Movin' out
Tomorrow I am moving from my Brazilian host family's house in Vista Verde to a new house in Vilha Ema. Let me explain...
Everything with my host family went so awesome, I am so incredibly lucky to have met them! The thing is Sao Jose dos Campos is a city where you need a car. The only fast way to get to my family's house is to take the highway: to get to the center by bus (which uses the streets) takes about an hour, sometimes up to two hours including wait-time.
Yet I work in the center and most of my friends either live in the center or nearby. Making the commute everyday was just getting to be too much... also, the bus stops at around 11:00 pm, I had to make sure to be at the stop at 10:30, which seriously impedes how much I can go out. In addition, I decided that I would like to get another part-time job teaching English, and working at AAFLAP, teaching and commuting is just too much.
So where am I going? I am moving to another house located in my favorite neighborhood in the city, Vilha Ema!! Vilha Ema is a quaint neighborhood with lots of restaurants, shops, Capoeira, pilates, and lots of language schools. It's located about two minutes away from work, walking. The place is a really beautiful house with wood floors and a big backyard located in a closed neighborhood right off a major street called 9 de Julho. It is owned by a woman who rents out the rooms to girls my age (whom I haven't met yet, I think 4 are Brazilian and one is from somewhere else in South America)... so it's an apartment-like situation but with a house instead.
There are 4 available rooms: two singles and two doubles. Let's see if you can figure out my room situation: it is a tiny single (I receive a discount on rent because of this), the only bedroom on the first floor, with a tiny bathroom. To get there one must pass first through the kitchen, then the laundry room... sound familiar (especially to Ines and J.Feller??). If you guessed I'm living in the maid's quarters, you're completly right!!! Haha. So no kidding, the room is TINY, but it's all good. There's room for a single bed, shelves, a coat rack and a dresser which also willl serve as a desk (no closet). I will have to store my luggage in the garage, as I don't think Leslie + bags will fit all at once. But the location is flat-out amazing, so I am really looking forward to moving... although I will really miss my host family a lot!
So that's it for now... I am heading to Sao Paulo city tomorrow after dropping off my stuff. I hope we go to a sushi restaurant. On Tuesday I am doing a "treatment" on my hair. I'm not exactly sure how it will turn out, as I am lacking a lot of vocab in this area and only understood about 10% of what was said to me. But (unlike the U.S.) curly hair like mine is incredibly common, and so I think they are much more equipped to tame the beast. So we'll see... if it turns out well I will post pictures. And if it turns out horribly I'll probably cry for about a half an hour and wear a hat for the rest of my time here. Or maybe shave it off? Only time will tell!
Everything with my host family went so awesome, I am so incredibly lucky to have met them! The thing is Sao Jose dos Campos is a city where you need a car. The only fast way to get to my family's house is to take the highway: to get to the center by bus (which uses the streets) takes about an hour, sometimes up to two hours including wait-time.
Yet I work in the center and most of my friends either live in the center or nearby. Making the commute everyday was just getting to be too much... also, the bus stops at around 11:00 pm, I had to make sure to be at the stop at 10:30, which seriously impedes how much I can go out. In addition, I decided that I would like to get another part-time job teaching English, and working at AAFLAP, teaching and commuting is just too much.
So where am I going? I am moving to another house located in my favorite neighborhood in the city, Vilha Ema!! Vilha Ema is a quaint neighborhood with lots of restaurants, shops, Capoeira, pilates, and lots of language schools. It's located about two minutes away from work, walking. The place is a really beautiful house with wood floors and a big backyard located in a closed neighborhood right off a major street called 9 de Julho. It is owned by a woman who rents out the rooms to girls my age (whom I haven't met yet, I think 4 are Brazilian and one is from somewhere else in South America)... so it's an apartment-like situation but with a house instead.
There are 4 available rooms: two singles and two doubles. Let's see if you can figure out my room situation: it is a tiny single (I receive a discount on rent because of this), the only bedroom on the first floor, with a tiny bathroom. To get there one must pass first through the kitchen, then the laundry room... sound familiar (especially to Ines and J.Feller??). If you guessed I'm living in the maid's quarters, you're completly right!!! Haha. So no kidding, the room is TINY, but it's all good. There's room for a single bed, shelves, a coat rack and a dresser which also willl serve as a desk (no closet). I will have to store my luggage in the garage, as I don't think Leslie + bags will fit all at once. But the location is flat-out amazing, so I am really looking forward to moving... although I will really miss my host family a lot!
So that's it for now... I am heading to Sao Paulo city tomorrow after dropping off my stuff. I hope we go to a sushi restaurant. On Tuesday I am doing a "treatment" on my hair. I'm not exactly sure how it will turn out, as I am lacking a lot of vocab in this area and only understood about 10% of what was said to me. But (unlike the U.S.) curly hair like mine is incredibly common, and so I think they are much more equipped to tame the beast. So we'll see... if it turns out well I will post pictures. And if it turns out horribly I'll probably cry for about a half an hour and wear a hat for the rest of my time here. Or maybe shave it off? Only time will tell!
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Les. That sounds amazing! I cant wait to see pictures of the neighborhood! Hope all is well. WE are in the middle of a small snow storm..ick. byeee!
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