Food

Cookies..... not as good as the others. I need to find the right recipe and freakin' stick to it. : They look nice though. and they taste pretty good, just not perfect like they should. Not enough vanilla, salt, butter. needs more sugar. Whatever. F%&$#.



This is the same pizza i had at Newark airport. It's from a place called Sbarros. It is really good.

WEEE!! :)

MY DRIVER'S LICENSE!!!!! :D
I got an ID too. I even like the photo. :D


Today I drove to walmart by myself!


And then to the beach!!!! The water is so nice, it's warm.

I went to deerfield beach. This red think I think is a huge seed of something. and it has eggs of crab or whatever, but they looked like a flower, I thought it was worth a picture.

What a great day =) I got the drivers license and an ID. I don't need to carry my passport everywhere now. I also registered to vote.

They ask if you want to be an organ donor before they print the license! If you do, it's written there. In case you die, a few people could live :p

Of course the thought of them letting me die to get my organs comes to mind :P but one must trust people sometimes. I should have told them they can't get my stomache. it's bypassed. just kidding. i'm tired! I payed 3 dolars for my ID. and they printed it in 10 minutes.

They sell these at walmart by the way. american flags and license plates..and what not. they're expensive too.

More pics

As we were leaving home for a walk, I saw that white bird on the street and was all psyched about it, trying to get a picture, then another showed up, and another, and then 4 more, and they were all feeding off the neighbours grass! This last photo is a lizzard. today I watched one and he was blowing an orange ball under his neck like frogs do! I couldn't get a picture of that.

I was told there are alot of iguanas hanging out here too.

The squirls are fun to watch. this on in the picture actually took a few steps towards me when I called! and then he just watched. that's what some birds do too sometimes. they kind of trust people. and kind of don't. wise they are.

The houses are worth millions of dollars. They are amazing. This neighbourhood is amazing. It's totally wild and totally civilized, all together. All in one.

today's bike ride

Saturday

Today we woke up early to go to church. Church lasted 4 hours.
Then we went to all the places in the photos on the post below this one. and a few more. My camera doesn't have a memory card, so i was limited to that and also to the fact we were driving most of the time, and usually the photos taken during driving suck.

Hopefully in the next days I'll be able to drive myself there again and we'll see. it didn't feel exotic today, mostly. The birds were fun.

I felt sickish because we had had breakfast early and I was without food for 5 to 6 hours. and that's not good. I need to eat every 2 or 3 hours, or my stomache goes on strike, and I get low blood sugar symptoms..... So we stoped at a place and ate an amazing wrap. with amazing vegetables I had never seen, I think one of them was sprouts from "linhaça" I have no idea how to translate that. it had cucumber, peppers, lettuce, tomato , chicken and a garlick cream. and it was amazing. I haven't eaten anything that wasn't delicious so far.

So then we went to visit some familly members of the friends I'm with, they're all brasilian. We were supposed to take some of those cookies I made....I made loads of them, because they weren't good, they melted and didn't rise, and, whatever, they finally were good. but we ended up not coming home again to take them to this familly's home. so everyone was wishing we had, specially me. I starved alot this day.
Then we had some tapioca! some sweet with coconut, and some salted. I ate one pancake of it, and a slice of bread and butter, and a coffee. And then......I thought I was gonna die. I had a crisis. Due to my gastric bypass I can't overeat or I get serious pain. It varies in intensity, it usually is acute and lasts half an hour at most. This crisis was big, I couldn't breathe almost. I don't even want to try to remember it. I went outside to get some air and try to survive and people were worried. and I was so embarassed. I had acute pain all over my abdomen and couldn't breath or talk, my mouth was foamy and dry.... because I was outside in the wind, mouth wide open trying to breathe. geez. fortunatly it passed quite suddenly, as it usually does, and things were back to normal. I explain to the people what had happened. If I don't eat for a long time, the next time I eat has to be a light meal. It's like a normal person doing a fast for a day and then eating a big pan of beans and meat or something like that. Tapioca is heavy stuff. I had never had it before.

It wasn't such a fun day. Due to the church, it made me think of past traumas, and it kind of haunted me... but the last part of the day the ride home was nice.
cheers to tomorrow.

Snaps

This is Las Olas, it's a beautiful street, very european-wanna-be, I loved it. lots of gorgeous antique stores and gorgeous cafes...

Loads of curious birds all over the pier. They're used to people.

Goodyear.....
The pelicans were the great atraction of the day for me. They were all over, sleeping, bathing, cleaning themselves with they're huge beak...

These guys were near a fisherman waiting for him to pull some fish. if the fish are small the fisherman throw them back in the water, and the pelicans get a chance to grab them.

The water is so clean! It's so hot and humid these days. The beaches were loaded. It's spring break, and all the students come here now-. it was caotic.

This bird is like a big parrot! it's gorgeous, but hard to get on camera.

Big Apple

THIS IS A FREAKY APPLE! IT'S THE BIGGEST I'VE EVER SEEN.

IT LOOKS SMALLER ON CAMERA, FOR SOME REASON.

It's BIG. I only got one, but they were all like this, maybe bigger. There were some normal ones too of a different brand.

Today i had venus conjunct sun, so it seemed like a good time to take pictures of me.

Do I seem bored? Taking several pictures of an apple? I'm not, really. It's just everything is new, I feel really excited all the time, litle things are exciting. I was awed during all my biking this morning at the park. i'm living intensily.

Today was one of the most exciting days. I went to get my drivers license. I studied for 15 minutes online, here: http://www.dmv.org/fl-florida/english_handbook.pdf

then we had to leave to get there on time, hoping I'd have to wait at least 30 minutes, during which i could study a bit more. No such luck. I got there and took the test almost imediatly, after all the paper work and taking a photo. They told me to go to computer #3 and take the written test!

It had 2 parts, each had 20 questions. One was general rules, the other was signals. You're allowed to fail 5 out of each 20. I failed 6 or 7 on the general rules : The signals I passed. So the computer told me to go back to the examiner, and I told her I didn't pass the first one, and passed the second.. Then she asked me if i want to take the general rules test again, it would be 5 dolars. I said: YES, I do. I had no idea I could take it again! I knew which ones i had wrong, because the computer shows it and gives u the right answer. Also the computer said the credits i got from the right answers would be considered. That sounded good.

So i took another test. some questions were the same, Most of them were the same. i knew them and everything was right. I passed. I wasn't sure what that meant. If it was all. Went back to the examiner, and she told me to come back on monday to have the driving test. I can't wait to have my drivers license, I'll take a picture of ti and post it here!

I'll pay 20 dolars for the whole thing. In portugal you'll pay 600 euros or so. (940 dolars, by today's dolar rate)

And it sucks. The traffic signals have no words or phrases, you have to know what they mean. and know alot of useless random facts about trucks and god knows what.

Anyway. I was really relived to pass. It would be free if I didn't take it a second time.

God bless America. I love this country. :) I used to not like hearing people say this, but I totally agree now. Between this and the Walmart pharmacy section, it can't get much better for me. Besides a democrat will be president soon enough.

ps- the food here tastes better. I wondered about the cheese here, and it's very good. I had an amazing pizza experience at newark airport. (I saw Kat from miami ink at the airport! :D ) There's alot of healthy food too, and it looks great. i'm getting hungry!..... maybe i'll start chowing on that giant apple now. It will feed me for a couple of days,