friday!

so i just wrote all that i wanted to say and lost it somehow when i went to post. ew. anyway, yesterday was another great day. i took the bus with a girl from my house to CAICC, the place where I start on monday. it´s a 30 minute bus ride and it´s a wild ride, like you are on a roller coaster. think i might need to bring my dramamine. anyway, i´ll be working with 1 to 5 year olds who live IN THE PRISONS with their parents. that´s how the system works here, one parent goes, everyone goes. so during the day, the kids are brought to CAICC where they have activities, social services, school, etc. as soon as we walked in the door, the little guys were running up to us asking to be held and giving us hugs. they call me TIA KIM (AUNT KIM) and it´s so cute. i´m already in love with all the lil guys and want to bring them and about 20 street dogs (that are soooo cute) home with me. i´m in trouble, i´ll admit it now.

when i got home, i went with my housemate david (from UNIVERSITY OF IOWA GO HAWKEYES!!! )to get our clothes washed then to get a few beers. later that night we had another wonderful dinner. it was an array of pastas with fresh basil sauces. so good. of course, everyone brought wine home with them so there was plenty of that going around as well. then erik came by and took us to a hookah lounge where a friend of his was playing music. the music was awesome ..all but 3 of us in the house went, and had a great time. had this yummy brasilian drink that just kept coming and coming, but i can´t remember what it was called. cochasa or something like that. needless to say, i slept well last night, and ANOTHER DAY MIGRAINE FREE! on sunday, david and i are going to climb up to the christ statue ( 2000 stairs) and take the ski lift type thing back down. they allow you to go inside and walk up to an observation deck on sundays and since he and i are among the newest people here, we are the only ones that haven´t been. i can´t wait for that experience. sounds like the rest of the weekend, and the whole town, will be wrapped up in watching world cup, etc. again, i don´t have pics which would make this so much COOLER! i have taken like 150 pics already but can´t get them uploaded. the system is too slow...

yesterday was 6 months since dad´s passing. it was with me all day, tucked deep inside the pit of my stomach. our family picture at stanford sits right next to my bed and i just try to remind myself how sick he was and how happy he is now. he´s definitely a guardian angel. i love you dad!

love the rest of you, too! xoxo, k