The Beach – A Poem
Reading Time: 1 minute Watching Jet Li movies dubbed in Portuguese summons up a strange feeling in me, and so I decided to write you all a poem. The…
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A Trip To Cachoeira dos Primatats
Reading Time: 2 minutes Most people associate Rio de Janeiro with its beaches (or women, or drugs, or this song, or Cristo Redentor), but opposite the beaches, Rio is…
Finding And Befriending Primates In Rio de Janeiro
Reading Time: 1 minute Word on the street is that there are monkeys in Rio de Janeiro. Word on the street is that there are monkeys on the street in…
A Date in Brazil: How To Not Fuck It Up
Reading Time: 2 minutes Let’s say you are asked out on a dinner date by a Brazilian who is way out of your league (not likely, but we are…
Beer In Brazil: My Introduction To The World Of Cerveja
Reading Time: 1 minute Beer in Brazil is not the beer I have come to know and love in the United States. I have often heard comments made regarding…
Flooding in Rio de Janeiro
Reading Time: 1 minute When the rainy season hits in Rio de Janeiro it seems that the media overseas choose to report floods of biblical proportions that force locals…
Step 1: Learning The Portuguese At PUC-Rio
Reading Time: 2 minutes 8:30am. This is the time intensive Portuguese class begins. Intensive Portuguese class is every day. Intensive Portuguese class lasts until 13:00. Intensive Portuguese class is…
A Visit To Corcovado and Cristo Redentor (The Giant Stone Jesus)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Corcovado is the name of a mountain in the middle of Rio de Janeiro. Atop this mountain stands a 130 ft / 40 m tall…
Brazil Day One: Mistakes At Duty Free
Reading Time: 2 minutes When we finally arrive in Rio de Janeiro I disembark the plane and my newfound friend and mentor, Steve, makes the executive decision to go…
A Plane Ride To Rio de Janeiro
Reading Time: 3 minutes After finishing a subpar IHOP breakfast accompanied by a delicious bottle of Barefoot Sauvignon Blanc, I was dropped off at LAX by my acquaintances Mr….
I’m Moving To Brazil (That’s South America)
Reading Time: 2 minutes In just under fourteen hours, I will be boarding US Airways flight 1580 to a place many of you have likely only heard stories about,…