More Brasil

Well.....
I am bakin of heat right now, its quite ridiculous actually.
Since the last entry, I have gone to a brasilian wedding. It was of the son of the ppl we are staying with. They didn´t have a normal bridal party, instead it was different already married couples who are "padrinos" of the marriage. Portuguese is quite different in pronunciation, so I don´t understand much when ppl are talking, but am catching more and more. Can´t talk it tho. Maybe that´ll come.
Other highlights of the journey so far.....
The house is packed still with family from the wedding, so every day is a bit of an adventure. There are 4 family groups in the house, so we get all the dynamics of that.
We went to a tropical dinner a few nights ago, the food was amazing, we danced a bit, and there was tons of fruit. Absolutely delicious!!! There was a salad that at first we all thought was ensalada chilena (onions, tomatoes, and cilantro) but it turned out that it was watermelon, onion, cilantro, and lettuce. It was a bit shocking the first bite, but also super yummy. I wasn´t a fan of the fruit mixed with fish tho (the brasilian fish just isn´t as good as the chilean stuff!!) At the party, my host sister and cous thought 2 guys were really cute, but were too scared to talk to them, so i started talking to them...in my very bad portuganish, and turns out that they had broken english, so we were able to talk a bit more, and then i passed them off onto the girls. I was doing a bit of translating, making up for when they had to translate for me before.
The other day, I went to the movies with some of the girls that are staying at the house....they chose a movie called silk, thinking that it would be in english with portuguese subtitles. uhuh, it was in japonese or something with subtitles. I could understand the portuguese tho when I read it, so got the movie. The first few sentences were english...and after that we laughed about it. I didn´t love the movie.....a type of suspense, and those of you who have been with me while I´m watching those types of movies know that I prefer to watch them with someone who knows the ending, and also in a place where I can easily leave. The girl next to me had the same kind of reaction. I was lucky, because with my chilean ID card, i only had to pay half price!!!! (altho i donated the other half to the popcorn that they had bought)
I am blogging right now because tomoro morning we are going to the beach and wont have computer and internet in the house, and not sure if i´ll get to an internet cafe. We´re going to be there for a while, possibly til the 15th of february..or at least we can have the house til then, and after that starts the festivities of Carnaval!!! Should be fun....
I was a bit bummed because I found out about a trip to the south of Chile with the exchange students that I can´t go to because I can´t change my airline ticket. I had really been looking forward to the other trip with them...but no go. A bunch will be coming down to my neck of the woods tho (the faaarrr south) in april for a trip to torres del paine, so I might see about that one.
I have been happy to have received emails from my mom and sister about their time in Nigeria. They are doing well.....sounds like they are not having the crazy hot weather that we are.
We got home from the tropical dinner (2 nights ago) and I had a killer headache, not sleeping very well at all. The next day, I woke up with an incredibly sore throat. I was given various medicines (ppl here dont really go to doctors, they just go to the pharmacy and know what to buy.......) However, nothing I was given helped much. It turns out that I have swollen glands, its quite ugly actually. Yesterday I had a fever, so was wearing jeans and a sweater while everyone else was baking. My body was actually really hot, but I felt incredibly cold, a very weird feeling. Thankfully the fever is gone now, but the throat not so much. I think we are heading to town soon to buy our bus tickets to go to the beach tomoro and also to buy me some medicine.