6 December 2017
15:21 BRT (EST + 3 hours)
Current Temperature: 36 C (96 F)
--Thursday (Written on Friday)
Well, the day went fine through school and for the majority of the night. Most of all the students were at school again and due to the Gremista game the previous night, during our break, all the Gremule fans were all cheering and it was quite entertaining. After school ended, and late at about 22:00 (10pm) I had just finished showering and settled down to watch netflix for an hour before going to sleep.
In one of the inbound student chats we were all talking about random topics and at one point, towards 23:00 (11pm) I had opened Snapchat (Because everyone was talking through both Snapchat and Whatsapp, it was kind of insane.) and my phone froze. It was half way through opening the app and so I tried pushing the home button and sort of reset the process. That didn't work, and so I tried to lock the screen. This worked... Sort of. I had pressed the button a few times when the screen finally turned off. Except after that I couldn't get it to come back on.
After a while of trying to figure out what was wrong with it, meaning hitting buttons, I realized that when I pushed the power button the screen did come on, but it was still black. The only difference that made me notice was that the screen part turned lighter than the black trim around it. The other thing I realized was that if I tried to use Siri, the screen would flash on for a millisecond and then turn back off.
My phone was still working fine, just the screen mostly had a coating of black on it. I asked on Facebook asking for suggestions but ended up resorting to just letting it run out of battery overnight due to it being 23:00 (11pm) by then.
Now this, is where the true fun begins. My phone had stopped working at say 22:45 (10:45pm), and for a little while before then and afterwards I had kept hearing a sort of skittering sound. I had ignored it until I started getting ready for bed. I then finally noticed out of the corner of my eye, that in the window that is above the head of my bed was a cockroach. A BIG ONE.
I took a video about it as well as just other random stuff on my GoPro and I'll try my best to post it onto here before Wednesday so that I don't have to explain more.
(By the way, when I say it was stuck in the window I mean between them. The windows in my room have a glass layer and a 'shutter' layer. It was stuck between the two.)
--Friday (Written on Friday)
I ended up not going to school today. Communication between people was getting confusing and I thought suddenly not being able to communicate would make things worse. Not much happened today except a lot of confusion for me about this weekend. At first, as I had been told for the previous few days, I believed that I was going to stay home alone for Saturday because Odete had to go to Carazinho and Cristiano's house didn't have room again.
Then suddenly today at 22:00 (10pm) I was told that suddenly I am going with her. Except I'm staying at either Cristiano's sister's house, or his mother's house... You can see where I got confused. So suddenly I had to shower and pack my suit case while still having questions about how long we were staying, when we were leaving and coming back, who was going to take care of Nero and more. The thing was, just after being told we were leaving in the morning, I took my shower. And when I got out I sent a text to Odete asking about Nero. When I got out of the bathroom, I realized that she had gone to sleep while I was showering.
Soooo, I am kind of concerned that stuff isn't going to be organized properly and that I'm going to end up needing something but not having it because I wasn't warned beforehand that I was going to need it and I'm just really hoping that which ever place I end up has WiFI because not being able to communicate with Odete directly is a NIGHTMARE. (It's happened before.)
Wish me luck... Even though by the time this is posted it'll be over. Either way... wish my past self good luck!
--Saturday (Written on Wednesday)
Well, I woke up at 08:00 (8am) to make sure I was ready by 09:00 (9am) when Odete had said she wanted to leave. After being up for about twenty minutes and getting completely ready did I finally find out that she had meant 21:00 (9pm) and not 09:00 (9am). Well, even so, we started off the day and actually did end up heading to Carazinho before 21:00 (9pm). We left not long before lunch and once we arrive, had lunch at a place there, and then went to the rodeo for the rest of the day. It was really cool, because when Cristiano wasn't lassoing (Meaning he wasn't riding his horse.) he let me ride around the area. The one downside to it all, was the heat. Even so, we survived and it was still fun!
--Sunday
The next day was about the same. The nice thing was that we didn't have to get up at 05:00 (5am) this time. I might've forgotten to mention that the rodeo grounds we went to this time was a different place from the last. It was only about a fifteen minute drive away instead of an hour. Continuing! We went to the rodeo at about 09:00 (9am) and stayed for the entire day until about 22:00 (10pm). During the time I got myself a new hat, a gaucho hat! I also got to ride around more and at one point I got some ice cream. It was probably around 14:00 (2pm) but it felt like we were on the sun! It was hot enough that while I was eating my ice cream I could see it melting if I watched it for only a few seconds. After the day was done, we went back home and relaxed for the rest of the night. (I again forgot to mention that I was able to stay at Cristiano's house after all.) Odete planned to stay another night and to just relax for most of Monday before heading home in the afternoon.
OH! I almost forgot! When we got home from the rodeo for some reason Odete's car battery had stopped working! We managed to get a hold of some jumper cables and got the car restarted! (I managed to help because of having my driver's permit, aka I knew how to start a car.)
--Monday
It was nice being able to sleep in after a while of not doing so. I may have sleep until about noon...
Anyways, during the afternoon, Odete and I went to a car dealership! (She was already planning on going because she wants to get a new car it seems.) Sadly after being there for probably about an hour in the blazing heat (Even though we were inside in front of a fan.) we didn't find the car she would like. And so, later, we headed home to Santa Barbara!
I should also mention that I'm getting back into drawing a bit. One certain thing I finished drawing while in Carazinho. I would show it, but it's a secret!
--Tuesday
I didn't go to school yesterday, knowing that I wanted to get some stuff done that I couldn't do in Carazinho. As well as at about 14:00 (2pm) I went to Cipex with nice clothes and my blazer. The reason? Our (Our as in Andrea and I) club president was coming to pick up the donations of bottle caps and can tabs that we had collected. THERE WERE SO MANY!!! All of the containers of caps and tabs didn't even fit in the car they brought! Anyways, after they picked up the donations and we took a few pictures, I hung out at Cipex for another few hours before heading home for the night.
--Wednesday
Well today has been quite relaxing. Though not so much at the same time. I made sure that I got up at a reasonable time because I do have stuff to do today. My first course of action once I got up was to take a shower, already done. After we had lunch, I ended up deciding to draw some more and somehow ended up finishing it in about two and a half hours... I'm happy with the result... just really confused on how I managed to do it so quickly...
Anyways, my goal right now of course is to make sure that this blog is ready even though the day isn't quite done. Not much is going to happen the rest of the day that I don't really know about so I'ma just talk about what I'm planning. Later, if available, I'm going to be doing a FB call with Amanda and the kids. We were going to do one on Saturday however then I was actually going to Carazinho and stuff got confusing really fast.
Now one thing I haven't addressed. Why didn't I go to school again today. Yesterday while I was at Cipex with Andrea she told me that she was going to be talking with the principle of the school to figure out something I could write or create over their summer vacation because going to school wasn't doing much. Especially these last two weeks of school were just about everything is done and I'd just be sitting there all day. So, I didn't go.
Also, I got some pictures I had asked for from my family back in the states! I asked for pictures of our Christmas decorations to show my family here.
