finally!!

Wow so these last few days have been so hectic.
Tuesday night I left California at 11:00 pm, and arrived in Miami the next morning for the Chile and Brazil gateway orientation. I met Tanna and Ian, the two other American students going to Brazil, and bonded with them over the thirty hours that we had together. The next night, Thursday, the three of us said goodbye to the Chileans and took our flight to Sao Paulo!!! It was really cool. We all held hands when we left off and touched down, it was really cute :)
When we arrived in Sao Paulo we met other AFS students from Finland and Austria that were also staying in Brazil, it was SO neat to meet them! Sadly though I was only with them for a little while because we split up to catch the flights to our host cities.
Flying down was so pretty, but It´s hot and really humid (ahh mosquitos!). When we arrived my host family was there to meet me, and my brothers brought flowers and a teddy bear it was really sweet of them. I´ll update on my family tomorrow with tons of pictures, but I am really lucky to be with them.

As far as hours of sleep I´ve gotten in the last four days, thats not going so well. I calculated it to be about 5 hours, so I´m going to get some sleep, but check soon for updates!