STOP LEAVING ME!!!

Okay so this goes out to all the exchangers that are leaving/ have left me.....

I will miss you!!!!

... So obviously to all you guys back in Australia, Emma has come to a time in her exchange where she has to say goodbye to people, which isn't the most fun thing of all. you see, the rotary exchangers from the rest of the world exchange from around about july-july. Australia on the other hand, goes from jan-jan, so at the middle of the year I have to say goodbye to all the good friends I have met, and watch them all fly home. 

The upside of this I suppose is that I get to meet and get to know all the other exchangers that come in, in the middle of the year!

I am actually really looking forward to being able to look out for someone the way that Joanna has done for me. Take them shopping to the cheap places, go to the movies, get them to try acai, and different foods. Take them to savassi with me and introduce them to all my friends, and help them with the language. 

so although I will miss Fabian, Lara, Jonas, Joanna, Ale, Mariah and all my other friends that I have made; I know that I will make a whole heap of new friends, and that I will keep in touch with the friends that I have made. 

Exchange is amazing. 

Thanks for all the amazing times guys. love ya all!

Happy Birthday Sweetie

To my Dearest Maddi Page.


PARABENS PRA VOCE
NESTA DATA QUERIDA
MUITOS FELICIDADES
MUITOS ANOS DE VIDA!!!!

I hope that you have the very best day in the world :)
love you so much 
xxx miss you 


lots of love ... 


xxEm

COPA DO MUNDO!!!!!

This is it! World cup fever has well and truly set in!!! Never used to be a big soccer (futebol) fan before, and really wouldn't give a rats bum about it if I was in Aus, but when you are in Brasil, and the world cup is on, everyone just switches into futebol and party mode and you just cant help being swept away with the crowd of futebol crazed Brasilians! 

Me and my host sister :) 

(according to Alicia Titchmarsh we look alike... well actually, she got us mixed up hahaha good job hun )

Words really cant describe my futebol day on Sunday, so if I was you, I would just check out these videos on my youtube instead :) You will get the idea of how... Brasilians are when it comes to futebol :)




during the game:http://www.youtube.com/user/emmymay1993#p/a/u/1/Cgm6fjbYaEU

after the game:http://www.youtube.com/user/emmymay1993#p/a/u/0/MOTclPEFOi0

OOO OOO OOO OOO! I found out yesterday that the John Butler Trio is playing in Belo Horizonte on the 3rd of July! I don't care what it takes, i'm SSOOOOO THERE!!!!! I am really super excited about it, and I want to go more than anything! I have to find someone to go with me, but other than that .. OH MY GODDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway hmmmm, what else interesting can I talk about? 
umm Well everyone is leaving me and going back to their home countries this week. Fabian goes to Mexico on Friday, Lara to Germany Saturday (but she is super dooper sick at the moment and bed ridden, so if she doesn't get much better , she wont be able to go home then) and Jonas to Germany Monday. I don't know when Fie goes, and I know that Joanna still has a month. She leaves the 26th of July, so we have still got some time. 

I'm going to try and get everyone left together for one last outing on Thursday night, Fabian is staying at our house for the next 2 nights, so we can hopefully get as many inbounds and outbounds together as possible. 

we went out on saturday to savassi and were going to go to jonas' going away party, but the bus was full, and we would have had to wait 45 mins for the next one, then 45 mins on the bus, then had 1 hour at the party before we had to turn round and come back again. it was such a shame because we even made him a cool balloon hat! (we gave it to the statue instead) and the lady at macdonalds let me have the cute koala on a love heart (we decided it was a koala hahaah)


Things have settled into a routine for me now, which is really good. School during the week is good. No more sleeping for me because I have correspondence work from Aus to do now. I am doing three VCE subjects and hope to pass three subjects in school next semester so that I can go back and go straight into year 12 instead of repeating yr 11. There are a couple of teachers who I don't think like me having my laptop in class, but it means i'm doing something and not sleeping so pfft. they will get over it/ used to it hahahaa


I got a giant A3 envelope the other day from home, which is really cool! I was so excited! We know that packages take forever (still waiting for one) but worked out that if she posts things reasonably flat in A3 envelopes, we can get it through in the regular post, so it costs less ,and gets here in less than two weeks! YAY! She is now sending another two with my course stuff that arrived in the mail in Australia, and needed to come to me hahaa. :) 

I got a platypus finger puppet from mum, and a beautiful handkerchief from Faye (she sent it to mum for my birthday to forward on to me, but because we were unsure of a postal address, she didn't want to send it until now.) Thankyou fFaye its beautiful, only thing is that I dont want to blow my nose on it (although it would be handy right now!) It's from italy! My darling little sister Leah also made me a very cute card, and its sitting on my bedside table right now. It's so beautiful, and no one could believe that my 12 year old sister made it for me! This is what happens when people live in Brasil and don't have art classes or any creative outlets in school until uni. they don't have any creativity and cant make pretty things. They would rather buy them and save themselves the hassle. 

OOh i just remembered that i havn't told you all about my outing to Parque das Mangabeiras :)

sooo last sunday, i headed off to feira hippy with joanna and suvi, then afterwards we headed up to Parque Mangabeiras with my friends :) oh my god i love it hahaha

there are cute fuzzy animals everywhere! monkeys and coati (little fluffy things) and the monkeys like to eat mandarin, as i have shown in this following video:

http://www.youtube.com/user/emmymay1993#p/a/u/2/7U4SjHpIw8Y

(tehehehehe yes emma has gone a bit youtube crazy, but its just so darn cool!)

anyway, so me and my friends had a picnic at the parque! we have this special secret picnic spot in the forest, and we had a couple of old sheets that we chucked on the ground to sit on, and ate sandwiches, chips and cookies :) oooh and we cant forget the mandarins (but i think the monkeys ended up eating more mandarins than we did). one of the ungrateful little blighters decided that it was funny to bite a mandarin then drop it on my head so it smoshed as it sort of ran down my back haahah

oh well, not every day that you have that happen is it!

ummm Today, i'm heading up to Parque Mangabeiras again, because I have a task for english where I have to 
go to one of my favourite places and do this sensory thing. 

(Really its giving me an excuse to just go back there again)
I will take plenty of photos, and add them to this post after. I might even include my sensory piece of writing for you. Could be an interesting one. 

I'm sitting in class right now being a bit bored. School today is going to be boring. We had a test first for History (I did my History work for Aus instead) and now we have Quemica. There is like a protest assembly for the students period three (im off to the library with Jeff and Bia, they are studying for Geografia. do something that is not a waste of time) then we have recess, Matematica, and Geografia... another test. fun fun fun

(yes that is a little gecko on someones work hahaah)

I have to buy some leggings or shorts to go running in with Marilia and Adelina. I only have trackie pants, and trust me, running in 25 degree humid Brasil, (its hot again) is not too smart. I've been borrowing a pair of Marilia's. 
im going to the movies with Joanna and her friends tomorrow, so i might try to find some near there. there are all the cheap stores around that area :P


okay thats it for now


toodle-oo, until next time :)


Tchau!!!!

silly hats, silly sickness, silly fairy floss mustaches, silly movies.... Brasilly! (get it... bra...silly... brasil+silly... brasilly... oh... you got it!)

hey people, so Emma is feeling a bit off colour at the moment. which is such a big pain in the arse. i was going to be going to one of my rotarians country houses with them, but yesterday was feeling sick, so didnt go. still not feeling great today, but its not as bad. urgh. stupid sick.

 

anyway, so instead of curling up in a ball on the couch all arvo, my host mum took me and my fellow siblings to BH shopping (big shopping mall) and we had a bit of a wander around. we went into the shop O Boticário, which is like a perfume and makeup store, and i was like, i need new perfume, so i was looking at them and found a really nice one that was actually only 27.90 (which is cheap) but i only had 20 reais so left it. we went to a burger place and had something to eat, my host mum went off, and came back with a bag from that place with the perfume in it! shes such a sweetie :)

lol so we all needed more shampoo but i wouldnt let her pay for my shampoo because she bought me perfume hahah and she just threw her hands in the air, rolled her eyes and sighed. lol

so here is emma feeling slightly better than before, which is good, but still not great. everything is making my stomach funny. driving was fun... not.

hmm so this week we had a 3 day school week and a 4 day weekend, because there was some sort of public holiday on thursday and friday. 

on wednesday afternoon, marilia, bruna and i went down the street, and they made me wear a stupid had, because they were, and so we walked around looking like tools with stupid hats on, taking stupid pictures. 

then closer to six we met up with some other friends, had some maccas and california coffee (like gloria jeans)   and then headed to praca da liberdade where there was some jazz music being played :) it was really fun :)

we ended up with fairy floss stuck to our upper lips, and well, pretty crazy :) thats what happens when you buy lots of fairy floss :) tehehehehehehehehehehe yummy :) (yes that green stuff is fairy floss)

thursday, adelina (my sister) invited me to a churrasco with her, so we went there at about 3pm. it was really cool, just her, and all her friends from uni, and me hahaha it was fun :)

ummm what else... oh yeah, on tuesday i went with joanna to the movies and we saw... (yes yes i know)... sex and the city 2.
its not normally a film i would pay to see but it was actually a pretty good film, i certainly laughed quite a bit, and for 3.50 (plus joannas ticket and popcorn and coke... so okay, for 20 reais) it was better than the first film at least. 

joanna and i are planning two days this week to hang out. the first to work on our rotary presentations (her to make hers, and me to translate and fix mine up) and the second to make pavlova hahaha :) mmmmm gostoso!


ummmmmmm... i guess thats it for now! until next time! Tchau!
xxem