I have just returned from vacationing in Florianópolis (affectionately known as Floripa), in the state of Santa Catarina, with 4 other Fulbright girls. We decided pretty last minute to take an overnight bus on Thursday. Floripa is wonderfully awesome. It's a city on a big island, most of which is covered in thick jungle. The city itself is ( Read more... )

Since I'm updating my travel blog, this is from last week ( Read more... )

Ok, I'm starting up my Livejournal again purely as a travel blog. It's gonna be great. Posts and pictures to come!

Well... it's been a while. I prettymuch dropped off the face of the earth. But I didn't actually drop off of it, I was just on the other side of it ( Read more... )

This took me like hours to figure out, so you'd dang well better appreciate these pictures. I took most of them for an art project here for school, which is why they're mostly just boring pictures of parks and stuff. Someday I'll post some of me looking like I'm enjoying myself. For now, here you go...

( See Salvador! )

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I decided that since that last post was so big, it might be best to separate the pictures.

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Hello to all! I'm here in Brazil right now, having a pretty sweet time. Life is good, but HOT.

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New life aim: going to Midwifery school.

Hooray! Today I got an Email with acceptance to my Brazil program. It's a study abroad program, but I won't be getting credit for it, so it's prettymuch going to be really relaxed. I've been looking forward to this for a while, and since my program's deadline was so late, it's weird to hear about everybody else being officially accepted while I ( Read more... )