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So how was Carolina?

Fantastic
Fun

Great
Greater

Awesome
Amazing

Unbelievable
Unforgettable!


I´m never gonna forget when me, Anki, Lars, Sophie, Nina, Emmie, Johannes, Esben and Lucas where standing as a group of exited criancas the day before Christmas. Jumping, clapping hands, eating, doing exercies, more eating  and laughing.
I remember the difference in Lars and Anki ( neither of them I knew then in the same way as I do now) of how they were looking at eachother and Lucas asking them if they where a couple, me thinking NO WAY!, them saying they where like brother and sister. Haha Lars dissapointment and Ankis eyes that where saying something else.
I remember a girls talk on the bathroom, one sorvete de flocos, 4 liters of agua, farofa, wierd chips, biscuit and a bunch of cookies which only was tha beginning of a week of cookies addiction.
I remember a cool bus with two floors and nice bed chairs.
I remember I really nice evening chat and a extremly dirty dictionary
I remember a horribel night without any sleep, feeling like I was trying to survive in the snow a hard winter night.
I remember coming to a smelly little town and a bunch of exchangestudent that had to xi xi xi (pee)
I remeber driving in nowhere but what wasn´t even the contryside
I remember a WAY to short pink little super stupid tothbrush
And now I remember understanding the function of my pink super smart tothbrush three days later. 
I remember the first beutiful twin Falls and a really nice day
I remeber Emmie breaking two beds in two minutes
I remember going out the first night to a pizza resturant and a stack of sweaty used papers on the ground haha. 
I remember filisofic nights on the stairs and hair massage
I remember the stars, the moon and the universe
I remember a black cat
I remember praying before sleep and crying of the presence of god
I remember preferring to bring home pizza and stay at home instead of going to a party 
I remember a lot o bumpy car trips and beutiful african choir songs
I remember making up new langugaes and words
I remember Turistas and Lord of the Flies island
I remember the current river, that was strong enough to connect a bond, an alliance
I remember promises of everlasting friendship and visiting to other countries
I remember a gringa to Baihana under the waterfalls with the hole
I remember overprotecting guys, funny fake couples and jelous boys and girls
I remember 11 o clock ice cream in the evening and banana split
I remember painting nails, getting dressed with my  things and girls talking on the room ( so nice thanks girls!)
I remember the salad dance, getting high, trying to fly the sky, remember Sophie?
I remember so many beutiful places and waterfalls
I remember a 10 man date with Nina and the wierd nice guy
I remember a perfect night talk with Emmie
I remember a hilarious game of uno and reagge dance to Bob Marley
I remember me and Anki making a "stealing the denmark hat expedition from Lars and hide it inside the huggy bear" and a stupid Lars who was getting nothing.
I remember Nina falling in through the boys room and learning, Lucas is bitter when he´s tired
I remember stealing breakfast food from the hotel to mine and Ankis survival food bag
I remember childishly hiding our survival food from others and stomach ache for all the crap we had eaten, which we probably deserved
I remember a sucessfull suco hunting
I remember a group of suffering boys with helmets before "take of" haha
I remeber super exited and happy brazilians and unhappy dissapointed pissed europeans that thought they waisted there money. OBS DONT DO TIROLESA, IT´S NOT WORTH IT!
I remember feeling sad because time pass too fast
I remember deciding to eat healthy with Anki at a huge supermarket, trying to look for anything that didn´t have 2 kilos of sugar and salt
I remember giving up and 2 min later buy one apple, water and..... a bunch of chocolate, cookies crackers and salgados
I remember a beutiful landscape and a rising sun outside the buss window 4 o clock on a new day!



Some of these memories I have on picture, others in my mind.
But most of them will forever be in my heart! <3

Så mycket saker som snurrar runt i skallen
och kroppen känns helt förfallen.

Att det alltid ska finnas problem och drama
allt jag önskar är någon att krama

Någon som håller om mig, någon som säger allt blir okej
Någon som bryr sig, som säger jag är en toppen tjej

Nej det jag egentligen behöver är någon som löser alla problemen
Lyfter mig upp, och hjälper mig att stå igen på benen

Är trött och måste lägga huvudet ner igen
Men den kalla hårda bänken får mig bara att längta hem...

Clara och Inez hittade världens godaste chokladkaka, den var Sååå god! 

MEDOOOO!


Meninas at the salon hsaushau ;)



Kelseys inside feelings/ luxury prison...



Was feeling extremly down at the geografi class today ... <3

We went to on orphange called casa da familia and this is Agnes with one of the small boys



Watching movie at the friends of Juliana. OMG she has ALL the nice musicals on DVD! Defiantly going back soon ;)





Then I went to the beach one day with SOFIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAA!










A day when I came late to school, which is pretty much every day...










Esbens B-day!!
took like 2 x 3 times 10 minutes speak before anyone could get a fucking piece of cake :p
no just kidding you know I love ya too ;)






oh so cute, when they dont get toooo gay.... <3



Blonds have more fun!! HAHAHA think I'll paint my hair blond :D
A night out in centro


Janki



Marnine




















YEEAAH!



Rio anil


Esbina with a cup of coffe ;)





Anki and her sister Erika <3



The future Jardins in minature, an area they're building in sao luis that's gonna be super luxurious.




My new hostfamily





Maria Laura & Marcella :)

In september me and some friends went to the cinema and I promised my friend flavia ever since that, that I would put up the pictures. She has been waiting until now but better late than never right ;)

Mona Lisa, Me, Thaissa & Isadora


Amanda








Anne, me and Thaissa

Paula and ..... Me ;)

After twelve long hours in the buss the jorney continued in a mini buss  Here we can see to worn out and crazy exchangestudents ;)


Rasta Love <3


OH the "little" german Lars!


hahahahaha, Johannes face! Sorry was playing a little bit with the photo :p







Emmie broke two of the beds in our hotel room in two minutes...



Everybody looks kind of high after the little buss trip

 
The whole Carolina gang!!


My beutiful darling dear <3




EMMIE!!!









Lars, Anki, Esben and Nina



The three musketeers!






Haha a nice and mouldy anki ;)




Lucas and Sophie <3


Don't mess with the Anki when she has to pee! While nina is gone and happy as useally :)




The girls room!





THE STAIRS

At the hotel there where some stairs that was just going up to nothing. But when you climbed up you could see everything. In the morning the rising sun and in the evening full moon and burning stars...  








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Oh Esben such a happy little jyttlandman haha XD






























on the way to one of the falls























Me super hot in my Bombay style of wearing sunglasses ;)

Well don´t know where to begin really. There happend so much and I´m way to lazy when it comes to writing. But I diceded that i´m going to take myself together. More than all for my own sake so that I can carry these memories with me.
Well I could always start with something simple, like that I changed language. I want all my friends and family to be able to hear my stories. I realised that I have friends from the whole world, family in the whole world. I can´t explain enough with words how greatful I am for all the fantastic people I´ve met on my jorney, and how many more I´m going to know on my way. I´m learning so much each day, each hour each second and moment. The other day me and some friends whatched the movie Eat Pray and Love with Julia Roberts, great movie that I deeply recomend. After the movie I was in a total trans, thinking. I really conected to the film and I think especially all the exchange student did when we in fact actually are doing the same thing as the woman in the story. No, where not going to Italy, India and Bali. But in basic where experiencing and going through the same. Where taking the risk of leaving everything that´s safe and familiar to us and switching in to something completly unfamiliar and risky. But it´s all beyond worthiness, it´s something you can´t set a price on. It is a blessing. The only backside is that when you first got, spooked, lived, loved, breathed and understood it there´s no going back. Nothing is ever gonna be the same beacuse you have gotten to see the world with new eyes. A wider view that you cannot close and which you now only want to expand. I´m going to learn as many languages as I can, see as many places as I can, know god in as many ways and meet as many diffrent peolpe that I can in my life. This is what I want to use the time god as given me to. Though it gives me the questions, how am I ever going to find a home and settle down, will the time be enough, will anything ever be enough? A risk I have to take as I leave my worries and my future in someone else hand and continue the jorney<3

About three weeks ago I got a call from Lucas. He told me that my agency expolrius in Sweden wanted me to write a letter about my experiance in brazil for their homepage. But because my mom had her birthday the same day I wasn´t able to write the letter. And the the after I was busy with something else... ;) When I then came to Via mundo the day after that I met a disappointed Lucas and angry Ivo. Ivo was following me around all the time, giving me the evil eye and asking if I where done with the text. The answere was always no and even do I hid he sempre (=always) managed to find. The whole thing ended with a long night of work, an unfinished text, three disappointed people plus bad consience from part. But if you count explorius, Ivo and Lucas as the people I would probably have to add myself as disappionted. Because I'm not really happy about the text, it's comercialish, booring and don't tell the whole truth or true feelings according to my opinion. But either way I'm to lazy to finish it...

So anyway here it is:

Brasil, Brasil, Brasil!

Well to start with, the best way to describe Brazil is diffrent. Everything is diffrent, the weather, the food, the school, the family, the environment, the transportation, the security, the music, the culture, the language and especially the people. I don't even know where to start! But I can start with the location and enviroment.

As and exchange student traveling with Explorius and Via Mundo (my agency in Sao Luis ) to Brazil you will be situated in Sao Luis, which is a very small city compared to Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other big cities in Brazil. Sao Luis has about a bit more than 1 million inhabitants. For me however this is a quite big city since I lived i Stockholm and Copenhagen which isn't much bigger. This was one of the reason to why I choosed Expolrius. I knew from the begining where're I was going to be situated. All the exchange student who travels with Explorius and Via mundo goes to Sao Luis, which for me has been really positive. All of the others exchange student are very good friends to me and it's so nice to have close friends that you can talk to who's in the same "situation" as yourself. Sao Luis is an island so everywhere it adjacent to the ocean which leads to MANY nice beaches ;) And in the center of Sao Luis you have the centro historico which is very beutiful place.  Sao Luis is in the state Maranhao, in the north of Brazil. Because of that the wether is hot all year round. Sao Luis has as the rest of Brazil a big diffrent between poor and rich people. Because of this some areas are extremly poor while other are extremly luxurios. But Sao Luis is quite secure as long as you just think about what you do.
Before I left I was told that the family rules where a lot stricter than in Sweden. But after being here for 2 month that's not my impression at all.  The brazilian family is very tolerant as long as you earn their respect and respect them too, they just want you to be safe and happy which is very understandable as they now have the responsibilty for you this year.

A typical weekday for me is waking up about six a clock in the morning. Take a quick shower in the cold water and after that put on my uniform. That have made me and the other students in my school famous as the avocados in town. The breakfast in Brazil isn't very big. Usually it's some bread, fruit and juice.
Then my mom drives me to school. The transportation in Sao Luis can be a bit complicated in the beginning. Because the buss is very "unorganized" , which may seem a bit chaotic... An example is that there dosen't exist any real buss stop. So when you want to get off the buss you have to scream at the driver and as you're going of the bus it's literally driving away the same time as you're jumping of it. But when you do learn how to take it, it's very easy and gives you a lot of freedom.
My school begins 7.10 in the morning. In Brazil you go to school in the morning or in the afternoon.  The exchange students almost always go in the morning shift. Which in my opinion is much better because then you get more out of the day. I love going to school. The schoolwork and the classes in particular aren't  especially fun the first two months when you don't understand a lot of portuguese. But the people are awesome! It's easy making friends because everyone is so happy, open and intrested. This makes the classes fun and lively. The teachers like to joke a lot with the students, sometimes even more than teaching. My history teacher for an example can make English history turn into a standup comedy about how girls talk on the phone with their boyfriends while he at the same time reveal the secret about his true identity of being a woman and finish the whole thing in a danceclass. This includes all of the brazilian people. Whom all are warm, open, happy, curious, loving and especially CRAZY;) I belive it's much easier coming as an exchange student to Brazil from any country in Scandinavia, than it is for a brazilian exchange student to come to any country in Scandinavia.
For me school is also one of the best places to practice portuguese. When you speak with your classmates they're all very helpful and want you to learn this beutiful language.
After the school I go home to my grandmother to eat lunch. The lunch is usually the biggest meal in the day. And the food in Brazil is really good, with a lot of rice, feijão (beans), farofa, chicken, meat, pasta, fruit, suco and other delicious things.
After the lunch I would prefere to go to sleep a little while. But most of the days I always have something to do. Like going to dance classes, basketball, capoeira, volleyboll, meeting friends, go to the mall, the movies, the beach with my family to drink coconut water or go to the church which is more like going to a concert. So often I'm always doing something. But sometimes I just stay at home, sleep a little, study, play some guitar and hang out with my sister and the rest of my family. The dinner is diffrent from  day to day. It depends of what you been doing and how much time you had to make it. Sometimes it's only toast and other times it's a big meal like the lunch. And to be honest let me just tell you that the brazilians are big fans of The Toast when they're to lazy to cook which is pretty often. Seriously, I never seen my hostmother cook a single meal while I been here the two past month, not even my grandmother when we go to her home. Only their mades cook, however very good. Anyway when I then go to bed in the evening I'm often very tired because of the heat and all the activities I've been doing during the day. So I fall to sleep right away and get a short but good night sleep.
The weekend is usually fullbooked. Fridays and Saturdays most people go out in the evenings. Sao Lauis has like the rest of Brazil A LOT of good music. Everything from more American and European music, to rock, reagge, forro, axé, samba, pagode and other nice music. It's everywhere and there's something for everyone. And Everybody  knows how to dance!
On the days in the weekends you often go to the beach, with your friends and family to chill and have a lot of fun.
The family is important and the realations in the families are very close and supportive. When you arrive to your brazilian family they welcome you with open arms and love.

So what I really wanted to say about all of this is that I deeply recomend you to go to Brazil a year as an exchange student if you want to try something completely different.
If you want to live the brazilian way of life, live by each day.

And if you want:

Friends for a lifetime
Experience for a lifetime
Wisdom for a lifetime
Fun for a lifetime

And simply the greatest time of your life!

Godag min kära moder,

Hälsningar från en annan plats långt långt borta
Åh vad jag önskar att jag kunde sporta

en lokolation placerad i hög temperatur
varma öppna männsikor utan mur

Men ack vad jag då upprepade gånger kan känna saknad av kyla
ronjar rövar dotterns våra skri och vargarna yla

,Kreativitet och praktiskt utförande i den akademiska utbildningen
Att det politiska systemet inte fungerar här är väl ändå sanningen

Kaotiska bussar, försenhet och olämlig ohälosam föda
Hur kan så många ting vara en möda

Eller är sanningen bara att allt blir tusen gånger värre pågrund av saknaden efter dig
Det fattas något, jag känner tomhet, du är ju halva mig

Människorna här fattar helt och hållet sans
Liksom maten är de ständigt ur balans

Men denna vannsinnighet är ju ändå lite lustig
Slår utan svårighet luten fisk och påske dryck som är mustig

Sätter jag svart på vitt lövlädda midsommar stångar med gamlat folk, nationnalistiska dräkter och dans till små grodernas musik
Föredrar nog en var själ vackra kvinnor och män sambadansandes i paljett och fjädrar med rytmik

En natt i den vackra skärgården på sten, en brasa, gitarr och solnedgång finns ingen annan stans, den är unik
Men gör ingen skillnad då du morgonen efter vaknar upp och finner världen sig lik

Må hända att havet och solen trost allt vinner detta år
Vilket jag med stora chansar först finner svaret på till nästa vår

GRATTIS MAMMA JAG ÄLSKAR DIG HÄR ÄR EN DIKT MED RIM FRÅN MIG!

I älskar sa (Svedadusupor)

Ja då är man här igen, ännu nästan två veckor har gott och jag har knappt hunnit skriva något eller lagt in några bilder eftersom det händer så mycket haha! Vilket jag är glad för ;)

Jag hade ju min första vecka i skolan och sedan min andra. Skolan blir bara bättre och bättre för varje dag ju mer jag lär känna alla. Åter igen måste jag påpeka att jag älskar min klass. Den är SÅ skön att jag måste skriva det en gång till! Och jag har en känsla av att jag kommer skriva de många gånger till...

Min andra vecka i skolan:

Alla tjejerna är lite smått galna i blyga tysken Niklas. Niklas är en väldigt snäll kille men ibland lite tråkig.


Killen längst ut i högra hörnet är extremt läskig och verkar förfölja mig ... :/

Jessica och jag äter chup chup





















Super korta Lia och super långa mig haha :P





Har varit försenad varje dag till skolan den här veckan vilket har gjort att jag inte får komma in i klassrummet till första lektionen, istället för man chilla med de andra som också kommer försent ;)












PÅ lördagen var alla utbytesstudenterna och de flesta syskonen på stranden med via mundo, sjukt härlig dag! 

Jag och Mara hade en liten fotosession på stranden med min digital lilla kamera.  Som vi fick dela på då båda är fotointresserade och ingen av oss vill vara med på bild. Det sluta med att Mara i stort sätt tog över kamreran och därför är den största delen av bilderna på mig. Jaja det var väl lite kul att för en skull vara framför kameran ;)

































































Jag och ´min värdsmamma Lillian, hon är världens gulligaste :)


Min vackra syster Sara :)

Så förra veckan började jag i skolan vilket var jätte kul då jag fick träffa en massa nya roliga människor. På fredagen var sista dagen på intersivkursen i portugisiska vilket kändes rätt sorgligt då man skulle sakna att se alla varje dag. Från och med nya skulle vi bara träffas en gång i veckan 2 timmar istället för tre. Men vi kan ju såklart fortfarande träffas i alla fall, men det är ändå inte riktigt samma sak:( Jag börjarde inse att alla nu skulle börja deras egna liv i brasilien och man från och med nu är tvungen att klara sig mer på "egenhand"...
Så som avslutning hade vi den sista lektionen med Rafaela i biografen. Vi såg någon jätte skum brasilansk film och man förstod i prencip inget av filmen ifall man inte hette Inez eller Mara. Men det var nåt med en maktlysten bregravningsfantast som hade tre fruar som alla var överdrivet dramatiska och kåta...?

Efter biografen åkte jag i alla fall hem till Clara, det var jätte mysigt och hennes familj verkar super gullig. 
På lördagen skulle vi sedan upp rätt så tidigt på morgonen för att åka till stranden med alla utbytesstudenter. På stranden spelade jag strand tennis med Mara, Sara och Ankis (Annika) supersöta lillebror Matteus. Det var lite svårt när det blåste så mycket men roligt i alla fall. Vi badade och hade fotbolls match, tjerna mot killarna. Killarna som hade både landslagsproffset Niklas och brasse proffset Matteus. Jag och Mara gjorde även en liten fotoexpidition och sedan fick vi även en liten forro undervisning ;) Dagen på stranden var toppen och vi gjorde en massa kul! 

På kvällen var jag sedan ute på clubben flamingo igen. Förra gången var mycket roligare och jag bestämde mig att nästa helg blir det forro :)

Nästa dag ville min familj att jag skulle stanna hemma från skolan för det tyckte att vi kom hem sent igår och jag förstår ändå nada i skolan på lektionerna så det gör inget ifall jag inte jag missar nån dag haha.

först sade jag nej, eftersom jag tycker det är kul med skolan och träffa alla kompisar men sedan ångrade jag mig i morse när jag skulle gå upp haha