Set my alarm to wake up at 8:30 as usual, however I probably could have slept another half hour. Forgot that it was saturday, so the family usually sleeps in. No problem though, I can always study up on the language. Can't call home or anything at that hour since 8:30 here is 5:30am back home. At around 9, we had breakfast; bread (of course), fresh pineapple and tapioca pancakes for lack of a better description. Everything has been really tasty here - i'm thankful that there's no worry about going hungry here. We left fairly soon after - jeffson and I went to order the rest of the artwork for his ice cream store. We had to go to his friend's bridal shop to visit a guy who could change the format of the files containing the artwork, since it wouldn't open on his supplier's computer. It took a little while, but it was fine since there was water, air conditioning and sports on tv. Although, when the France vs Brazil volleyball game ended, the next program on happened to be Spongebob Squarepants - and yes, it is just as annoying in portuguese, lol. After the time spend out, we came back home just briefly to pick up my host mom. We then set out to their store - today we were going to paint it. We stopped by a shop for some paintbrushes, then a diner for some lunch (another self serve, pay by weight place) then finally came to the store. The store was initially a bright blue colour, however, when we had finished, it was a brilliant red on the outside, with red and white on the inside walls. We joked that perhaps there was a slight Canadian influence involved here. Either way, it was going to stand out on the street. It's been neat in South America - all the buildings have been much more vibrant colours that we's use back home. It gives a street that would probably look very dismal, some life. It was also pretty funny to see all the looks I got from people as they walked by. In a city where in the tourist off-season, there's probably less than a handful of white people in the whole city! So, a pasty white guy like me, working shirtless on the street with paintbrush in had probably would be the equivalent of seeing a monkey running the box office at a cineplex. Lol, maybe i'll be a bit more tanned by the time i'm back home. We came home afterwards, but again briefly - just enough time to shower and scarf down a couple pieces of bread. We had to go to the church for the Jeffson's band practice, which would precede the final day of the music class. In theory, we had to name the notes on a sheet of paper, which again was a piece of cake for me since i did so many years of piano. Then we had choir practice. My family was very amused at my singing in the portuguese but I can't say I did their choir any favours. After the practice, we were talking with a couple of people who could speak very good english. I told stories of snowy days back home (nobody here has ever seen snow before and most having experienced temperatures below 12 degrees!) They thought it would be cool (haha, this pun doesn't get old), but they probably couldn't last too long outside. Hopefully tomorrow I get to bed a bit earlier so I have time to put more detail into this. It's 12:20am here and time for bed!
But first pictures, starting with my additions to my VW collection:
Our paint job today - the blue to the right was the initial colour. Now its totally canadian, eh?
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