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Life of an Exchange Student.

EXCHANGE STUDENT
The Exchange Student (Exchangius Studentidos): The exchange student is a rare and beautiful animal, which lives in all parts of the world. It's easy to spot an Exchangius Studentidos because of an insane amount of bracelets and because it never truly fits in with the surrounding environment (somehow it always manages to be different even though it is trying to fit in).
The exchange student is rarely seen in day light, it is mostly nocturnal. Because of this people often think the exchange student uses most of its time sleeping, this is however not true. It is very fond of cameras, skype, and alcohol. It is an EXTREMELY social animal, which when you put into a group of non-exchange students has a tendency of raising the mood and noise level of the group.
If you wish to see an exchange student, a good place to look is in the streets after midnight, preferably close to local bars or clubs. The exchange student seems to be well at home in these places. It has been observed that when exchange students are gathered in a group (which occurs very often), that the chance of yells, screams and loud laughing is increased by 97%. These groups of exchange students have a rather amazing skill. Whatever place they go to, be it a bus stop, a small bar or a fancy club, they always make the party, and seem to get the attention from all non-exchange students around, even though they are not really aware of it. They will 9 out of 10 times also drink intoxicating amounts of alcohol, and when this happens there is no telling what will happen next.
The exchange student seems to show an abnormal amount of pleasure when doing things it is not allowed to. This might be because it is an extremely free animal, but is always caged by the rules of the society that surrounds it. The exchange student is almost impossible to tame, and has little care of what others think, because it is always out of its natural habitat and knows it never really fits in anyways. It is not rare that the exchange student changes mate, it has many times been seen changing mates several times per night.
Contrary to popular belief the exchange student is a very intelligent being, which often speaks two or more languages. It has been reported though that it has a huge vocabulary of random words in many different languages, and it is very good at learning to trash talk in new languages. Through all the studies of the exchange student, we have found that the only thing that seems to drive them, and that they care about, is just having the best time possible.
NOTE: Upon approaching a group of exchange students be prepared for memory loss, a lot of laughter and an empty wallet.

My Second Host Family.

Climate of Registro-SP

oh yeah, this is a special post for all who read, in Registro, the current city i live. Is known "The Hell of Sao Paulo", as it experiences the hottest summer and the coldest winter, it goes upto 51 degrees and 5 degrees in the winters. After i came from my trip, i experienced 4 days 41 - 36 degrees and suddenly started raining. For the Indians, here you can experience all the four seasons in one day, it will be hot in the morning, suddenly starts raining out of no where, and in the night it will as chilly as its in Delhi.

here is one photo which says "In Brasil only exists 2 climates :-  Cold as F*** and Hot as F#$%"
(Sorry, for the bad language :P)

Nordeste Nov-Dez 2011.

Ola,

       Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.

Writing my monthly report for December, I know its late but was on my trip so couldn’t write it earlier.

I had gone for my first Rotary Trip, it was for 27 days from 20^th November to 24^th December , visited the full North-East part of the Brazil, including  the famous Cities like, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Bahia, Natal, and also the capital city Brasilia. Visited the Christ Statue in Rio de Janeiro, which was the best thing that could happen.

The trip was really exciting as it had 105 Exchange Students from 22 different countries. Met everyone for the first time, as didn’t know anybody. Stayed with them for 27 days, made new friends, exchanged cards and pins. Represented India in the “Talent Show” where I wore Indian clothes and PROUDLY sung the NATIONAL ANTHEM.

The most exciting I found was the “FAVELAS” commonly known as slums in English, the tour guide said that there were many brasilians also who haven’t entered the favelas as they are scared. He said that one month before the favelas were safe as the drug dealers protected it, and today after one month it is safe because the police are there. He said that 15 – 20 years back even the police were scared to enter as the drug dealers had more powerful and better armaments, so the police force used to go early morning hide in a place and in the night used to encounter and used to leave, but now that the police force has improved with the help of the government they have dominated the place. We were also taken to the place were “fast and furious 5 (fast 5) ” was filmed in the favelas. Also Rio de Janeiro has the two most famous beaches of Brazil, and one of them is the “The Copacabana Beach” where most of the parts of movie “Dhoom 2” was filmed.  And also the state Bahia and city Salvador are the cities for which Capoeira is famous, I also did Capoeira the Capoeira people who had come to show us what is capoeira, feels good when you have 100’s of people cheering you and doing Capoeira a Brazilian sport with the Brazilians. Also visited the worlds biggest cashew tree. In Brasilia we were taken to the “Congress Meeting Hall and the Parliament House and also were the President Meeting room, where she conducts her Important meetings, We also saw the Presidents House.” Felt great to visit these sites.

Also just wanted to tell you this that the Capital city Brasilia is a city which was planned by an architect who lives in Rio, he planned the full city by airplane and was made accordingly, hence they call Brasilia “a Planned City”.

Over all it was a good experience as now I am rich with foreign friends and its always good to socialize.

And talking about the preparation of Christmas, the whole city is lighted up, people are going mad behind shopping, they have taken holiday from work only for the preparation of Christmas.

Don’t have much to write as the whole month was on the trip, but surely in January will have a lot to write as will experience my first SUMMER CHRISTMAS.

Regards.

Finally a post after a really long time...

Yes! A post after a really long time, as getting busy with new friends, rotary projects and helping my Host Mother!!
Went travelling to near by cities, Cananeia, Parisquera-Acu, Jacupiranga, Santos, Sao Paulo & Taubate (:
visited my parents family in Taubate, really good pople enjoyed a lot with them, really liking here.



For now nothing more to write, will post soon.
tchau
bjos :*