Sosiale vesen!

"Are you walking ALONE? Are you OK?"
"Did you just go for a run ALONE?"
7am in the morning: "You are so quite, something wrong?"
This is not rare comments to get if you live together with 70 brazilians for three weeks. The social talks are endless and the need to do something else than just talk does not exist. Especially if it's raining. People are almost afraid of rain. "Are you running in the rain? you will get sick!"
For me, running for 40 minutes is my way of getting my space, break from the language and get some energy continue. For the Brazilians, this is just a way to converse in a different environment.. If you want to go for a run, you should ask everyone to go with you. Not less than five together, if you're fifteen, it's GREAT success! And you don't even have to wear other shoes than havaianas as long as you are up for the social part! I think the only time brazilians needs to be alone, is when they sleep.
It's funny and different, the need to always be so many people together. You can even see it in the pictures. They always have as many people as possible in the photo. It doesn't matter if you are just walking by, it's impossible to escape. When I look back at my picture it's not abnormal to only recognice half of the group in the photo.




For me as a introvert person, this is kind of difficult when you live together with 70 of them. To get the time and space that you need alone in silence is something you really have to fight for. Finding a place, not necessarily being alone, but calm. It's only calm at night, when I'm not allowed to go out alone. It really makes you miss the safe norwegian nature, the ocean, taking a trip to a mountain for a weekend or sleeping outside. But I really learn alot of this and it really makes me notice my limits and I'm getting to know myself much better.