Pre -Going Away Party Post

I am pretty lucky to have met such good people here in Brazil.  You can now count the hours and I will be on a plane back home to Canada but today is my going away party.  My roommate is quite a special one for letting me use her house for the pool party and let people spend the night.  Friends from all the cities I have visited are coming today and I could not be happier.  But I dread tomorrow morning when I must say good bye.  I am sad to leave, and happy to be coming home and so my emotions cancel each other out and I am in this weird limbo stage.  But I am enjoying my last few days the Brazilian way! We have multiple kinds and cuts of meat to put on the BBQ, salads, fruits and cases of beer chilling in the fridge. We were a little nervous this morning when we woke up as the sun decided to stay asleep for the first time in a month, of course on my pool party day, but as I write this, it looks like it may join us in the party! And best of all, my paper that I had been working on for the last two months is finished!! Now I can party care free :)