Maceió so far

ahhh

seems like so long since i actually said what i´ve been doing!
My family are all lovely, including my surrogate little brother. They were not told, however, that i was veggie so the first meal they cooked was beef. I told them i didnt eat meat, and the response was 'ok, tomorrow i'll cook something you eat.... like chicken'. Hmmmm. They seems to understand now though :)

The school is lovely and has about 15 students at the mo which is nice as everyone knows eachother and there are lots of sociable things to do. Monday we went out for a coctail, tuesday there was a free capoiera class... which i missed... but i might go tomorrow. Tonight we're going for a drink, tomorrow is pizza night, saturday there's a trip to a beach outside maceio.... I think I'll manage to keep myself busy!!

The lessons are relatively easy, it's mostly going over things that i should already know, but i still seem to struggle enough to keep it interesting.

I am having issues with buses and paperwork though... I open a bank account i have to get a card of some sort. I was told to go to the receita federal (i don't know what this is). So i went there, and they told me to go to the bank. So i went there and they told me to go to the post office. So i went there and they gave me a number and told me to go back to the receita federal in 2 days. Sigh.

Also highly confusing are the buses... Today as it was cloudy i decided to go to the shopping center. We got on a bus to the shopping center, but it didnt stop there. So we got off, got on a bus in the other direction, got to the shopping centre, had a look around at the amazingly garish brazilian fashion then decided to go back. Got on a bus that said via ponta verde and after a while saw the place MILES from ponta verde that we´d had to get off first time. so we asked the driver, and the bus had already gone via ponta verde and was now going somewhere else. so yet again we had to get off, cross the road, go back miles the way we'd come.

I have been being introduced to lots of random brazilian food like a pudding with pumpkin and coconut, and acai which is some kinda fruit, and a root the name of which i've forgotten which tastes like potatoe... but more dry and not as nice, and cachaço a lethal spirit, and feijão which is a kinda bean stew type stuff, and these little mussles in coconut sauce. All very exciting.

anyhoo i'm gonna go home to my brazilian mummy and little brother before going out tonight :)