2019-04-29
It’s my last night in Brazil and I’m….happy? I set aside time tonight to write something profound. A pontification on life’s beginnings and ends, a graceful foray through my best memories in Brazil, and the things I’ll miss most of all, hammering the keys as tears stream down my face. And yet it’s here and...
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During my gap year, I lived in a culturally rich neighbourhood called Santo Antônio de Lisboa. A community which is named after the Saint Anthony of Padua, who is known as the patron saint of lost things (which was very adequate after losing my peace somewhere in the IB exams and transitioning) and as a...
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*”The thing about goodbyes , you see – is the beautiful medley of a sense of loss and self-discovery, all at once.”* I’ve learned how to take care of myself. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but at the end of the day, I manage to do so. I like being there for myself, being that stable...
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2019-04-26
*Reviewing a piece I wrote during my first two months in Senegal:* It is barely sunrise on a Sunday, but I still get up to confirm my suspicion. I leave my room and enter the rugged sandy paths of Darou Khoudass, passing by the goats, pigs, and chickens, some of which are still asleep. I...
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I started writing this during my last week in my host community and it was going to be called “things I am going to miss about Ecuador”. But I realized, sometimes you don’t know what you’re going to miss until it’s gone. So I stopped and waited till I got settled in my home in...
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It was March now, and April was coming soon. Time was coming to leave soon. Breakthrough memories of everywhere. I was not ready yet to leave for Pakistan. In March, I didn’t have much to do. We started to saying bye-until-next-time to my host community. About language learning, we finished our final test and after...
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It was January when our Garopaba was full of Argentines and bunch of people from northern and southern Brazil. People of the north and the south of Brazil came up because summer without the beaches is boring and extremely hot. It was after our independent travel, as it was same circumstances for Argentines. The population...
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