Ultimo Dia de Aula (Last Day of School)

me and Cintia

almost my enitre class. one girl is missing.

does this look like the face of someone who is learning?

ahhh. who did her hair? hehe

My last day of actual class was the last Friday of November. On which, we didn't actually have class. It was kind of a sad day. Now, everyone is taking the vestibular and preparing to move away! :(

Lots of people have already taken two, actually. And, three or four of my friends passed the first one. So, in order to celebrate, we are going to throw a party. But we don't have any money. So, what do we do? Well, in Brazil, we throw smelly food on the people who passed, then, go stand by a stop light, and ask for money from the people in the cars when the light turns red! It's called trote (troh-chee). It was so much fun! We did it for about four hours and got almost 500 reais! That's almost $250! And all we did was simply ask! Sometimes, peoples' windows weren't rolled down, and so we would knock, and they would just look and slowly shake their head "no". And sometimes people would see us before they got to the stop light, and would stop way far back just so we wouldn't ask. But lots of people were happy to give their spare change for the people who passed the vestibular. And now, we can have parties until it's time to go back to school! And this was such a blast and so effective, I think I might try this when I get home in order to raise money for college. Jefferson City has a lot more stop lights than Sao Gotarrdo. Hmmm.

Well, Christmas is approaching. Although, it doesn't quite feel like it. I have seen like two strings of Christmas lights, four Christmas trees, and heard one Christmas song. I haven't had a single cup of hot chocolate, eaten a single chocolate-covered-pretzle, wrapped a single present, or done anything that feels remotely Christmas-y to me. I think this Christmas will be mostly just sad for me. But, its just one out of the many I will have. And it will be interesting to see how another family celebrates Christmas.

My Northeast trip is coming! I leave January 4th! Whoo hoo! I love the beach and promise to take tons of pictures and only put about five on here. :)

Tchau.
Um beijo.
Ate mais.