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Nickname | Tim |
| Age | 18 | |
| Foreign Languages | Spanish | |
| Interests | Football, Soccer, basketball, track & field, hunting, backpacking, climbing | |
| Host District | 4520 | |
| Departure | 8/16/02 | |
| Birthday | March 23 | |
Students: To add a message to your travelogue, email the entry to vicki; she will put all entries online.
Note: Most Recent Entries Appear At the Top
| Date | Travelogue Entry |
| Monday, March 10, 2003 8:39 AM | Hey Everybody, I am not really sure the last time I e-mailed everyone. So I am not sure how much information everybody knows. Well about three weeks ago I changed host-family's. This family has a grandmother, her daughter that has a daughter as well living in the house. So I am the man of the house right now. The house is really nice. It's two stories, has a swimming pool and two big dogs. One of the dogs looks exactly my dog Bandido in the States! All the furniture in the house is really antique. I have a problem with allergies at times. The house has a nice garden as well. I am liking it as well. Carnival in Brasil went great. It was defenetly a lot of partying. I went with ten people in a van and lasted 4 days. Two of the people were friends from soccer and my friend from Belgium went with me as well. The eight hour drive to the beach was singing and banging on drums the whole way there. I, of course didn't the whole time and slept a little bit so I got the name dromamine (a medicine to help you sleep). It was also yelling at people in the traffic because everybody was leaving the city so the traffic was packed. Everyday it was going to the beach, dance letronica in the road and sing a little bit. Then you would go home get ready to go out for the night. During the night we would go out to the streets, dance samba and letronica. Well, after that you would come home sleep for about 3 or 4 hours and do it all over again. This week has actually been a lot of partying because the past two days I have also been at churrascos( brasilian barbecue). Soccer right now is not going well at all. I think I tore my ACL so right now I am just seeing doctors and will start to do therapy. I am pretty sure it is a torn ACL but I still want to see two other doctors. My knee feels good right now and I don't have any pain in it, only popping a little bit. Well, I still go to soccer everyday though and talk with my friends a little bit. I am doing alright though because I am still having a good time here. Well I hope everybody is doing well wherever they are at. Tchau. Tim |
| Wednesday,
January 08, 2003 5:36 PM Feliz Ano Novo e natal tarde
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Hey Everybody, Its been a long time since I have sent out e-mails to everybody. The last two months I have been traveling. I traveled for a month in the northeast of Brazil. Which was really cool and made a lot of friends from different countries. This might give me more chances to live or visit other countries now. I will always remember my Christmas in Brazil. My Christmas morning here was watching the sun come up while pushing a land cruiser up a hill(Great culture experience). I went to a beach city called Cabo Frio for New Years with my friend from Belgium and his family. On this trip I caught a blow fish and held and octopus. All the Brazilians thought I was kind of crazy for grabbing the blowfish. In about five days I travel to a small city called Caraeva. Its sounds very interesting to go there because it doesn't have a lot of electricity city and things like this. The city is a little bit secluded and you have to take a boat to get to it. Also I am going alone, so its a little bit more exciting. Well, as for soccer, I really haven't been playing enough. I bring a small ball with me when I travel but only get to play pick up games with street kids. I play probably once a week. Its pretty interesting. All you have to do is bring a ball and people come. I think this next trip is my last trip because I want to start playing soccer more and work on my Portuguese. Right now my Poruguese is not to bad. Eu consiguo conversar mas eu preciso trabalhar com meu vocabulario e sutaci ainda. I can have conversations with people but I still need to work with my vocabulary and accent. I can always say what I want to say but I have to explain things because I don't know enough vocabulary. Well this is my life pretty much right now. I will send out pictures to everybody after my trip to Caraeva. Miss everybody and hope life is treating them well. Tchau. Tim |
| Tuesday, November 12, 2002 | check out this website that my dad made for me. Their
is two scenory pictures. One of Bonito and One of the Pantanal. One of
me fishing for pirana, horseback riding, one holding an aligator and
the last picture is of my host-brother and I. The website is http://www.bolivialand.com/tim.htm |
| Tuesday, November 12, 2002 10:29 AM | Hey Everybody, Well I am doing fine here. I know enough where I am feeling a little bit more comfortable here. I still don't still understand everything but I am doing better than most of the Americans are do Tomarrowarow I leave for Araçatuba for a party called "Vaca Loca." After that I will be in Belo Horizante for 4 days then I will leave to travel all around the northeast Brazilazil for one month. I will get a see a lot more of the culture in Brazil, Beaches, and hopefully many more exciting things. I got to play soccer with my team yesterday. They are starting up the season again. i hadn't got to play in 3 weeks because the team was on vacation. I am leaving right when they start. It still amazes me how good they are sometimes but I am starting to adjust I think. Well I can't really think to add anything else right now. If you have any questions just e-mail me. Miss everybody and hope everything is going well. Tchau. Tim |
| Monday, October 21, 2002 10:54 AM | Hey Everybody, Yesterday I returned from going to the Pantanal and Bonito. Oh man it was so much fun. I kinda wish I didn't go with so many people but it was still a blast. In the pantanal I played with aligators, went fishing for paranas, Horseback riding, trekking, safari and looking for animals at night with a spotlight. Half of my pictures are with me playing with the aligators. It so much fun grabbing thier tails and feeding them fish. The fishing was cool but only got caught three paranas. I got bit by one of them when I wasn't paying attention to it because I was trying to feed it to an aligator. So I have a nice battle mark from the pantanal now. Horseback riding I think was my favorite but it was with to many people. I think we would have saw more animals with less people. We still saw a lot of animals. We crossed a big pond with aligators in it. That was pretty cool because we could see them swim kinda close. Trekking was pretty much the same of horseback riding. The safari and night watching had its moments but you didn't get to see as many animals though I did get to hold an aligator. After we left the pantanal we traveled six hours on a bus and went to Bonito. Bonito means bueatiful in Portuguese. There we went snorkaling, rafting and hiking into a cave. In bonito they have the most clear rivers. It was crazy. You were swimming sometimes with fish that were 2 and half or 3 feet long. Rafting was fun but kinda old with time but I got to see a monkey and hold parrots afterwards. The caving was biuetiful becuase it was such a big cavern and the water was so clear. On this trip I met a lot of other exchange students that were really cool. I might go visit a few in their city. I also I am going to the northeast of brazil in December or January for a whole month. It is very difficult to decide becuase I have friends from both groups that are really cool. I also feel a little better about my portuguese because I got to compare with some other people from the United States and Australia. Not all these kids that know 2 or 3 langauges before they came. It still needs a lot of work though. Soccer is good but I am the scrub on the team. Well I can't think of what else to say. If anybody has some questions they can e-mail me. Thcau. Tim |
| Friday, October 11, 2002 11:39 AM | Everything is going fine. I am still playing a lot of soccer and my Portuguese might be getting better. Sometimes I think it is and sometimes I don't. I go to the Pantanal next week and I am really excited. I will e-mail everybody when I get back. |
| Thursday, September 19, 2002 5:35 PM | Oi todo mundo, This is Tim and I am still alive. I have been in Brazil for a month now. It's crazy that because so much has happened in just this one month. Well everything is going good besides learning the language. I am haveing a difficult time. It's is so hard to pronounce some of the words here. I always have a stopping point with people that I have conversations with. But I just need to try to speak more. This past week I went to two diffrent proffesional soccer clubs.
The first one was Cruziero which is a very popular team in my city.
Then I went to a team called Minas Gerias. Minas Gerias I thought was
a better program for me because the had better players
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| Tuesday,
August 27, 2002 12:16 PM Tim@brazil.com
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Hey Everyone, This is Tim and I was just e-mailing everyone to tell how I am doing. The first week in Brazil went great. The kids are really nice and already started inviting me to party's and diffrent things. Next week I go with some of the students to a big concert in Belo Horizante. Friday I played in my first soccer game with the students from my school. It is kinda crazy how many kids have good touches on the ball here. Friday night I went out with some of my host-brothers freinds and chilled at a restaurant. Saturday night we went to a club that played eighties music. It was pretty fun but kinda crowded and smokey. No windows to ventilate the place. The only thing that is difficult is learning the language but I am getting better day by day. Well thats all that is pretty much going on down here for me. I hope everybody is doing well. Sincerely, Tim |
| Monday, August 19, 2002 3:03 PM | I have arrived in Belo Horizante and everything went
smoothly on all the plane rides. It was awful staying in Sao Paulo for
thirteenn hours though. My family is very nice and they are making me
feel very welcome. Today was my first day of school and all the kids
were friendly and they are already inviteing me to extra activities
outside of school. Thihngs are diffrent here but I think I am going to
adjusted just fine and everybody is helping learn portoguese. I hope
everything is going well in Fayetteville. |
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playing with two alligators |
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playing with a tarantula |
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 holding a parrot in bonito |
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