2017-10-12
Dia das Crianças—the equivalent of International/Universal Children’s Day—is one of the most important holidays in Brazil. Today schools are closed and fireworks fill the sky with vivid colors. Children receive presents from their families and friends, eat lots of cake and other candies, and have fun during a day that is meant to celebrate the...
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I’ve been contemplating for a while what to write my next blog about, and I came to the conclusion that pictures speak more than a thousand words, and hence I will show you my first month through them! Life in the village is very chill, and people would often just sit under a tree a...
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October 3, 2017 Anyone remember TBH’s? Talking about them now seems juvenile and trivial, but I remember at one point in middle school getting in a fight with one of my best friends because I didn’t write her a long enough TBH on her Facebook wall (don’t worry we made up love you Grace (:...
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2017-10-10
This one is gonna be pretty short, not really a story as much as a brief expression of gratitude. I suppose I owe a lot to various Japanese men I've never met, but right now I just wanted to take a brief moment to thank one in particular. I get a lot of people asking...
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It’s really hard for me to sit here in front of my computer with a large white screen in front of me and try to put into words what my experience here is like. I learned in school that there are two types of experiences that circle around two types of happiness. The first is...
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2017-10-09
After spending around two and a half weeks with my permanent host family, I feel like I have become familiar enough with the house and my family to talk about my homestay and its cultural differences. Firstly, I want to talk about my house-or rather my two houses. The first house, I live in with...
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I forgot to mention some logistical things when updating my blog posts..so here you go 🙂 We started with 50 Ecuador fellows at Stanford. Our cohort of 50 was split into the Northern Hub and Southern Hub. I am in the South. In the Southern Hub, there are three groups of 10 each. My...
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