It's raining....cats?

So now that my day is over at 6:30 I can write about a couple things while Camila helps two of our students from this week for their interviews tomorrow. We started teaching our class for this week today, there were 24 people. I am always so tired by the end of the day from teaching and helping people for 4 hours straight. It is defenetly building my patience here, which seems to be a lesson I still need to learn :) I sometimes think that things are explained totally to the point for people, but they are still confused at where they are to write things, every single thing needs to be done with them step by step. I attribute this to most of the people in the classes not having finished their formal education in middle or high school. But I am willing to help, thats why I'm here. Today I sat with a woman for like a 1/2 hour helping her write a little paragraph about herself, her professional experince, and stuff like that. I hope people are actually getting the help they need out of me, somtimes I feel like I cant get across what I want.
The title of today's blog comes from a weird experince from our vizinhos pagodeiros....they threw their cat out the window...from the third floor. I really didn't like them before, but now I have no respect for them. They were yelling at the cat "sai daqui burra!" and then the cat like was meowing really loud and I saw it fly past our window. Poor cat, it landed down in the garage, and when they went down stairs to try and get it back it was meowing down there too really loud. So I didnt want to say anything but I felt bad that someone was tourturing the animal, so...I opened the door to the garage from our apartment, since its right below us the transmitter works from our living room, and the cat ran out and away. So not only do they do macumba and have parties till 3am and smoke lots, they also enjoy throwing animals out of the window. It was like watching "Raul's wild kingdom" (that's for the fam, "did you know turtles are natures suction cup?")
Let's see what else, last night we watched LOST after getting home at around 8, and ate some subway....yes we have a subway like 3 blocks from our house, so im back to "eatting fresh" here in Brazil. I love that show, and I got Camila hooked too. The we watched some straight up romantic comedy from the 80's called "Only You" it was great....movies from the 80's are great just to watch the clothes, it makes me laugh everytime.
This morning we went running for an hour in the passeio publico that is about 4 blocks from our apartment. I like having a place to go running, and a place I can wear my adidas shoes and use my iPod without worrying...cant really do that in São Paulo, Its not a norm there to go running, and I wouldnt dare get out my iPod in public there...but here in Curitiba yeah. After that we came home and got ready for work to John Mayer's new CD....I bought it yesterday in a music store off rua XV. I love not being on study abroad anymore because i discover more and more every day that this country isnt very different from my own. You can still buy newly released CD's at a music store, go rent a DVD at Blockbuster, buy things at Wal*Mart, and go to a cinemark movie theater to see a movie. It is not as different as people somtimes make it out to be here, culturally of course its different but as far as stores and products avalible...its the same thing. Weither that is a good thing or bad, I dunno.
I'm also frantically trying to figure out my schedule for winter semester. I remember when I was a freshman I would call up my parents to ask if I could take a class or not...lol, like I needed their permisson to take greek history or something. Now I just call Kimberlee to ask which classes in the department she liked and didnt like, its nice having someone to talk that has already been where I am and taken the courses I need to take. I think I'm gonna try and do my capstone class for seinor year next semester to get it out of the way. There is a topic open in the history 490 class that I like with a teacher I like, so why not while the chance is here. Also Portuguese 315, Honors 261, a religion elective, and some other 3 credit class to get me to 14 credits. That will only be 5 classes, but as every college student knows, my schedule will probably change again another 5 times. Its a good thing to be flexable in college...haha.
The creepy old man just arrived here at the employment center. For those who dont know the creepy old man is a man in his late fifties that has taken the idea that its okay to ask me an Camila out for dates... he actually just came into my office to ask give me a pamphlet about some museum exhibit on Japanese history, since thats what I study and to tell me he missed me at church on Sunday.....gross. He has already asked me out to dinner, to go sightseeing here in the city, and other random things he shouldnt be doing. He creeps me out...especially since he likes to like catch me in moments where no one else is around, it makes me uncomfortable! He wants to volunteer here now in the center, if he does we are going to talk to our boss about that...people like him shouldnt be working here.
Hmmm....lets see, I am reading two books for my latin american history class, one on the mexican revolution and one on the revolutions held in Rio Grande do Sul and Uraguay during the 19th century. Its really cool to read about the revolution in mexico, pancho villa and the zapatistas and also the rebel Gaúchos from the border of brazil and Uraguay, its giving good insight into the culture, traditions, and personalities of both places. I really like that class.
Well, I should better go eat dinner...I'm starving from not getting to eat lunch, but thats what happens when you have a busy day. I hope that everyone that reads this had a good day and that everyone has an even better tomorrow. But before I go this is my quote for today, to help me remember to keep trying! "I believe that perseverance is vital to success in any endeavor, whether spiritual or temporal, large or small, public or personal. Think seriously of how important perseverance, or the lack of it, has been in your own endeavors, such as Church callings, schooling, or employment. I believe that essentially all significant achievement results largely from perseverance."-Joseph B. Wirthlin

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