Saudade

Oh my, oh my, oh my.
Lots of homesickness this week.
For a while there, I was doing good with everything. Lots of stuff to distract me I suppose, but now, all I can think about is how freaking hot it is here, and how I would love to be home, where it is cold, with a big cup of coffee and a fire.
But here is good too. I just have to enjoy it now, because I only have 8 months left now.
I've already been here for 3 months. It's a long time, but I know the next 8 will pass quickly, and when the time to leave comes, I will not want to go.
I was sitting in my classroom on Tuesday, after arriving home from my trip to the beach, and I was thinking how much I missed my classmates. That was just after a week.
I think leaving Brazil is going to be harder then it was to leave the US, because I know that when I go back to the US, my friends and family will still be there, my home will still be there. Things will be, more or less, the same. But when I leave Brazil, who knows when I will come back, if I come back. Who knows where the people I meet will go, how much things will change. So I just have to remember to enjoy here while I've got it.
Tonight there is a barbecue for all the people from my school that went to Porto Seguro. I'm excited to see everyone reunited again. The kids on the trip were great. Everybody got along well, and we had bunches of fun. Now, when I see the kids from the trip at school, it's always a big hug to greet each other. We all got close, which is really good. I have 40 new good friends, so its great.
Things are coming along here. My Portuguese is finally getting acceptable, and I'll be starting a class on Monday. The guitar...could be going better, because still I am having difficulty with reading sheet music, but its good for me, and its coming along. My family is great, my friends are becoming closer and closer friends. So all is well. I just have to stop letting myself get carried away with romantic ideas of home.