Mr President

This is for the ppl that haven't seen this yet, the new Gavin/Buckle song, Jo's video clip, takes a while to download but it's super worth it!!!! They're doing this little poll thing to see if ppl think it would b fine to put that song in the CD for the november retreat... I reeeeeaally doubt it'll go over with the JT board... I guess it has a good message but it's pretty intense...... here we've been hearing the song over and over, every one is sort of humming it, every so often I'll have a little freak out moment and yell at someone "YOU SPILT BLOOD ON THE FLOOR!!!!!!!!!!!!".... special moments... and I thought the Buckle jumping backward thinggy was cool even though the flip flops kind of broke the spirit of it (I wouldn't have noticed unless you'd pointed them out Nan... it was to be expected though, it's the little Steve touch...). Neways here are the links
Song.
Video Clip.

Our watch dog...

When comes the time when you have to run from your own dog, you know there's something wrong... yesterday our dog bit me!!!!! Can you believe it??? Like I was bleeding and everything!! (it was that mean dog I talked about in an earlier post...) It's crazy!! I've been living here for a month now and I still can't be around the dog while it's loose or else it bites me!! So yesterday the boys let him out of the kennel cause he's always in there and they're sitting there training him and what not and I come down (our office is downstair and you have to go outside to get to it) with Gabe (even tho I was told "it's fine the dog's used to you, he won't do anything", I still didn't trust that dog so I was hidding behind Gabe) and the dog was ok, he didn't really seem to be upset or anything, and then all of a sudden he just jumps on me and bites my tummy!!! STUPID DOG!!!!!! So the dog got a good beating from Mike but he didn't seem too repentant.... I run back upstairs to clean my cut so i don't get some weird disease like rabbies... then I showed off my battle wound to the whole home heheheh.... my dad was about to go kill the dog...
So today I come down to the office and I see the dog kennel open... WHERE'S TOR?????? (Tor's our dog btw) Turns out they were training him again, on a leash this time, and they're all making the dog give them 5, so they decide it would b a good idea if I did too... ummmm... no!!!!!! I don't want him to give me 5, I want him to stay away from me if that's ok!!! I'm not touching that dog anymore!!!
Talk about a watch dog.... more like a "watch-out" dog!!!

More learning

I knew I would learn tons in Sao Paulo.... last nite we went to Matt and Joy's to play poker.... so for the 5th time now, I learned to play poker (I never really play enough to get the hang of it.... so the next time I have to learn all over again...). It was quite enlightning... since ther was only one full deck of cards and two weird ones (with like 5 cards of the same type, and only 2 of another kind type thing), ther was only 5 ppl playing poker, every one else was playing something else that didn't require a full deck. But I wanted to play poker so me and Clara were a team (si!!! ca se peut.....). So we wer the lunatics that would bet all our chips (one chip was worth 1 centavo), along with Emer who was in dept for most of the game... and then ther was the ppl who were trying to play a serious game (so sorry you guys, we kind of ruined it for you...). Clara and JP were yelling at each other for the whole game, but besides that we(well me anyways) had fun. And me and wooooooooooooooon!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! So we're counting our chips, and then every one decides that "no were not actually playing for money"..... there was a good 2 reais in there!!!!!!! Not fair...
During the game, I managed to store up a little snack for later inside my jeans... at first the game was kind of boring so Cla decided it would b fun to pour a bit of Fanta down my pants.... shreeeeeeaaak!!!!!!! (followed by my usual "shhhhhhh!!!", I can't help myself, I'll scream and then I'll tell myself to b quiet...). And then i was sitting on her and she was eating chips like a piggy so I got a bunch of crumbs down my pants... that was NOT cool Clara.... a sticky itchy feeling for the rest of the nite...
All that to say, I'm starting to really like Sao Paulo :D

School days aren't happy days, but learning can b fun...

I'm finally learning to be usefull!!! (yea yea I know, it was about time....) I'm living in the home that does all the portuguese pubs so I'm learning to do some cool and important people stuff (that's what I like to think anyways)..... ummmm.... we have dogs... if Sam can talk about the birds, I can talk about the dogs k??....so 3 dogs , top choice: one's really meen, one's really old, and the third one has mental issues. I'm serious, we have a slightly RETARDED dog!! I learn so much here, I mean I never knew ther were such things as mental dogs, but there are, and one of them is in my back yard....
Anyways, I'm gonna get really smart here (I am, okay!!) as I now spend my days in the office learning layout with the help of JM and Jules (super important ppl). Well that's until I start school again.... that's sometime this month :'( ... 10 years down, 2 more to go....

Rio beach

Preparing for a familly photo... has any1 seen Tiff?...

Rio beach

That was about a week before I lelft Rio... this is to all of you in cold countries!! snickers snickers...