Day 4 Sexta 20/5/11

Today was a challenge, but a very fun challenge! I got to speak Portuguese with no help at all. It was great to be able to watch two and a half men with my host mom. It was silent at first, but we started slowly speaking to each other in Portuguese. She realized that I can speak a little more than she thought, and I showed her my Portuguese book. It was awesome because I could understand her and I am sure I am not making complete sentences, but I am making words that she can understand. We both love chocolate too, so we bonded with our addiction to chocolate (saying chocolate in Portuguese is probably one of my favorite words to say, it rolls off the tongue perfectly).

Marita and I then went out on the town to get snacks with an Australian volunteer. We took the bus over to the square, which is a big hang out spot here in Niteroi. It is pretty much food and drinks for as long as you want to stay up. We met up with a lot of the other volunteers and it was a lot of fun to engage in small talk about each of our cultures being different. There are 3 guys here that are also volunteering for the sports program, so we got in a big sports talk. I swear I am like a guy sometimes. We talked about soccer… oh I mean futebol… in their words “you are the only country to say soccer, so you have to say it right, its futebol.” Every time I said soccer one of them would correct me. Overall, it was just a lot of good conversations and fun times.

It is about 2:30 in the morning at this point, and naturally I think it’s time to go home and sleep. No. These people are party animals that stay out all night and sleep all day. Considering I did not want to ride home on a bus by myself I joined them at this nightclub. I am glad I did, it was unlike any nightclub I have seen. Brazil definitely knows how to party. It was one of those nightclubs that were so prestigious that they had a dress code. One of the guys in our group even went and changed pants with someone because they would not let us in with him wearing barramuda shorts. EVERY single girl in this place was dressed up in a tight and short dress. I am not kidding. I have never seen every single girl wearing the same dresses pretty much, but different designs and high heels. Keep in mind, I was wearing a soccer shirt, jeans, a ponytail with pre-wrap and my worn out sneakers. Ba ha. We are all from different countries and every one of us was not carrying the proper identification, apparently you need to carry around a copy of your passport (which I knew, but I had no intention of going to a nightclub at a time where nightclubs close at home). Confession: I was not carrying any form of identification; I just think the body guard felt sorry for me, so he let me inJ, yesssahhh. This night club reminded me of a music video, one that Usher would probably be dancing in. It was huge and had this blue light that was crazy awesome, it is really hard to explain, but I was in awe of this place. Let me just say it was a muito longo noite (very long night) with some funny interactions to say the least and we got home at 7:00 in the morning…