Rodrigo, Esther, me, and Thomas in front of Cascatona in Parque Natural de Caraças
I've been slacking on the blogging, I know.It's just that I am ALWAYS doing something here. Today is the first day in many, many days that I haven't left the house (which isn't to say that I won't be leaving the house this evening). I've been going to museums, traveling to other states, partying in the streets during Carnaval...in some ways it's overwhelming! So today I stayed in and did nothing.
I have approximately 25 bug bites right now: one is on my right hand, and alllll the others are on my ankles and feet. I still am not sure if they're from bed bugs or what, but I don't get them every night, and I still haven't seen any of the "evidence" you're supposed to see from bed bugs, so hopefully it's just some other annoying Brazilian bug.
I was supposed to go to Foz do Iguaçu this week, but plans didn't work out, so I am spending my last week of vacation here before classes relaxing in Rio. It's supposed to start raining tonight, so no beach for me for the rest of the week.
I am starting to understand Portuguese a lot better, and I think I am speaking it a little better...maybe just wishful thinking though.
I have a little bit of a cold, which is kind of lame, but expected, based on how weird my sleeping pattern was for a couple weeks (i.e. I stayed up all the time).
This is really a terrible blog post. But I felt guilty for not posting in a long time, so I forced this one out. Classes start next week, so I'll be able to talk about those in my next post. Look forward to that.
Até logo.
