I love this picture! I wish I could go back to this single moment of my life. It was so good to hear the sounds of the waterfalls in Jamaica. I had my friends with me and it was awsome! If I think really deeply I can mentally go back there. I remember the water on my body and we were having a great time. My friend said that he was going to take a pic and I tried to meditate haha. I stayed there for long time, couldn't get enough of that peace feeling. Next vacations are gonna be on July, already know where I'm going. It promises to be as good as this one and the last one in Brazil.

Swine Flu

I'm so scared with this Swine thing!
It seems like it's hugely dangerous, I just got to know last monday when my friend mentioned to me that our friend in commom went to Mexico because his mom died and he was saying that the border officers wouldn't let him in back. And I asked why and he was surprised that I didn't know about the swine flu. What the h***!!!! It's a flu, it's way too easy to contaminate, I avoiding any personal contact even with people that look healthy because the symptoms don't appear on the first 4 to 7 days. I tried to buy the only medicine that is working a little against this and they didn't let me buy because I need a prescription. And I think it's right because otherwise everyone would buy to save at home and who really needs might not get it. It started in Mexico and already made 160 victims there. People from all over the world are working hard to make a vaccine capable to kill this virus. I would like to help but I don't know what to do. I guess I'll help enough not getting sick and alerting other people for this problem. The airports in Brazil are being inspected because there's none case in Brazil yet. Every person that arrives in Brazil is checked by specialized doctors.
It's unbelievable what's happening to the world. Everyone will have to walk around wearing masks now, I can't stand it.

Visitors!

I counting the days to receive some visits from Brazil! First, my dad comes in two weeks to stay one month. Him, my brother and my mom are my best friends. The first to know everything that happens to me. My dad is 41 years old and the proximity of our ages makes our friendship easier. I admire him very much and even when I have terrible news to him he keeps calm and has coldness enough to think what the best is. I would like to have the fast make decision power that he has. I'm not too bad at it but if I spent some more time with him I could learn a lot. Since I left home when I was 15 we haven't spent more than a month together. The exception was last winter when I stayed two months in Brazil. I even had the opportunity to work with him and it was very grateful. Now I'll have the chance to do many things with him. Although I have to work, I'll try to get together with him as much as I can. I'll try to take him to Boston and NY as well as Chicago. At least he can meet some of the US before I go back to Brazil.

Monkeys

My friends from Brazil get mad when I tell americans that I really had 6 monkeys in my house in Brazil. Because, usually, Americans tend to think that Brazil is a huge jungle and people there live with lions and other wild animals. And it's good to say that nobody has monkeys in their houses, but I did! It was so much fun. We used to live near to a national park and they probably came from there. First it was only two, and because we had many trees and we feeded them, they became 6! They sometimes could come to my dad's hand. In Brazil, it's not allowed to have wild animals at home and that's why we never showed the monkeys to the local tv. It could have given us some complications.

I loved to wake up and hear the beautiful noises that they make asking for bananas.

Caterpillars

Just read about this infestation of caterpillars in a city close to my hometown. They were found in a abandoned house, and there are just like billions of them now. They started reproducing in a old tree in the back of the house. Then, last week they went to neighbor's houses and it's everywhere. The house will be brought down this week.

Hope it doesn't get to my house! hehe, There are a couple of hundred of miles to walk before they get there.

The simpsons lost their house!

I was watching this episode from last month and guess what?!

Even the simpsons lost their house with all this crisis. In the episode, they renegotiate the mortgage of their house, and gave a big carnival party with the credit that they received. On the next day, they were informed that their type of mortgage was changed and they couldn't affort to pay anymore. The house went to a bid where their "favorite" neighbor bought the house. Ned Flanders, the winner, accepted to rent the house, so then they had a place to stay.

First time I saw snow

I was in Stamford when I first saw snow. I was upset because it had been almost two months that the winter had started and I had not seen any sign of snow. When I woke up that morning and looked out my window, it was snowing a lot! I put a short and a jacket on and went to take a picture. The first few tries I could not because I had nowhere to leave the camera, but when the snow stopped a little, I got my picture and immediately sent to my dad and mom.