I have decided to make a big summary of my last few months here, because I realized that I haven't updated this blog for a long long long time. I don't even want to know the last date that I put up a new blog, it's too embarrassing. But I promise-that is I PROMISE to have a new update in a weeks time.
So I think I should begin by explaining why-and how, I am still here. The original plan was to stay in Brasil from late January until late July, about five months. But somewhere around my third month here, I started to realize how little time I had left, and how much I really really didn't want to go home yet. There was still so much more that I wanted to learn and do while I was here I got so upset about the idea of leaving after only two more months. Then, as if my host mom was thinking the same thing, she suggested, why don't you just stay with the family for the rest of the year?
And so after a LOT of talking with my mommy, after she and my father had meetings with my high school counselor and after I myself thought about the whole situation, my mom finally gave me the word that I could stay until January. I was smiling for a week :D AFS was pretty easy to work with about this-I guess I'm not the only exchange student who wanted to extend their program. There was a price difference between the six months and one year to pay, but all in all everything worked out very nice.
A funny thing happened though after everything got settled. I got really homesick. I started missing at first my family and friends and then I missed everything from my room to Mexican food. I really just wanted to be back in Irvine. I think the idea that I would be away from home for one year instead of five months mentally hit me really hard. Slowly I got over the homesickness, but I guess there’s always a part of every exchange student, no matter how great of an experience they are having, that wants to be home sometimes.
I am due to start school again this Monday, and I'm really for it. After a month of not doing much all day and not seeing friends, I'm anxious to get back. Plus, I heard there are going to be two new exchange students starting at my school!
Beijos, Frankie
And don't forget, new update up in a weeks time, I sure will try not too ;)
hey frankie! im just reading your blog and it seems like your having a great time in brazil. im also interested to be a foreign exchange student. im 16 from new jersey in the united states. one thing im wondering is what do you do on the weekends? do you go out and hang out with school friends, hang out with your family, or go to parties.... stuff like that? is your social life some-what like america or nooooooo? also did you know any portuguese before going to brazil? haha just wondering thanks!!
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