Well week two is off to a rough start. I woke up this morning and it was pouring rain. The good news is that I love sleeping during thunderstorms. The bad news is that this urge to sleep made me decide to skip my morning workout. More good news...I'm not too worried about it.
The weekend was pretty chill and enjoyable. Friday night we went out to dinner at a pizza place. The pizza is surprisingly extremely delicious here. More then I expected. After dinner, I went back to the hotel and the guys did there own thing. We actually ended up staying in the office pretty late on Friday so we were all pretty beat. Saturday I enjoyed sleeping in and then just hung out around the hotel for the day. I attempted to study for my auditing exam that I'll be taking in June but it's so hard to focus when the sun is shining and there are tons of cars driving by and lots of people to watch.
Saturday night I went out to dinner and a bar with the two guys from my audit team and the girlfriend of one of them. The idea of the bar was pretty sweet. You paid 30 reias (about $22) as you went in and then all your drinks for the rest of the night were paid for. Kinda like New Years in Chicago on a smaller level...and the drinks here were stronger (but they were in smaller cups). My favorite part was that they had all different flavors of Caipirinhas so I had one kiwi, one passion fruit, and one pineapple. All delicious. The bar also had a decent sized dance floor where they played a lot of American songs so that was fun for me too. They even played "Your Love"! It's like I never even left the U.S.
At one point in the night I went up to the bar with one of my co-workers. He ordered my drink for me since he can speak Portuguese and in the meantime I just hung out near the bar. Some guy pushed past me and some other girl to get a drink and this girl must have heard me speak English to my co-worker b/c she turned to me and said "some of the guys here can be such jerks!". I laughed and we talked for a little bit and she asked me where I was from. The "jerk" heard us talking and turned around and was like "Where are you from?" I replied Indiana and then he said, "What city in Mexico are you from?" WTF? I couldn't figure out if he thought I said Mexico instead of Indiana (b/c they sound so much alike) or if he like the rest of world assumed I was Mexican.
Sunday was pretty much the same as Saturday. I sat outside for most of the day. Unfortunately the area by the pool is shaded by a lot of trees so it doesn't get much sun. So instead I sat in the hotel restaurant's outside seating area. It works just as well except for that it's not really acceptable to wear a swimsuit there. The best discovery of the weekend though was that I have free internet in the lobby.
This morning I had a meeting with one of the leaders here regarding the audit. He noticed while I was taking notes that I am left handed. He then proceeded to tell me that it's a known fact that left handed people are more intelligent to which I modestly replied "I know." :) He then went on to say however, that sometimes it's more difficult to form relationships with left handed people b/c they tend to be very strong minded and can be very intimidating but he didn't find this to be the case with me. We actually talked about this for a few minutes and he said that no one is perfect so that's why it's okay that left handers aren't always easy to form relationships with. Of course in my mind I was thinking "Since he said that he doesn't find me as someone difficult to form a relationship with, does that mean I'm perfect?" ;)
I've watched a few movies on tv while I've been here and I decided that they only play the absolute worst movies here. Half the movies I come across on tv are ones that I've never even seen the previews for. For instance, this weekend I watched a soccer movie with the kid that played Ross's son Ben on Friends and George Patrick Owens (I think that was the name). Awful. I also watched "She's the Man" with Amanda Bynes which is also terrible and yet somehow that was the second time I've seen it. My suspicions that they do play the worst movies was confirmed last night when I was flipping through the channels and the movie "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World" was on. WORST MOVIE EVER.
Well, that's all for now. Keep your fingers crossed that it stops raining by this weekend!!
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