Today was a big day! It was my first day at Center Grove High School, a school that has around 2,500 students...and they are all high schoolers!!!! It's very different from my brazilian school, that has around 1,000 from all ages (it goes back from kindergarten...). I met a lot of new people, and it was great. I got lost often today, because it's a huge school, but when I asked for help, everyone was very kind and tried to show me the way to my classroom. Unlike Brazil, here each teacher has a room, and the students have to move from one room to another. And they don't have a strict schedule, so we can choose the subjects we'll do on the first day of school!

People here couldn't believe that I gave up of my summer vacations in order to go to the U.S...But that's because they don't know how much fun it's here. I'm having an english overdose, so I'm learning a lot! It's easier to listen than to speak. I've signed up for advanced speech classes, american history, U.S government, pre-calculus, weight lifting (that's right!), american literature and physics. We have two different days here: the red one and the white one (these are the colors of the school flag). The red one has a schedule, and the white one has another. So today it was the red day, and tomorrow it's gonna be the white day, and it goes on and on...

Here's a picture of my american family. My american mom, Gloria, and my american brother, Ben. We're having a lot of fun here! I gotta go guys, cause I have homework to do! (and i'm supposed to be on the summer vacations...)