FEb no more portuguese class

Sadly I do not have my Portuguese class anymore, so I just went on the streets to practice my Portuguese.   I went to the pharmacy, restaurant, a cosmetics store and to the  supermarket. I have more luck in the restaurant since the guy talk to me more and I tried to communicate better when I was ordering some food. Then he asked me where I am from and I answered, originally I am from Ecuador. In the restaurant , I was not able to say straw in Portuguese so I  point at the straw and said, “may I have a sorvete ( straw) in Spanish.” Then he said, “Sorvete!” and said this is called, "Canudo," (straw) in Portuguese. Sorvete is ice-cream in Portuguese. I was ooh yeah, I remember now. Then he asked me  how’s is Ecuador? What I study? Lastly, he asked me if the food from Ecuador is the same as the Brazilian food.  This question made me miss, the Ecuadorian chaulafan, the Ecuadorian churrasco and the guatita and my hot sauce valentina. L .  

Those were lots of question; I was able to answer little by little.  I was happy that I talked a little more and tried to use less Spanish on the things I say.  I wanted to find a strategy to learn Portuguese fast and my friend Carolina told me to watch a lot of TV in Portuguese and asked me to learn the same way I learned English.   Each day I am learning some Portuguese words that means different in Spanish. I think that after this five months I will get confuse when I talk start to speak in Spanish to some of my friends.