Hello everyone. I am so very sorry that I have not spoken to you beautiful people in the longest of time. There has been so much that has happened since I last spoke to you all and now! This will be a very long post so I want everyone to be prepared. First of all I am no longer residing in Aruja, Sao Paulo! A moment of silence-well I feel better. I am living in Bahia Brazil!!!! I am so happy! Seriously, today is the most "content" day of my life. So, it all started..(sound of harps)
The school I was working for was taking advantage of us Americans. First we were having our rooms clean, even though that might not sound bad, we didn't like our stuff moved around, and found out from the help that other people were in our room that were not supposed to be there. My roommates money was stolen, my laptop was stolen (but I'm over it). There were three rapes in our neighborhood, mind you, this is a middle class neighborhood. Our next door neigbhor was snooping around our rooms (which is another story!) Two places were robbed in our neighborhood. All in all, I was becoming very paranoid. I was hating the teaching method, because basically it wasn't mind stimulating. Students weren't learning much and I felt that I was expendible because as long as you spoke English, you could teach. Finally, I expressed to the coordinator that I wanted to move. I realized I wasn't the only person nor was I the first. However, towards the end, an error was done by the coordinator in that we found that everything that we had emailed in confidence of annonymosity (if that is a word) was relayed back to the boss. So, there was a crunch time for me to find a place before the 11th of April. (By the way, Carnival was Amazing!!! but that was back in February) So, they wanted to move me south, the German speaking part, and although I have no problem with the Germans, some former Nazi's. I want to go to Germany, but I didnt come to Brazil to learn German, I came to learn Portuguese. So, the salary was robbed from me from the school from about 800 reis to 111 reis. I called my dad up to donate me money for a bus to go to Bahia. So I had about R$60 on me. My bagages were excessive in weight so I had to pay R$40, I was down to R$20 (for those who are bad a math); finally, I relied a little on a person to help me out with the taxi, however, after circumstances have arised he has been excommunicated in my life (talk to my friends about it later) I used that money to pay the cab. I never knew what hunger felt like, but the last two weeks, I felt the epitomy of it. All in all through my various adventures I met a babalao from out of nowhere where he offered me a place to stay, however, it was in the most dangerous parts of Salvador. That was after I was looking for a job. I walked...lets use the map of Columbia to better illustrate where I had to walk in the scorting heat. I walked from Rock Bridge High school, to Hickman High school, to the Mall and back. I almost died of a heat stroke. In about 80 degree weather. The sun had painted two dark brown sleves on me.
I prayed guys. I prayed very hard and very long. Luckily, I had this book on hope. All in all, my emotions and struck of luck went on a rollercoaster. Today, I have a job, with people I like, with a methodology I love, and the view is breath taking. The ocean is about a few meters from the glass windows. I will post a picture of it. All in all, I found an apartment today with one of the teachers. I am a person that is always determined. Failure. I hate failure, and I don't ever want to know what if feels like. There were times people were telling me that I should just go home. Or I put this all on myself. I love to wave at those discuragements as they pass me by. If I listened to those people, I still would have been in a pharmacy, studying to be a nurse.
So, to pass the time, I was so glad I brought movies. Mummy movies. I have watched the mummy movies about 10 times. They are my favorite movies thats why I can watch them again 10 times. They never get old. I also brought a movie on Nefertiti. Hum, maybe I should write a story about it. (Note to myself).
All in all, I love hearing about the world events. I'm glad I am not in the states at the moment. But, ah well. Life goes on. Life will be better there. I hope I have inspired someone today.
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