2012-04-26
Walking home after work I have always been noticing “tudos as crianças em na rua brincando”. But not with regular toys that one would buy at Toys R’Us back in the States. Most of the kids I see playing around create games out of bottle caps. They have so much fun flicking the bottle caps...
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2012-04-26
My host grandmother is the sweetest person ever. She is like the grandma of my street. She will tell the kids on my street to take showers or to be careful jumping around. She will give at least $5 R to our visino (neighbor). She will make sure I have eaten more than twice. She cares...
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2012-04-26
Everywhere I go, eu pego Onibus, (I take the bus). Now there is a difference of the bus in Boston and Bahia. You don’t enter from the front, you enter from the back here. I live in Piraja and take the Conjunction Piraja bus which is never empty. You have to literally fight to get...
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2012-04-26
Life, the universe, gives us things when we are ready, how we maneuver through these gifts is our own obstacle. There are moments in my life where I feel alive in every part of my body, where there is a pain in my stomach and heart, where I feel like the wind has been kicked...
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2012-04-25
Out of all three of the countries that Global Citizen Year takes students (the other two being Senegal and Ecuador) Brasil is by far the most developed. I think it would be pretty safe to say that two countries previously mentioned fall pretty well into the third world category, but what about Brasil? Where does...
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2012-04-25
A Natural Apprenticeship I always knew I was a child of the universe. I was born on the beach. Like, literally, the hospital was on a hill overlooking the ocean. From the beach I went to live in the countryside for 2 years. From there I went to live the better part of my...
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2012-04-25
How do you create a solution to a problem? Where do you start? How do you fund something so grandiose when the government refuses to give you money, and these days giving money to non-profits has become synonymous with “fueling corruption”. It’s easy to come up with a thousand reasons not to do something, but...
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