A day away from BRASIL

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  Off the coast of brazil, Brazil
Saturday, February 17, 2007

There are no words for how excited I am right now. Tomorrow at 0700 hours we land in SALVADOR, BRAZIL! I've met two kids on the trip who can speak Portuguese and one of them refuses to speak to me in anything else, but it's embarrassing because I am so bad at it I never know what to say. I'm working on it though.

So tomorrow the plan is to get off the ship as early as we can, and spend the whole day in Salvador enjoying carnaval. I honestly don't even know what to expect at all. Then, the next day at like 730 in the morning we fly out to RIO! I'm spending three days there, and to be honest, I'm a little nervous. We are staying in a hotel that's 9 miles from Copacabana so I don't really know what the cabs are going to be like, and rumor has it that 250 semester at sea kids got robbed in Rio last year. My friend Alex, who also goes to USC, is going to be in Rio too but his dad got him an apartment right on Copacabana Beach. so I think im going to try to end up staying with him.

Everything else is pretty great, except for the fact that we've been stuck on this ship for 7 full days now. Classes are pretty boring, sometimes interesting. I've slept through our global studies the past three days and we had our first test this morning, not so sure how I did. My art history class is pretty boring, and because I lied and said I'd taken art history before, the class is that much more difficult (its considered an upper division class with all these pre-reqs). In my film class we just watched this film whose English title is Black God, White Devil. It's a Brazilian film from the 1960's that was rated the best Brazilian film ever made. We all couldn't figure out why. It was SO weird. We just started a new film called Orfeu, and the first 8 minutes of that are already better than the other one. My human sexuality class is really interesting and the professor is awesome. Her whole family is on the ship with us, and her two daughters are basically home schooled on the ship. That must be such a cool experience for them.

Other than that, every day is pretty much the same. Its pretty absurd, but I spend my days sleeping, reading, in class, lying out on the deck (I'm more tan right now than I have been the past 2 summer), or running on the treadmill. The crazy thing is tha we literally just passed the equator so the sun is pretty much directly overhead. Today was so hot because we were going pretty slow; I couldn't lay out for very long. It's not such a bad life, and although I'm constantly frustrated by how shy I am in social situations, everything's great. I'll write another entry right after Brazil, if I ever even leave! This is going to be INCREDIBLE.

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