Indiana Youth Ambassador - Tulio Serrano

The First Day of my Life.

2010-02-10T17:45:00.001-08:00

Tem dias que a chegam no fim e te dão uma impressão de um vazio tão gostoso.
Um vazio que te faz pensar, passar o tempo.
Ter saudade.
Ter amor.
amar.
Amar hoje, agora, cada momento. Cada coisinha que tá acontecendo, que vem, cada floco de neve que eu toco, cada vapor que sai do meu nariz no frio.
Amar a voz dos teus amigos no telefone, que te fazem gritar de alegria por dentro.
Saber que tem alguém por ti. Família.
Essa sensação tao boa de que de repente a vida faz, de verdade, algum sentido. E que religião não é bobagem, não.
Que tempo é importante.
E que mais importante ainda é gastar tempo da forma mais irresponsável possível, quando for possível.
Que a vida tem sabor, e não é por acaso.
é pra gente sentir.

Eu queria que um dia todo mundo sentisse isso, na mesma hora.
O mundo por alguns split seconds ia virar o lugar mais legal do mundo!

Eu olho pra trás. Tenho uma saudade imensa de tudo que foi. Uma saudade boa, que dá vontade de ficar lembrando e rindo sozinho.
Eu olho de verdade a minha volta, e eu vejo o agora. E ele não deixa por menos. Faz querer ficar nele, e não sair mais.
Dá vontade de melhorar, que é o que faz o tempo passar bem.

Talvez por isso que seja bom sentir saudade.
Porque se tudo tá indo no caminho certo, hoje eu sou melhor que ontem.
E ver isso, é gostoso sim!

Minha alma hoje tá da cor do Jorge Drexler, da Ana Carolina, do Chico.
Minha alma tá em inglês, em português, em espanhol.
Tá nova e velha, preta e branca, technicolor.

Eu só quero sentir isso de tempo em tempo, pelo resto da minha vida.
Hope.

Fim de semana YA

2010-01-31T17:35:00.000-08:00

Enfim, reunidos!

Depois de algumas semanas afastados, e morreeeeeendo de saudades, nos encontramos esse final de semana para cumprirmos nosso trabalho voluntario.

Fizemos colchas para levar a um hospital pediatrico, e nos divertimos muito.

Foi otimo ver o pessoal, e ficar sabendo que todo mundo esta feliz, bem com suas familias, e se estabelecendo, onde quer que estejam.

Esse pais 'e maravilhoso! Ainda assim, eu estou com muuuita saudade de casa, das minhas duas gurias do Brasil :) Mae e a Ra tao fazendo muita falta!

E a minha familia aqui? Nao pode estar melhor. Isso 'e o que compensa e faz eu ficar super feliz.
Minha mom 'e um amor! e ela 'e super parecida comigo em muitas coisas. Meu Dad, nem se fala. ele 'e uma figura rara.
Meus siblings sao super legais. O john em especial, ta sendo uma companhia otima.

Esperem o fim de semana, as fotos do SUPER BOWL. Pq sim, os Colts estao no super bowl :)

E COMENTEM, quando eu posto, que sempre 'e bom ver que tem alguem lendo meu blog o/

at'e semana q veem

In class explosions

2010-01-31T17:28:00.001-08:00

As aulas aqui estao ficando cada vez melhores :)

Amish

2010-01-23T17:43:00.001-08:00

Today we went to Shipshewana
What for?
To see some Amish people, and buy some souvenirs.

They have these strange manners, no electricity or technology, but they have some even stranger things:
They buy in WalMart
They Buy gas, because they have their own generators at home; it's only prohibited to get electricity from our "new world's wires"
They don't like pictures being taken.

Anyway, from inside the car I could get pictures, but not of them, really.

But
They have their own way of living, and they live very well, thank you.
They work at farms or things linked to earth.
Their teas smell AMAZING!

It was a very curious trip
Jerry, my host dad, took me there, me and Ted.

He's always taking me to something fun.(Avatar movie, nice restaurants with "comfortable" food...)

That trip was just today, and I'm pretty tired, right now.
But I have to catch things up, and do somethings for school on Monday.

See you guys, soon.
PS: next posts in Portuguese :)

Homecoming

2010-01-23T17:15:00.000-08:00

The Homecoming week was reeeeally fun
We had dress-up days, and at the end we had the basketball game, followed by the dance.

Monday, no class, as it was Martin L. King's day.
Tuesday, Pyjama day
Wednesday, Retro day:

Me and Cory in Chem class

Me and the Girls in Bio

Thursday, Charachter day
I was Pop-Eye!

Bond Girl and Pop-Eye

Bio Class with Mrs. Miller (who's beside me)

And Finally, Friday:
The game and the dance!

We won the game, both JV and Varsity Teams =)
against who? believe me, Cowan, the school which I visited with my mom!
hahahahah

This is the only picture I have so far, because I didn't take my camera, so I have to wait until people post them

Me and Anna

Sledding

2010-01-23T17:08:00.000-08:00

We went Sledding on Sunday 17th of January, the day right after the game night.

It was Me, my Mom, John and Ted.
It was a great time, up in Pokagon, a city here in Indiana where the Potawatomi Park is.

They have the sledding trail, and you can go up to 40 miles an hour!
In a Sled!!
:)

They're all being really really nice to me.
And they're always taking me to see different things and places, something I really appreciate!

School

2010-01-23T16:55:00.000-08:00

Morning lights;
before school

School's been busy.

And what's good about it? everything.

All of my classes have been issues for me to think about my own studies life back in Brazil.
My teachers, mostly all of them, are very pushy. They'll make us think about matters that sometimes are even unseen.
Mrs. Comber, my teacher in Expository Writing and World Literature has some activities that make us have profound thoughts over every single material we read. We've been studying african culture, and our next step will be Antigone.

Mrs. Miller, my chemistry and biology teacher has been just SO sweet!
She lets me alternate classes between Biology and Biology AP, according to when they have Labs, for I had never done any lab back in brazil.
It has been so interesting to see everything happening, everything I've already learned, as genetics, but right in front of my eyes. That is just priceless.

Mrs. Debbink, my Precalculus teacher is just THE best math teacher ever. Why? She's just honest. She is awesome in what she does; she knows how to teach, and so, she knows her limitations, as every human being should know, face them, and live life.

Other than that:
I've been to another school.
I went to Cowan school, with my mom, as she's an english teacher there.
I shadowed Alix, this sweet girl, that made me feel instantly comfortable and home.
That school is very different from Burris Laboratory School. They're more strict about rules and more rigid. And they're going through some hard budget cut times, and everybody's having to make an effort towards that.

With all that going, I've been constantly thinking over my own life and deeds. As what do I want to myself? As I see all of this going on, these interesting people and interesting systems, I see I just don't want to be one more person in the world; I want to have conscience over myself as Mrs. Debbink, with some of Mrs. Miller's flexibility and Mrs. Comber's creativity. I just know I can do better, and be a better person, as one thing my host mom has being teaching me(something that, just by observing her, you can retrive).
You can always do better.

Colts Game

2010-01-23T16:08:00.000-08:00

Here I am again, and I took a little time, but I have a lot of material.
We've been up to just many things, and school has been pretty busy.

Last saturday, the 16th of January.
We went to my Host Mom Parents' house to watch the colts game which was reaaaally fun :)

It was a good time, and interesting to see how american footbal stands for the USA as Soccer stands for Brazil.

They were all really sweet to me, all the time. Aunt Jan(My mom's sister) asked me a lot about Brazil, along with Sally, and our Grandparents, all of them very curious to hear about everything.
As in any good conversation, politics was included; and that always made us lose the time for the game...

and of course, The Colts won :)

Pictures

2010-01-13T13:35:00.000-08:00

Well, finally.
Finalmente, minhas fotos.
Acabei de voltar da BestBuy com o cabo :)

Segunda-feira foi o primeiro dia de escola, e foi super legal.
Eu vi a Chris, nos intervalos entre os periodos e conheci muuita gente legal.
Meu horario foi super duper estranho, e meu almoço foi as 10h.
Eu pedi pra alterar algumas coisas e ontem ja estava tudo pronto.
Minhas aulas sao World Literature, Chemistry, Expository Writing, MacroEconomics AP, Biology, Almoço(13h) e PreCalculus.

Minhas turmas sao bem variadas e eu tenho colegas de varias idades.
Biologia foi muito legal. A gente teve um pouco de genetica e fez laboratorio, sendo que no proximo a gente vai fazer uma electroforese em gel, que 'e realmente pegar dnas e comparar como se faz em exames de dna. xD

Eu tenho falado, ouvido, pensado, lido, sonhado, enfim, tenho vivido tanto ingles que eu estou em algum tipo de overdose. hahaha
'E uma sensaçao nova, esse convivio todo em ingles, que apesar de eu ja ter viajado, nunca tinha tido.

Conheci minha irma, a Sally, de 25 anos, e ela 'e um amor! Foi super querida comigo, conversou um monte e me ofereceu o Kindle dela emprestado se eu quisesse(google it, kindle by amazon). Mas ela trabalha at'e +- meia noite, o que deixa um pouco dif'icil falar com ela.

Peço desculpas pelos acentos errados e essas coisas, mas eu nao quero "mess up" o teclado da minha familia, entao vai assim mesmo :)

Volto logo com noticias novas.

Trip and First Day

2010-01-10T06:30:00.000-08:00

The way to Indiana was quite smooth.
We didn't even have to run at the airport!
Though at the end, our luggage was lost and it only came home late night which was not ok.

First stop was Cracker Barrel to have a typically american breakfest with Jhani and Leslie. Oh man, I had Maple Syrup, that I hadn't had for so long and was just unbelievably good.
We went to Jhani's home, then.
Everybvody was so excited with the snow and everything different, we couldn't wait; Jhani gave us the required equipment(required not to freeze in 30 seconds) and we went outside to play. Yeah!
a 17 year-old boy, I felt like a kid, making snow balls and snow angels.
It was reaaaaaly nice.

Then the families started arriving around 5 o'clock, and we couldn't see them for soooo long, that I was really getting kind of anxious. I met lots of partners people, which was really nice.

I met the Millers at Last. And they're really sweet!
Jerry is a nice guy and he works in some aircraft company, in some interesting thing, though I didn't really undesrtand exactly what he does(I'll figure it out soon). He's the fun guy, who takes us to do interesting, nice and solidly cool things. Barbara is an English teacher, and she's really eager to make me feel comfortable. She's organizing the family life all the time and planning things, which is a new thing for me as we usually don't make week plans in brazil. John is nice and looks exaaaactly like one of my best friends, what made me feel nice around him instantly.

The only bad thing was that I had to say goodbye to Mariana, Rafael, Gabriel and Maite for 1 month. The trip was ok because we were together. Otherwise how would any of us stand 10 hours in Sao Paulo with nothing to do?

I just came back from an exciting trip!
hahaha
I went to see Avatar in Imax 3d!!!! how amazing is that?
bad new: it was sold out :(
we're going back there during the week.

I'm sorry for not posting pictures cause I forgot the cable for my camera ;x
I'll have to buy one new soon, and I'll have some pictures posted.