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So. Rio de Janeiro is turning out to be one of the most beautiful cities I have ever seen. However, with everything light there is a dark, naturally. Ipanema, where I'm staying is one of the wealthiest and safest districts but the majority of the city is a favella (slum). On the streets here, even in Ipanema, there are Brasilian soldiers ( Read more... )

So, today my mom's friend Maria took us on a tour of Rio de Janeiro with her favorite taxi driver and we went around doing all the touristy things like drinking coconut juice on the beach and driving through the Florista Tijuca which is a beautiful rainforest with waterfalls and windy roads. Also, however, we went to Cristo Redentor which is the ( Read more... )

arrived in brasil this afternoon...no words really. there aren't any to describe. it's just beautiful...foreign and different, a dream i didn't know could exist. it's a city that sprawls and curls around these green peaks that rise out of nowhere and the Christo Redendor (or something) watched the entire city. i'm jetlagged and delirious...24 ( Read more... )

"The conscience of a blackened street ( Read more... )

Here we go...our favourite adventure ( Read more... )

THIS SITE RULES!!!!

http://www.storewars.org/flash/

be careful
it's not as solid as you think
a knife could cut it
the veil between us and them
between here and there

be careful
there is more than this
more than you and me
there are seas between us
with water whose world is treacherous
jump

be careful
i'm not as solid as you think
i fall into dreams too
i fall into you
we reverberate

My roommate and I have had an unwanted guest living in our garage for quite some time. This guest is small enough to be inconspicuous to the common eye but large enough to give me the heebie jeebies, has a shiny black bottom decorated with a red hour glass. Her name's Gertrude which seemed fitting for a creature who murders her husband and then ( Read more... )

So I'm standing at the MU waiting for my trusty W bus to come take me home when a flash of yellow catches my eye. I look up and see a man wearing a banana suit yelling "Waaahooooo" running through the bus terminal, which would have been weird enough but chasing him was a man in a gorilla suit yelling "aaooooggaaa"...............this totally makes ( Read more... )