30 of October - Friday

The highlight of today was really the whole senior school assembly.

Mr. Rowe, our Headmaster was back from the HMC and was pleased to anoounce all of the sporting triumphs that St. Paul's had achieved. All of the Rancho awards and all of the excellence at the Athletics Day.

There was one detail though. The counting of the Athletics day points was incorrect. Turns out that it wasn't Stuart that won first.

The results are:

3rd Place - Stuart

2nd Place - Tudor

1st Place - Windsor

29 of October - Thursday

It seems that we didn't have one week of Brazilian food at school, it was only the first three days of the week. This time we were given the regular macaroni.

The Commom App reports are due in for tomorrow; similar to most deadlines this is when people are gonna start to rush.

28 of October - Wednesday

Oh yes. It was a pattern. Today the food was from Goiás. The main course was similar to the regular meat we had except that it was chopped into rectangles of different sizes. The desert was ice cream with an optional banana cream to put on top of it.

After lunch, during the tutorial period, Mr. Thomas gathered all of the U6 in the 6th Form Centre. We were told that our IB's had been confirmed. All that was nescessary of us was to check our information to see if everything was correct. I believe that, for most people, it was.

27 of October - Tuesday

I think I'm spotting a pattern here.

Yesterday we had food from Minas Gerais. Today we had food from the Northeast of Brazil. This included some form pie, similar to the regular meat pie that we have every once in a while. I think they added carrots this time, though.

At any rate, we also had the Chester breasts promised to use yesterday. The desert, however, was a mouth-drying peanut mixture called paçoca. It's great, but as it's mouth-drying, a large glass of water is needed afterwards.

26 of October - Monday

Well the Playstation 3 isn't in the 6th Form Centre anymore, but of course we can't expect someone to leave their PS3 there every single day. Oh well.

I was a little bit surprised with lunch again today. The lunch menu said we were going to have "Chester in Dark Sauce" as the main course with "Ice Lolly" for desert.
Let's just say that they completely changed what we had. It was food from Minas Gerais (or at least they said it was). From Chester in Dark Sauce we had Roast Chicken that was similar to the usual one except they added some quiabo to it. The "ice lolly" which I assume was meant to be popsicles was changed to Queijo Minas with some Doce de Leite on it. Probably, though, the strangest thing in this lunch was the menu. It was more than clear that they used a simple internet translator when "Doce de Leite com Queijo Minas" was written as "Cheese and Mines".

23 of October - Friday

Two surprises were in store for us today.

1) Rafa Rocha left St. Paul's today. I'm fairly certain that we will all miss him quite a lot and we all wish him the best. Make sure you keep reading this here, Rafa, so that you won't forget all of us! Best of luck at the Film Academy!

2) After school yesterday, Bia and Olivia set up and entire cork board dedicated to us Uppers. It's fantastic, inlcuding photos of us when we were little kids all the way until photos of last week. They even went got to the point of getting last year's annual review, cutting out all of our photos and stapling them up to the bottom of the board. Basically it consists of enormous, flashy titles at the top, photos down the middle and at the botton, a row of each of our individual photos. I have already gotten permission to take a photo of the board to use it as the main photo of this blog. I'll be sure to get to that on Monday.

22 of October - Thursday

Joy rained down from the skies this morning, when the kind soul of Eddie came to school today. He was bringing us a wonderful gift. It was a complement to Zé's PS3: FIFA 2010!

Oh yes! Eddie brought us the full game! Now players won't be stuck only playing with Barcelona and Chelsea. We'll also have more stadiums to play in, other than the muddy and rather unkept one from the demo. What else can I say? Hell yeah!