weekend in Indianapolis and Chicago!

This last weekend I had one of the best times of my life... I went to Indianapolis and CHICAGO!! The third largest city in United States of America. On Friday afternoon Susan took me and Jessica to Jhani's house(Indianapolis), Gabriel and Matheus already were there, later Bernardo and Priscila arrived. After talking with everybody and telling all the news, we went to the Super Bowl Village, it's an area  downtown where there are a lot of games and activities related with football, it is located next to Lucas Oil Stadium, where the Super Bowl is going to happen. Certainly the best thing was the zipline(tirolesa), it was 33 meters high and on the top you can see a gorgeous part of Indianapolis. This was AWESOME!!! On Saturday we woke up early(about 6:30) and got going to Chicago(Illinois), ''The windy city'', now I know why they call it this way but we were lucky because it was a perfect sunny day. We visited many places each more beautiful than the other. But certainly the nicest was the Ferris Wheel, which is really windy on the top, but you can see a terrific scene of Chicago's city, with all those big buildings. Another cool place was the John Hancock building, the tallest in Chicago. We stayed in the windy city until 9 o'clock, then we drove about two hours to Indianapolis and spent the night there. On Saturday morning we went shopping in Edinburg, a city near the capital, they have a nice outlet mall(Very good prices). About 3 pm we came back to Jhani's home, and our host relatives were waiting for us. hehehe. The weekend was incredible!! I'll never forget it... See you.              

Pictures

Early birthday

So guys, as some of you know my birthday is coming (26th January) and as next week we probably are going to Chicago, the Taylors decided celebrate my birthday today, because the following week certainly will be too busy. I`m going to tell you how was the day ... We woke up and went to the church (as we have done most Sunday), I am enjoying this because it is a good opportunity to know and talk with different people. After the church we came home and had lunch, then we changed our clothes quickly, to go sledding in a big hill(not as big as we went on yesterday, but is good too). We came back to our house again, changed the clothes again and went to the Playstation (it is like paintball, but instead of a ball you use laser, to hit your enemies), I have discovered that I am terrible, but is pretty fun and I think everybody enjoyed. And to finish the day with golden key Susan cooked an awesome supper. Thank you Taylors!! Next post some pictures and videos. See you guys...

news of the weekend

In this post just some pictures of what I did on this weekend, that actually was basically, split wood, sledding on the snow(that is awesome), go to the church, go to The Children`s Museum of Indianapolis and have dinner in Mexican restaurant. 

                                                                   splitting some wood

                                                                        This is so cool!!

                                                           dinner on the basement. Very good.

                                                    The biggest museum in the wold for children

                                           

Mexican restaurant.

And by the way... Tomorrow we don`t have classes because is holiday(Martin Luther King`s day)

See you!

Started to snow

It happened yesterday about 1:00 pm, I was in economics class when I watched from the window and I could see...It started to snow! People here are used to snow. But not to me, because that was the first time that I`ve seen this in my life. Oh, and I was almost forgetting to say... The classes started for me on Monday at Burris Laboratory School. It`s not too big, about 550 students and it is few blocks from Taylor`s house, so we can go on foot, and that is what we do every morning. Here is my schedule of classes:
1- Biology/8:00 to 8:55;

2- Speech and Communication/9:00 to 9:55;
3- U.S. History/10:00 to 10:55;
lunch - 11:00 to 12:00;
4 - Spanish/12:00 to 13:00;
5 - Economics/13:00 to 14:00;
6 - Government/14:00 to 15:00;
Today Johnny(a friend of school) invited me to go to his sister`s party that happened at a hotel. I went there and stayed talking with him while Sophia enjoyed the party with Johnny`s sister, it was cool, he`s a good friend. I think that tomorrow I will play in snow, because everybody says that is awesome sledding, so that`s it. xoxoxo fr everybody in Brazil.              

news from Muncie

I just arrived in the city and I already did a lot of things with family Taylor, actually they are very cool and are treating me awesome. I am going to start talking about the day of yesterday... Yesterday we went to John`s parents house and we celebrated the Christmas(they couldn`t be together on December 25th, that`s why they just did it yesterday). I had a big surprise... the Taylors gave me a lot of gifts. I got a pair of gloves, mini staplers,  clothes for the winter and a soap, I was very happy with this. Today we got up and went to the church(Unitarian Universalist church), that was a little bit different to me but I liked, because John introduced me for the people of the church... And by the way.. everybody is too much friendly! After the church we came back home and had lunch. we spent the afternoon in a fair called Midwest Reptile Shows, it happens in Indianapolis about three o four times in the year and there you can buy all the kinds of reptile that you can imagine, it also was a strange thing to me but was goood. at night we ate pizza at home and watched a movie(RIO), of course in English. As you can see it is everything ok so far and I`m enjoying. Kisses and hugs for everybody in Brazil. See you.

Até mais Brasil!

 Hoje tive uma grande surpresa, o John, meu host father ligou aqui para casa para me informar que Sexta-feira eles estarão me esperando no aeroporto, fiquei muito contente com a notícia e mal posso esperar para conhecê-los. Daqui um pouco mais eu e minha família sairemos para jantar em razão da minha despedida, momentos como estes geralmente são de tristeza, principalmente por parte dos familiares, eu sei que sentirei saudades de TODOS, entretanto sei também que isso me ajudará muito, portanto faz-se necessário o sacrifício e não tenho dúvidas de que os Taylor irão me acolher muito bem, pois pelo que pude ver eles são uma família muito unida e simpática. Então é isso.... Aos que ficam por aqui, bom verão, aos que vão bom inverno. ahh... e a partir de agora postarei apenas em Inglês. Grande abraço a todos. see you Brazil!      

Quase na hora...

Então pessoal.. Apesar de não ter cumprido a promessa de postar seguidas vezes(desculpem-me), a cá estou para atualizar minha página.   CARAAAMBA.. falta menos de um dia para a tão aguardada viagem! Voltei da praia hoje e há pouca acabei de arrumar minhas malas, praticamente tudo encaminhado, agora é só aguardar e ficar imaginando como será minha ''host family'', os Taylor, que inclusive já sei algumas informações: o pai, John, trabalha na universidade da cidade(Muncie), a mãe Susan, que também trabalha na universidade e é bibliotecária, Riley, o filho mais velho de dez anos e a Sophia que é a mais nova com oito anos. Descobri também que eles já hospedaram outras três brasileiras intercambistas e estão muito animados em receber um rapaz e é claro eu também não poderia deixar de estar feliz. Em relação à cidade de Muncie ainda não sei muitas coisas, apenas que está fazendo -7 graus e fica há uma hora de carro de Indianápolis, a escola que irei frequentar é a Burris Laboratory School, vi algumas fotos e achei bem interessante, pelo menos sem neve. hehe.

Bom, por hoje é isso, amanhã postarei de novo. Grande abraço!
    Taylor family.