The day i bonded with my host family

I didnt think it was going to be anything other than a normal weekend in my timetable, but it turned out to be a fun filled day bonding with my new host mother :)

The day began with my host mother and i playing in an orchestra in a near by city. Three hours later we were getting ready to leave the weirdest thing happened...when  i am in public, i usually stick b my host mothers side because i can speak fluent portuguese yet and i tend to panic if someone i dont know talks to me ^.^ however my host mother needed the bathroom so i was left to fend for myself. Now i dont know if it cause i look interesting to talk to or if the woman thought she knew me but for some reason or another a lady in a green dress started to walk towards me and i knew she was going to start talking to me. I had two options, to either run into the bathroom after my mother or to stand there and attempt to communicate with this woman in portuguese...i picked the first one. >.< so i turned around to pick up my clarinet and run away but before i could take one step she was standing in front of me, looks like i would be having a conversation in portuguese then >.< i heard her say " oi, tudo bom?" which i knew meant, "hi everything well?" so mabye this conversation wont be that hard i thought to myself. i replied "tudo, e voce?" meaning " everything, and you?" but the next thing i knew the lady was talking at top speed as if her life depeneded on it, occassionally pausing to look at me. at the end of her little speech she looked at me as said "sabe ne?" meaning "you know right?" i had no idea what she was talking about but me not wanting her to repeat what she said just said "eu sei" ( i know) and wished that she didnt want a longer answer. but she seemed happy with that response, she smiled at me, said "tchau" and walked off while i was thinking how ould she not noitce that i wasnt brazilian?! which means that either my portuguese is amazing or she just wasnt listening... i like to think that it is the first one >.< after leaving the orchestra i mentioned to my host mother that i needed to buy a new school bag, biiiiiiiiig mistake because my host mother is a shop-a-holic! we started shopping round about 4 in the afternoon and we didnt get home until quarter to 11! we started shopping in the outside markets, then moved onto to wal-mart and finally ended in the massive shopping centre. everywhere we went, people asked my host mother " ela nao brasileira?" meaning " she is not brazilian?" and when my host mother replied that i was from london they would always say, "ohhhh muito chique!" i guess brazilians think people from london are amazing :) one of my favourite stores that we went into was Wal-mart, as soon as you enter there are loads of little stalls waiting for you to buy their goods, obviously i went to the food stall first and bought a massive looking doughnut for 1 real - which is about 40 pence. i also drank coconut water out of a real coconut for the first time and the women laughed at my facial expression when she hadned me the coconut, i really thought she was going to pour the water into a glass for me! after about three hours of shopping we finally ended up in a bag store. there was the cutest "hello kitty" bag and i decided that was the bag i wanted, so my host mother bought it for me for my 18th birthday :) when we finally returned home i showed my host brother my bag with pride, only to have him ridicule me for having such a childish bag but i think he was screctly jealous because his school bag wasnt as cool as minee xD to whoever reading this it might seem like a boring day with the parents but to me it was special because it made me feel alot less homesick and more part of their family. eu amo minha família brasileira! ( i love my brazilian family!)



my new amazing bag <3