Friday, November 27, 2009

Crazy Days

It's the end of the semester and everything, like back in the states, is getting super crazy... Yesterday, for example, I was told that I'm going to get job next semester translating the UFSJ website into english. Then was interviewed by some people doing a commercial for schools in Brazil, followed by classes. The entire time trying to buy and cook a turkey with Susan because Thanksgiving isn't a normal holiday here. Woke up at 9a.m., went to bed at 3a.m.(went to an end of school party) Today? ...Recovery day, tomorrow, travel for 10 hours to go to the beach!!!! woot woot! It's been way past due but I'm finally getting my chance to see the ocean! When I come back, I get a few days to catch up on work and then I'm going to Rio to renew my passport. The following week is pretty much finals week, and then my mother comes. Not to sure what that will entail but I foresee a lot of traveling around to place like: Tiradents, Varginha, CaxambĂș, Rio de Janeiro, and we're going to be spending Christmas in Argentina. Not to sure how much I'll be able to post seeing the congestion of the things to come but if worst comes to worst, I'll be keeping a journal on me to write it down in the bus to later post here. Should be fun!!!

Oh yea, and I haven't updated pics in a while because I've been rebuilding everything from the ground up, I've recreated the albums and all that needs to be done is some HTML coding and it'll be uploaded so watch for that to, not to mention the beautiful pictures from the beach that I'll be soon visiting!

Cyrille Gindreau

Thursday, November 5, 2009

The "Rising Action" of the semester

The days are getting long again, must be getting close to the end of the semester... Here was my day and what I did:

7:00a.m. Wake up & take a shower
7:30a.m Walk to cafe to have an expresso while I start to read this text on grammar and lexicon.
8:30a.m. Start walking back to my house and my alarm to wake up goes off.
8:45a.m. Get home, facebook apps and read news.
9:30a.m. Continue reading that same text (it's long, boring and full of words that I don't understand...)
10:30a.m. Go to campus Santo Antonio to speak with the exchange program coordinator; we talk about my passport renewal, visa renewal, picking up my permeant identity card (all of which need to be done within the next two months), classes that I may take next semester, and generally how I'm doing in Brazil. She also said that they were thinking of hiring me to do translations for there exchange program website next, might be fun...
11:30a.m. Get back home only to find that my room mate wants me to go to lunch with him (dammit, I need to study more...)
12:00p.m. Get home, run through the face book apps and the news and get back to reading my text.
1:28p.m. Finish reading the text only to realize that class starts in 17 min.
1:55p.m. Get to class only to find out I'm still the first one there (even before the teacher)
3:00p.m. Finish class, grab a coffee, and head to the library to type up the notes that I supposed to turn in on this text.
3:07p.m. Play starcraft
3:45p.m. Start taking the notes(in english) on the text)
6:30p.m. Grab some food and another starcraft break.
7:30p.m. Translate and type notes to be turned in
8:50p.m. Leave library, get coffee, print text, and head to class. Shit, no regular class, umm, okay, hey you, what's going on? presentation in the theater? Cool, sounds good...
9:00p.m. Attend a presentation my teacher is giving.
10:30p.m. Presentation ends, walk Susan to the bus, and walk home
11:30p.m. Facebook aps, news, starcraft
1:30 a.m. Cook dinner and watch a movie
3:30 a.m. Start writing this blog
3:45a.m. Lucas comes home plastered out of his mind and recounts events of that evening (very funny!)
4:15a.m. Three more roommates come home from a club, not hammered but definitely had a few drinks
4:40a.m. Finish this blog

All in all, a fun day with plenty of things to do right? All I have more to say is 'Thank God It's Friday'... I'm going to bed...
Cyrille Gindreau