Valentine's Day

This is a post to everybody.

To the first half of the population that has a significant other, husband or wife, take some time right now to thank God for the person he has set before you, I know I will be. Thanks God for the person he has grown you to be and is continuously growing you to be with that other person. I am thankful for everything God has put me through, the easy and the tough, the sad and the happy, to get me to where I am today. Without God, I wouldn't be with the most amazing girl ever imaginable that God has placed here for me. Praise God!

To the second half that is single, take some time right now to thank God that your not in a relationship. Thank him that he is continuously growing you and getting you to be the man/woman he wants you to be. Always know that God has a plan for everyone, a great, masterful, beautiful plan for you, specifically. I know a lot of people can get depressed on this day if they don't have a girl or guy, but that's CRAP! Our Lord is a beautiful God, and will never let us down, provided we trust in Him. Praise God!

Everyone should be happy with where God has them right now in their life.

Everyone should be full of joy with the life God has set before you, if your not...then maybe you're not trusting God or you're running the opposite way of what you know God wants for you.

Here's a shout out to my girl, Tayler. Love you!!

Tchau

A Week or so...

I finished my first week of school...yeah not much to talk about there, haha, too much else going on. Although my teachers are cool, one's from Germany, the other from Brazil

To end my first week of school, we heard about some Escolas de Samba that were near my place, all the schools that are participating in Carnaval are practicing for it, but everyone is invited and it's more of a party than a practice, haha. It was an absolute blast, just crazy load music with everyone singing and dancing along. It was ridiculously awesome!!


So...apparently I live in the best district in Sao Paulo, Vila Madalena, everyone know it is the best, they'll say "Oh, Vila Madalena, the best bars in town". Apparently, it has the best bars, although they consider it a bar while I think of it more as a restaurant with a bar, but anyways everyone I tell where I live that's always the first thing I say. I love this spot, very cultural and lots of things to do.
When Brazilians go to bars, it is definelty more of a relaxed, chilling type atmosphere. A lot of times they have live music and everyone will share their beer, one bottle for the table, while everyone has small glasses they pour it into. A cool, different way to drink with friends.

Tchau

Welcome Party!

Last night my school, IBMEC, had a welcome party. They rented out a night club or bar of some sort, they had an open bar and whatnot...so a lot of people got pretty toasted. Including one of the us. Long story but we had to make sure she made it home without puking to much.

Since I don't drink (well not nearly as much as a lot of people) much the party was a little awkward at first but it ended up being a lot of fun. I got to meet a lot of cool guys that I'll be seeing at school. It was a pretty sweet experience, I'm looking forward to getting to know everybody more.Me and Pedro (a friend I met last night)

The Exchanges (Teresa(ASU), Me(ASU), Sandra(ASU), Marta(U. of Geneva), Leo(U. St. Gallen)

Last Day Before School...

After a long Saturday night making and hanging out with new friends, thanks to my roommate Gabrielle-a Brazilian guy, I did a lot of relaxing today. I only left the house once, but...

When I left the house I heard some drums and music and whatnot, there was a small samba group getting ready for Carnaval, it was awesome a very cool beat and everything...but the best part was on the way home

When I got back close to my street could here some more music, so I followed it, I came up to a truck with a bunch of people in the back of it playing instruments and singing...and then in the street there was all the percussionists with hundreds of people all around them dancing...half the men didn't have shirts and half the people were barefoot dancing in the street, and the best part...it was raining like crazy!! As I stood there watching, all I could think of was "When in Rome..." haha, so I jumped in and started dancing with them...it was so so awesome!! I loved it!! I was completely drenched by the end of it (the photo is once I got home, my shirt is supposed to be light green, but there wasn't a dry spot on it). I even got in the middle of a conga line rolling through the middle of the crowd. I wish everyone could be down here to be doing this with me (especially Tayler :-) )

I can't wait for Carnaval!! This is only a small taste of what is to come!!!!!