Travel Blog Posts
October 15th 2007
Did i mention that Teixeira is only 40 minutes from the beach?? And beach in Brasil usually means warm water, coconut water, and beautiful tanned bodies... So in my second week in Brasil I got invited to go to the beach with a bunch of random people from my city and said 'hey, why not?´, and jumped on board. Of course my Portuguese skills were still undeveloped so a lot of the time I had NO IDEA what was going on. After the 1 hour treacherous ride in the car (did I mention Brasilians make me feel like I am near death every time I enter an automobile?) we arrived at the Pousada, which was on the farm ( instead of the beach). It was a cute little place and our group was animated, but the ... read more
October 1st 2007
OI GENTE! I guess it´s time to give you all an update on my life, since I am out of the country again, this time in BRASIL. Towards the end of the schoolyear, just as graduation was approaching, I found a job teaching English and Spanish in Brasil...of course I jumped on the opportunity and now i´m here, in Teixeira de Freitas in the south of Bahia. And of course, on my way to Brasil, I had to make a pit stop in Chile. Although I´m not going to go into detail about my trip to Chile due to the attention span of most readers, I will let you know that going back felt completely natural and I definitely want to go back and live there again soon: being Santiago and meeting up with all the ... read more
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