02/05/2008 May 2, 2008
Oi! Tudo Bem. Hi! I am good.
The district conference started yesterday. Our team went to the RYLA conference in the morning. Rotary Youth Leadership Assembly. Three hours of trying to decipher the presentations from Portuguese to English wore me out. I came home and after lunch I crashed for a few hours. The conference was really good though, from what words I could look up.
Last night we had the opening ceremonies to attend. The mayor was an hour late, so instead of starting at 8 we started after 9. By 11:30 I was ready for bed. We didn't get home until late last night. We were at the conference this morning by 8.
We did our presentation today. It went really well for the team, but I totally sucked at my speech. I have practiced this speech literally a hundred times in my head. But my tongue wouldn't work today. The pronunciation is very difficult. But on the bright side, many people stopped by to thank me for attempting their language.
Our team is very well liked as "the boys" as they are called - "Mary and her boys" - have great personalities. Dean knows the language very well and can joke and get things right all of the time. Mike is just funny with his "portanol" - portuguese-espanol and Stevie (each vowel is pronounced here so Steve's name comes out Stevie) - is quite good with his language skills. I found out yesterday he was a social director for his fratnerity at Penn State and I can see why.
So everywhere we go, we have been well received and it continued at the conference today. I am having a great time and this trip is amazing. I hope Doug doesn't mind, but whenever I talk to someone I invite them to come visit when they come to Philly. :-)
Amizade! (Friendships) Pronounced - Ah- Mi - Za - Ge
Tchau.
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