and the orange handcuffs go to...

Wow... It has been a while since I have written anything around here... I have been quite busy, but I have to admit that it has mostly been for lack of enthusiasm and a whole lot of lazyness on my part... I am back though... for the happiness of some and dismay of a only a few (I hope). I warn you and apologize before hand, for I don't intedn with this post to tell one more of my adventures... NO... Contrary to what you might think... I have NOT ran out of those... BELIEVE ME... lol It's just that need to recap a bit on 2007 in it's entirety... And for that, I come to you with the review of the 2007 season of "Welcome to larissa's life" (something I have never done before...). I have decided to come about this subject in two ways... The first will be the "Larissa's life award" or "The Orange Handcuffs" (Orange, cause I love that color and handcuffs cause it kind of represents well a bit of my personalty...) to the best and worst moments of my life this year... and the second will be an "Inventory" with the total numbers of 2007...

The "Orange Handcuffs" go to...

Best Plane ride of 2007: - My trip to Tel Aviv in January... I met some cool people on board and had a lot of fun... Worst Plane ride of 2007: - My Alyiah, from Rio to Tel Aviv... Boriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing Best re-union of 2007: - It is a tie between: Michela and Carol coming to rio to spend carnival, seeing Moischa in Porto Velho, seeing nigga in SP and seeing lil' nigga and Vitti in Porto Velho... Worst re-union of 2007: - Runing into old friends I had't seen in about 10 years in a club in Rio and totally embarassing one of them, by sharing innapropriate information... lol Best Date of 2007: - Meeting in person someone I met online... Talking, watching a movie... it was a great first (and last) date... (no name dropping) Worst Date of 2007: - Meeting in person someone I met onlne... a double date, in which the lucky ones were my date's friend and my friend... lol "Best" Accident of 2007: - Slipping from a bar stool last friday, while on a date... Best thing is that I can't even blame alchool... I had not even started drinking yet... lol Worst Accident of 2007: - Having my toe stepped on two times in a gay nightclub... causing my toe nail to almost fall completely off, start bleeding a lot and have to go to the hospital at 2am... lol "Best" Sentence used by an Israeli: - "I have never been with a woman before, I want to try it with you." Worst Sentence used by an Israeli: - "I don't think we can manage the cutural gap" - are you f***ing kidding me? - "I am not going to appologize to you" - WHAT? - "Lama lo?" (Why not?) - Undeniably Israeli... ... and sooooooooo many more... lol Best Night out with the girls: - Halloween at Mike's Place... No comments... Worst Night out with the girls: - Rosh Hashana... Useless... "Best" pick-up line of 2007: - "at hamuda" (you are cute) - ok, That is simply the LEAST WORSE... ... it's hard to find a good one... lol Worst pick-up line of 2007: - "Wanna have sex with me and my friend?"

- "Wanna come into the bathroom with me?"

... lol Best new people I met in 2007: - PH, Chico, Vivian, Ruben, Miriam, Helena (don't kill me... lol), Alice, Babi, Gui, Marcela, Rodrigo, Adam, Felix, Debora from rio, Yaeli, Sarah, Michel, Debby, Melina and a bunch of people from my class... I dont wanna forget anyone... THANK YOU FOR COMING INTO MY LIFE!!! Worst new people I met in 2007: - The straight wannabe gay guy and some useless dates, that don't even deserve name dropping... Best Class of 2007: - Definatelly my Tell all interview in journalistic class... Worst Class of 2007: - Any statistics class... Seriously... It's "variable" not "bible"... lol Best School Assignment of 2007: - Media and Children presentation or communication skills class... really fun :) Worst School Assignment of 2007: - All statistics homeworks... Best extracurricular activities: - Cooking Workshop - Theater Workshop - Ambassador's Club - Shabat Dinner Worst extracurricular activities: - Debate Club (too time consuming) Best School Trip: - Orientation trip Worst School Trip: - President hiking club trips (not bad... but not great...) Best moments of 2007: - A few: Making alyiah, swiming in the sea for the first time in many years, seeing the girls during carnival this year, going back to Porto Velho for the first time in 2 years, Going to SP and seeing my grandparents, Seeing Nigga in SP... Worst moments of 2007: - A few: My ER trip at 2am, The formentioned gay attack and almost drowning at the Tel Aviv beach...

2007 in Numb3rs:

8 different plane rides

12 hours waiting in the airport in Madrid

5 hours waiting in the airport in Paris

2 weeks in Tel Aviv in January

1 week in Sao Paulo

1 week in Porto Velho

80 new people met (approximatelly)

25 useless dates (approximatelly)

1 trip to the ER

2 new addictions

1 b-day barbecue

1 class representative elecion won

2 weeks of ulpan

6 months and 5 days of alyiah

1 mom missed

1 stepdad missed

1 grandpa that passed away

2 hiking trips

1 orientation trip

2 official school parties attended

1 school shabat dinner attended

3 cooking workshop classes

8 theater workshop classes

4 ambassador's club meetings

1 ambassador's club trip missed

1 cell phone dropped in the toilet

1 amazing canival with the girls

1 amazing summer in Tel Aviv

1 cute new teacher

Too many new pictures

Too may beers

Too many embarassing moments

Too many parties

and

7 posts on this Blog

All in all, it was a great year... It had its ups and downs... but all that can be done, is hope for an amazing new one.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

HAPPY 2008!!!

ps: "best" means funny as well

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To be or not to be...

Those of you who know me, know how theatrical I can be... I am not saying I am a good actress, far from it actually. However, I love acting and I am doing a theater workshop at school. My problem with acting has always been, cracking up mid scene; but, in this course I have been working on concentration and I am starting to get better. My next story is about my theater class last week. It is an improv class, meaning we don't work with scripts... Last class we had an exercise where we were supposed to tell each other our "wants" in turns... This girl turns to me saying: "I want a married man" I'm like: "what, a specific one or any married man" - what? It was a legitimate question... lol she says: "a specific one" later on we get to an exercise where we had a circle and we had to blame the person on the left for something, pick a fight and the person was supposed to apologize... The same girl from before is on my left and I get inspired, here's the "fight": (L = me, R = her) *I was in an emotional place, and I took advantage of it... lol L: I thought we were friends... R: What? L: I thought we were best friends, and you go and sleep with my husband... (at this moment she is in SHOCK and starts laughing nervously and I laugh too... I knew it was gonna hit her good... I whisper: Sorry... She says it's ok... so we go on...) L: How could you do this to me. I trusted you... R: You said you didn't like him anymore... L: what? are you kidding me? R: you said you didn't love him L: Oh, you are actually going to to take what I said to you, my best friend, after a fight with my husband and use it as an excuse to sleep with him? How dare you? R: I thought it was ok... L: Ok, ok? How can you say that? How could you do this? You were my maid of honor, you are the godmother to my child, we have been friends for more than 20 years... And you dare say it was ok... R: I will never do it again... Give me another chance... L: You lost your chance when you stole my boyfriend in high school... We were young, I let it go... R: Please, give me another chance... L: I can't, I can never trust you again... I am done, our friendship is over... I never want to see you again (I said, Shaking a bit while a actual tear dropped) I turned and left.... The scene was over... and one of the guys of the class turns and says: I am never going to pick a giht with you... lol the other comment was: "Are you married?" me: No "Not even a little?" lol Next class?? Tonight... Yay... On the next chapter of "Larissa's life": "How to put your foot in your mouth in two lessons - lesson two" Don't miss it :)

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How to properly put your foot in your mouth... In two lessons...

Yeah... For those of you who don't really know me that well. You should know that I am a very sucessful "puter" of foot in my mouth... meaning: I say the wrong thing at the wrong time... I just realized that the title should have been "In three lessons"... but for now I'll just tell two stories, since the first didn't happen in Israel. In my second week here I got a job translating websites. Which is great, since I can work from home and make my own time. However, the money was not enough... So, I got a job at a customer service for a carpet cleaning company, that serves NY and the sorrounding areas (aka three computers and a few phone lines at the company's owner house, on Nordau street in Tel Aviv... I know... Fancy right?) Well... I only stayed at that job for a week. Because after that I had to sign a contract for six months, and I would not be able to handle school and the job at the same time. The job was not bad... it was quite nice, after I got used to it... Well, since the company served NY, we had to pretend (by we, I mean me and the canadian/russian girl working with me) we were in NY. No problem being foreign, but we were in NY. One night, this very nice woman calls... and at some point in the conversation, she asks: "where are you from? I sense an accent" Well people... that's where all my brain cells decided they needed a vacation... and I started to panic... I forgot that it didnt matter that I was brazillian, as long as I lived in Ny... But noooooooo I had to screw it up... lol I said: "I'm from Ireland" HOW STUPID WAS THAT????? Are you kidding me.... My accent is the furthest away from Irish that it can be... And as our favorite friend "murphy" (for those of you who don't know him... See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law) would say... of course that was the stupidest thing I could say, because the woman turns to me and says: "I'm from Ireland too, wow... you are not kidding are you?" - I had to stick to my story me: "of course not" her: "Where in Ireland?" me: "Dublin" (The only place I know) her: "Me too... wow" (Are you kidding me??????????) me: "But, I moved here when I was a kid" (Ok, how did THAT help... If that was true, I would NOT have an accent... I can totally picture my brain cells surfing in hawaii at that moment... DAMN!!!!!!) her: "Oh, me too" From that moment on, I changed the subject back to carpets... I barely got out of it.... Damn!!!!!!! lol Lesson 2... coming soon TO BE CONTINUED...

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