Rômulo

2011-12 Inbound from Brazil

Sponsor: Rotary Club of São Caetano do Sul, District 4420, Brazil

Host: Rotary Club of Winter Springs, District 6980, Florida

Rômulo's Bio

The meals are very different , so my host parents visited a Brazilian restaurant  last week for me feel me better. Last weekend I did tubing (I love it). I went in a soccer game (Orlando city) I had very fun here. The school here is vey good and big .I just need to bring one paper in secretary to do sports that I want (track and Swimming).

I like my host Family because they treat like a son of them and always I need to do something after school  here I am very busy, I like that. In my free time I like to practice soccer with my brother Antony and I like to go the Gym too . I wanted to be a exchange student for learn the English, the American culture, to make friends and I want to be more independent . I hope to accomplish this year is  improving my English.
 

Sunday, December 04, 2011

I was in the airport in August 12, my dad and my mom and my all family just cried and no reaction from my mom. I hugged them and said “ I love you thank for the opportunity ”,I was crying so much. This would be the first flight of my life, and I was lost in the Orlando Airport and after 10 minutes I found my host parents I was so happy.

I thought travel by plain I was so scared because was the first time, with some adrenaline, when the plain took off and landed. I was surprised in see a metro station in the airport of Miami, I had never took one, this was the first time. When I arrived in Orlando I was lost but after 10 minutes I saw my host father holding the plates “Welcome to Florida Rômulo”, I was happy to believe that my dreams to live in America.

The city where I will live the whole year is Winter Park,there is no building this is a little different for me because I am from São Paulo and there are only buildings. My first impression about here in contrast with my country is that here in US doesn't have walls around the houses and don’t’ have terrible drivers and the cities are really organized and clean.

The Rotary made a welcome party for me and the others exchange students that are living in same town that me. In this party I had the opportunity to meet them and all my host families, including Michael, the boy from Palatka that is living with my parents in Brazil now. Hug everybody with a kiss is common in Brazil "especially when you are going to live in their houses or spend a long time together", so in the beginning here I just couldn’t accept a wave of hand, but now I understand that this doesn’t mean that people don’t like you.

The first inbound orientation weekend, with all the exchanges from Florida was amazing, I made a ot of friends who I always contact to exchange experiences. We (Brazilians) are a big and happy group, and we had a lot of fun making jokes with each other because the different accents we have from different regions in our country and the other exchange student are so funny and laughing all the time.

In the Halloween I went Universal Studios Night Horror was so funny and so sacred at the same time. Thanksgiving week was a awesome holidays, and my host parents went to St. Louis, and we ate delicious food, I watched a hockey game live and I knew the Arch and I ate a lot of cookies (I love it) that I love! The time is going fast, and I don’t have time to homesick, but I'm so happy that my English is improving and that and now it’s better to ate the American food