Fellow Stories

Aproveitando verão

Julia Shankin

2017-02-01

Perspectives

Makenzie Leigh Meacham

2017-01-31

Winter is my favorite season. I guess I’ve never truly experienced it though, living in Arizona. I’ve got this theory that it doesn’t actually count as a real winter unless you’ve got so much snow you despise it. Right now I’d give anything for snow, for cold, for a reason to drink a hot beverage...

Risotto and Responsibilities

Fernanda Tornell

2017-01-31

Yesterday after eating more than two bowls of the delicious “risoto de lula” that my host mom made, Kenya and I were laying down on my bed almost in a food coma, talking and talking about everything and nothing at the same time. Eventually we started discussing a common topic that always ends up sneaking...

Uau!

Alondra Quiles

2017-01-24

Back in the states, it was never really a day by day interaction that I faced with people of different cultures.Yet, at the same time it was.  Although the United States is very diverse, I never really realized how normal it was. In fact, everyone I interacted with was either a Spanish speaker or an...

Between a Pillow and a Soft Place

Eugene Henninger-Voss

2017-01-18

For those of you who had US public school health class, you know you were never told, in no uncertain terms, that IF you have sex you WILL get pregnant and die.   Instead you were presented with a series of facts, figures, and photos.  Maybe you had to read some testimonials of unlucky teenagers.  Watched...

This and That

Alondra Quiles

2017-01-18

Writing has become increasingly difficult the longer that I find myself living here. It’s not to say that there aren’t wonderful times to talk about or even struggles that occur that I could write pages about. Sometimes it’s just the lack of words to fill a blog post and other times it’s all just happening...

It happens, I promise

Alondra Quiles

2017-01-11

I came into Brazil with a ton of expectations that I didn’t even know I had. I had this image that my life was suddenly just magically going to change for the better. And i’m not going to lie, it has in some ways. While in others it’s remained the same as before.   I’m...

How to Make Pão de Queijo?

Di Wu

2017-01-07

Pão-de-Queijo.pdf

Christmas… or the lack thereof.

Angus Larsen

2016-12-26

I realise that I haven’t written a blog in what seems like forever! This is due to several reasons: I have been busy with some awesome projects. Some new ones have started to line up, so I think I am gonna leave explaining them until I actually get them done. This blog is more of...

I’m Not Your Filha

Julia Shankin

2016-12-26

I have never lived with children, both of my sisters are within two years of my age, and apart from occasional babysitting I have never spent much time with anyone more than five or six years younger than me. When I saw that the paper with the profile of my host family included a three...

CURITIBA!!

Amari Leigh

2016-12-23

My first three weeks in Brazil were spent in one of the country's most bustling cities-Curitiba! Considered one of the world's best examples of urban planning, Curitiba boasts one of the most efficient bus transit systems in all of South America with floating tube-like buses terminals that look like they were stolen out of a...

The Struggles of Being Bili….Trilingual(ish?)

Fernanda Tornell

2016-12-20

  Ever since I moved from Mexico to the United States I began to struggle to juggle two languages. Now that I am in the process of learning a third, these struggles are adding up everyday. I could go ahead and write a full blog post about all my feelings and frustrations, buuuut we all...