For the first time since I have been here, I showered with warm water!! Wow, can I just say that I have missed warm water. My host dad put it in a new shower head, which actually had water coming out of it. It would take forever with my hair being so long to rinse anything out and it was cold, so I just had to tough it out. I still had to turn the shower on and off during the shower, but the warmth was quite refreshing.
I met up with another volunteer for food at the plaza. It was a buffet, and I had filled my plate with so much food that someone would think I had been starving for days. I can’t help but to over eat here because the food is just so good. I will get the picture she took on her camera of the plate full of food and put it up here soon. We went looking around the market to see what stuff they were selling.
Something I forgot to mention… yesterday Icarai beach had bigger waves than normal and I have a video to show (thank you YouTube). This morning I saw a newspaper headline that said “Niteroi Tsunami”. The beach that I work on was being covered by the waves, which is not normal. The waves went up to the sidewalk and making awesome splashes onto the concrete. I did not think much of it until I went to work today. The tide was a lot higher, and there was debris from the water scattered along the beach. The sand was not as fluffy and it was more packed down from the water. It was interesting to see how nature had changed the surface of the beach. Anyways, soccer just gets better and better as the time goes. Today I played with the 12 and 13 year old boys and about half of them showed up since it was a colder night (Brazil definition of cold: a slight wind). I had to mentally prepare myself to play with them because I did not want to come out timid again. I played a lot better today with them, but my coach told me that I need to shoot more because I pass too much. How many times have I heard a coach tell me that?! Sheesh. My next challenge is to start shooting, which is not as easy in the sand. My coach has warmed up to me now. It was a relief, because he could not take me seriously until he saw me play. He is one year older than me, but I have to remember girls playing soccer is not as common here (I know I am a coach too, but I am just going to call him coach since he runs all the practices). When I got home I spent a couple hours talking with the family and I always enjoy communicating with them. I learn something new every day!
By the way… after the movie last night I told my roommate how I have never watched a movie with subtitles before. The movie last night was spoken in English, but there were Portuguese subtitles. Everybody in the theater did not care that they had to read the movie and they were cracking up through most of it since the movie was funny. Since English is the primary language, I have never had to read subtitles. She was shocked to hear this because many countries have to do this. I guess I just never even thought about it and it is another thing I have taken for granted.
The observation about the movies is a good one! Have you run into any issues with not having access to certain websites? There are many places in the world where websites that have information are not translated into someone's language - so if you don't speak english or spanish or french you are out of luck.... you might live in a place that can get online but can not get access to the information....
ReplyDeleteYeah! There are some websites that I can't get access, as well as some youtube videos. Also, the websites here are all in portuguese, so I have to either try and change the language or just read what I can. Google is "google brasil".
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