last night everyone came over for pizza. we all sit around the table, plates get passed around, food flys onto plates, and everyone talks a mile a minute at the same time. it amazes me how anyone understands anything. i've learned to focus on two people and tune everyone else out in order to at least get one side of the story, hehe.

Maria Luiza, the youngest member of the family is shy with strangers. and after 5 and a half months we broke the ice, hehe. her first words to me were "dona Leah, olha que cê fez!". i had been pushing her around on a mini chair and then realized we were ruining the wooden waxed floor. i stopped for a second, she looked down, and then looked up at me and said "look what you did." Luckily my host mom was real chill about it and said the floor was needing a re-waxing soon anyway.