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Tô Gostando Mais e Mais Todos os Dias!!
I’m going to break this post into three parts, aka the three exciting things that have happened in the past couple weeks! Beleza, então, vamo-la.
1. A Mostra Cientifica. Even with all of the bitching/kvetching/whining of my class, we put out a really, really great product. In my previous post, I didn’t know the run-down of what the Mostra Cientifica, so now let me explain pra vocês!
The Mostra Cientifica is a project that is done by every grade from 5-11th (or the equivalents). I’m under the impression that it started as a way to show case scientific things (hence the name). I could be wrong, but I think that is how it started. Santa Teresa’s Mostra is the best in SLZ (so I’m told), and I have to agree! The work that was put into this project was the work of months and months of studying and hard work. My class focused on Organ Donation. It was a really interesting project. My class set up the science lab into 8 different parts and there was a group of about 3-4 people in each part. Each group had a different aspect to talk about, claro. Groups of about 10-15 people moved from each “room” and learned about organ donation. I stood in the last room and at the end of the presentation I said this line (it prob should go down in history, it was pretty impressive)…wait…get ready for it…”Muito obrigada pela atenção de vocês. Agora, receba uma lembrança de nosso trabalho!/ Thank you very much for your attention. Now, here’s a souvenir from our project.” I know, I know, life changing. In my last post I mentioned about my class…there was about a week or so period where for some reason my class thought that I could not speak/understand any Portuguese, and for that reason I’m pretty sure that I only got one line. I told them that I wanted to talk but I think they were also worried about me turning red…(refer to number 2).
The topics of the classes were: Origart- about origami, O Telescopio Hubble-The Hubble Telescope which I think is the strongest in the world?, and Xingu- Starting hydroelectric energy plants in the Amazon. Xingu won overall, but I can’t even front, their project was SO good! They had waterfalls/real-looking huts from indigenous people, the perspective from the people who want to start this project, and people from the countryside who would be affected by this. I liked seeing all of the work that went into these projects. Everyone and class put a lot of hardwork into producing a great product, and I’m happy to say that my class’s was really well thought out and executed! Poxa que não ganhamos!
2. A couple of weeks ago the Portuguese teacher for my school approached me, and the other exchange students, about doing a presentation (all in Portuguese) to the entire 2nd year aka my grade, about our home countries/life/issues etc. K gr00ls3f. I went home, made a powerpoint, put some pix ;-) from home, and on Thursday came to school ready to present! Me and my friend Elmiira from Finland were the only ones to present and I think it went really well! I talked about American food, politics (yes I brought up how angry the recent elections make me), parties, dances, a little about the iLL@d3lPh (Philadelphia), and some cultural differences e.g. kissing when you say hi, overall super touchy-ness etc. I think everyone really liked it! Side Note: I don’t know if at home I blushed really easily (maybe I did but people just didn’t really tell me?) but here I blush ALL the time! Like little things happen and I turn bright red and people call me out on it! “Ow, Kelsey tá ficando vermelhina!!” Which makes me turn even redder, ugh fml. So, of course during my presentation, everything was going well and then I got to the “Personal Cultural Differences” slide and I talked about kissing v. hugging etc. All it took was one little comment from the audience that involved kissing and me (blah blah blah…) and I started to turn bright red. Luckily everyone thought it was cute (? maybe they didn’t but just acted like they did?) and I squeaked out, “Tô ficando vermelha!!” which made everyone chuckle and I was then able to continue on with my presentation. Afterwards everyone came up to me and gave me hugs/kisses etc. Yay Brasil/Portuguese.
Side Note 2: My class makes fun of me because I frequently say, “Nononononono,” to negate something and, “Simsimsimsismsim,” to say the affirmative. After my presentation, various people from my class came up to me and were like, “Kels, where was the ‘nononono.’” lol. But the thing is in English I say “nonononono” so like I don’t mind that they make fun of me, whatev.
3. I can officially dance forró!!! Heeeeeeeeeeeellllllllll YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. Ok, forrozeira status, not quite, but quickly approaching! I went out to a forró club this past weekend to showcase my moves and I think the people that I went with were like, “dayummm shawtyyyy” (em português, claro). I wore new heels that I bought, lol heels aka 5 1/2 inch heels, and my problem wasn’t the height, it was the fact that my feet got kinda hot and then the leather was rubbing against my feet and now I have war wounds aka huge blisters on my feet, but whatev. If I turn the blisters into calluses, eventually I’ll be able to rock those jawns like no other. h0ll@!
Tchau tchau,
xoxo,
kf
