Jambeiro 2

What a surprise! It is about a week after and I am writing my blog!

Friday, September 23, 2009
On Friday's school is done early, so instead of leaving at 12:40pm on a regular day, Friday's we are allowed to leave at 12:00pm. However, this Friday our Sociology teacher wasn't there, and since they don't have substitute teachers we got to leave at 11:40am.
After School my host mom picked me up and we went out for lunch. After lunch we met up with a woman who was going to take me and two other girls to the Rotary Conference in Jambeiro, São Paulo. The previous conference we took a bus, but this time we had outbounds for the weekend and their parents came on Sunday.
There were only a few people that stayed the night, mainly people from the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Saturday, September 24, 2009
In the morning everyone else arrived and we had breakfast. After breakfast the outbounds and the inbounds split off. This time the entire weekend was in Portuguese, instead of the first time where Inbound Coordinator and the District Chairman spoke in English. So this time they only talked in English for the important parts. Also, the inbounds were all made to speak in Portuguese as well, we were all given a small rubber ball and if they heard us speaking english we got the ball taken away. Well, by the end of the weekend I still had my rubber ball, I just didn't speak in English while any of the Rotarians were listening!
Later on in the evening we had a talent show!!! I played my flute, I played two songs, one was "O Canada", of course, and the other one was just a random song. After words we had time before we went to bed to just talk and get to know people, it was really good and I met a lot of cool people.
For sleeping we had these little cabins that consisted of a small kitchen area, with basically a fridge and a sink, a bathroom, and for sleeping, in the upstairs loft was one double bed and downstairs were three chairs that when you stretched out became a bed. So if you do the math that is two people upstairs and three downstairs = five, we had seven. There were three outbounds and four inbounds, one from USA, one from Germany, Denmark, and CANADA!
What happened is they ended up pushing all the chairs together and were able to uncomfortably sleep four. Upstairs on the other hand, the double bed was large, but not big enough to fit three so, one of us, I think you can guess who, slept on a very, very thin mat on the hard wood floor. However, I shouldn't complain, I kind of offered, I figured

Sunday, September 25, 2009
After Breakfast, we had a country fair, where all of the inbounds had one table for their country and all of the outbounds and their parents got a chance to go around and look, I forgot a lot of my things, so my table wasn’t very good, I was also hoping that the other exchange student from Canada would have stuff, but I found out when I got there that she had returned to Canada. It was okay though, some of them said they still wanted to go to Canada, they even said they wanted to live in my house! So that was nice to hear.

This is a video, that a parent took from Sunday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_7tad3Unls&feature=email

Tuesday, September 27, 2009
I went to a Rotary meeting in Mendes, I live in the town of Mendes, but my host club is Engenheiro Paulo de Frotin. At the meeting I presented the club president with a banner from my club in Canada.

Wednesday, September 28, 2009
I went to my host club Rotary meeting, which I try to go to every week. I gave them my banner on my first night in Brasil.

Thursday, September 29, 2009
I went to a Rotary meeting in the town of Vassouras, a neighboring town, where I presented my club banner to the club president and the District Govenor.

Friday, September 30, 2009
I had a night off from Rotary and didn’t do much.

Saturday, September 31, 2009
Happy Halloween!
Happy Birthday Aunt Ada!