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My Uncle Gordy sent me an email, observing that it seems like I am not doing any studying, I am just taking buses all over the place and hanging out with friends. Well, this is pretty true and that is because it is the holidays. I really don’t have that much to write about this week.
I go to the gym every weekday morning. Tuesday and Thursday I went to the music school to meet with my friend Marcos who plays Tenor sax and is learning jazz. The only option for playing music right now is in a band for Carnaval and everyone says that there are a lot more bands in a nearby city, Olinda, but that there are not that many bands in Recife.
On Wednesday I went to see a dermatologist and she gave me a prescription for some things to buy for my acne. On Saturday my host mom went with me to order the products. They have to be made especially for me. I don’t get why this is. In the US I just went to the pharmacy, bought an Oil-Free Acne Wash, used it, and didn’t have acne. I can’t find that product here and everything I have used here in Brasil hasn’t worked so well. On Monday I will go to pick up the products.
On Thursday I went to the movies with Gavin, Isabella and her friend Erica. Isabella is an outbound, which means she will be going to another country with the Rotary Youth Exchange. She will go to the US in August. We watched two movies. Paranormal Activity and Avatar. I liked both of them a lot.
On Friday I went to Rotary. I didn’t know if there would be a meeting that day, because my counselor had told me that there possibly wouldn’t be a meeting because of another Rotary event earlier that week. I called him on Friday but didn’t reach him until 12:20 and the meeting starts at 12:30. He told me to take a taxi to the meeting and he would pay me back. I got to the meeting on time, ate lunch there and gave a short speech about my host family switch. One of the Rotarians, Vilmar Cavalcante, invited me to his birthday celebration the next week, and another Rotarian, Diogo, who did an exchange in the US, told me to call him and we could go out for pizza and Gavin could come too.
However, I did not receive my monthly money. I had thought that my monthly pay comes from the Rotary club members, but apparently this is not the case. The money actually comes from the parents of the outbound. (Remember, the meaning of this term?) So, Dorisa and Franklin, my first host parents. The money comes from them, and they have to send it to the Rotary club so I can receive it. But I will get the money sent to my new home.
Friday night I went to a mass with my family to commemorate 7 days after the death of an older brother of my host father. Then one of the siblings of my host father dropped me off in Boa Viagem where I went to a party with my friends Rafael, Victor and Arthur. It was very fun. We went to another party later where I met my friend Joao, and I slept at his house that night. His father, who is a Rotarian, gave me a ride back home on Saturday.
My host Dad lent me a modem to use to access the internet so I reconnected with a lot of people that I hadn’t talked to in awhile because I hadn’t had the internet. I saw pictures from my biological family that is in Israel right now and I found out that there was a big snowstorm going on in my area in the US.
On Sunday I woke up late and my host parents traveled to Natal for the birth of a grandchild. Which will be my host nephew.
I didn’t have any credit on my cell phone because I hadn’t gotten money from Rotary so I couldn’t call anybody, so I stayed in the house all day, watching movies. I didn’t have internet connection because my host Dad took the modem with him.
Well thanks for reading. Happy holidays to everyone.

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