tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57259640880082534312024-03-13T15:23:24.251-07:00Cat no BrasilLolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-64279697290760724432015-05-01T16:24:00.003-07:002015-05-01T16:29:08.550-07:00Gatinhos para adoçãoMy friend Wilton and I were walking back from the university cafeteria a couple weeks ago and we heard this high-pitched mewling. We both thought it was a strange species of baby bird and dismissed the sound. But farther down the trail, this tiny kitten, all black and covered in brambles and dirt comes meowing out of the bushes.<br />
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In Rio Grande we have a stray animal problem. A lot of people don't fix their pets and abandon the unwanted litters. We have a ton of street dogs. TONS. FURG must have at least 30 stray dogs that wander around campus. There are hundreds throughout the city. Often people abandon pets on FURG's campus because they know that we're a bunch of bleeding hearts. <br />
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The two kittens Wilton and I found were most likely abandoned from another part of the city. They were only 30/40 days old - definitely too young to be out on their own... I don't want pets at this point in my life. They're a lot of responsibility and I'm not very responsible right now. But I couldn't leave these tiny abandoned kitties defenseless in the wild! So Wilton and I got a cardboard box and took the kitties to class with us the rest of the day and then took them home. Our Physical Oceanography professor was surprisingly chill with the arrangement and the kittens were on their best behavior until about the last half hour when they peed in the box and I had to excuse myself to go find a new one.<br />
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We took the kittens to Wilton's house and bought food and flea and worm medicine (they were covered in fleas). I named one of the kittens Fumarola which is the Portuguese word for hydrothermal vent or black smoker - a vent on the ocean floor that emits black smoke and strange gases and metals. The other kitten we're still debating what to name him.<br />
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Unfortunately on Friday, Fumarola got very ill. We called a vet and did everything we could but he died on Sunday. :( The other kitten is happy and healthy and tearing apart Wilton's house. hehe.<br />
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Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-24230847248219629982015-03-04T14:30:00.001-08:002015-03-06T07:43:43.249-08:00Volteiiii<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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I arrived in Brazil on Sunday and I'm very excited to be back! Rio Grande feels exactly the same. I've already seen lots of my friends. I'm just happy as a clam. The only thing missing is a certain someone way up in Michigan. :)<br />
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My total travel time to Rio Grande was 28 hours. Unfortunately, when I arrived in Rio de Janeiro, my suitcases did not arrive with me. Either they jumped out of the plane somewhere over the Caribbean or they were chilling at the Miami airport.</div>
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It's day 4 without my bags. I think my patience for the astounding ineptitude that is American Airlines wanes as the only outfit with me becomes increasingly saturated in my sweat. I'll just leave that image there...</div>
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Yesterday it reached 100 degrees and today it was 94% humidity. I'm not sure that my hair ever dried this morning after I left the house. It was either wet from my shower or from my sweat. The only clothes I have are a pair of jeggings that I've worn for the past 5 days and some tank tops that my friends let me borrow so I'm struggling to remain positive about my delayed luggage.</div>
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Other than that, I've just been running errands. I'm trying to register for classes at the university but first I had to register with the federal police. There's a lot of paper work involved. </div>
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I've moved into a new house here in Cassino. I like it a lot better than my house last year; there's more natural light and it's closer to the main avenue.</div>
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My roommate also has a kitten named Penny. Penny and I have been getting along well, even though she's a bed hog. She's a weird little cat: she likes coffee, oatmeal, and taking showers.</div>
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Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-23025007490233421482015-02-13T13:57:00.002-08:002015-03-06T07:35:53.049-08:00Estou voltando pro Brasil :OI'm returning to Brazil in two weeks to continue the research I began last year. I'll be doing a masters of Physical, Chemical, and Geological Oceanography at FURG this upcoming year.<br />
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The greatest obstacle to getting to Brazil this year was acquiring a visa. For those of you who have already been through the process of applying for a Brazilian visa, you likely feel my frustration seeping through the page. *Deep breathing exercises* The consulate in my jurisdiction is in Houston, which is 10 hours from my corner of Arkansas. There were ~ 20 documents required for my visa application, which included an FBI background check and bank statements with the balance of my checking and savings accounts, among other things.<br />
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Unfortunately I can't begrudge Brazil their intense immigration/visa policies because the US takes the cake on being jerks about immigration (though France comes in as a close second - just google 'Marine le Pen' and 'Front National' or read <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/le-pens-moment" target="_blank">this</a>). Brazil, like many other countries, has a reciprocity policy. So the visa fees Brazil requires of US applicants are equal to the fees the US requires of Brazilian applicants. It's just so... fair!<br />
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I'm excited to return to Rio Grande but it's always hard leaving home.<br />
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Brazil). Jean's visit was awesome. She helped me develop some of my project for my masters on sediment transport on Ilha Trinidade and explained how
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Jean, my advisor, and I went on a field trip along the beach
towards Uruguay. Here in Rio Grande, I live on the maior praia do mundo (the largest beach in the world)!! But I'd say when discussing beaches one should put more importance on quality rather than quantity. Because our beach here is big, it's also a whole-lotta ugly. There's a running joke about our terrible beaches in Rio Grande do Sul.<br />
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The trip was a unique opportunity. There are no houses, towns, or roads that run parallel to the beach. It's deserted for miles. To see the shoreline, you have to drive on the sand along the ocean until you reach Uruguay. It's also the most dissipative beach I've ever seen. I'll explain why that's interesting: A dissipative beach means that the energy of the
beach is spread out – in other words the waves break beginning very far from
the shore and continue breaking until they reach land. In this way the
energy is dispersed. Whereas the opposite would be a reflective beach, where
all the water comes crashing up to steep rocks or sand very suddenly. On a
dissipative beach you could walk into the water very far and still just be shin-deep because the beach becomes deeper very gradually. It was strange to see the waves crashing constantly as far as half a mile out and continue to where we were standing. One of the most shocking things about the trip, however,
was the quantity of dead animals that we saw: dead seals, dead penguins, dead fish, dead
sea turtles. It was horrible. They were everywhere rotting along the beach.
I’ve never seen anything like it. I have no idea if it’s normal but it made me
sick to look at. It was a little eerie- kind of an overcast, deserted graveyard of sea animals. Along the beach are huge
nonfunctioning fields of wind turbines. I can’t help but think of the turbines
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I’ve included some photos. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-86380831148845462182014-11-01T11:14:00.002-07:002014-11-03T14:21:19.635-08:00Oceanografia<div class="MsoNormal">
As part of the ETA Fulbright we have to develop a side
project for when we’re not teaching English classes. When I came to Brazil I
had a vague idea that I wanted to do something with oceanography. And although I love teaching and I find it fulfilling, I
don’t want to teach English forever. So one of my highest priorities when I arrived was developing my
side project. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There are some weird things you have to go through moving to
a new country. There's a lot of doubt and... pontificating- Am I doing this correctly? Was that rude? Where does the toilet paper go?? Hmm spandex is popular here, should I wear some? <br /><br />When I arrived, I didn’t understand how things worked at the university. I didn’t
speak Portuguese that well. I wanted to work with the Oceanography Department but I had no idea how to go about getting what I wanted. Fortunately, my (wonderful) host professor introduced me
to professors in the Oceanography department and they let me audit some
classes. I liked the classes but what I really wanted was to work in
a lab. So I asked around a lot about opportunities in research labs and was actually turned down... quite a few times, which was really discouraging. It’s really hard to
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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My now-advisor wasn't so reluctant. He agreed to work with me almost immediately! He did his PhD in Virginia and loves New Orleans so we were fast friends. He’s running a project right now on Ilha Trindade, an island about 4 days off
the coast of Espirito Santo. I was really looking forward to going on a
research trip to the island but I think my grant will end before I have the
opportunity.<br />
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of waves depending on the size of sand they deposit. You can tell if sea
creatures live nearby depending on the percentage of calcium carbonate in the
sand. You can tell if the land was formed by a volcano. You can make hypotheses
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is heavy v. light mineral seperation. The funnels are full of sample sediments and Bromoform which has a density of 2.89 g/cm3. The density of pure water is about 1. The Bromoform separates the heavy particles from the light ones. The light ones float in the dense solution while the heavy ones sink to the bottom. After we separate the minerals, they're sent to Porto Alegre for analysis. </td></tr>
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Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-87500829530106403972014-10-28T13:04:00.000-07:002015-06-04T11:50:16.169-07:00É como não sentir calor em Cuiabá<span style="font-size: x-small;">Full disclosure: This post is from October but I forgot to publish it on my blog until March.</span><br />
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I just got back from a trip to Cuiabá, where I participated in this event called English Circus. Julian and Armen, the two ETAs in Cuiabá, are go-getters; they're kind of the poster children for what a Fulbright ETA should be - we always hear about something new and exciting that they're doing. They organized this multi-week series of talks by other ETAs about topics of our choice. My talk was called "Cultural Literacy through Music", which combines two things that I love: music and social/political commentary through art. My talk was inspired by this class I took at Tulane with Dan Sharp (the coolest!) called Brazilian Music and Citizenship. We traced the evolution of Brazilian music and social movements. In retrospect, the class probably prepared me more than anything else for my move to Brazil.<br />
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My talk examined the cultural and political references in popular (that term is used subjectively) American songs. We discussed Amazing Grace, Born in the USA, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Civil War by Guns N' Roses, Where is the Love?, and Words I Never Said by Lupe Fiasco. I'm really fascinated with the distinction between basic communication: Where's the bathroom? Can I get a beer? and cross-cultural communication: understanding the history and experiences behind a language that gives it meaning. The first steps in learning a language are almost mathematical. You learn characters, place them in patterns to achieve a result. But more advanced language learning is about understanding nuance, cultural references, etc. I think listening to English music and discussing the meaning and history of songs helps my students communicate in English more deeply. It also prompts great discussions on history, race, war, social class, etc. I read an <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703467304575383131592767868" target="_blank">article</a> recently that reflects on language and culture more eloquently than I do here.<br />
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After the talk, I was free to explore the area. And thanks to Julian, who hosted me, I had an amazing time! First, I think it's necessary to explain the weather in Cuiabá. Cuiabá may be one of the most difficult placement cities. After spending a few days there, I have so much respect for Julian and Armen.<br />
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Cuiabá is a city located way inland in the state of Mato Grosso (literally translated: thick jungle). Hot. It was so hot. Julian didn't have air conditioning so we putzed around dripping sweat. I mean, exerting absolutely no energy whatsoever, I was losing a lot of water. It would get so hot in her apartment that at night we took showers in our clothes to stay cool enough to fall asleep.<br />
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I had low expectations for Cuiabá. I thought it would be kind of like Montana.. not that I've ever been to Montana. But that there wouldn't be a lot going on. I was wrong. Cuiabá is a big city; it's clean, well-organized. The highways rival those of Texas. It was a world cup host city and quite chic. It seemed wealthy. There were luxury brand shops everywhere. I think the money comes from these very wealthy landowners, farmers, and cattle-raisers that own obscene amounts of land throughout the state.. and are arguably.. very sketchy people. The area around Cuiabá is protected. It's part of a giant wetland. Unfortunately, in Brazil there's a lot of strife between landowners and anyone enforcing protection on lands. To get a taste of what I'm talking about, read <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jan/07/brazil-amazon-conservation-project-threatened-loggers" target="_blank">this</a>.<br />
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Cuiabá's proximity to the Pantanal (that giant wetland I mentioned) is a lot of the reason I wanted to go there. It has some of the best birdwatching in the world. I went with my friend Catherine, another ETA, and her friend Fiona. We rented a car and spent the day with a tour guide. Our guide was very cool and knew so much about the wildlife. But we did have an unpleasant encounter with one of the aforementioned landowners. Our guide, used the landowner's driveway without permission to show us an emu and the guy came barreling down his dirt road and cut us off so we couldn't leave. He was bright red and spitting mad and cussing at us. It was uncomfortable to say the least.. and might I say, a tad overreactive.<br />
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The guide dropped us off in the middle of Cuiabá and hilarity ensued. The problem was that I was the only one of us 3 that drives stick. And originally (when we rented the car) I was like no sweat guys, been doing this for years! And then as my time to drive approached I became more and more preoccupied with driving in a foreign country with a foreign car where I don't know the traffic laws, etc. But don't worry! It was all good. I only stalled out a few times in a crowded parking lot (ugh felt like such a noob). And I couldn't figure out how to put a Volkswagon in reverse so at several points, Catherine and Fiona had to get out and push the car out of some parking spots... with an audience.<br />
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Here are some pics from the Pantanal:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Catherine giggling because the neighbors gave her a Jaca fruit on her way up to the apartment. Jaca fruit is huge and smells terrible. It tastes better than it smells but that's not saying much. Some people really like it, but the texture is a little slimey for me, personally.</td></tr>
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Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-36156941311983265312014-09-30T17:57:00.004-07:002014-10-03T19:43:59.456-07:00September showers bring October flowers<br />
I have come out of hibernation. I haven't ranted about the cold in my blog. I had every intention of whining about it for a few posts but I got busy. I also like to keep an upbeat vibe going in my blog. Here's the thing though: Rio Grande gets really, really cold in the winter. My sister made fun of me because she lives in Chicago and thinks anything above zero is Spring weather. And I was complaining about 5 degrees Celsius (~40 degrees Fahrenheit - ugh the most impossible word to spell. Who even remembers where that second "h" in Fahrenheit goes??). And I get it - in the South a few snow flurries send everyone to Walmart in a panic to stock up on groceries for all of winter. So my definition of "really cold" is dubious. And admittedly anything below 60 pretty much zaps any intention I had of leaving the house.<br />
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But here in Rio Grande we don't have the infrastructure for cold. Most houses don't have heating or insulation. There's just a wall of brick or wood that stands between you and the great outdoors. When I take a shower and I look at the cutout for the drain, I can see the earth under my house in the gap between my tile floor and the pipe. The temperature of that tile is the temperature of the ground outside. I have proof.<br />
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When it's 37 degrees F outside, it's 37 degrees when you're shivering under the lukewarm-drip of an electric shower head. Here in Rio Grande, we spend most of the winter in five layers under blankets in our house, sipping on some chimarrão, and canceling plans because it's either too cold, too windy, too rainy or all of the above.<br />
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But alas, the mean cold has been chased away - thank you Earth's axis! And now instead of cold, windy, and rainy, it's just windy and rainy! Just kidding. Sometimes we have nice days. Actually the weather in Rio Grande is totally unpredictable. I've included photo evidence of the weather variability here.<br />
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The warmer weather has made me altogether a much more agreeable person. I'm more punctual. I feel more motivated. Today, I rode my landlady's bike to the farmer's market in short-sleeves.<br />
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I swear there is nothing more tranquil than riding your bike to the farmer's market. The bike is a big deal because I used to walk to the farmer's market (<i>feira)</i>, which was a 2-hour ordeal. It's now a 30-minute trip and no longer takes up all of my Tuesday morning. The market has really interesting fruits and vegetables. Here are a few examples:<br />
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<i>bergamota - </i>this word is specific to my state. They say <i>mixirica </i>everywhere else. It looks like a clementine, tastes like a clementine, but is not a clementine. There are a bunch of types of oranges here - some just for juice. Maybe we have lots of oranges in the US too.. but acho q não.<br />
<i>mamão</i> - papaya<br />
<i>goiaba</i> - guava<br />
<i>maracuja</i> - passionfruit. I know we've all had a passionfruit flavored something but when was the last time you saw a passionfruit at a market??<br />
<i>mandioca</i> - I really don't know how to translate that. Brazilians often fry it and it tastes kind of like a potato. But it can also be ground into a flour that they call <i>tapioca</i> in the Northeast. It's a main ingredient in polvilho, which is what makes pão-de-queijo.. which is duh-licious. Mandioca is basically a staple of the Brazilian diet: Ireland's potato. I'm not really the best person to get into food. I've never been that into food. I've been working in restaurants too long so all food joy has been sucked out of me. You should check out my co-ETA's <a href="http://ryleeabroad.blogspot.com.br/" target="_blank">blog</a>, though. She's much more into food.<br />
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Stay tuned!Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-20554541375230473522014-07-13T12:30:00.001-07:002016-06-24T12:18:50.690-07:00A Copa do Mundo It's been a while since I last updated my blog. As my mom always says, no news is good news. I feel obligated, however, to update my blog before the World Cup ends - only minutes before it ends. We here in Brazil will definitely miss it when it goes, as each Brazil game day was a national holiday and none of us had to go to work or school.<br />
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Everyone was a little pleased/surprised that Brazil was doing so well in the seleção. There were of course theories that Dilma bought the World Cup to quiet protestors. So imagine all of our surprise when Germany annihilated Brazil this past Tuesday (one of many jokes was that the Governor of Acre forgot to pay the refs). The national sentiment during the Germany-Brazil game was really sad. Now everyone is at a loss about which team to cheer for. Ideally Holland would have won and then beat Germany 7-1 but alas Argentina and their terrible haircuts conquered. I think I'm going to have to cheer for Germany because I just can't get over the off-center rat tail on that one Argentine player's head.<br />
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In happier news, I did get to go to a World Cup game! I went to see Algeria and South Korea (a team described as "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/12/upshot/the-words-of-the-world-cup.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=fbpay_nytwc2014" target="_blank">woeful</a>"). The game was in Porto Alegre, the largest city within five hours of Rio Grande. The atmosphere in the stadium was pretty cool and the Algerian players were wearing white shorts - definitely the highlight of the game. I went with two other ETAs, one from Pelotas and <a href="http://michellepetersen.blogspot.com.br/2014/07/brazil-vs-germany-via-internet.html" target="_blank">one from Bagé</a>. We had a great time speaking English, oh the sweet mother tongue!<br />
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As Michelle outlined in her blog above, one of the best parts of the World Cup has been the memes my Brazilian friends have been posting on Facebook. I've posted a few of my favorites:<br />
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Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-9984035603981972212014-06-03T19:50:00.000-07:002014-06-03T19:50:38.614-07:00FURGThis is where I work: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG - pronounced kind of like Fergie from the Black-eyed Peas). I've included some pictures of the university's entrance and of some horses grazing outside of prédio 3. There are always a few horses around campus. Now that I think of it, I don't know where these horses come from or what they're used for. Most people commute by car, motorcycle, or public buses but I think there are a few people that use the horses for labor.<br />
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<br />Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-15219097917679154102014-05-09T20:08:00.000-07:002014-05-23T08:13:03.382-07:00Atravessando a fronteira!It's been a minute since I updated my blog (sorry fam). So life has continued outside of the blog. About a month ago our<i> dona da casa </i>(landlady), drove us to Uruguay. She's a pretty cool lady. She talks a lot and used to have a restaurant, which means she cooks delicious food for us all the time. We live in the house behind hers and her natural inside voice is yelling so she'll be like:<br />
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She comes from Caxias do Sul, a city northwest of Porto Alegre and she has a different kind of accent. Instead of the "ch" sound that most Brazilians make for the "t" (quente becomes quenche) she has the kind of accent a Spanish-speaker would have. And she sometimes rolls her double r's instead of making an h-sound.<br />
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So we went to Chuí, a town that's half in Brazil and half in Uruguay. There's no big fence or anything - just an avenue and one side is Brazil and the other, Uruguay. Here's a pic of me standing in two countries at once! Woohoooo!<br />
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We did some serious duty-free shopping in Uruguay. People say things are much cheaper in Uruguay but I have yet to be convinced. I think it's just tax free. So I got some new pants in Chuí cause I had miraculously ripped two pairs of pants. I'm going to pretend that that was a coincidence and not a result of any weight fluctuation. I think Brazilian pants are engineered to make you look great! Everything you put on does magic for your bunda! </div>
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People in Chuí speak Spanish or Portuguese or Portanhol (Português + Espanhol). I couldn't tell if people were speaking Spanish to me or Portuguese with a heavy Spanish accent; I think sometimes they weren't sure which language they were speaking either. Everything got all jumbled and I just came away with my brain hurting.</div>
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Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-45020511756923582722014-04-13T21:10:00.000-07:002014-04-13T22:07:21.419-07:00O Pôr do Sol no Molhes da BarraA couple of weeks ago Luan and I and our new friend Raiane went to Molhes da Barra, which is a large rock formation that extends out into the ocean. Everyone in Rio Grande talks to me about Molhes so I thought it was time I check out these rocks for myself. On the bus ride there we passed Rio Grande's port. To see the port was an interesting reminder of how fast Brazil is growing industrially. Petrobras, Brazil's largest and semi-nationalized energy company, has a huge presence in Rio Grande where their main industry is building oil rigs. I just got on Wikipedia; according to wiki Petrobras is the largest corporation in Latin America in terms of revenues as of 2011... so wow. The port brings a lot of new people to the city and is responsible for the recent rise in housing prices that everyone in Rio Grande is always telling me about.<br />
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We arrived at Molhes to people doing some strange sport that I've never seen but I think it's kitesurfing - with a snowboard looking thing and a kite/parachute. We walked along the beach for miles and miles (oops I mean for kilometers and kilometers) and saw some cool <i>natureza</i>. The most exciting part of our trip was when we saw this adolescent gull grounded. We couldn't figure out why but the bird was having trouble flying but I was very upset that he would drown as the tide came in. I was wary to touch him though because when humans handle baby/adolescent birds, I've heard it messes up their scent and the mama birds will chase them out of the nest. Luan saved the day by lifting the bird with his flip-flops. Then we continued on and got some great pics of the beach and sunset. Check them out.<br />
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had been living in a hotel on the university’s campus, which was great because
we made friends with new students at FURG that were also staying there. Most of
the other hotel residents were from Colombia, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and we
would all weave in and out of Portuguese and Spanish to communicate. The hotel
was great because there were always people around to talk to and I caught up on
all the latest novelas with the hotel employees. Like the most recent episode
of one novela I watch, one of the ladies had to explain to me that the girl
got hit by a car because she jumped out of the car while she was arguing with
her lover (not her father as I thought) because he had had a love affair with
her mother 20 years earlier!! <i>MEU DEUS</i>. <br />
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called “Scooby-Du”. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dona da casa</i>
(the lady who lives in front) is really cool, Luan assures us. We had to take
his word for it because she talks a mile a minute in rapid Portuguese with a
heavy accent from Caxias do Sul. She likes to party harder than us, cooks us
tons of food, and gives us life advice. Her husband Achin (I have no idea how
to spell his name) is a stoic Taiwanese man that she met 20-years ago at the
port. We’re excited now to have our own kitchen, where Rylee cooks and I eat
and wash dishes because I have absolutely nothing to offer in terms of cooking
skills - except for some killer roasted broccoli - courtesy of my Aunt Jen. <br />
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The house-hunting process itself is worth mentioning. Our search began a couple
of weeks ago. Rossana, our coordinator, knew a guy who was trying to rent out
his summer home in Cassino Beach (<i>A Maior Praia do Mundo</i>). Luan came with us as
our unofficial interpreter to see this first house. The ‘house’ (shack) was a
total dump. When we arrived Luan and Rylee could barely cover their looks of
horror upon seeing the living room. I, on the other hand, am a little too
polite for my own good. I was walking around complimenting the wallpaper and
ooing and aahing at a bedroom literally the size of a linen closet. I ended up
communicating with the lady showing us the house in French because my
Portuguese was blah. Our ‘interpreter’ and Rylee were giggling in the corner at
the two of us speaking French. After an obligatory 15 minutes of discussing the
price of a house we were never going to rent, we made like trees and leave-d.
Rylee and Luan continued house-hunting while I went to Foz do Iguacu and kept
me posted via phone and skype and we moved into our Scooby-Du house shortly
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Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-21198892422358122682014-03-30T20:09:00.000-07:002016-08-20T18:38:43.894-07:00Foz do Iguaçu<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rochelle came to Brazil last week. We made tentative plans to meet in Iguaçu on Tuesday. Iguaçu
is 19 hours from Rio Grande and as of Sunday I hadn't made my travel plans... because I'm disorganized and never manage to plan things well, if at all!! I took an overnight bus to Iguaçu Monday night that totaled 14 hours. Those 14
hours were made less than optimal by the guy behind me who went to the bathroom every hour
to smoke a cigarette. Casual… like no one is going to notice that you’re
smoking in the bathroom and that the entire bus smells like an ashtray. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When I got off the night bus in Iguaçu (to a cloud of cigarette smoke) I checked my email
and read an alert from Fulbright that a couple of ETAs had been held up at
gunpoint on a night bus. AH! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I met up with Rochelle, Arielle, and her med school friends
later that day and we explored the Brazilian side of the waterfalls (<i>cataratas)</i>. Everyone was a lot of fun and goofy and we had such a nice time together. Roche is always fun to hike with because we share a love for
all of Earth’s little creatures. The following day we spent on the Argentine side of Iguaçu. We began at the top of the falls where
it looks like the water is falling into the center of the Earth (see picture below). And the last day we spent at the Parque das Aves (Bird Park). Here are some pics! </span></div>
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Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-41477558832666118962014-03-20T18:46:00.002-07:002016-08-20T18:29:54.376-07:00As Coisas Essenciais<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The essentials: Guaraná, coffee, and caipirinhas. I don't know how to describe Guaraná. It's a soda made from a seed that grows in the Amazon and it's great! My friends tell me that the gringos always love Guaraná. ;) And cappuccinos come standard with chocolate powder (<i>chocolate em pó</i>). The coffee in general here is so good. It's much more concentrated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The traditional caipirinha is made with cachaça, lime, and sugar but you can get a caipirinha with vodka or rum and with different fruits like <i>maracuja </i>(passionfruit) or <i>abacaxi </i>(pineapple). Cachaça is a hard liquor made from sugar cane. Everyone insists it's just a regular alcohol but I think it's part horse tranquilizer because every time I drink it it KNOCKS ME OUT. </span><br />
<br />Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-84606979831693226752014-03-13T18:21:00.000-07:002016-08-20T18:26:57.447-07:00Carnaval<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sunday night we took the bus from Lagoa de
Conceição on the other side of the island to the Centro. We were packed in like
sardines on the bus ride. About thirty minutes in, some of us started singing
some Aventura and some old 90s hits. Next thing I know the entire bus has
started a “I’m a Barbie Girl” sing along; the Brazilians not only joined
in but knew every word and carried the performance! We pulled up to the Centro
and the bus was rocking as we drummed a beat into the side
of the bus and chanted “life is plastic.. it’s fantastic.” </span><br />
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We arrived to a performance midway through. I was just soaking everything in,
hanging out, when I started to take in my surroundings a bit. Most of the ladies around me… were actually dudes! We rolled up to one of
Brazil’s largest drag shows: “Gay Pop.”<br /> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
Other Catherine, Rylee, Jake, and I went to the Tuesday night carnaval stuff
too. So carnaval it seems is more of an observer sport here in Brazil than
Mardi Gras is in New Orleans – where I feel like you get to participate with
the people in the parade. I think it also depends on where you celebrate carnaval
in Brazil. We were in stands in Floripa. It had been raining all day and not
that many people showed up to the event. I got some pictures though!</span><br />
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I spent the last week in Florianópolis for carnaval. Rylee and I wanted
to find a place that put on a decent carnaval not too far from home. We went to
the beaches and met up with some other ETAs from Curitiba, Pato Branco, and
Porto Alegre. Here are some photos of the scenery - carnaval pics to come.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-83313082068132661462014-03-07T07:57:00.000-08:002016-08-20T18:20:38.097-07:00Churrasco dos Gringos<div class="MsoNormal">
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out in the back seats next to the bus bathroom. We went to meet up with Rylee's husband, Jake, and</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> made friends
with a woman waiting next to us at the airport while we waited for him to arrive. She was very blonde, which I thought was unusual. But in our state, Rio
Grande do Sul, there are a lot of German descendants. Gisele Bundchen is from Rio Grande do Sul, for example. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our friend
at the airport taught us some slang: </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gurí </i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Guría</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> (guy and girl) and gave a mini German lesson.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />After Jake, Rylee’s husband, arrived we took the bus to meet up with the ETAs in Porto Alegre (POA). </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">That night we had a
‘</span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Churrasco dos Gringos</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">.’ Our POA ETAs invited over their friends from the
</span><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">Inglês sem Fronteiras</i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"> (IsF) program at the university and we ate a lot of meat, drank
a lot of beer, and altogether had a great time. See the ‘meat and
beer’ picture below. Catherine (not me – another ETA) taught our Brazilians friends a classic American sport (beer pong). I’m not sure
when I went to bed but what I do know is that people were still partying and
starting to go to bed as I woke up to catch my flight that morning. </span></div>
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The weekend before carnaval was a haze of sleep
deprivation. Rylee and I were up late every night with our new friends and
awake early every morning for work and meetings. The university is on break right now because
there was a strike a couple years ago that’s got the academic calendar all
turned around. Usually summer break is December, January, and February but this
year break is the month of March.<br />
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Rylee and I left for Porto Alegre early Saturday morning. Our departure time
was the result of much conjecture! We were at a friend’s house and around
2:00am someone wanted to know what time we were going to leave
campus to catch our 7:00am bus that morning in the centro. The ensuing conversation involved 10 people crowded around a laptop for an hour until our friends determined that the bus schedule was unreliable and that they needed to escort us to the rodoviaria downtown. So Wesley and
Luan, our two best buds, got up at 5:30am to make sure we got to the bus station okay. Shout out to our <a href="http://ryleeabroad.blogspot.com.br/">lovely friends</a> (pics on Rylee's March 1st post); we missed yall in Floripa! <3</span><!--EndFragment-->Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-4622932652597404622014-02-26T13:59:00.000-08:002016-08-07T10:47:07.030-07:00A máquina de lavar está quebrada<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Check out our laundry facilities. Right now it’s all hand wash. The washing machine is broken but I have a feeling it's been broken a while. Either way I've developed a new appreciation for washing machines.</span></div>
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Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-87125195060890157852014-02-24T13:42:00.000-08:002016-08-07T10:45:53.484-07:00Brasil: Onde os homens cozinham tudo!<div class="MsoNormal">
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This past weekend in Rio Grande was great! Rodrigo, a student at FURG, is acting as our liaison to the university. He invited us to a <i>churrasco</i> (a Brazilian BBQ) to
commemorate one of his friend's graduation. When we arrived, there were
15+ people milling about. <br />
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Greetings in other cultures are always daunting to me. In almost every
country I’ve been to besides the US, greeting every person in the
room is the norm. So Rylee and I exchanged ‘<i>tudo
bem’</i> and kisses on the cheek with all 15 people in the room. Nothing gets
you comfortable with someone like rubbing cheeks. <br />
<br />The following day Luan, one of Rodrigo’s friends,
invited us over. Our day began at 9:30 when Luan arrived; <a href="http://ryleeabroad.blogspot.com/">Rylee</a> and I were still rolling out of bed. We walked to Atacadão, the Sam's Club of Brazil, to do our grocery shopping for lunch. Our ‘lunch’ ended up being 7 hours total and the boys did all the cooking! yay! We listened to some forro songs, music typical of the Northeast of Brazil. Good food, good company, and good music!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-86909185870405005122014-02-23T13:15:00.000-08:002016-08-07T10:43:33.901-07:00Gaúcha<div class="MsoNormal">
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from a major airport so I spent a night in Porto Alegre. I forced myself to be social and hangout with people at the hostel. The first week of moving to a foreign country I find especially exhausting. I usually get cold feet and spend the first week regretting my move. This happens every time I travel, I think, because I'm secretly a homebody. I made
some friends while I waited for Rylee to arrive. They educated me
on the important futebol (pronounced fu-chee-bawl) rivalry in my new state of Rio
Grande do Sul: Grêmio v. International. <br />
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The following day our host professor, Rossana, picked us up in Porto Alegre and
we headed South to our host institution, FURG. Our driver maybe set a new world record for pulling the riskiest shit I have ever seen. The
road to Rio Grande from Porto Alegre is two lanes all the way and our driver
was weaving between semis traveling in both directions and driving God-knows how
many km/h. <br />
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Upon arriving in Rio Grande, Rossana turns to us, kind of giggles and says 'ha
you came to a village!’ This is perhaps the best way to describe Rio Grande.
It’s a lot more rural than I had imagined. It’s not uncommon to see horse-drawn
carts alongside the road with Peugeots & Citroens (French cars are big
here). It’s both a beach town from the months of November to March and one of
the largest ports in the country. It’s the oldest city in the state, Rio Grande
do Sul, and an old Portuguese trading post. The population is 200,000 though it
feels more like 20,000. I haven’t been here a week and I’ve already run into
people downtown. The placement is perfect for me though as I’ve never been
crazy about big cities.</span></span></div>
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Lolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09961374731286837613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5725964088008253431.post-85279379649899276662014-02-18T18:00:00.000-08:002016-08-07T10:36:57.375-07:00Eu Cheguei<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have arrived! The other ETAs and I had our
Fulbright orientation in Brasília. It's difficult to describe Brasília. It's unique from anywhere else I've ever been. Unlike most cities, it didn't develop organically; it was planned. In the late 1950s in a kind of phase of national development and general optimism, the then-president Juscelino Kubitschek had all three branches of the federal government moved from Rio de Janeiro to Brasília, and he contracted the planning and design of public buildings out to Oscar Niemeyer. Brasília's climate and location weren't ideal for a metropolis (it's a savanna with an extended dry season), so there were several giant man-made lakes dug around the city. Brasília was supposed to represent a new phase of economic prosperity and its urban planning and architecture reflect that. The city was built in the shape of an airplane with different sectors (the hotel sector and foreign embassy sector, for example) in the wings. The buildings had a modern/futuristic look to them in the 1950s. But that's what's interesting about futuristic designs: we don't actually know what the future will look like so the buildings are just completely different from anything you've EVER seen.<br /><br />Fulbright orientation was a lot of fun. It was kind of like speed dating; there were many ETAs and from all over. Most of us were outgoing and everybody wanted to make connections and build up their couchsurfing network. We’ve got ETAs all over Brazil from the state of Acre out near Peru/Bolivia to Belém in the North to my city, right next to Uruguay. At orientation we met the American ambassador to Brazil. She’s a Tulane grad from the School of Public Health!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here’s some of Oscar Niemeyer’s famous architecture: Top: is A Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida. 2nd: Inside of the Cathedral. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3rd: I call this one the cereal bowl but it's the Brazilian National Congress.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> 4th: The President JK (Juscelino Kubitschek - the president that decided to build Brasilia) Bridge is supposed to mimic skipping stones. This one wasn't designed by Neimeyer but by Alexandre Chan.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rylee, my co-ETA, and I are off to Rio Grande tomorrow. Até mais!</span><br />
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