(Monday, April 18th)
Today was an A day so I had a lot of time to work on my senior project. I got to school in time for assembly and then for 1st and 2nd period, 1.5 hours, I spent studying Portuguese. I completed the homework Ana had assigned - researching the Brazilian process of entry into university. They have exams called the vestibular, which is different exams that need to be taken for several different universities. Each school has their own exam and students take a year to study and take these exams to try and get into college. It is so stressful and competitive that it is very common for someone to have to do two years of vestibular before getting in somewhere. Aside from my research I continued to work on grammar, vocabulary, and kept reading the Alchemist.
Last period of the day I drove to my Portuguese lesson. As soon as I sat down with Ana we began conversing in Portuguese. Our lesson today was essentially just a conversation. We talked about my family, my school, my friends, my trip to UVA, her family, Brazil, Portugal, and more. During the conversation I would ask how to say things, practice my grammar, and she would occasionally correct my Portuguese. We ran over time as usual, had a great time, and I learned a lot.
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