Work out!? or more chocolate ?

So i haven't worked out in a month and surprising my body has not gone into shock eating rice, beans, meat and cake here in Brazil and it didn't com bust in the week i was in Argentina eating pizza, empanadas and alfajores either. But i decided that i should start working out a little bit because i was losing weight(muscle, mind you, not fat. So i ran about a mile on Sunday and then i ran a mile in a half this morning, i think i am going to run every morning because it wakes me up and i don't feel like a lazy piece of fat everyday. Going to the beach a couple times a week helps i think as well, or at least it gives me the illusion of looking slimmer because i am tanner. To bad i have been have the craziest cravings for chocolate milk, ice cream, and chocolate cake every hour of the day. No matter how skinny you are, that cant be good.So to balance out my huge sweet cravings i am going to start working out, i think it was also a mistake not to bring my running shoes to matter how expensive they were and besides the fact that they didn't fit in my suitcase, my calves hurt and i want them! But running shoes here in Brazil are super expensive (as i was told) so i think i can endure the pain and not break the bank for 250 US dollars.

besides my food dilemma everything seems to be going well, i am confused sometimes in school and class, not because of the language barrier but because of the lack of direction at times. I am actually picking up Portuguese faster than i picked up Spanish when i studied in Argentina. Maybe its because i have Spanish as a background language.

Anyways i am trying to go on some cool trips coming up. There is a 5 day weekend in October that many of the kids in the group want to go to the national park called lencois, it is suppose to be like the grand canon of Brazil, i am super excited if it goes through. I am down for some multi-hour hikes and waterfalls. If that works, i will be going to Rio de Janiero the weekend after for 5 days, which should be fun, traveling in a group and staying in hostels is always an adventure and going to a city that you haven't been before is always one as well. We have a big group so it should be fun! But I am still debating whether i should go to the amazon, because i cant remember if i got a yellow fever shot and i am not to sure how i feel about jungles yet, but i really would like to say that i spent Halloween in the amazon, i am pretty sure that would top anyone Else's plans for the holiday this year in the States. And then 2 weeks after that my host family is going to rio de janiero to a family members wedding, i am pretty sure that i am going as well, it should be an adventure and i am sure it will be totally different going with Brazilians rather than Americans. Oh and i also think that Brazil has more holidays that any other country i have visited so far, almost every other weekend you take a Friday, Monday and/or Tuesday off of school or work. Anyways if all of that goes well i will be traveling non-stop for all of October and into November, pretty crazy.

One thing that i am saddened by is that Brazil ISNT as cheap as the other Latin American counties and my money doesn't last as long :( boo. no worries i wont go broke but it just isn't as exciting because i like cheap things! lol The brazilian "real" and "rieas" are only 2 to one dollar. but ill suck it up and not buy any extra food so i can stay slim and be cheap at the same time! tchau!