This Moment

Hello ... my first time here !!! uhullll
Well... I wanna say something really important ... I love u girls of power ... We know what's going on in my life ... (Mexican, Lindo) but my heart is So broken that i need to say that : - I will never forget you (NannyEllen & NannyJessie) If i change my life these days anyway... move from this city, state or come back to brazil ... I will never forget all our dreams like disney, to rent a house, to buy a car, "my marriage"... Just please ELLEN ... you can realize all these things because just you are sure that u will stay here ... so if something happens in my life or in jessie's life, please U keep going... take care of our dreams <> (Lindo is mine, in my heart forever, and if he is not Mr. right, that's fine)... take care of our church... and of my boyfriend Jacob... LOL
And JESSIE and me... it's time to go ... we need to move this hill in our heart (mustard seeds) I'm sure ... GOD is looking after us ! Let's show that we can do it ... He will do "the best"...

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Hey, Mo! You finally posted!!!!! aaaaaaaaaaleluia!! FINALLY, i was like "i think Mo will never post!!!!!!" i log in to our blog everyday to see what you girls have posted or not... you do it slowly, but you do it LOL

What I have to say is I'm extremely sensitive right now, i just feel like crying, i'm feeling so alone, you know those times you just want to be embraced by your mommy, yes... i've been like this for a while... and if i lose you guys here, What the Heck!!!!! i'm not going to do any of those things on my own!!! I can't even think of losing you! it's just the most depressing thought in the world..

this is a depressing comment cos i'm sad tonight...

i don't like to be negative, so let's look at the positive sides!

-God REALLY is in control of everything, even though life is made of learning lessons and the lessons God teaches us are painful at times, let's keep asking for what we want (to stay together) until the end, until He gives the last word, and whatever it is, we're supposed to be fine.......

and... come on

-this weekend was the best and the wildest ever!!!

i screamed all day long, n i still have no voice... next time i'll use a microphone.

keep the faith, Mo and Jessie, eyes on the prize LOL

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

(i'm writing a scream cos i have no voice to scream, tee hee)

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Ai ai ai...

You girls of the PDC just made me cry again!!!

I know that it's not easy to wait for God's answers, and we want what we want, but only He knows what really is better for us. Everything will be fine guys!!!!!

I DO love you guys.... I don't have just good brazilian friends in the USA, I have sisters in the USA, and that will NOT change even if I need to move for another state.

The PDC is a gift in my life, we will always be the PDC girls, hahahahaha... Can you guys imagine us like.. really old ladies? Moni giving us only 5 more minutes to find our dentures and telling us not to be late for the "bingo", Ellen driving her BMW with her white hair in the wind, and Jessie shopping at Victoria's Secret with her granddaughter... Creepy uh?

Anyway, let's enjoy our time together and do not get stressed..

So, let's keep praying =)

See you guys this weekend, right?

love. Jessie

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Jessie, i made you cry? because you can't make me cry!!!!! LOLOL i can barely breath, this is just so funny kkkkkk!!!!!!!!! i liked this thing of the old ladies LOOOOOL!!! kkkkkkkkkkkk neee- (ellen)

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below,,, my favorite videos from last weekend in the kings island teehee
1st the girls making Charlie Chaplin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhYiIAhCG0&feature=related
2nd the most dangerous ride, is it a spider or an octopus? LOLOL
last minutes, last ride...

obs 1: i was saying Fear of Flight all the time, but it's Flight of Fear LOOOL
obs 2: at the very end of this video Jessie says "We rock!!!!!" HAHAHAHA

obs 3: the Son of Beast is bigger than The Beast... cos usually when sons

grow up they get bigger than their moms!!! kkkkkkkk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiHynBjKDKk&NR=1

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3rd Mystique making "This is my communication" LOOOOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMc_gG0bvMo&feature=related
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4th and finally, the video Ellen=Monize, i'm using Monize's shirt n making Monize's body LOL
and some ridiculous dance + the crab dance to finalize loooool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG7Uo1-1gbE&NR=1

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Things about the PDC

>>Important and not so important things about The PDC...

The PDC is never “on time” without Monize.
The PDC is driven crazy with Ellen.
The PDC cannot survive without Camera, K-love songs, coke and Internet.
The PDC is not dramatic without Jessica. very true
The PDC is not “kudos” without Ellen.
The PDC’s boyfriends don’t really know that they have girlfriends. LOOOOL
The PDC loves “se esticar com a Me Estique”.
The PDC thinks that everything is a little “Xenia”.
The PDC cannot go shopping without Jessie. you don't say!
The PDC is not nerd without Ellen. I'm not nerd!!!!!!
The PDC just goes on trips with Monize's advices. PDC's travel agent!!!
The PDC stays on Bell/ Bio/ Bill’s house on the weekends.
The PDC always wakes up with Jake saying: - AAaaahh.. MO! LOOOL
The PDC has dark hair, of course…

The PDC just accepts Brazilian models... like Alessandra Ambrosio, Adriana Lima and Gisele Bundchen, but they ought to dye their hair black ahuiaoiahiua :)
The PDC needs glasses. very true LOL
The PDC gets lost without Neuza. the gps LOL
The PDC donated Nikki back to the store 'cause he was too smelly.
The PDC loves to listen to Mathew and Mystique singing at the church. (who doesn’t?)
The PDC loves the songs: Give me Your eyes, Jesus Messiah, By your side and Whatever You're Doing!!
The PDC loves Susan Prewitt and Larry!!!
The PDC has breakfast only at Mejer or Mc Donald's on Sundays.
The PDC will break Lindo's face, arms and legs if Lindo Breaks Monize's heart. (maybe we can break a little more than that)
The PDC is a little emotional once a month. LOOOOL
The PDC makes a really good FEIJOADA!
The PDC really likes their kids.
The PDC wants to stay together.

The PDC speaks fluent... in Portuguese.
The PDC always stays in the fields. LOOOOOL
The PDC…

The PDC is the original, first and unique POWER DO CORN!

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i loved it, Jessie

ellen here LOL

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How would our lives be without Jessie?

Hello-O! It's almost May, people! We have to pray for a miracle... because Jessie's agency said it's hard to find host families around here... And she can't stay with the current host family because they are moving to the far away kingdom!!! Actually they are going to Mississipi so... there are no aupair conselors there, because no au pairs want to live there anyway... but her current family is wonderful, they are funny, disciplined, polite and the girls are so smart!!! also they eat healthy and that's so cool... We are sure Jessie will miss them so much, Grace, Emily, Eliza... but unfortunately, not everything that's good lasts forever... We cannot be separated! It would be so hard, and our PDC would be so unbalanced! We definitely need you here Jessie! Who will mess the pictures? Who will talk to the camera? Who will wake us up in the middle of the night crying: "I will not stop speaking at night!" or... "Where is the back door in this Mc Donald's?" or trying to kill ants on Ellen's face... omg... anyway... Who will say "THE BRIDGE! THE BRIDGE!" on the US-22? Who will get lost inside the stores and be found in the clothes section or next to the berries? The other aupairs don't know about that, Jessie, if they lose you in the stores, they don't know how to find you! And they don't know you never hear your cell phone ringing, so they would think you were kidnapped!! Well, seriously now, Jessie... We were also sad to leave the party early that day honey, you are so sweet and dear, and we missed you so much at the play at night, just like last Friday, but, more seriously... YOU MUST find a good family around here, Jessie... a very good family, a family that rocks... you will NOT go to New York or California! You ain't going nowhere, No! We all are staying in the corn fields!!

we love you ♥

Easter Thoughts

Easter thoughts

My mind is blowing with all I want to say but when I try to write this down it's just impossible…
Friendship has been really important for me, why? Well, this happens when you are far from your family and close friends. So, the ones that you spend more quality time with turn into a family to you.
I get sad, a little mad it's true…I guess I fell a little alone when they left the party before it ended, maybe because, in my mind, Easter is a family day, and they are like a family, my family here!!! Even if I was not really alone, I felt like I was. Peculiar? That’s what I thought ah!
Anyway, I really understood the reasons of my friend “in love”. If I was in her shoes, feeling what she probably was feeling, I would do the same…
Isn’t it funny how, in a dinning room, with almost twenty people you can feel more alone than when you are really alone in your room?
By the way, I learned a good lesson for the future today, one that I can use in a lot of areas in my life.
Friendship > Of course that friends are there for laughing and having fun with, for sharing good and bad things, for telling them your secrets and praying for one another, but, more then that, it's for understanding and loving one another, seeing things from their point of view, giving up something that you want for something they want…
Jesus teaches us about that, right? Love one another even when what they want is not what you want…
Ok,
EU AMO VOCES MENINAS DO PDC…
I`M SO THANKFUL THAT GOD LET YOU GUYS COME UP IN MY LIFE, BLESSED GIFTS!!
lindo eh o premio da semana!!! Hehe
Jessica Lupiao

Happy Happy Easter

We finally created our PDC blog!!! Thanks, Jessie, for finally making it!!!

It was a very special weekend!

Well, a lot of things happened to all of us... but this picture was taken on a fast trip we made to Japan... I'm kidding. We were in Jessie's house... So, we had great food (that's the most important), jk.. so... i want to say what i'm inspired to say... as i'm not really inspired to say anything... i'm talking to my mom right now so... let's go to our commercials...

why do you shop at meijer? MEIJER HAS LOWER PRICES! but why would i go to meijer if i always shop somewhere else? MEIJER HAS LOWER PRICES! but... MEIJER HAS LOWER PRICES! Go Meijer! Go Meijer! Go Meijer! Go, go go! Higher! GO MEIJER, GO MEIJER, GO GO GO! Lower! go meijer, go meijer, go meijer, go go go! Like a cat! Meaw meaw meaw, meaw meaw meaw, meaw meaw meaw, meaw meaw meaw! We are back from our comercials.. I will post my last text about aupairs so you girls can read, this is the "How it feels like for a Brazilian girl to be an aupair in the USA" number 2 but I changed the title... Susan Renner, my english teacher, told me i should send it to aupair in america agency... tell me, Mo and Jessie, what you think...

Being an Au Pair in America - Things I Will Miss

Eight months are gone now. Every day it gets harder and harder to think about leaving this country someday. Time seems to fly by. Seasons are wonderfully changing faster than ever.

When you become an au pair in the United States, you think you are coming here, above all, to learn English. Nothing compares to being in the country where people speak the language you have studied all your life in your home country. No matter how much you have studied, you’ll never learn as much of that new language as being immersed in real daily situations. It’s amazing how much English you learn in one day in the United States! It’s… wow! I used to have a personal dictionary where I wrote down every new word I learned, but I lost control over it! I don’t care about it anymore, because now I need to use those words daily, so everything I’ve learned comes more easily to my mind.

The second reason for coming to the United States as an au pair, besides the fact that it’s a program that guarantees you a familiar environment to live in, which makes your parents trust that you are safe and sound in another country, far from them, is simply to acquire life and cultural experiences. Like the French philosopher and writer Michel de Montaigne said, “Les voyages forment la jeunesse”, which might be something like, “Trips model youth.” I believe everyone needs to travel. Children, youth, adults and elders need to know the world. We need to know it is not as small as a book, a painting, a picture or a TV screen. No matter how much your teacher told you about its geography, physics and history. Nothing compares to seeing the world as it really is. We all should touch it, see it with our own eyes and feel it with our own hands.

What many au pairs don’t expect is that their host kids will soon occupy a special place in their hearts. More than that, they would carry a piece of it with themselves. An au pair divides her day in two parts: the moments when she is with the kids and the moments when she is not. When she is with them, it’s hard to think about her own interests, about her studies, about the plans for the weekend, and even to answer the phone when her friends call! It’s not because she is busy helping them with homework, or making them Macaroni and Cheese, sandwich and pretzels, no! But because she doesn’t want to deny one second of attention to them! And, believe me, they demand so much of it! Yes, American kids like attention, more than anyone can give. But when their parents are not home, you are the only one who can do it! You are their world! You will evaluate their Lego construction, determine if their new videogame is cool or not, determine if they are cool riding the skateboard and even discuss what they should do when they are bored. You are the one who can make them laugh with a joke, or make them cry, reminding them of the house rules.

I will miss the American smell of my host home. I will miss Joshua and Jacob. I can’t imagine myself living without them anymore. They are like my own kids now. I will miss their smiles above everything. It’s impossible to describe how it feels like to be around when they smile. I don’t want to miss any smile! Each one of them is indescribably special.

I will miss my American community and new friends, the services and the people from my church. Before coming, someone told me that North Americans are not big huggers as South Americans are. But, I’ll tell you, if those guys in my church are not big huggers, not even South Americans are! I feel so loved, and I value everyone in my American community. I have little 8-year old friends and 80-year old friends. It’s much easier to make friends with older people in the United States, because they love to talk. And they like to tell their whole life to young people, because they know we prefer to listen to their rich experiences rather than say something silly.

And I will miss it when everybody starts laughing at once, and my friends and I stare at one another, laughing because none of us could understand the joke. Yes, jokes are the hardest things to understand when you’re in a foreign country. So, a hint for you who have just arrived in a foreign country: Go with the flow! It’s better to laugh at the very present because, in the future, when you recall your memories, you will laugh anyway!

There are lots of other things I’ll miss, like hanging out with the other au pairs. It’s so much fun to share the cultural shock with them! It’s like a pain released a hundred times on the right moment they say “Oh! I feel the same!” I will miss going to the mall and looking for things on sale with them, going out for breakfast, lunch and dinner with them and complaining about the caloric food. There’s nothing like getting together with the au pairs, cooking Brazilian dishes and eating like it’s the best food in the world. By the way, one of these days, we had to go to the supermarket at 2 AM because we forgot one of the ingredients should be left to soak all night long!

We will miss the machine saying “Thank you for shopping at Mejer!” And saying “You’re welcome!” I bet only au pairs talk to machines. I will miss the stores’ employees saying “How are you today?” And “Have a nice day!” And people saying “You can’t take pictures inside the store.” By the way, if you need to do that, you can pretend you are texting someone with your cell phone and take the picture anyway!

I will miss having to turn aside from the dead raccoons, squirrels, moles, minks and opossums on the roads, and from the ducks in the parking lots. By the way, why do they love parking lots? And you can honk your horn, but they don’t go away! I think Obama should approve a law to build parking lots just for ducks! There are other laws related to animals in Ohio, for example, it is illegal to get a fish drunk, to fish for whales on Sunday, to walk a cow down Lake Road, to display colored chickens for sale, and if one loses their pet tiger, they must notify the authorities within one hour. I haven’t seen many pet tigers so far, but... do you think these laws are crazy? I didn’t mention the other states’! It is considered an offense in Alaska to push a live moose out of a moving airplane. Donkeys cannot sleep in bathtubs in Arizona. In California, it is illegal to rob a bird’s nest from a public cemetery, and to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time. In Connecticut, any dogs with tattoos must be reported to the police. And in Idaho, residents may not fish from a giraffe's back. Do you want to know more? Search for “crazy american laws” on the internet!

On a cloudy day, during the changing period between winter and spring, I was driving the first streets around my house, and I didn’t know if it was snowing or if the streets were covered with white flowers. Then I realized the streets were covered with white flowers. I was happy it was not snow, but at the same time I missed the snowy weather. I know, I know, Americans love summer, and snow is good only on Christmas day, but where I come from, the temperature gets to 107 °F, so I prefer winter.

When I arrived here, everyone was so red! Summer was almost over. I said to myself, “I thought most of Americans were white”. Then I could see North Americans are like that, they get red like a shrimp in summer because they love swimming pools and driving convertibles with the top down, and in winter they get white and fat because there is no sun and they eat a lot more than often. In Brazil we have sun all year long, so we are bored with swimming pools after childhood.

There’s nothing I won’t miss. I have learned more in eight months than during my whole life. Not only because I am in the United States of America, but because one day I wondered how it would be to know new things, to know somewhere else, to make friends around the world, to have another home, without the protection of my family, on my own. There’s nothing that someone can’t teach you when you want to learn something new, when you want to find out how life is, how the world is and how other people may be. In the beginning I missed my home country, my family and my friends like crazy. Now, missing is part of my life, and I realized life is made of missing things. As long as you gather good memories, life is made of missing things. And as my father once said, “Sometimes the house feels sad without you here, but it’s good to miss you, it’s good to feel this, it would be bad if we couldn’t feel anything.”

I’d like to end with the words of Amyr Klink, a Brazilian writer, who said, “A man needs to travel. By his own means, not by stories, images, books or TV. By his own, with his eyes and feet, to understand what he is. To some day plant his own trees and give them some value. To know the cold, to enjoy the heat. To feel the distance and lack of shelter, to be well under his own ceiling. A man needs to travel to places he doesn’t know to break this arrogance that makes us see the world as we imagine it, and not simply as it is or may be. That makes us teachers and doctors of what we have never seen, when we should just be learners, and simply go see it.”

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hope you guys enjoyed... more texts of mine coming soon...

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Premiere do Corn!!! -

HEY HEY HEY!!!!

Heita piga ess PDC viu =) estamos na fita, no dvd e na net...=P

Anyway, Jessie is here to say: voce eh mto Welcome no blog do pdc =D

A IDEIA> com a globalizacao, as expancoes agricolas e a crise financeira nos USA o Power do Corn teve que cair na rede...

serio, nos tentaremos manter esse blog sempre atualizado, voce provavelmente encontrara aqui os videos do pdc, fotos, textos e problemas de acentuação ( pq meu teclado esta em ingles)...

esperamos que vc venha a "enjoyair" o nosso conteudo.

Thanks, Jessica Lupiao

ps: Moni e Banana, lembrem-se de postar uma foto ou video...ok?!