Hi all, 12 years later (Part 2)

Hi again to my readers and my future self, 

 Continuing the story of what has been of me the last 12 years I haven't been writing.

2018: I realized more things that happened that year that I forgot to mention!

• My little brother got into my same school! It's crazy because to this day he does not realize how smart he is. He didn't do as well as me in school but did way better than me in the PSU and got in loosely. He started carpooling with me that year (convenient) and added some of his music to my pendrive (this meand I didn't get my new car until later, my bad, it's been a while) and I remember I learned (forcefully) some Naruto openings those mornings riding to school. Rafi would go on to fail more courses than I did.
• I got apendicitis and noticed during band practice for the Viña Festival in Bet-El. I started not feeling so good, drove alone to my house from Los Trapenses (the hill) and sad in the bathroom in pain. I remember telling my mom "it hurts here" *points to appendix" and being like "I feel like I need to poop and physically cannot". My mom sat in the bathroom for a while, saw I couldn't fully stand up straight and was like "hospital". We went and they said it's crazy I wasn't in more pain. They gave me painkillers and we spent the night and I got a week off school. My friends from college came to visit me. That was cute.
• That week was the deadline to apply to Tutores, a super exclusive club of students that acted as mentors for first years. I recorded a motivational video with my apendicitis face on. I did not get in. My friends did and that sucked. Also a "friend" insinuated I didn't have appendicitis, and that it was a facade for actually getting an abortion. This dude got kind of black-listed mentally for me after that.

2019: This is the first year I was TA in Desafíos (that first year course I mentioned about projects, design and innovation). I feel this was one of the first times I felt like an expert in my field. I loved it. I would go on doing this for 3 more semesters. This year I also did get into Tutores so I had a group of first years as mentees.

This winter I went to Israel (where it was summertime) with S, N and K for Taglit. It was very fun. Me and K stayed 2 extra weeks in Tel Aviv and this could be catalogged as wild time number 3. It was so fun to stay at a hostel, go bar crawling, meet people from around the world and visit beautiful places like the Kineret and Carmel.

The "Estallido Social" happened in October. It's hard to explain this. I remember I was having lunch and bumped into one of my mentees. She asked me like how do I feel about the news. I said I didn't know much about it. She said her dad is having a hard time because they keep raising the subway ticket prices and he has to use it for work every day. That was october 17th.

The next day we went to school but were told to leave early. At home watching the news, our everyday subway station (in front of the school in San Joaquín) had been burnt down. Classes were canceled the next day. More subway stations burnt down. No classes the next day, and the next. Watching the news was terrifying, especially because there didn't seem to be a good solution. The military had tanks out on the streets over the next weeks. Literally tanks rolling by my house like it's normal. School came back after 2 weeks virtually. We had online classes. That prepared us for what happend the year after.

2020: The pandemic hit. I remember I was skeptic at first. My mom was travelling, had a layover in the UK and said she was told to buy a KN95 mask. We had just started seeing news of the virus in Europe, but it seemed so far away. My mom didn't catch it then, but little by little we started hearing about it in Chile. School was canceled after 2 or 3 weeks of it. Back to virtual classes. Little did we know it would be for 2 years.

I remember right before this happened we started the school year with my friends, we were sitting at the place we always had lunch and made funny videos for our joke CAi (engineering student council) OE Cai joking about Corona. I had gone to J's to record some music just the week before the lockdowns.

I spent about a month locked in the house because I refused to wear a mask. After a while there was no getting out of it. I got a bike that year and rode (with a permit). We started having family lunches on the couch watching a show. We got through 

• The Office
• Man in the High Castle
• Jack Ryan

Maybe more that I don't remember.

That first semester of 2020 I was still a TA for Desafíos. It was weird doing it online. I also had gotten into choir class as an elective. That went well.

2021: Still going strong on that pandemic. I cannot beleive how long we were locked up! Seems crazy looking back. 2021-1 was the first semester some classes were OK to be hybrid I think. If not it was the second.

It was going to be a year since the pandemic started so this dude C from the year below us asked J if he wanted to help making a We Are the World video with students from all classes of our engineering school. J asked me to help out. I did.

That first semester I was crowned head TA in Desafíos. The song dude, C, was one of the TAs I would have in charge. He was hippy-dippy, long hair, very chill. Also extremely smart. Top of his class. He made the classes fun. We talked about music in the breakout rooms when the kids were working on their projects. Outside the Desafíos class, we became friends since we realized we had a bunch of classes in common. He helped me out a lot. 

Fast forward to end of semester, we recorded a music video together (also finally met in person) and things sort of clicked. It's funny thinking back how this happened even though we had curfew at 10 PM and no in person activities. We had each other in all social media and he did this thing where he was a different character in each of them, and each of the characters talked to me sepparately and talked shit about each other. We talked untill late hours and I wasn't getting bored. J gave me his blessing (I still wasn't sure). We started getting together more often and spoiler alert, haven't stopped ever since. 

We went to Pichilemu with G and her boyfriend D that october and he asked me to be his girlfriend. That semester he also helped me out in my classes. 

2022: This would be our last year in school. C was super smart so he graduated the first semester, I did the second. This year I went to Israel to play volleyball in the Maccabiah representing Chile. That was a really cool experience. I specially remember this date because I was taking a really hard class I was terrible at that semester and I had to leave for Israel before the grades were up. I failed the class with a 7 hour timezone difference. C and G made it their mission for me to pass, and miraculously they did it. Thank god.

At the end of this year I started my Trabajo de Título, basically I started working in a company to get my degree. I lasted 8 months untill 

2023: When I actually graduated. This job was awful. The people were great and the job was OK but my boss and my bosses boss had a secret relationship and were super unethical. I quit that job once I had my degree secured because they tried to get me mixed up in some suspicious shit. Today they have had a baby together and he no longer works there. She is in extended maternity leave.  G worked there since January of 2023 and didn't leave untill 2025. 

2024: C and I moved in together in August that year. Before this we each went to a resort vacation with our families. It was bittersweet, since it was kind of a goodbye trip. I was really sad the first months I moved out; I really missed my parents.

It was a small appartment in Warren Smith. The appartment was always warm and in the best location EVER. All birthdays were nearby, bakery and pharmacies in the corner. Work was walking distance. Near my parents' and his. I sold my Hyundai (I loved that car) and started sharing his (1 car is enough for 2). 

A month after moving in C and I travelled to Europe. [[]]]

Once we got back, I went to Mexico for work for 3 weeks!! This was so much fun. I had so many Tacos and Mezcalitas and got to know Ciudad de Mexico, Teotihuacán and Coyoacán during día de muertos! Amazing experience. 

We still did my birthday at my parents'. That was nice. We had an appartment shower (a few) and have (still) a whiteboard where our friends get points each time they visit us.

In october of this year my dad quit his corporate job. In november he got a job in Barcelona to be a CEO in a tech startup. In december my mom got her breast cancer diagnosis.

2025: This was not a great year. We started January in the OR. I slept there with my mom for her single mastectomy. She started chemo in february I think, and started losing her hair a few weeks in. This sucked. She was so sad. I wasn't living there and my dad was in Barcelona, so my brother covered for the most part. Also I was working, he was not. I'm very thankful he could be there. She finished chemo in June and started radio. After that she started rebuilding life.

In parallell at work I was promoted twice, I was doing great. This was a good place to focus energy while my mom was in treatment. C was a really good partner to have in all of this. 

In October I travelled with my grandma to Barcelona to visit my dad. It was a great trip. I was there for 3 weeks and had the chance to spend some time alone, think and walk. I worked remotely some days. Travelled with him on the weekends, to the Pirinees and Costa Brava and the South of France. He came to Chile in december. My mom got her last surgery at the end of that year and now has been focusing on getting better. 

Me, C and my brother R spent new years in Rio de Janeiro. 

2026: {year in progress}

Once we got back I got really sick to my stomach, it was awful. 

This year is going great so far. Dad moved back to Chile. Carrer wise going great: I did 2 talks (one for Friends of Figma in my office and one for Continuum, a tech consulting firm)  that in my opinion went really well. I feel like storytelling is something I do well and should do more of. Am motivated to keep pushing myself in that direction for the rest of the year and see what happens.

More news soon!

D

Hi all, 12 years later (Part 1)

Hi to my readers and my future self, 

It's been 12 years since my last post. Way too long and it feels all too familiar, like riding a bike. I feel like this blog is so cool, so the plan is to try and pick up where I left off. Disclaimer: I may not be as funny as I used to be, but who knows? Maybe something fun comes out of it.

In Chile we say "Hola po olvidona". I feel like this is originally from a YouTube video, I have no idea, but people say it to call out someone who has not done something they used to for a long time. A not so good translation would be: "Forgetful much?" Anyways, this is me calling myself out for not writing anymore.

I'm 28, going on 29. Oof. Let me go over an update of what has been up since 2014. That's around when I got back from Spain.

2015: Last year of school in Santiago. That year I sort of consolidated my real friends that were going to last up to adulthood, and let go friends that wouldn't. I took the PSU test to get into college. I got into where I wanted to (I was going for Computer Science at PUC)! Spoiler: my carreer didn't go exactly as planned. We'll get to that. I broke up with my highschool boyfriend (he is currently married with a baby), we got back together in

2016. I started college in San Joaquín (at the middle of the year he broke up with me and that was that). I actually started in the summer with some calculus and algebra introductory courses for kids who didn't learn these things in school. That's where I actually met my current friends. Crazy I've known them for so long. So this friend from school got in with me and she was more of an introvert than I was in school, but she got into college with a mission: she was going to be an extrovert. Oh and also like sort of slutty. Good for her. We got into these classes together and when we got there she had already made plans for lunch with some of the class in a Facebook group. I would never. And I'm forever grateful. We had lunch with them every day those 2 weeks. We had some after-class get-togethers as well. I was added to the class WhatsApp group that got bigger and bigger (because everyone needed friends). By the time class started in march the group was full (I think the limit back then was like 150 people?). Come march my friends didn't talk in that group and I lost touch with them. It was a lonely first semester.

I went to San Joaquín in a "turno" that year. Carpool. Facebook was still a thing back then and turns out 2 kids from my year lived in my building! What are the odds. We carpooled for the first 2 years of school I think. Oh, the summer before school my brother had nose surgery, my cousin Pedro came to visit (while I was at summer camp) and they picked out my first car. It was a white Chery, very tiny. It looked like a marshmallow. It had no bluetooth nor aux input so I made a pendrive with songs that always played in the same order. It was like having one very long song that played every day from where I left off the day before. Like an audio book.

I was terrible at school. I remember that year I felt so smart when I got in because I was so good at school, that I didn't study for my tests and failed 3/5 of my courses. Big punch in the gut to my ego. I also attribute it to not really having a group of friends. I made a girl friend group that was in my Desafíos (first year project/innovation type class) and they were cool but most were not my vibe. A lot of partying every day of the week. 

The second semester, since I failed everything mostly, 2 things happened:

1. I found a bunch of my summer friends had failed too and were in my repeat classes.
2. I didn't meet the requirements for normal 2nd semester courses, so I had to take an elective.

The elective was in the faculty of education, towards the front of the campus. This is only relevant, because the class was right before lunch time. Walking back to engineering after my first class that semester, I found my summer friends! Turns out they always sat in some tables that were on the outside of engineering and were on my way from this class. I literally saw them all sitting together and my first thought was "they hate me and made a new group without me". I walked by and they were like "why don't you have lunch with us anymore?". And I was like "I didn't know you had lunch here, I never heard from you again". That's when we all realized I had been left out of the new WhatsApp group they made because the other one was full of random people. Flash forward and by the end of that year I

• Had lunch with them every day and learned to play Carecaca, a card game.
• Met my best guy friend J and my best girl friend G. They had entered the group while I was not around.
• Went to the engineering gala and danced all night with A, who I had a crush on at the time but he finally just became a really good friend especially in the first years of college. Today we are still great friends but not as close as before.
• Went to A's house in the south of Chile that summer for 10 days and had some of the best experiences ever. I tell the stories that happened one night there as my "wildest" stories. Can't say I have a LOT of those, and that's OK I think.

Also, my grandpa on my mom's side was diagnosed with cancer this year (if I remember correctly). We went to visit in Brasil at the end of the year.

2017: My mom crashed her car. She was OK but got worried of what would happen if I crashed the marshmallow. I got a new car and I LOVED IT. It was a Hyundai Grand i10, dark greyish blue. He was perfect and was my bestie till last year. Failed some more courses. 

Also, this year I went back to singing. I was part of the battle of the bands the second semester and it was a disaster. It was like 20 people on stage and sooo chaotic. But it was fun to be a part of it.

2018: This year was the ombligo, a weekend-long party to celebrate the half of the carreer (spoiler, this was not the half of mine). It was fun and that weekend was another of my "wild side" moments. My friends could not believe. This is all I will say, no regrets. Very fun memories.

This year I was introduced to IDI: the major in design and innovation engineering. I ended up chosing it over computer science. It was the best decision I ever made. G also picked it and we got much closer as we did some classes together (not all of them, because she didn't fail any the first years). This was the last year I failed any classes, but I was scared of this the rest of my carreer so I mostly took 4 class semesters for the rest of my years at school. 

Also, this year I started with some computer science courses. I discarded the major but did the minor and loved it. I formed my carreer to be half design and half tech and that has been awesome. I remember I had a Windows computer and in my first software class someone said I had to have a Macbook if I wanted to program because in Windows you had to either patition to have Linux or install a virtual machine and this was so overwhelming to me that I had a panic attack and asked my parents if I could have a Macbook. I have never gone back to Windows and am very thankful (though I feel I should've handled that better).

This year me and J took over the battle of the bands. He was (and still is) a bit snobby when it comes to music, and he decided (dictated) that we were doing exclusively The Lion King songs for the 10 minutes we had on stage. He ended up convincing me and the rest. IT WAS A FREAKING MASTERPIECE. We had a sax and base and a great drummer and we killed it. We practiced so much and we even had theatrical interventions, costumes... this was amazing. I feel like J had post-partum depression after birthing this musical. Literally. We got second place (unfairly) but we felt like the kings. 

I have been going on for a while, so I'll make a part 2, for those still engaged in my story (I am).

Love, Debbie.

2014

Can you believe it's 2014 already? So many things have happened in my life. I am doing really well in school, although now its summer here so I'm on vacation. I've just returned from a ten day camp (like literally camp; in tents) and I survived wohoo!
In March I start junior year on the math and physics program at my school. I'm really excited, I have a feeling that it's going to be a really fun year, especially because I have a trip to Israel at the end of the year with my class and I wish it were sooner I can't wait.
Also in 2013 I started dating the best guy in the world and we've been together for a little over six months now so I'm very happy because I feel safer now. Like I'm never alone. I'm enjoying life a little more, and I'm so thankful for that. He's the best.
Now in February I'm going with him to Viña del Mar, which I'm excited for but also a little nervous, but I think I'll be fine.
It's funny to think that I started this blog like 5 years ago!! That's a lot. I've been thinking of writing new types of posts like tips or my favorites or stuff like that. If you have any suggestions please do let me know.
What else, let's see...
Today's my dad's birthday. I made him this really cool card. It's green on the outside and has two eyes sticking out. It has pointy teeth on the opening and when you open it it's black with a red tongue, throat and uvula all sticking out, he loved it. I wrote the messsage under the tongue. Really proud of my creation.

Viajando Sola

Este es un artículo que escribí hace un tiempo para una revista que por x motivo nunca llegó a publicarse. La revista estaba recién entrando al mundo de las comunicaciones con lo que no estoy muy segura si ha sobreviviodo en él, y si así lo fuera, qué tan popular ha resultado.
Mi artículo trataba de cómo es para una jóven viajar sola, ya que no lo había hecho tantas veces y me pareció algo que podria ser interesante. Dado que no se publicó en la revista, por lo menos lo colgaré aqui por si alguien quiere leerlo. Es mas facil que lo vean aquí que en mi escritorio, creo yo.


Viajando Sola

Para mi, el viajar sola es tener las responsabilidades del adulto en un viaje cuando no hay nadie mayor que tú para cuidarte. Ayer por la tarde, viajé “sola” por segunda vez, acompañada por mi hermano menor. Juntos tomamos un avión de Santiago, Chile a Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. El viaje es solo de cuatro horas y sin escala, sin embargo un gran peso recae sobre tus hombros a lo largo de todo el camino.

Preparar las maletas y hacer check in es fácil, porque en eso te pueden ayudar tus papás. Hasta ahi vamos bien. Pero ¿Qué pasa cuando te despides de tus padres, y estas con un niño menor, plata y una carpeta llena de documentos bajo tu responsabilidad? Aprendí que lo más importante es relajarse, porque aunque no te hayas dado cuenta antes, tu si te fijas en lo que hacen tus padres cuando viajan contigo.

Entonces, paso uno; entrar a la cola de la policia internacional. Al menos en el aeropuerto de Santiago, esta suele ser uma fila bastante larga. Mi solución para las filas largas de aeropuerto es simple. Yo siempre viajo con mi iPod (mp3 o un celular tambien sirve), y con mi hermano nos turnamos escuchando con audifonos y hacemos mímica de la letra y el otro tiene que adivinar que canción es. Después de un tiempo llegará tu turno. Lo único que tienes que hacer es mostrar tu pasaporte, tu pasaje y en mi caso, por ser menor de edad, una autorización de viaje de mis papas.

Para todos los padres ahí afuera: es normal que en algunos casos, si se quedan saludando y tirando besitos a lo lejos, solo logren que sus hijos se pongan más nerviosos. Ya que estoy en el tema, al menos a mi me pasa mucho que siento que apenas esté lo suficientemente lejos para ser absoluta y completamente inútil si es que a mis padres les llega a pasar algo, algo les va a pasar, y nadie me va a llamar para avisarme porque estoy de viaje y “no quieren que me preocupe”. Esto contribuye a más de un cincuenta por ciento de mi ansiedad al viajar sola. El no poder estar cerca si mis padres llegaran a necesitarme. Porque a pesar de que no soy legalmente un adulto todavía, se que ellos me necesitan al menos como apoyo moral y yo los necesito a ellos y como a ellos les gustaría saber si estoy bien, me gustaría que se tome la misma consideración por mi lado.

En fin, después de salir de la policía solo hay que pasar el Duty Free, buscar en las pantallas la puerta de donde saldrá tu vuelo y sentarse a esperar. No hay prisa, piensa que tienen mucha gente para embarcar así que no hay por qué estresarse. Come algo tranquilamente, anda al baño y después acércate a la puerta, siéntate y lee o escucha música, veras como se pasa rapido el tiempo. El vuelo normalmente es tranquilo y cualquier cosa nunca dudes en preguntar a una azafata. Siempre te ayudaran y tendrán especial cuidado contigo por ser menor, ¡así que aprovecha! Cuando aterrice el avión, sólo hay que mostrar el pasaporte en policía, y salir.

Mi problema la primera vez que viaje sola fue el saber que tenía que estar dos semanas enteras lejos de mi casa, mis papas, mi perro, mis amigos... Creo que fue más psicológico lo que que me angustió tanto la primera vez. Este viaje es de solo una semana asi que me siento mas comoda, ademas confío en que mi hermano vendrá a mi si necesita algo, por lo que no siento que depende de mi por completo, no me siento tan responsable por el. Además se que puedo contactar a mi mama siempre que quiera, y que está más cerca de lo que parece. Solo estoy tratando de divertirme y pasar tiempo con la parte de mi família que no veo tan seguido.

He aprendido muchas cosas con esta experiencia. Me siento una persona independiente, capaz de muchas cosas. Hoy confío en lo que puedo lograr, y con un poco de fe en mi misma y en el mundo que me rodea, este será solo el comienzo.

Settling In

So honestly, this first week back in Chile has seemed like months... it's like I never even left, really.

My brother has a friend who's mom is chief of the Parents Center at school this year, and she asked me if I wanted to help out handing out uniforms this year at school. Of course I said yes, I have to be there tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday at 8:00 AM.
It's funny, because when I was younger when I went to school to get my uniforms, I saw all the big kids helping out. But now I'm the "big kids", still I feel so little. A lot of my friends are going to be there helping out as well. I wonder what it'll feel like, to look down on the little kids this time...

Also, it's the Viña del Mar Festival now so the Jonas Brothers are staying a block from my grandmother's house, where I'm staying. It's surreal, all the fans outside there hotel. To think if those walls were invisible, I'd be able to see them. It's not like I'm one of those fangirls, but it would just be amazing to talk to them for a second. Just hear what they have to say, their way of looking at life.

Oh well, nothing more to say, more during the week.
D

Probably my Last Post-for now.

I will be moving to Spain on Wednesday, in 6 more days. Since this blog is called "Debbie in Chile", that would be totally incoherent. Thus, being this my current situation, I've created a new blog; Europe:Here I go. It suits my situation at the time.

www.europehereigo.blogspot.com

Hope you enjoy it! Comment ALL you want!

Apartment Viewers of Today

Today 2 "families" have come over to ckeck out the apartment to rent for 2 years while we're gone in Spain.
Family #1:
Young couple in their 30's with a young daughter around 8 years old.
Family #2:
Only a woman came. Early 40's.

Last Friday in Rio

Today is our last Friday in Rio. My mom had a lunch with her friends and she had to take Rafi to the doctor. So, while my dad stayed at home for a bit, I went with my ant Isabela, my uncly Marcio and Pedro to choose Pedro's glasses' frame. Once we did, they dropped me and my ant off at the mall. We went to exchange a pair of sandals that was small on her, we had pasta for lunch, we went to the bookstore and I got Dear Dumb Diary #7 and we also checked out some backpacks for school. We got back to her house at 4 after a cool cup of ice-cream. I read and surfed the net a little in her room and then played some X-Box until we finaly got to vovo's house for a brinner (brekfast/dinner) with a cousin and an aunt of my mother's.
That was our day,
TTYS
Debbie.
PS: Still missing omi, tata and Spotty like h*ll.

Last Wednesday in Rio

Today is our last Wednesday in rio; we leave on Sunday. Today, me, my mom, dad, Pedro and Rafi spent the day at a water park: Rio Water Planet. It was almost a 2 hour drive there and back 2 more. The organization was terrible because first we had to make a line for tickets, ok, normalty. Then, after we entered the park we had to make a line to put real money in a rechargeable water proof card, because we would be getting wet. ok, thaughtful, but the lady couldn't hear us, and we couldn't hear her, because of the useless glass window in between. Then the lady didn't get that my mom didn't have a CPF (brazilian form of identification) because only residents have that, and as you know, we don't live here. Then we had to line up in the locker room to slide our water proof card so we could line up to get our key to our locker; a line for a line for a locker, more time wasted. Then we finnally had a little freedom in this place so we went to the "Slow River" -it was called. We sat on donut shaped floaties (are they called tubes??) and floated along the river for a little while. Then, when we got out we went on two "tubeless" water slides and then to a waterslide where you went down in two-people-tubes and it was extremely cool. We went down twice in the whole day the first time it was me and my dad and on he other rafi and pedro and my mom waited for us at the bottom and the 2nd time it was me and rafi and my dad with pedro my mom also didn't come, but my mom did go on the slow river. Then we had a pizza, still having to pay with the card and a few sodas, and then we went in the river again to see if we could find anything else to eat. We ended up going to the wave-pool but I got really dizzy, so we didn't stay long. After the pool we went to a burger stand but the burgers were cold and they wouldn't heat them up for us and I do not eat cold chese. So they ate the burgers and I got a "pastel de queijo" and so we sat and ate and then my mom decided to get on a ride to keep her promise-she promised my dad before leaving that at the park she would ride at least 3 different things- so we got on these mini plastic boats which fit three people each. We had to go up these really high and steep stairs carrying the boat -which wasn't light in any way- and then we went down this really short but extremely extreme water slide. First it slit down steep and then normal en then really steep again and then totally on its side and then totally on its other side and then it stopped. it was terrible. And, my mom chose precisely that one as her last ride and rode nothing else out of trauma :( . Anyways, everyone but her rode the tublesses one more time each and a different one which had purple tubes We went to the river one more time and then it was time to go because the park closed at 5. It was a fun day. At lest, I had fun. At night our parents went to the movies and we had spaghetti for dinner.

PS: Still missing omi, tata and Spotty like h*ll.

Saquarema

We just got back from Saquarema, where we've been for about a week. There was one computer available, but it wasn't mine to use, and besides, if I could've used it, there still was no internet. So, basically, instead of posting one post per day and changing the dates, I've decided I'm just going to tell you a little about what we did.
The boys had surf lessons for 5 days and they were actually pretty good. We had pizza 3 times in our stay, of which 2 were round and one was square. Yes, square. We also had pasta, Ice cream, and went twice to the "Garota de Itauna" restorant which was very good. One of the times we went, they served us a fish platter with tail, eye-ball and all. The other time we went, we walked home 'round the back across the beach-since our house had a path to the beach- accompanied by a few crabs. We took walks on thebeach almost every night and went to the pool every single day. I got two new bikinis in my stay and also got a pair of earrings and a snoopy canga. In the house there were 2 dogs. I didn't get their names, but one was brown and the other was black.
In Saquarema, there were lizards every night that really freaked me out. Also many snails.
Oh, what was really funny was that every morning, a truck passed our house selling nothing but pineaples. So it was blasting "pineaples!!! pineaples!!!" funny indeed.
The last day we were there, the water went short, yay!! Luckily, it wasn't our problem anymore, because we were leaving, we were leaving and then we left.
So we're back here, my uncle Daniel just flew in from Sao Paulo and we're all here, all 10 of us; My mom, my dad, my brother, Pedro, my uncle Marcio, my ant Isabela, my grandma, my grandpa, my uncle Daniel and me. Sorry Laila, I meant eleven. :)

PS: Still missing omi, tata and Spotty like h*ll. Love you guys and look forward to seeing you on Sunday, yet taking advantage of the time I still have here, because it's not every day I can come.
PSS: I finished my book "The Last Song" 2 days ago in Saquarema and honestly I totally recommend it for women over 12 and I am praying for Nicholas Sparks to hit a dead end and decide to make a The Last Song 2. I am starting Dear John tonight.

Thursday-with mommy

Hi!! Ok, so I'm sooo totally psiched cuz my mom's here and have really big news to tell you, but I won't tell you just yet. (...mistery...muahahahahah!!!)ummm...appart from that today I read my book a lot... I'm on page 60 or somthing. I talked to my daddy on skype today and also to my grandparents (they're still learning how to use it).

Today we went to a mall like 40 mins from here without traffic called Downtown at the Barra. We got together with a friend of my mother's that works at a store there. All 4 of us had lunch at burger king but there it was high tech to the luxurious! It had flat screens for menus and the waitresses took your order on this tablet sort of thing and then they gave you a credit card type card that you had to hand in at the counter and they swiped it through this machine that gave them the number of your order and then your order was instantly ready. The problem was that I had to talk to 3 different people just to get a freakin' napkin!! Then it was impossible to find the b-room. Then we left and stoppen for coconut water at the beach. Rafi got all wet and he wasn't even wearing a bathing suit and we had no towels... :S

We came home took a bath, my mom went out and got a new dress, and we had chicken and pastsa for dinner. Then we tryed to play yam but we got tired before finishing the game (actually before starting). That was our day. TTYS.

Debbie.

PS: Still missing my dad, spotty, omi and tata like h*ll.

Oh! Sorry! Did I say yesterday was a do-nothing-day?

Sorry, I was mistaken. Yesterday is a do everything day compared to today. Today it is 5:30 in the afternoon and we're still in our PJ's. We have not gotten outside today because it rained, both our grand parents had to work and my grandma doesn't feel so well. It's been fun though... we played instruments, watched TV, ate, played with the computer and went to the bathroom! :) O well, my moms gonna be here tommorrow afternoon so I'm really happy!! :D
Umm.. well, we had maccaroni for lunch and I'm still reporting to FM-Deborah every once in a while and I've got a few cute videos of Laila struttin' her stuff (if u no wat i mean ;D).
TTYS,
Debbie.
PS: still missing my parents, spotty, omi and tata like h*ll.

Do-nothing-Monday

2 more days untill my mom gets here, just wanted to let you know. Another new thing is that I, starting today, own a radio station called FM-Deborah-131.3. Haha, what I mean is I'm recording everything we do on my i-pod. Well, everything like touristicky. Is that even a word??

Anyway, today we basically did nothing all day cuz my grandparents had a lot of work to do (they still work, you know) untill 5, which is when we got up and went out (me, my bro and my grandma)

Allert: We interrupt your normal proggramming for a short message we decided to put here because if we don't we'll forget. (i'm blaming lots of people for my bad memory so i don't feel bad about myself, and since these people dont exist, guilt won't be a problem)

Note to self: When you get home, add Fireflies, Unwritten and Make it Shine to your iPod (yes, FYI, I very much like Victorious).

and went to the Praia Vermelha (red bach), more info on FM-Deborah 131.3. bazinga! It was cool, my brother, as usual, sees beach and/or pool water and races in immidiately, and thus he did.

We stayed for a while and then came home, and now my bro's listening to weird gutar hero 80's music on Youtube. We'll be eating soon.

TTYS

Debbie.

PS: still missing my parents, spotty, omi and tatalike h*ll.

Teresopolis, Brazil

Today, it was very, extremely sunny. So, we took the smart way out, did something different. We went out of town and up the mountain, because with a day like this, the beach would've had more peaple than water. So we went up to Teresopolis, a small town located in the mountains, near the "famous crist". There, there's a pool filled with freezing cold spring water. My granpa and Rafi went there. Technically you're supposed to pay to get in, but if you're older than 65 or younger than 13 you can get in free. Cool, huh?
Meanwhile, me and my grandma went to this really big craft fair (which actually had pretty much only jewelery and clothes) and then we went to the nearby mall (which wasn't a mall persay). I got a shirt, a vest and new PJ's. My grandma got a beach dress.
After we finnished we had lunch at this really good buffet. Then we came home.
Now we're at home preparing to eat pizza and resting after a long day and 2 very long car rides.
TTYS,
Debbie.
PS: still missing my parents, spotty, omi and tata like h*ll.