Starting To Get Excited!

Good Morning or should I be typing Bom Dia?

As Andrea said we had a very productive meeting this weekend and a lovely buffet. I do love a good buffet, for those of you interested we had pizza, quiche, pork pie, samosas, a selection of salads and sandwiches, flapjacks, brownies, and Brazil nut cookies! I can guarantee you will be constantly updated with the food situation along our journey, although a few blogs in you will begin to see this yourselves!

Aside from the food, our preparations have really started coming together which is great as we are only 7 weeks away from setting off on our journey to Brazil! WOW 7 weeks, saying it aloud, or rather typing it makes the fact that it is really happening and in the not too distant future sink in!

Malcolm the President of Lincoln Rotary Club kindly visited us and discussed with us how the Rotary works on an international level and it was really good to get a better understanding of how the invaluable work Rotary does is structured across the world. It gives me a warm feeling to know that there are organisations like this in the world and very excited that I am to be a part of it!

I am very pleased that as we have been organised as all our preparations are to schedule and we are  ready to get going with our Portuguese lessons so we can greet our hosts politely and respectfully in their own language, even if that is as far as our language skills take us it will provide a great impression!

Unfortunately I am unable to join the rest of the group at this weeks Portuguese lesson as I am having a few days in Holland before the big trip but I will be playing catch up at in homework time so that I am not behind for the following week.

Things I am looking forward to at the moment are;

Brazilian food, the eating culture is a highly social activity and I am very into food, if you havent already noticed, and ready to join in this practice.
Warmer weather, we are having snow at the moment and a bit of heat would be nice, we are told that at the moment its around 30 degrees in the day time.
Speaking some Portuguese, there is no practice like actually using a new language skill in "real" situations.
Most importantly, all of the things that we are going to learn about the country and the culture!

That is all for now, I will be back with an update after my first Portuguese lesson hopefully impressing you with a few phrases!

Julie