Losing the English here...

I just forgot the word environment in English...completely.
I actually had to look up the Portuguese word in the dictionary to find the word in English.
Ridiculous. :)
I just keep getting more and more comfortable with Portuguese, with the people here, now I honestly can't imagine being back in the US.
When I get off the plane in the US...everyone will be speaking English, the signs will be in English...it will be really really weird.
I was looking at a friends photos the other day, and there was a sign in English in the background, something simple like 'enter at your own risk' and I thought it was totally strange.
I'm no longer in a category...I was born in America. I speak (kind of these days) English, I speak (half) Portuguese. I have habits of a Brazilian, mixed with an American. I have a style of the two as well...I'm just a big mess of mixed cultures...and it's strange.
But I like it. It's interesting.

On other matters...I started school again. Back to normal, waking up at 6, going to school, coming home at 12, eating, sleeping, eating again, running (hence the amount of eating), doing something to waste time till it's time to eat again, and then sleeping.
Oh life is hard :p
It's good to be back in class I suppose. To see my classmates, who I adore. Now I can actually follow a lot of the material, so that is good. I'm actually paying attention now, and understanding what is going on...except for in chemistry, there's just no way...

Other then school, I'm making friends, have a bunch these days, which is awesome. I've gotten really close with the girl from my class, Ana Elisa, and her entire family, who took me to Diamantina for Carnaval. Today I taught her, and 10 of her cousins how to make chocolate chip cookies. It's funny how much Brazilians like my cookies. Anyone that eats them, loves them instantly, and they always ask me to give them the recipe, which I give, but on the one condition that everyone is aware that they are 'cookies da Sommer' (Sommer's cookies)....my plan, if everything goes well, is to become the Brazilian equivalent of Little Betty, and stay in Brazil all my life, living on the money from my cookies.

Yeah.