fancy seeing you here...

*i wrote this on june 17 and didn´t publish it for some reason at the time. now that i´m not in the same mindset 2 weeks later, i can´t bring myself to finish it. take it as you will, and know that this is me 2 weeks ago, coming to grips with the fact that maybe i´d adjusted and changed in more ways than i had thought, except i don´t think i knew that that was the challenge at the time.


so this past week has been very different in a lot of ways...

- lina, the other trainee currently here in salvador left for colombia (her motherland) to take care of some visa things before returning for another 6 months making me the only trainee here

- i had my first attempt at trying to contact members of the lc by myself to organize something...a little difficult when my phone portuguese isn´t so great, ha ha :)

- i was a pseudo tour guide?

- i saw megan and firdaus...here in salvador!

- i realized that i´ve started acting bahian in some ways

- i got back in touch with an old friend and realized how possible it is to start in one place and end up in completely different places years later

- i have translated a couple of documents with limited use of a dictionary, yay!

- i noticed that i think i cling to some of my habits from home to comfort myself somehow but don´t really need them

- i realized how much more i´ve come to love and be comfortable with this city since i first arrived

- i´ve noticed how much i still don´t know about this country...brazil is huge and diverse

- i have seen the beauty in the aiesec traineeship system in that everyone´s experience is completely different...totally.

- i haven´t felt the need to eat chocolate every 2 seconds (i felt this way last week and the one before, no joke)

- i haven´t felt the need to write in this blog all the time like i did before...i´m not unispired though for sure, not sure why yet i feel this way yet...

speaking of this last thing, it´s not just me. almost every blog i´ve read starts out strong, especially at the beginning of the traineeship when everything is strange, new, scary, amazing, breathtaking...basically extreme. and then, we all trail off into oblivion until we come back and have to try to put into verbal words x months/years of our lives that are basically impossible to explain as they feel and happen. and you can´t predict it before you go either.