The first adventures in U.S.

The first week was an adventure, everything was new experiences. I had to a lot of things by my self.

Saint Michael's Campus

When I arrived in the airport in Burlington Vermont on Sunday (06/30), the adventure started. The first person I met was Hiro, and  he's a student assistant from St. Michael's.He took me from the airport to college. He helped me with my luggage and he showed me to my room, he also told where were some places, and what I needed to do on Monday. After he left I went to met the others Brazilians that were here since Thursday (06/27) Lucas and Felipe, and we tried to go downtown but don't have buses on Sunday here, so we went to the gas station to get some food. We returned from the gas station and walked around the campus to explore, than I went to my room to arrange my things at 5:00 they started to serve the dinner, it was my first meal in US. The dining hall or cafeteria, as they call it here, is complete different from the dining hall of my school (UFF) in Brazil. Here they have different kind of food a lot of kind of desert difference things to drink, than when we finished the dinner I went to my room to sleep because I was very tired. In the middle of the night I woke up with my new roommate Ariel coming from the airport with Hiro.

First Dessert

The second day (Monday) it was everything new I woke up at 7:00 than took my shower arranged some things and went to meet the other Brazilians at 7:30 to go have the breakfast. The breakfast was like in Brazil 2 slices of bread and chocolate milk, i haven't seen bacon like every body thinks that they only eat this. After breakfast I went to the talk with my advisor and arrange somethings. Then theytook us to do a campus tour and do my knight card, the card that I can do everything here, with this card I can take a buss for free, print some documents, I go to the dining hall to eat, I can buy food or soda in the machines and do a lot of other things. After this tour I went to my first English class that I  had to do a test to know my level of English. When I finished this test it was near 12:00 and I went to have lunch. In the afternoon I created the college mail and then they taught us how to go downtown by bus, is's very easy and it's not and not very far. When we back from downtown I had dinner and went to my room to sleep that I was very tired.

Lunch

The third day it was almost the same from the second wake up at 7:00 than had breakfast, than I went to the class, after class have launch, than another class, after this class I went to eat dinner at the cafeteria than go home did some stuff and then slept, it was like a normal day.

On Wednesday (07/03) in the afternoon they took us to open an bank account, that we need to have since we will stay here a long time. When we come back we had a ride to see the to see the fireworks from July 4th at lake Champlain, it took a little time to be complete dark because here the sunset is about 9:00 so we waited a little time to see the fireworks, but when they started almost at 9:20 it was amazing, a lot of fireworks from the boat in the lake, it was something that I've seen, it was more than 20 minutes of firework.

4th July Fireworks

On Thursday was a holiday of July 4th, the professor Harold invited us to have an american barbecue, but first we went to Wal-mart to buy some stuffs like food. The I return to the school, I went to Harold's house to have the barbecue, Maggie my other professor went too and it was very good. It's complete different from Brazilians's barbecue, but it is good too.

Friday was my first regular day, I had class ultil 3:05 than I went downtown to walk on Church street, and know how is there, and buy some stuffs. The stores were o sale because of the holiday. Saturday I did some homework than I returned to downtown to buy more thinks that were really cheap.

On Sunday we had a trip, we went to an ice cream factory called Ben & Jerry's that the ice creams are very good. After that we went to one of the highest mountains in Vermont, we went up in a gondola, lunched there, then we returned to the bus, where they took us to a store to buy some souvenir. We return home where I did some homework for Monday.

This post was a little bit big, but it tells my first week here in Burlington as a foreign student.

Ben & Jerry's

Squirrel on Campus

Gondola

Canadá's leaf