Alguém que te faz sorrir

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUbaqJ-x_KY

Eu nunca consegui saber diferenciar
Não querer com não mais sentir
Não merecer com não mais amar

E hoje eu estou aqui
Sem ter lugar pra ficar
Escrevendo canções pra que
Você possa escutar
Com outro alguém do seu lado

Alguém que te faz sorrir
Alguém que vai te abraçar
Quando a escuridão cair
Te impedindo de me enxergar
E eu que hoje estou aqui
E pra sempre vou ficar
Segundos antes de dormir
De mim você vai lembrar

Tente me ouvir
Tente me ver

Um outro alguém (eu vou buscar)
Eu juro que eu vou ser!

Alguém que te faz sorrir
Alguém que vai te abraçar
Quando a escuridão cair
Quando você precisar
De alguém que não vai mentir
Que não quer te magoar
Segundos antes de dormir
De mim você vai lembrar

So in recent news

Capri went home on the 25th
I have 35 days left today
I got my first capoeira cord... (along with Macall and Sofie)
aaand things are going swimmingly I guess....
I'm just excited to get home (I can't help it... Oregon Country Fair AND SEP AND Canada?? how can I not be totally pumped??)

from Lençóis!

me and Sofie in Itacaré

Michael and the sunset

Sofie on the boat in Morro de São Paulo

Macall also on the boat (NO REALLY?)

really weird sunset... (it actually looked like that, who knows why)

peace!

My day

Today I felt inspired to make another blog entry because my day has been happy!

In no particular chronological order...

I bought a bitchin' hat! (which may or may not be sacrificed to the cause of my friend Ian... I'll have to think about that, holmes). I was on half price but still cost R$95 (like like 45 bucks or so)
I got accepted to be a Junior Counselor at SEP (2009 not 2005) YIPPIE KAY YAY!
I bought some carrots and I am happily munching on them as we speak... er... as I type this.I bought a liter of Guaraná Antarctica (aka. best soda ever) for just over 1 real, which is about 50 cents. :O
I jacked the January edition of SuperInteressante (Super Interesting) from my school library.

Macall and Sofie are still gone on the Amazon trip, but unbeknowst to Mr. Robinson I have his turtle necklace from the Northeast trip (stole it during Lençóis). :D
I also recently found and read a copy of Michael Moore's 'Dude Where's my Country?' which makes me happy I was not doing an exchange in the last 8 years and instead did it in the year of Obama's election... maybe he's not perfect but by God does it make me look better as an American!

anyway
até mais
peace out
---m

inventory of PAIN

:so this year I have been in a constant state of hurting somewhere or another (I'm accustomed to it by now) but on this most recent trip everything ganged up on me.

so here's how it started:

heel blister on my right foot
twin thumb sized blisters on both feet
blisters on my pinky toe
followed by me busting my toe on a rock causing under-nail bruising
then wearing bandages caused another blister on the back of my left foot
followed by a bug biting me (which has subsequently transformed into a freakish gaping hole in my left middle toe... which scares me every time I look at it)
and then mysterious triplet bumps appeared on my right foot and hurt and are all red

and my left ear is infected
and my jaw hurts when I yawn (presumably from too much yawning... it used to crack when I yawned but now it just hurts and sometimes won't open all the way)

hooray for pain it makes me strong!


scars so far:
burn on my left hand from 'olho de boi' that Neyton gave me
horseback riding abrasion scars on the insides of my calves
possibly this bizarre toe thing...

if any other exchange students read this, I want their updates.


OTHER FUN THINGS
I got lice here once
my left ear has already been infected once (this is the second time)
in addition to all the mad crazy sunburns I've gotten
and of course random 'I don't know how I got these' cuts and bruises

UPDATE: mother's day
sketchy red bump on my left leg

at least I'll go to my grave with some marks to show where I've been!

District Conference!

Leo, Marieke and Capri (Germany, Germany, Bermudas) with... napkin hats

Kevin the creeper German

yea this is ALSO Capri. haha
me and Zoe being traitors to the American cause

there's the pile of pancakes we made haha canada

representing Denmark and Canada doing capoeira

AMERICA. FUCK YEA.

DEUSTCHLAND.

DEUSTCHLAND IST SUPER

Denmark, USA, Germany, Taiwan, Canada and Bermuda

group shooot

Kevin, Joel, me, Macall, Sofie

Sofie :)

hey so we had one.
no speeches
or embarrassing singing of 'we are the world'
no being filmed
I think
I hope
I pray
buuuut
there was a funny presentation.
I won women's perfume in a box. (that I shall never use but I shall always treasure :D)
aaaand
I am being incoherent and have not updated in over a month.
I am.
terrible.
I am also.
sorry.
:)
here are so pictures to appease the rabid fans of my dead blog.
may you be appeased well.
:D

peace
--m

portuguese

so here is my new list of favorite Portuguese wordage (not necessarily my favorite meanings, these are just the words I enjoy saying the most): (complete with translations and pronounciations)
ciúmes - jealousy (pron. see-OO-mees)
valeu - slang for 'thank you' (obrigado), literally the past tense of the verb 'valer' (to value, to be worth it): 'it was valued' in the literal sense (pron. vawl-EH-oo)
merece - he/she/it/you (informal) (ele/ela/você) form of 'merecer' (to deserve) (pron. mair-ES-ee)
relaxe - ele/ela/você form of 'relaxar' (to relax) (pron. hey-LASCH-ee)
beijão - literally, 'big kiss' (used at the end of messages... usually people just write 'bjs' - short for 'beijos). I love this word because it has the 'ij' thing in it along with the unique Portuguese 'ão' sound. (pron. bay-jão)
cascável - rattlesnake, literally 'peelable' ('casca' is the outside layer of something, like a banana peel or a orange rind..and 'ável' is the Portuguese 'able' - like in 'understandable') (pron. cas-CA-vel)
simbora - a slang term that mixes the words 'sim' and 'embora' ('yes' and roughly 'let's go'). it's existence is due mostly to the song 'Beber, Cair e Levantar' (Drink, Fall Down and Get back Up) the lyrics of which go 'vamos embora, pra um bar, beber, cair e levantar' (let's go to the bar, to drink, fall down and get back up), but the words 'vamos embora' sometimes get slurred together and make 'simbora'. Brazilians say just 'bora' sometimes like a slangy 'come on, let's go'. (pron. seem-bore-a)
além - other than, out of which, outside, beyond (além disso = other than that, vai além = go beyond, além can be used to refer to something previously unreachable) (pron. all-aim)
cachaça - intense famous Brazilian alcohol, there is a song here that literally sings just 'CACHAÇA'

O amor me pegou puro e verdadeiro Love got me, pure and true

Pra durar, vai durar, pra lá de fevereiro To last, it will last, until February (Carnaval)
Para quando chegar a festa junina For when I arrive at the party
Você vai se lembrar da gente na Ondina You will remember the people of Ondina
CACHAÇA CACHAÇA

(pron. ka-sha-sah)

parabenizar - to congratulate (parabéns = congratulations) (pron. pahr-uh-ben-ee-zar)
cujo - whose (like '...Mary, whose puppies were for sale' = '...Mary, cujos filhotes eram sendo vendidos') I like it because it looks like and sounds like 'Cujo' the name of that Stephen King novel (pron. coo-joe)
maçã - apple, I love this word because it has my two favorite accents in it. also did I mention I love words that end with 'ã' because of the funky pronunciation it makes? I can't recreate it in english... (pron. mahs-ah) for example...
mã/itapuã/fã/clã - magnet/name of a beach in Salvador/fan - as in fan club/clan. I love short words with that sound they are so fun to say! (sorry I can't really recreate the pronounciation... go take a portuguese class and find out!)
oxente - this is a great piece of Bahian slang, it's really just translated as like 'whoa!' or 'holy shit!' but it's funny because sometimes they don't say the whole word, they just say 'oxe-' which sounds like 'o-shee-' which kind of sounds like they're about to say 'oh shit!' and it had me confused for my first month or so. good word though! (pron. oh-SHEN-chee)
piriguete - slang for 'girl that kisses every one'. it comes from a song by the same name. (pron. pee-ree-gay-ch)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1x-y4-CFBI (video of the song - I think it is at least, the computer won't let me look at it)

Quando ela me vê, ela mexe When she sees me, she moves
Piri-pi-piri-piri-piriguete! Piri-pi-piri-piri-piriguete!
Rebola devegar She circles slowly
Depois desce And then goes down
Piri-pi-piri-piri-piriguete! Piri-pi-piri-piri-piriguete!

amendoim - peanut (pron. ah-men-dough-eem)
cabrito - goat (pron. ka-bree-two)

also my favorite Brazilian bands are:
Jammil (the one that sings 'Tchau I Have to Go Now')
Pitty (Brazilian rock)
Pato Fu (not really sure how to classify this... kind of light music)
Mallu Magalhães (she does a song called 'Back to Denmark')
Os Mutantes ('The Mutants' - Brazilian hard rock)
Vanguart (they may not be Brazilian I'm not sure)
Adão Negro (Brazilian reggae)
Banda Eva (just classic Salvador music)
Nando Reis (he kind of looks like my dad haha)
and Legião Urbana (fun to listen to when trying to learn more Portuguese)

bem...

My computer broke so I lost all my pictures that weren't on here, orkut, facebook or my camera... so that's sad, but he's some pictures to keep the blog from dying completely (sorry mom and dad and whoever else is checking this semi-occasionally)...

Macall (Nova Scotia) and Sofie (Denmark) doing capoeira. that would be our master to the left, Mestre Washington. he's such a cool guy.

Washington helping us stretch and showing how unflexible Macall is

Pretty much the only thing I do with Macall and Sofie, other than watch movies, do capoeira and argue, is make pancakes. SO MANY PANCAKES. we loves us some panquecas, oh yes.

what did I say? we used like six different pans we couldn't find the right one. (we put beer in these pancakes to make them crunchy)

Macall sucks at making pancakes, and thus we wound up with scrambled dough-in-a-pan, Canadian specialty.

me and Sofie at Zara, this European store improbably placed into the Iguatemi mall in Salvador

oh yea and a little thing happened in February called Carnaval...lots of people

...more people...

....hey whaddayaknow, more people...

... people wearing the same clothes as the people next to them...

View from the Camarote in Ondina. Apparently it goes on like this for several kilometers. 2 million people a day for six days.

So many people I can't even fit the concept in my head...

...hey this is getting kind of redundant, no?...

traffic cone man and friend

there's no way to turn it, but that's IVETE SANGALO

and so's this. of course she sang the most obnoxious Salvador Carnaval song, Cadê Dalilah? (Where is Dalilah?). it's sickeningly annoying.

big puddle because of course it rained on Carnaval...

random street performance in Pelourrinho, the touristy old part of Salvador

I don't know who they were or why they were doing this, but I think they were singing in Italian. though I could have been way off.

gotta love Pelô. and masks. and guitars and accordions.

cool day

more performers, doing what Sherise (the Florida girl) seemed to think was a rain dance around the praça, quite close to the 'masked Italian accordionists'.

bright setting sun. that's the Elevador Lacerda on the right (one of the symbols of Salvador and Bahia)... look it up. it costs 5 centavos (which is about 2 American cents) to ride it up and down from the 'Cidade Alta' to the 'Cidade Baixa' or vice versa (High City to Low City... there are two parts of Salvador, didn't you know that?)

more capoeira, Macall and Sofie

yea I do capoeira too, I'm usually the one taking pictures though... the master is the one in the blue pants (I have new red pants now haha!) and Capri is the one who has no capoeira pants yet. (she's from Bermuda)

my first naive attempt at starting dreads didn't work

Yeah, we're Rotary Youth Exchange students. Yeah that means we're better than you. (Capri freaking out, Macall on the phone/pretending to be emo/Me awkwardly trying to be part of the picture... it's one big happy family down here, youbetchaya)

tchau tchau

até mais

---m