Eu amo minha amigas brazillian !

OIIIIIIIIIIIIII VOCES! 

I have been so busy lately that my mom has to remind me to blog! hehe. 

THINGS ARE AMAZING
I have been in Brasil for 2 months! wow! where has the time gone? My exchange is going to be over before I know it! waaaaaaah. 
Being here for 2 months also means that I am moving host familes in just one short month! Which sucks! I love my host family to bits! they are so nice and welcoming to me, I have so much appreciation to them. I am especially upset because I have just began to feel at home in my house, and I have to move. Oh well though! New adventures.

I have been going out with my friends alot, watching movies, going out to eatm going dancing. I have bonded with them so much already, its going o be so heartbreaking to leave them. But, I can see trips to Brasil in my future, and maybe even some can come to Canada for a short while! Who knows. 

As I have been going out and constantly meeting new people, I have made some realizations.

realization #1-
People from Canada, USA, and places I have travelled in Europe, all seem very rude and stuck up, after spending time here. For example, in Canada while meeting new people at a dance club, there is much awkwardness in the air, a quick hello, maybe a handshake, and thats the end of it. While in Brasil, even when people didn't know I was Canadian, I was instantly pulled in, hugged and given a kiss on the cheek, asked questions about myself, and invited to join the circle of friends. When you are talking to someone, its not unusual for them to hold your hand, or stroke your head. This takes some getting used to, but its second nature to embrace people I have only just met, as though I have been friends with them for years now. 

realization #2- 
As I have spent time here, I notice that I have been alot less self conscious about my body. Teenage girls are all typical self conscious, but since I have been here, I truly feel alot healthier of my body image. The girls on the posters are not disgustingly thin, but healthy and curvy. The clothes are not so small that a child could wear them, but made for a healthy body. The girls all wear revealing clothes that show off their HEALTHY curvy body. I definitely have been apppreciating this feeling, and didn't realize how much we actually are influenced by the medias portrayal of "beauty".

realization #3-  
Since I have been here, people have been saying how beautiful and pretty I am. I finally got it explained to me, seeing as Brazillian people are some of the prettiest people in the world, and I often feel very plain compared to some of the girls here. Although I have in the southern hemisphere, much of the media is still American. For instance, movies, tv shows, pictures, are all faces of Americans. So to them, beauty is what the media portrays as beauty, which is an American face! Crazy.



I am starting to feel very at home here. 
much loveeee 
promise I will blog sooner!!