plenty for the both of us. when the sun started to come up i pulled caiti. i was tired and i wanted to go home. so i quickly found this certain friend who had been missing for awhile flagged down a cab and went home to drink chocolate milk and some pop corn.
but as for now my hands are getting tired and olivia wants to finish her blog so i will finish later. tchau beijoss
p.s.
i will put pics up later!
its clicking!!
so the whole blog thing is finally clicking!! so proud of my self. cant even tell you! i just figured how to change the http of something in my blog... and i did it by myself. ok not really by my self, olivia did help a little. (i had to put that in cause she reads my blog). so now that i have the blog thing kinda down i think will be blogging a tad bit more then have been. tchau beijoss