I am finally in Brazil!! After two weeks of packing and a 30 hour trip to the city of Sao Jose do Rio Preto, I am here with my family. I arrived in Sao Paulo where the chairman of my district for rotary picked me and another 6 other students from the US up. It was about a 6 hour car ride from Sao Paulo to Rio Preto but it was beautiful. We got to Rio Preto around ten where our family´s picked us at the Rotary office. It was really nice having all my family picking me up and taking me home. We got home and my mother showed me around the house which is a three bed condominium wiht a patio and a tiny pool. The next night we went to a rotary dinner where a short term exchange student did a presentation in Portuguese and the president introduced all the inbound exchange students. The next day me and my family just ran some errands then at night the chairman from my district in Florida came and had dinner with us. It was very nice and I got to talk a lot with him and translate in between the family an him. At the end of the night, my pae let Al drive his 1970 VW Beetle around the neighborhood. It was pretty cool. Then last night we had dinner at this district´s chairman´s steak house. It was really cool because we had all the inbounds there and it was nice to speak english with people. Also I met some of the people going to the United States. Everybody is so nice here. The life during break is very easy and everybody sleeps late then we just hang out the rest of the day. United States music is very popular here, almost as much if not more than that of their own, or maybe its just me. Also the driving is the craziest I have ever seen, it surpasses even that of the philippines. They come within inches of each other and drive in the shoulder of the highway, it scares the heck out of me. My portuguese coming along nicely, my family said to me that I am at the level that their last exchange student was 2 months into her exhange. Also I find it hard trying to switch from portuguese back into english sometimes, and already I am developing an accent. Overall brasil is awesome and so are Brasil´s people.