Brazil!

so, its winter here, but its still really warm. how warm you might ask? well, i just saw some brazilian MAN ASS hanging out of a speedo. so, its pretty warm. the humidity is unbelievable! i curl my hair in the morning, put in pounds and pounds of gel, and after being outside for a while, it just fros into this huge ball. yeah, im super hot. dontcha want me?

we havent really done anything yet. after 21 hours of travel, we got here yesterday afternoon at which point everyone just sat around, which was annoynig because i just wanted to get out and DO stuff. then we ended up going to dinner and having "muqueca" (or something to that effect) which was really good--except for the hair. so, the dish itself is a fish dish, kind of like a stew, and you serve it over rice. however, as we were eating, one of the girls, emma, pulled this long strand of blonde hair out of her mouth. we were all kinda freaked out for a minute, but then i said, you know its probably one of your hairs. so, we accepted that and moved on. a few minutes later, another girl, sarah, pulled a hair out of HER mouth. now, i didnt see that one, so i dont know if it was hers or what, but i wanted to go to the back and see what blonde long-haired person was cooking our food! its brazil!

today, i was up at 830 figuring other people would be up soon too so we could start teh day because there is so much to do and not a lot of time to do it in! yeah, i sat around until almost 1130 when everyone else finally got up. but once people were up, we went for a really nice walk by teh beach, and we got green coconuts to drink the milk and eat the flesh. this woman has a stand with the coconuts, and you ask for one and she takes this massive machete and hacks at the coconut until there is a hole for the straw. then, when youre done drinking, you give the coconut back to her and again she starts hacking away with the machete until you can split it and eat the gooey inside. it was good--not how i expected it to taste, but good!

after that we came home to the apartment where i had my first tast of cashew nut juice. it was actually good! it tastes like something back home, but i cant figure out what....

(sorry about punctuation/spelling--the keyboard is different here!!)