Falling in

Ah, all the time, I'm liking Brazil more and more...probably because I can kinda speak Portuguese now.
But everything is really great. I'm a little bipolar about this, because there are days that I feel sad, and all I want is to be at home with the comfort of well known things, but most of the time now, I'm happy. And right now, I'm really content.
I went with my host mom to her night college today. I met a bunch of the people of her college on the last trip I took. So I ran into a bunch of them, and it was great, because finally I can talk. Finally!!!!
My host mom's college is connected to the shopping mall of Montes Claros, so I waited for her to finish in the mall. It's really small, but it is pretty much like a little mall there in the States. Except it has a supermarket and gym attached, and there are not really outlet stores. They are all little shops.
I was hoping, while walking around alone, to run into someone I knew. I didn't, but I did talk with attendants of some shops, and it was nice. The conversations were conversations, not hand signals and confusion. I can finally feel myself falling in, and its a good thing after so much time spent uncomfortable.
After my host mom's class finished, we went to go eat a little something at this 'Arab' food place. It was not exactly what I would consider Arab food, but it was good none the less. It was the first time me and my host mom went out and talked together, just us two. And now I'm wanting, even less, to change houses.
Everything here is going really well. My friends are getting closer. I'm learning how to make new friends....which I'm embarrassed to say, I didn't know how to do before. I'm growing all the time, learning to deal with things I had not encountered before, and it's really good for me. This year is going to be one of the years, if not the year, that I grow and change the most.
Earlier today, I went to the house (condo) of one of my classmates, to work on something for school. There are about 8 of us working on a song and dance to present to the school next friday. So all of us went there to work on this project. We have been 'working' on it for the past 2 weeks, and I have yet to see any work done. Haha.
We leave class to go work on the project, and end up playing Patecca, or soccer, or just messing around. And today was exactly the same. We did absolutely no work. I got to the condo, then we played guitar for a while, played soccer, swam, played patecca, played videogames, ate...and then left because it was getting dark. Its funny the difference in attitude. They dont seemed worried about it at all. I suppose we are just going to work on it in the coming week...we'll see how well it actually goes. So far, we've got the music set up. But none of the dance is coordinated yet. :p
But it was cool, just hanging out with some Brazilian kids. Falling in. :p