We went to Live Earth on Copacabana beach yesterday and it was insane. When pictures of me drunk in a bikini with random Brazilian girls get to the internet, I'll try to re-post (Garth, your vocab word is in the last sentence ( Read more... )

The past few days I've realized how important privacy is to me. I'm constantly around people - I sleep in a triple or quad room, we eat/have class/go out together. "Alone" means I go some place without another student - park, street, cafe, beach. It makes me really antsy and short-tempered. Still, going some place where no one speaks English is ( Read more... )

I'm pretty miffed about how the Stranger continues to operate. The article about Atlas was generally fine, if weird, incorrect, and slightly mocking. The part that really sucks is how Eric painted us as harmfully paranoid - and then the fire department shut us down right after his article went out (speaking of which, Rina, can you fill me in on ( Read more... )

I have a Brazilian cell phone and my roommates' R$70 hotel bill! Yea ( Read more... )

(This is my weekly thesis report. This computer doesn't have word and my email isn't opening, so I'm writing it here until email works again ( Read more... )

I'm actually writing postcards - whether they'll be sent or not is another issue - but give me your address just in case ( Read more... )

OH MAN. SO. FUCKING. COOL ( Read more... )

THERE'S GOING TO BE A LIVE EARTH CONCERT IN RIO AND IT'S FREE AND THEY'RE EXPECTING A MILLION PEOPLE. On Copacabana beach. July 7th. Goddamn ( Read more... )

Today begins interesting times in Brazil ( Read more... )

I'm in Rio ( Read more... )