May 24 2009

Hello Everyone, it is my third day and yet it feels like my 3rd week… I didn’t believe culture shock would affect me… but needless to say, it has. My Portugese professor at K.U. , Paul Sneed, told me that sexuality is treated a little different, people lead more alternative lifestyles in Brazil. Last night was my time to see it first hand.
After dinner a group of us decided we should go celebrate a little bit. So we’d heard from a couple of natives that this bar called Boomerang was the place to be… So we hop in a cab and when we get there it seemed ‘legal’( portugese for cool or alright). We walked back to purchase a drink and boom in the middle of the dance floor, two guys were making out… I wrote it off as just a coincidence, until I turned around to find two girls in the middle of the dance floor also making out, that’s when it dawned on me, I’d entered my first gay bar.
We decided to stay because they had good music, and eventually found our way to the second floor where a live band was playing. We sat and watched the band play until some random creeper persisted to hit on me even after I told him that I had a girlfriend. I found the nearest girl from our group and tried to tell him “yo! She is right here…Katie is my girlfriend …. Sorry dude!”, it must have got lost in translation because he offered me cocaine… I replied “ no thanks I don’t do drugs!” he being persistant and ultra-creepy replies…. “YOU WILL!”
I’d had it, I decided to leave the upstairs room and go back to the dancing floor when I heard “ I kissed a girl and I liked it” ( I never found that song more appropriate) I toiled around aimlessly and decided it was time to go home.
When I finally made it home, I skyped ‘ the beux’ until the sunrise, and feel asleep about 6 am. I woke around 1 p.m. and my mother had steak, beans, and rice ready for me. It was delicious (as usual) I tried to converse with the family a little bit, and after lunch I went into Gustavo’s room where we listened to Eminem and he showed me pictures of all of his ex-girlfriends. We made plans to go to the shopping mall, to pick up some new shoes. I bailed on him becaue he feel asleep and decided to go on a walk to explore the area. I ended up running into a couple of the guys from the program where we decided to go for a walk along the coastline to burn some time. On the way home we stopped at the American Embassy also known as McDonalds =), where I had some highly desired greasy cheesy American Food. All the fruits and vegitables are organic here, which could probably explain why the're not faced with the problem of obesity, that seems to plauge America.
In closing, I feel like I cheated today at being Brazilian so to make up for it Im getting ready to shower and go to a play being hosted at my school ( where I'll probably leave frustrated becasue I understand nothing)
Until you visit again.
Boa noite
--Davidgi