Brazil Day #1

Ashley, Flavia, and I at the World Cup party

Hello everyone!!! I've been home since Wednesday the 30th, and now I'm finally updateing this blog! There are a lot of people wanting to hear about my trip, so I thought I would just post my journal enteries from each day I was gone!! So, here's the first one! I'll try to be regular and post one entry a day so I don't overwhelm you all! Bear with me, because most of these entries were written really late at night after a very tiring day plust I'm not a very good writer! =P So, here it goes! Here's day #1:





6-15-2010
This trip was started at 4am on Monday morning. That was yesterday. I left home at 5am, had breakfast at a friend's house near the airport, and then my Mom and her friend Lori took me to the airport. The flight was 2 hours and 15 minutes. I had a window seat in a row with two guys. Once in Houston I got my bags and jumped on a tram to terminal A. I was in Houston at 12pm and the rest of the team got there at 2pm. We had a short and simple flight to Dallas and a long wait for our complicated flight of 15 hours to Sao Paulo. We weren't able to land in Sao Paulo right away becasue of traffic and fog, so we flew to Rio de Janero to get gas, sit on teh runway for forever, and fly back to Sao Paulo. From the airport we took a bus to the church where we were warmly welcomed and fed aesome food. We had a party cheering on Brazil as we watched a World Cup Game projected onto the church wall. They won!! =) Then the pastor spoke and we found out information on our host families. Flavia is hosting me, Amanda, and my Aunt Kristen. After that we played games and got to know the people at this church. Then we had a short meeting and prayed before dinner, hang out, and heading to our host family's homes. I hope we are able to give back some of what these wonderful people are giving to us and that God will bless them! Now to try the Brazilian cheese Flavia wants me to, shower, pack for tomorrow, and sleep! Sleeping on the plane last night was hard. I miss you all, but I'm very glad to be here!

Love,

Miranda

Me and some people in my team with members of the church.  Celebrating Brazil winning a World Cup game.