Oi!,
Tudo Bem? Sand surfing at El Pinar Uruguay was fun! Much easier than wave surfing. Instead of getting caught in a ‘washer machine’ one just eats sand.
Midori travels everywhere with me she loves to imitate anything I do. Its super cute.
I tried to get her to surf on my board, but she did not trust that she’d be safe. Over all I’d say it was a good day, there were a few times that I caught speed and a few times I ate sand.
Let’s see, I lost one earring, one button on my shirt, and both my hands are swollen, I stubbed my right big toe, broke off my pointer finger nail and now have a really bad infection, bruises on my left hip side, lastly a large purple-ish baseball sized bruise on my left butt cheek. Its okay! It was worth it.
Its so much more awsome if you don’t clip your feet on the board. Which I did unintentionally, towards the end because my clips came loose.
Next time, Midori and I are headed for windsurfing.
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Ate a Vista,
Odeliza Jacoba
Oi!
Tudo Bem? While working on my many websites, I set the music on my ipod to Audio Slave, eat Nutella toast, and try not to confuse Spanish with Portuguse. I knew something like this would happen. Sometimes when I talk in Tagalog I mix a lot of Spanish words together. Its okay.
Yesterday I recieved an email from a talent agency located in Argentina. Since Argentina is so close to Uruguay, I thought I’d give it a shot. Later this afternoon is my Quarta fiera Portuguse class. I’m looking forward to it. I get out of the house and do something else that consist of learning. I’ve always been really studious, if anything I can get a bit bored if not challenged, so learning another language is a good thing. Its endless.
I don’t believe I’ll ever be an ‘expert’ in any language.
Well, I’m off to work on my other sites. Wish me luck with Argentina!
Ate a Vista,
Odeliza Jacoba
Oi!
Well, I haven’t received any calls from that agency. Although I did get an email telling me to stop by their offices or some sort of email about an audition. I emailed back and asked what the details were of the audition or this ‘urgent’ meeting. No response after that. The agent did tell me they do things a bit differently around here.
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Odeliza Jacoba
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Oi!
While flipping through the t.v. I stumbled upon channel 205. All Brasil every hour. From variety shows, news, soap opera, etc. Yay!
I could understand some of what their saying its because of some Spanish words. Other than that its more from my lessons. And a few phrases I picked up here and there.
Otimo!
Well, its the weekend and I really don’t work on website stuff and blogging. So, off to watch the shows on 205.
Ate a vista,
Odeliza Jacoba
Ola,
I just got back from my Portuguese class, it was tough…Getting even tougher. I am currently learning regular verbs ending in; ar, er, ir. Wow!
Its not like English!
My friend Nico from the Bookshop located at J. Elluari in-front of Punta Caretas shopping mall ordered my school book, Bem Vindo, just got in and purchased it along with an actual Brasiliero dictionary only in Portuguese. Yay! I haven’t read it yet.
Its Sexta, Fiera-Friday- the old me would go out to an invite or a club or to eat and then a club or to eat and then movies. The me now, well, I’d love to do those things, unfortunately there are’nt any clubs I’d go to. The ones I have been I would not return even if I was paid to hang out there. Well, movies here, their rather, late… Really late. For instance, Gran Tarino is still playing and so is the Four Christmas movie. Get the drift?
I already talked so much about the lack of variety dinning that its so over! So its Viernes-Friday in Spanish- and I’m hoping my fiancee has some movie downloaded to watch order some pizza and have maybe a glass of dark beer or so.
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Ate a Vista,
Odeliza Jacoba
Ola,
Back in North America if I wanted to shoot I could contact my friend Oliver Mendoza from the photography group called Visual Noise, or contact Marvin Avilla from the digital group called MFactor. If they had a shoot in mind they’d call me. Their creative ideas would flow so easily. We’d all work so well together and the out come speaks for its self.
In Uruguay, I can’t find someone like Oliver or Marvin, or Josh, or Rob. Well, one can not find any of those men’s talents anywhere. But still, atleast someone with the capability to draw images from a photo session and bring an ‘ah factor’ to each and every snap of a camera. Someone with a fearless creative outlook on photography.
Ate a vista,
Odeliza Jacoba
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Oi!
I spoke to a new agent the other day and she told me, honestly, that my look is not in demand in Uruguay. Of course Ive already experienced rejection for a year from my last agency in Uruguay.
The good news is, other countries in South America are more open to my look. Rather Latino American countires; Brasil, Columbia, and even Argentina.
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Odeliza Jacoba
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Ola,
Yesterday I had my Portuguese class. It was a bit tough. Now I am getting down to the ‘verbo ser’, which means ‘verbs to be’ in English. I really should reserve some of my reading times for Spanish reading. Right now I read English books, but I think sometime this week, I’ll purchase an ’easy read’ Spanish novel as well as a poetry book in Portuguese.
I still have not found a Portuguese dictionary not a Portuguese Spanish or Portuguese English, but just Portuguese definitions in Portuguese.
Like I said, I might have to wait until a trip is made to Brasil. In the mean time, I will just work with what I have. Its better than doing nothing, if that makes any sense.
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Odeliza Jacoba
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Oi!
Here’s a pic taken by the late Oliver Mendoza. I was thinking about him today and thought I’d honor a bit of our time together with one of the last shoots we did.
Check out June 1st entry at Odeliza Jacoba Expat Blog and MC Hammer Pants at Odeliza Jacoba Blog . And if you can’t get enough check out some new pics of Uruguay at Odeliza .
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Odeliza Jacoba
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Bom Dia,
Yesterday afternoon I had my first official Portuguese lessons. It went well. Weird, but well. Weird because, well, Spanish is not my native language neither is English for that matter, so the profesora was teaching me in Portuguese while translating words I did not know into Spanish.
Weird for me, but totally cool because I think in Spanish when I use the language and now I am trying to think in Portuguese, I find that its much easier to think the language than to translate it into another language.
I know that may sound a bit strange for some, but it has always been that way for me since I was 2. That is how I was able to speak Tagalog and English so quickly. Besides, almost every language gets lost in translation some way, so its just best to take the words for what they are.
Oh, to read and write in the language is another key learning tip. At least for me.
I’ll keep you updated!
Ate Logo,
Odeliza Jacoba
