Easter Weekend

This week, I finally went to Capoeira with Gregorio (the Mexican exchange student). Capoeira is a Brazilian martial dance that originated when the slaves from Africa were prohibited from practicing their martial art and therefore disguised it as a dance. It was so cool to practice it again and wasn't so hard to follow along as the Portuguese words for the moves were used when I learned it in Canada.
On Good Friday, other than going to the Grandfather's house to eat cod for lunch, I spent the entire day attacking nearly 100 pages of the 300-page book I must read in a week. I have to read it before starting an online course that is an entry requirement to the program at Royal Roads that I will hopefully be starting in July. It's going to be a challenge studying while still travelling, but the course I was planning to take that started at the end of April got cancelled!
Saturday I did much of the same except I went for a nice long walk in the morning and went out running in the rain in the afternoon. I just couldn't resist going out in the torrential downpour!! It was so much fun!! The whole town might think I'm crazy now, but that's ok, I leave here on Tuesday :) The roads had turned into rivers and as I was just about home, I lost a flip flop and then the other trying to chase the first one down. I ran ahead of them and waited for them to come down the road, but only one came. So I figured I had missed the other and ran a few blocks downhill, barefoot, clutching the one flip flop to see if I could catch up to it, but it seemed a lost case. Not long after, the sun came out, I went back out and there it was, sitting behind a car in the first block where I had lost it! That evening, Miriam invited me to a cousin’s birthday party. I met lots of her family and we went to the bowling alley after with a group of her cousins. It was a long wait to get a lane and since Miriam and I weren't going to play, we went out for a drink at a different restaurant with her niece.
Easter Sunday, we all went to the family farm for lunch. We had another churrasco (BBQ) and in the afternoon, I went for a walk with the cousins, rode a horse and swam in the pool. We also searched for Easter eggs, which are huge hollow chocolate eggs, filled with different kinds of truffles and wrapped in colourful foil! Back at the house, I gave my host family a fondue pot as a thank you gift and used one of my chocolate eggs to make fondue :)