Sunday, February 9, 2014

Gabriel Gerhardt -- Brazil (Home club: Cobleskill)



January 31, 2014

                This month has been kind of an interesting month because of the way the tone of my trip changed. The month started off really really boring, I was really doing nothing but going to ju jitsu and staying home doing nothing. I was kind of getting a little anxious and cagy staying in the house all the time, but then things started to change. My siblings are mostly in college so it was coming to the end of their vacation so they wanted to go out and hangout with friend and see the sites. So for about two weeks we would just wake up eat something quick and then just go out. One day we went to Sao Paulo and went to see the tallest building in Sao Paulo, and other day we went to this huge book store where I spent nearly 4 hours in just reading books, one Thursday we spent the day just watching movies that we never saw before. It was an awesome couple of weeks.
                Another big change was at the end of the month I had to start school again which was good and bad. The good thing was I got to see all my friends and teachers again which was nice. The bad thing was I was in school. It can get boring sometimes because I normally just sit there listening to the teacher or trying to practice Portuguese, but I am going to talk with my director and see if one day out of the week or one period a day I can go and help in one of the English classes to change the pace a little bit. Hopefully everything will work out.
                 In other news I was able to talk to my ju  jitsu and he says I can start competing in tournaments in March so we will see how well all I actually am against other white belts in Sao Paulo.
                So January is down, still got February, March, April, May, June , and  a little of July to go before this adventure is over. I am going to make sure that the next couple of months are just as good as the other were.  

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