A Long-Awaited Entry

Dear Friends,
 I've finally decided to make a blog - it's a bit late though (after four months here already). The thing is, when I got here I thought, oh, this craziness is going to settle down after a little while, what would you have to write about after a few months? I was wrong. Four months on and I am still laughing at myself everyday and noticing odd things about Brazil...


I love Brazil, and I knew that I wanted to stay here longer than I had originally planned, just after a couple days of being here (not during the first hour here though; that was rather traumatic). If you are reading this, you are probably a friend of mine and you've probably already accompanied some of my joys/traumas over here through my Facebook statuses.... You probably already know that I fell in love with Portuguese about a year ago and have been learning it since then, and that I somehow convinced my home university to let me go to USP for credit (when they have never sent anyone to Brazil, ever). A Brazilian friend, Rafael, who I met in Germany on exchange helped me a lot in organising this trip. I arrived here at the end of July 2011, intending to stay until after the carnival 2012. Things have changed though!


I have essentially (as of a couple days, *score*)completed a B.A. in linguistics and French studies, which should be conferred in January 2012 and I will be applying for masters programs in linguistics shortly. (I'm totally not going to say anything about that though because I don't want to jinx myself!! Brazilian laugh: haushauashauahushaauahauahshsuahaushaus, lol) Yes, everyone thinks I am super weird for studying French, everywhere but in France (I also studied in Germany in 2010)...... I have no response to that; I empathise with their confusion!


I met someone wonderful here, I will probably mention him in future blogs :)


Oops. I almost forgot to explain why I named my blog as I did : Brigadeiro (brazilian desert made from condensed milk and usually chocolate) has been my obsession here since Day # 1. Below is a picture of me and a (rather large) example of it:

Me and Iza: Birthday Brigadeiro and Preparation for the Aftermath