April 15 98
I woke up today way too late (11:45 am). These earlier vacations are starting to making myself used to the wrong lifestyle. I hate waking up late in the morning, I feel like I wasted half of the day sleeping. Nothing depresses me more than waking up at 1 pm. Thanks god my natural clock doesn't allow me to wake up after 12, most of the time. Like today, I woke up at 11:45 just so I could tell myself I woke up before 12.
I didn't go to work today, even though the schedule the boss from Brasilia made said I was supposed to. When I got in this job I told them I wouldn't work on Mondays and Wednesdays, because these were the days I had classes in the afternoon. So, even though I don't even show up in my classes anymore, I still don't work on these days. I don't really care anymore, since I'm going to quit the job too as soon as I get my second payment. And if anyone conplains, I'll shamelessly say the classes I have on Monday and Wednesday are just too important to miss, and I can't risk missing them and getting bad grades.
After I had lunch I went out to solve a few things. Actually, the only thing I really had to do was going to a prep school to check its prices. The rest was fun.
Here in Brazil there are public colleges, which are for free and are usually the best. The way to get in them is making a test (the dread College Test I've been talking about for some time now) at the end of the year, and the ones who get the highest scores are the ones who are accepted. The test has questions from all the disciplines, since there's no choosing disciplines here in Brazil as there is in the US, everybody simply makes all the disciplines during their whole school life.
The most desirable courses are the one which are hardest to get in. Medicine and Publicity, for instance, have around 110 people trying to get in it for each place place offered. So if you want to get in, you'd better study a lot, as I intend to do for the next 9 months.
There are schools which offer courses to help you studying for the College Test. They teach you again everything you were supposed to lear at High School, so that you'll be prepared for the test. I'll call them Prep Schools, since there's no translation for the word we use to call them in Portuguese.
So, this afternoon I went to check the price of the Prep School downtown, and compare it to the prices of the one close to my house. They are about the same, so we decided I'll study at the one close to my house, so I'll save the $50.00 I'd spend each month riding a bus downtown, and the two hours I'd waste each day waiting for them.
After that I went to a CD store close to college to buy Shawn Colvin's "A Few Small Repairs". Pretty good, I'd been wanting to buy it for some time now. After that I went to the English School I applied for a few days ago. They want me to work on Fridays from 7:30 to 8:30 am. I think I'll accept it, even though it's pretty early.
At night Ana Cristina and Camila called me, mainly to know if I had died, since I didn't go anymore to the classes. We talked a lot, Ana called first, and Camila called half an hour later. They informed me of what's happening to The Pan. It seems they all flunked a Physics III test, the class average was 3.0, and worse yet, it was the highest average of all Physics III classes!! That's scary. It makes me happy I won't ever have to study it ever again, if everything goes as intended.
I felt so happy after they called. It's like, they really care for me!! They called just to know how I was, and to talk, even though we're not studying together anymore. That's very nice. I hope we keep in touch.
Yesterday night I chatted with Tom, Jesse's boyfriend. He's very nice, we had a nice chat. I'm happy for Jesse.
