so i have two and a half more weeks here in brazil, and i can´t believe that i´ve been here for 8 months. it sounds like such a long time when i say it or hear it, but it doesn´t seem like i´ve been here that long. so i´ve had soo many experiences here and seen a lot of things that it´s hard to recount them all. carnaval, ouro preto, belo horizante ( Read more... )

two more weeks and i'm free. well kind of. no more classes, tests, projects, presentations, or papers. i'll finally be free. all that's left is a history paper, history exam, marketing presentation, and a paper for my independent study which is going to be very very long. only two more weeks and i'll be heading to the amazon and my other travels. i ( Read more... )

so i haven't written in this thing for a while, and that's kind of sad since i'm using it as an actual journal while i'm here. i just don't have the time to do all of my stuff and write in a journal everyday. so this is more convient since i use the internet a lot for research, and since i can type far faster than i can write ( Read more... )

so, i guess almost everyone back at UGA is finishing finals, packing up, going back home, and starting summer jobs or vacations. hard to believe that i've been here that long. i remember that i left the day before all of ya'll started classes for this odd little adventure ( Read more... )

last week was an interesting twist of evernts. monday was the usual day of no classes, lots of work, and running errrands. tuesday was and interesting day in ecoturism, cuz we went on hike for class. which was fun, because i saw that the UFV campus is larger than i thought it was. plus, it was funny to be on the hike with my professor and somebody ( Read more... )

I am leaving in oh 40 minutes to go to Belo Horizante to celebrate Passover with a jewish family there tonight. I'm going with Daniel. So, this should be an adventure no matter what. I have to go buy some clothes so i don't look like a shlamil, and we have to go buy a present for the family. well...i hope every has a wonderful saturday and saturday

soo this weekend was a crazy mix of adventures. friday was boring but funny as hell hearing phillip's stories about prague and other assorted randomness. i'll never forget when he fell down on his ass on the way to leao. anyways, saturday was loads of work. studying, getting copies made, reading, and then Duplaecana. craziness. i can't believe that ( Read more... )

"heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. all of the gods, all of the heavens, all of the worlds, are within us. they are magnified by dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other. that is what myth is. myth is a manifestation in symbolic images, in metaphorical ( Read more... )

so i spent all day reading, as usual. then my roommates asked me what do i think a good name for our republica and i said diablos. they thought it was funny and then i designed a mascot for it and caricatures of everyone. they thought it was a really good idea. i think we're going to go make some tshirts. we have comencer the grafitti writting/ ( Read more... )

i was reading this article and at the end was this quote and i just can't stop thinking about it ( Read more... )