This would be more interesting if I were still in Rio, but our time there was jam-packed with lectures, visiting cultural and artistic sites, and finding time to do things with the new friends I/we made on our trip. So, as un-glamorous as it sounds, I am in my office at the university typing the last installment of this journal. Actually, it will probably be so long for now, not for ever. I have been infected, not with malaria or denge fever but with what the Brazilians call saudade, a sense of yearning or longing. This ten-day trip to Brazil whetted my appetite to experience much much more and though I will continue to read about the culture and study the language, what I caught can only be satisfied by another trip and then another and
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