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Roei Goes Through a Scary Experience in Brazil November 5, 2004 |
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Wow, my Portuguese is great. I am already
thinking in Portuguese, all that’s missing
is vocabulary. This month has been a different one. Me and my host mom
aren’t clicking, but by Sunday I will be in a new family. We had a week
off from school which was great. We went to a lot of parties, traveled a
bit and met some people. You know …all that good stuff. My friend (which
I met 2 weeks after I got here), left on exchange to Mexico about 3 months
ago. Well a few days ago she came back. She didn’t like it. The family
and the country were ok, but she is a city girl and she couldn’t stand
living in a town of 12,000 people. I found out that school ends soon,
about 3 more weeks YAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WWWEEEEE AHaHahahahAhAHAhA!!!
SUMMER is COMING …..AGAIN!!! That means I had summer break from
June-August …now I get it again from November-February and then once
again from June-August. Just this weekend we had Monday and Tuesday off
because Tuesday was the “Day of the Dead” (a holiday) so they just
decided to give Monday off as well. Sadly it didn’t end like any normal
day. That night at Acustico was Monday night. We left in a group of 9 and
split up between 2 cars. At 05:00 am we went back to the city to a
restaurant but before we got there, the other car we went with flipped
over. It was going about 160-165 through the city, and the driver lost
control and hit the curb, flipped the car upside down and slid some 55
meters uphill. We immediately stopped to help and every 1 was fine besides
Marina which ended up with 10 stitches on her head, 1 on her face, a
fractured elbow and some minor cuts of glass. I kept my shirt that was
stained with Marina’s blood from carrying her, as a self-reminder to
obey the laws of the streets, which many Brazilians fail to do due to the
cause that they don’t care about the rules. Monday morning, Marina asked
me what we wanted to do Tuesday morning, and none of us thought we’d be
waiting for some good words from the hospital. I will never forget looking
back through the rear windshield and seeing the car sliding up the hill,
upside down, with a hope that only the car was damaged. I felt that this
was appropriate to share with the other exchange students, future exchange
students and anyone else looking at this page, because you never know what
you have until you loose it. And I could have lost a good friend, which
has 2 parents and a sister. Not just I would feel the pain of the loss,
but the family as well as friends would too. And believe me that the
driver is drowning in his guilt. I just want to remind all of you that
“yes, ‘this is a vacation’ but there is such a thing as too much
fun.” Luckily we were warned and not punished. “It will never happen
to me” is exactly what I thought too, and you’re not the only one who
would think that. And it didn’t happen to me, but it could have if I
would have been last at the car I was in, and just switched over to the
other one due to a lack of seats. Please, I ask that this not be edited in
anyway, it is imperative that this be read for the safety of the exchanges
students and anyone else who reads. Thank you. Have fun, but be safe. |
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