The end of tutoring, beginning of classes!

It has been so busy, I've taken trips to Pirinopolis, and Rio Quente! More on that later. The first thing on my mind is that today was the last day of classes with Camilla, my portuguese tutor.

The semester back at The University of Montevallo has been in full swing since January, however here the semester does not start until monday. Today was our ( Devin, West, and myself) last day of Portuguese tutoring with Camilla(pictured left), a student at UFG. We will have an official
Portuguese for foreigners course, as well as start our courses within the university Monday. Today we had a farewell party , which included reading and watching a popular Brazilian children's comic/cartoon which is entitled "Mônica", and eating homemade fruit salad (the picture above shows Devin & I eating some of this!)prepared by Camilla's mother. It is hard to believe that we can barely read comics, yet we will be taking college classes in this language in less than a week. Baby steps, we are all learning so much every day!Learning a new language takes more patience than I had ever imagined.

This comic strip is known by everyone here, it is a very common and favorite comic of Brazilian children. The main characters in this comic strip include (from left to right):

Magali: she eats enormous amounts of food and is always looking for more, has a cat who's name Mangau translates to "Porridge"

Cascao: a little boy who has never taken a bath and is afraid of water

Cebolinha: speaks with a speech impediment and often replaces "L's" with "R's". Cebolinha means little onion, a name attributed to by his hairstyle!

Mônica: a pudgy buck toothed girl who gets teased a lot by the others, but who is very endearing and takes revenge via hitting people with her stuffed bunny who's name is Sansão, translates to Samson