The title is to the tune of Living on a Prayer-just so you know ;) and that song makes me super excited for Football season-go Cougars!
One last thing about the sertão-which means desert if I never got around to translating. The first family that we visited actually had a form of food storage set up, it was mostly filled withthe pulp and juice from fruit in order to make suco-juice to drink, but you can´t go wrong with that because boy oh boy is it delicious! Honestly, everyone raved about how good the juice in Romania was (and by everyone I mean the missionaries that served there!) but that was all mostly boxed juice, this fresh stuff takes the cake! Even thise frozen, fresh stuff is divine.
Remember how I told you that there are a lot of shark attacks in Recife? No? I was sure that I put that up the day that I lost my leg while out swimming, hmmm, well I guess I will just have to mention it again-if you can bear reading the account of a person who only has one leg now (don´t ask which one I lost, it is too painful to mention, sniff sniff)
Anyway, these are a few of the signs that they have up along the beach to warn people of the very real danger. Also they go around and put up danger flags in certain areas, scary! Just be sure to Avoid Sea Bath!
Ok, let´s fill you on a few more of the people in my group, first off I think I will start with the siblings, dun dun dun!!!
Here we have Sara and Jonathan Boyack. Their mother is Brazilian and they both served here in Brazil-Sara in Manaus and Jonathan in Maceió so needless to say their Portuguese is pretty darn good. These two love to run marathons together and always seem to have contact with each other-as in hitting fists together repeatedly, tapping a hand to an arm for a long time-they are just always touching and it is actually quite funny!
They are the only two kids in their family and so grew up as pretty good little friends. They get along really well and love to do things together. They love to watch TV series and are constantly quoting them. I am pretty convinced that they have seen nearly all the episode to nearly all the TV series that have ever aired! If anyone so much as mentions an episode from Psyche, The Office, The Walking Dead, The Big Bang Theory, 30 Rock, Arrested Development...anything, they have seen it and most likely memorized it!
Sara is studying public health and is super smart! She is planning on running in the Man vs Mud marathon and a Zombie one this coming fall. She recently took up snowboarding and absolutely loves it. She is the one that I stayed with my first night or two here in Brazil and she kind of showed me the ropes of the place. She wants to learn how to play the drums, practice more with cooking and, I don´t remember if it is her or Berkley, maybe both, but wants to learn to drive a stick-whoop whoop.
Jonathan is a very sarcastic person, we´ve had a few go rounds here and there and I think he might have me beat. He believes that he is in a contest with Sara to see who can visit the most continents (though she is not aware of this contest nor is she very competitive about it!)
One other thing about Jonny, he is a photo bomber! You really have to be careful with this kid around because you will look back at a lot of your picture and see his curly little head peeking around someone elses! It is actually quite entertaining.
Next we have my roomate Carla. She is from the Dominican Republic and I actually knew her before we came out here because she was in my Portuguese class. She is studying advertising. Carla hiked the mountain that we went to in the desert in her flip-flops, quite a feat. She is definitely a girly-girl, she loves makeup, always is wearing jewelry and painting her nails, and takes a lot of time doing her hair and getting ready, and she hates being dirty so this was kind of hard for her! She is really talkative and funny and we have had fun rooming together
Carla is one of about 4 other people in the group who hasn´t served a mission yet, but maybe she will. She is a convert to the church, and I think the only member of her family. She laughed at me a ton when we were in the desert because I became the mosquito hunter in our room. She would just sit there and laugh and laugh as I would stealthily sneak across the room, coming up behind the little sucker, tip-toe right on over to sneak attack, and then go crazy trying to smash it and then I would chase it around the room telling it that there was no escape and eventually I would have my revenge, bahahahaha! I don´t really see the humor in it myself though, but however you get your kicks I suppose.
One last thing about the sertão-which means desert if I never got around to translating. The first family that we visited actually had a form of food storage set up, it was mostly filled withthe pulp and juice from fruit in order to make suco-juice to drink, but you can´t go wrong with that because boy oh boy is it delicious! Honestly, everyone raved about how good the juice in Romania was (and by everyone I mean the missionaries that served there!) but that was all mostly boxed juice, this fresh stuff takes the cake! Even thise frozen, fresh stuff is divine.
Remember how I told you that there are a lot of shark attacks in Recife? No? I was sure that I put that up the day that I lost my leg while out swimming, hmmm, well I guess I will just have to mention it again-if you can bear reading the account of a person who only has one leg now (don´t ask which one I lost, it is too painful to mention, sniff sniff)
Anyway, these are a few of the signs that they have up along the beach to warn people of the very real danger. Also they go around and put up danger flags in certain areas, scary! Just be sure to Avoid Sea Bath!
Ok, let´s fill you on a few more of the people in my group, first off I think I will start with the siblings, dun dun dun!!!
Here we have Sara and Jonathan Boyack. Their mother is Brazilian and they both served here in Brazil-Sara in Manaus and Jonathan in Maceió so needless to say their Portuguese is pretty darn good. These two love to run marathons together and always seem to have contact with each other-as in hitting fists together repeatedly, tapping a hand to an arm for a long time-they are just always touching and it is actually quite funny!
They are the only two kids in their family and so grew up as pretty good little friends. They get along really well and love to do things together. They love to watch TV series and are constantly quoting them. I am pretty convinced that they have seen nearly all the episode to nearly all the TV series that have ever aired! If anyone so much as mentions an episode from Psyche, The Office, The Walking Dead, The Big Bang Theory, 30 Rock, Arrested Development...anything, they have seen it and most likely memorized it!
Sara is studying public health and is super smart! She is planning on running in the Man vs Mud marathon and a Zombie one this coming fall. She recently took up snowboarding and absolutely loves it. She is the one that I stayed with my first night or two here in Brazil and she kind of showed me the ropes of the place. She wants to learn how to play the drums, practice more with cooking and, I don´t remember if it is her or Berkley, maybe both, but wants to learn to drive a stick-whoop whoop.
Jonathan is a very sarcastic person, we´ve had a few go rounds here and there and I think he might have me beat. He believes that he is in a contest with Sara to see who can visit the most continents (though she is not aware of this contest nor is she very competitive about it!)
One other thing about Jonny, he is a photo bomber! You really have to be careful with this kid around because you will look back at a lot of your picture and see his curly little head peeking around someone elses! It is actually quite entertaining.
Next we have my roomate Carla. She is from the Dominican Republic and I actually knew her before we came out here because she was in my Portuguese class. She is studying advertising. Carla hiked the mountain that we went to in the desert in her flip-flops, quite a feat. She is definitely a girly-girl, she loves makeup, always is wearing jewelry and painting her nails, and takes a lot of time doing her hair and getting ready, and she hates being dirty so this was kind of hard for her! She is really talkative and funny and we have had fun rooming together
Carla is one of about 4 other people in the group who hasn´t served a mission yet, but maybe she will. She is a convert to the church, and I think the only member of her family. She laughed at me a ton when we were in the desert because I became the mosquito hunter in our room. She would just sit there and laugh and laugh as I would stealthily sneak across the room, coming up behind the little sucker, tip-toe right on over to sneak attack, and then go crazy trying to smash it and then I would chase it around the room telling it that there was no escape and eventually I would have my revenge, bahahahaha! I don´t really see the humor in it myself though, but however you get your kicks I suppose.
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