March 2nd

At this point, I'd just like to say thank you to all my family who is reading this blog and giving me such great feedback. It's for you all that I'm writing this, so I'm glad to know you all are enjoying it :).

Nothing new has really happened. Yesterday I went shopping by myself and got some clothes. I even managed to speak Portuguese to some people. Not that I intended to, but apparently some people just want to converse, so it was okay. It's nice to meet people who can tell you obviously don't speak their language, but want to talk anyway.

My next Portuguese classes begin March 12. Right now I'm just trying to get ahead in my classes from home in this little bit of time I have. I've decided that I probably won't do online classes again if I can help it. It's not too bad, but 1) I'd rather be doing Brazillian things, and 2) they are really quite boring since I can't interact with anyone in person. I'm kind of big on personal interraction as most of you who know me probably know :). I am not complaining, though, if it weren't for online classes, I wouldn't be as far along in school as I am now, so it's all good.

I'll try to get some more pictures up soon. I realize that when you read a blog, you really just want to see the pictures anyway. They won't be of the beach for now because I think we've about exhaused our "vacation" funds, but I'll try to post some more of where we live and the city.