The Process of Re-Americanization

I'm sad to say that within the last couple of weeks, I had to consciously decide to give up the portuguese. Although, I talked to my new roomie, Ana, last night and she would say a couple of thing to me in Portuguese (I told you she was Brasillian, right?) and its funny how it doesn't sound SOOOO foreign to me like before. That just goes to show that you really need to be exposed and exposed and over exposed to a new language, begin to understand it and pronounce words before you can truly be on your way to becoming fluent. Trying to cram all that into two months is ineffective and just incredibly frustrating. I think I gave up because I got into the well, I'm leaving to go back to America soon...I would say that was the first step in my re-americanization process. Maybe if EVERYONE refused to speak English with me, it would be another story. It's really funny when the people in lab or random English speaking people that I run into ask..."So, hows the Portuguese" (this is another one of the questions that EVERYBODY HAS to ask)...I just laugh...really...really...really...hard. Like today, I got on the UFSC-TITRI bus on the way to school to meet up with Cris for lunch, and there were a total of 4 people on the bus, including myself NOT including the driver and his wingman, and tell me why I decided to not have my ipod in so that I could listen to the portuguese chitter chatter (idk, I'm weird, I can't always justify why I do the things I do, I just do them) but all the chitter chatter was in ENGLISH!!! Haha, I was kind of annoyed and turned off...they just sounded so sterotypically "American"...I was giving them dirty looks in my head, even though I appreciated being able to eaves drop into someones, ANYONES convo.

I just got back from lunch with my BFF here Cris. I think this is a GREAT way to end my days at the UFSC lab. They've all planned to come out to the BlackSwan as a sort of a "going away" party :) which makes me happy. They are a great group of people. So smart and very hard working. I truely admire all of them.

I definately plan on coming back. Especially in the summer. Especially with Ana. I told her last night. Plus, in the summer I'm going to make Ernie and Cris show me how to surf. So, this is over, but it's not at the same time.

The past couple of weeks have been pretty chill for me. With the exception of getting a tattoo. Thought I'd just throw that in there. I did it. It did not, and I repeat DID NOT in any WAY SHAPE OR FORM feel any kind of good. At all. There were a select few people that I told first. Each and everyone responded like so..."Are you going to tell your dad?"...."Did you tell your parents?"...."You can't tell your dad, you know that right?"..."Your parents will die"....

I love how everybody knows that my parents can't know, haha...I told Brittany that I will tell them when I'm out of medical or dental school and possibly married and where they are dependant of me financially...yeah, thats when I'll tell them. So I got some time. I'm not even going to worry about it. We have that typical parents-child relationship. I think its good. Maybe becuase they are older compared to other peoples' parents at my age. I go to them for everything, thats for sure, and always include them in my life plans and ideas that I have for myself.Just to backtrack a bit...the day before yesterday, getting off the bus from UFSC...I decided once again to randomly do a little shopping for my people back at home. So I'm in a shop and I here my name being called out in the background!! It was Alessio. Long-story short, (FYI he's the Italian, remember? Dom would kill me, but whatever) he made me homemade pizza!!! Do you see where my enthusiasm is coming from?!?!? An italian...making homemade pizza?!?!? I dont' know how to explain why watching him make pizza was so "cool" to me. hahaha, ok, yeah, maybe I've totally lost it. Anyway, it was soooooooooo soooooooo soooooooooooooooooooo good. Everytime I decide to do something out of the typical daliy routine, something fun happens :) I like it!!! Tudo bem (plus a thumbs up sign)!!!! So I ended up getting a TON of awesome Italian rap songs, my favorite being Vaffanculo Scemo by Fabri Fibra. AWESOME!!!!! oh Tutti Matti is great too. I felt so dumb trying to communicate with Alessio. He speaks 3 languages...fluently...I was getting so confused, because I've been adjusting to listening to try and understand portuguese, which has been easy to do becuase thats what they speak here, but Alessios native languages are French and Italian (the part of Italy where he lives in right on the French-Italy border so they speak French there as well)...so when he's mumbling or rambling...its in Italian, which sounds very similar to Portuguese...at one point I had to ask him...I was like...when you're just talkin' shit or whatever, are you speaking Italian...he was like...uh....yeah...hahaha. Then I was being nosey looking through his computer, and everythings in Italian!!!! One freakin' language at a time PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!! We had 3 different translator-dictionaries out, too, haha...I love it!!!

Just when I think that I will NEVER EVER be able to find a brasillian bikini that I love and looks great on...I've currently obtained 3 sets :)

Good times, good times.