So, PdC was together again…
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Everything started around two months before mt trip to Ohio, I was in Massachusetts still living with the Phakos.
One day Ellen calls me for a regular PdC update, she really had news that time, one of them was bout the vacation that her host family were planning for June of this year. Her host dad was taking the whole family plus Ellen for a week vacation in South Carolina , and happily for PdC he decided to invite me to come along =)
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After a talk with my American Family (Phakos) and PdC girls the final idea was very fitting.
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So, after my program ended I would stay in Massachusetts for one more week, helping out the Phakos with the new Au Pair and enjoying the surround friends and locations for a little more, after that I would take a flight to Ohio and spend a week there, then from there we would go by car to South Carolina…
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It worked out very well, I stayed at Ellen’s place what was a bless for me, it was really relaxing, Ellen is the kind of person you want to be a guest for…
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PdC hung out a lot, I finally met the corn’s boyfriend! Steven (Monize’s boyfriend) appears to be a nice guy, he is also from our American Church (Full gospel) . We (Ellen and me) for sure were a little jealous as Mo spends more time with him, but we are working this out and he has been accepted by PdC already.
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I know I’m not the same girl that came from Brazil two year ago and I realized those changes just happen but I got surprised by the changes I found in Ohio.
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Yes, PdC girls had change a lot! Monize, like I said she has a boyfriend now and things are getting serious very fast. Moni is the kind of girl that was born to get married and be a mother, she is more mature but very dreamy at the same time, and now she has a new “belly bottom”, like the movie, is all about Steven…
Ellen has been more Ellen than ever, assuming who she is and who she wants to be to the world (most of it) and for herself.
I could understand her better, and kind of find myself on her sometimes. She has more opinions than ever.
On the end of the analogy I’m proud of my sisters. They are so much stronger and well adapted and beautiful as always.
Looks like the only one that still needs to figure out herself and find “the way” is Jessie.
We also spent time with our American church, The people from Full Gospel mean so much to PdC and we were and still are so blessed by them.
It’s funny but I feel so connected with this congregation, it really feels like doesn’t matter where I am or how far I go, this will always be my church.
And then we went to the beach in South Carolina, it was very good! Beautiful place, nice beach house and Ellen to take care of me…
We came back to Ohio, again by car but now with 12 hours driving because of the traffic.
I found a few problems to get to the airport since on that Monday we had this thing with Ellen’s host family’s cars, but it ended up with Matthew saving the day by giving me ride.
Once I got on Kentucky/Cincinnati airport and checked in my luggage without paying extra weight fees but paying 100 dollars for the third bag that is not included by the airline company, I thought “what a day!”, then my flight got cancel. With a flight cancel I wouldn’t make it in time to Chicago, losing my final flight to São Paulo.
Ellen called me to check how I was doing, was when the airline operator guy got me in another connection on the same Chicago airport and I would be on time for a second flight, this one hitting straight to Brazil.
I guess the American life is over for me, at least for a while. Even we complain a little about it and miss “Brazilian stuff”(jeitinho Brasileiro) I can say that I like the American way, and I enjoyed it to the bones, I learned to do so.
Many things can and actually were to be taken as life learning from these past two years. I learned a lot about family, friendship, coexistences and about myself as well.
Honestly, I don’t know what I want, what to hope and run after for the future. For now the basics mind do, but the search keeps going on, I guess it never really ends…
Love. Jessie
