Holy Guacamole!

Speaking of guacamole...not that I really know how to spell it or anything, but you know how I was completely addicted before I left?  I am really craving some of that piece of heaven right now, (sigh of long suffering) but instead of being able to eat that I had to go to some mom and pops joint and eat a delicious hamburger, drink some Guarana (Kevin, Jimmy and Derek will be able to feel for me on that one) and watch a soccer game between Brazil and...somewhere that doesn't really matter, all while surrounded by Brazilians in the beautiful city of Fortaleza-and some people think I am lucky-meh!  Just kidding, it was awesome, you really can't get too much more into the culture than when you are gathered with your friends on Sunday, eating and having fun while watching the Brazilian soccer team win a game.  It was super funny too because after we ate we went over to a military fort and our teacher Vanessa, thought that she needed to share the score of the game and what happened during it, with the guard at the gate, haha, I love Brazilians!
     So I still need to backtrack and finish the awesomeness that was Salvador, but might as well start with what is fresh and at the front of my mind.
    First things first though, I still have a few people that I need to tell you about from the group.  So let's start with Cindy and Jordan Guillory (I hope I spelled their last name right!)  They are a young married couple, they actually had their 2 year anniversary on July 2nd out here with us.  They met while Jordan was on his mission.  He served here in Brazil, and her mom is Brazilian so she was here visiting family and they met once or twice but didn't really talk a ton.  Anyway when he got home things just worked out.  They are super cute together.  Cindy is studying speech therapy and something like...audiology or I don't know what and then Jordan is studying to be a pharmacist and also to get an MBA and he seems super excited about it.  I will have to get pictures of them on here later.
     Here are just some fun pics from Fortaleza.

 Shawndeen, Fernanda-she is a student from the English immersion program we played sports with and had the 4th of July party with.  She lives here in Fortaleza and we have been plotting to meet up ever since we met in Recife.  Hopefully I will have some pictures with Marcilio as well, another one of those students who live here.  Good group of people!  Then there is me, rocking my Porto de Galinhas shirt, and Brady is on the end.  His birthday was actually on Friday the 27th, but I will write more about him in a minute.

Above is the sunset from our first night here, so glorious isn't it.  We decided to eat dinner at a little beach front place, but even being beach front it was still a little bit in for obvious reasons (such as the tide and whatnot) but we decided to run down to the beach while we were waiting for our food and this is what was waiting for us.
    The picture on the right is in front of a stained glass window they have up on a theater downtown, fun stuff!

Fernanda and me again, goodness I just love the ocean and walking along the beach.  The sand here is super nice, soft and almost even fluffy.  If sand wasn't so messy I would just get a box of this for my living room instead of a comfy rug, this stuff feels amazing!  Almost powder-like really and it doesn't stick to your feet and legs like other sand.  Anyway, I feel like I am becoming a sand and beach snob the more we travel and go to different beaches.  Never saw that one coming.

Ok, so Brady Squires is next on our list of peeps to describe.  Like I said he just had his birthday and turned 23, happy birthday to him!  He is a great kid, one of the few guys on this trip that I have had an actual conversation with for an extended period of time.  He has really interesting conversations stored up in him so it is fun.  He served in Florida and didn't know Portuguese hardly at all before the trip but he is super dedicated to learning it and so is always taking notes, jotting down vocab and reading in his language books.  He is not too much into technology like texting, emailing, chatting and whatnot and also would rather be doing stuff 

than watching a movie.  He is trying to get into dental school right now and is really looking into doing about a year of his schooling at a school which I think is in Sao Paulo (sorry I don't have the computer with the built in accents anymore and I don't remember how to do them so the a in Sao Paulo should really have a squiggly line over it-use your imaginations).  Anyway, if he were to do a year there then he would be licensed both in the US and in Brazil so once he got a practice up and going back home he would like to come and start some down here as well.