My name is Nevo, I'm 15 years old and a sophmore at Fairview High School! I live in Boulder, Colorado with my twin brother and my parents. I also have an older sister but she is currently living in Israel, and serving in the Israeli Army. I'm going to be an exchange student in Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil with AFS! I'm kind of new to blogging so sorry if my posts aren't as entertaining as they should be! I wanted to be an exchange student for a while now. I recieved my application in March, but I didn't finish it untill August (because of traveling over summer vacation). I then had to change some things on the application so my final submission was in September. A day after I submitted my application I had already been accepted by AFS USA! I was so happy, untill my twin brother told me, " Nevo it doesn't matter, because you haven't even been accepted by AFS Brazil." Right after I went to check my email; I saw that I got an email from my local AFS volunteer. I thought the email was gonna say that it was a mistake that I had been accepted to AFS USA, because it all just happened so fast. To my surprise it said that I had been accepted by AFS Brazil! I was ecstatic! It took 4 hours between hearing from AFS USA and AFS Brazil, when usually it would take a month after the applicatiion deadline (mine was October 10th about two weeks later)! Three weeks later I recieved my host family! Again I couldn't believe how fast everything was happening!
I am going to live in Feira de Santana, Bahia with my host parents Edvaldo and Angela and two of their three kids. Felipe is one of my host brothers, he's 25 and lives in Salvador because of college, so I won't see him as much as my other host brother and sister. My other host brother's name is Gustavo, he's 19. My host sister's name is Camila and she is 17. I'm really excited for this exchange and will post more entries as my departure date of February 10, 2012 comes closer!
From left to right is: Felipe, Angela, Edvaldo, Camila, and Gustavo.
