The End South America » Brazil » Rio Grande do Sul » Porto Alegre By dancergirl July 10th 2007After nice but short weekend in Porto Alegre, Sara's Dad and I traveled home. The plane ride was long but there was a good movie selection which was nice. Getting [View Full Entry]

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So this Thursday Sara, Fany and I packed up and headed to Porto Alegre. It was slightly amazing. First we went to Pati's apartment to unload our stuff, and then we went to the PUC's (a really good university in Porto Alegre where Sara's dad went) museum of Science and Technology and theeeeeeeeen we took a tour of the city and then we went out to eat and then we went shopping and then we ordered Pizza from Pizza Hut (boo, we both ate it cheeselesss because the cheese tasted like regurgitated babies, in sara's words) and then at one [View Full Entry]

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It is cold. Extremely cold. We have colds. All of our school friends have colds. People are carrying their dogs around in blankets so they don't freeze to death. We have risked burning the house down by putting our blankets on a space heater because we are so cold. It is a constant state of mind. Once the cold draws you in you can't escape. It is like living in a dream...only your dream is a nightmare. A cold, cold nightmare from which you will never escape. A nightmare from which wearing two pairs of socks will not save you. [View Full Entry]

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Since we last updated the blog, we have been pretty busy. We started school and have been having some intense Portuguese lessons (yet I still don't know how to properly spell Portuguese...le sigh). School is pretty cool. The first day was terrible because we had to wake up at 5 am US time and were forced to go to a math class with a really awkward group. Our first class was fun but too early, so we ditched them and found a better class (don't worry, we didn't really ditch, we just decided that we liked the other guys better). [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday we woke up pretty late and went to a brunch for lunch (rhyme!). They had pretty good bread pudding. After we came home we walked to The Gruta (the grotto) which is the prettiest place in existence. We have a few photos but you really have to see it in person...to bad you didn´t, haha suckers! We watched The Queen and Forty Year Old Virgin (what? so innapropriate!) and both were really good. Then we went to sleep. Today we got our various schedules after waking up in time for breakfast for the first time. We are taking Portguese [View Full Entry]

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After a yearlong delay at Ohare we finally got on the 11 hour flight to Sao Paulo. It was basically impossible to sleep but don´t worry mom, at some point we did...Disney Channel pretty much saved our lives. I also watched some of The Lives Of Others and Sara watched Zodiac. When we got to Tam airlines we (good news) got into the VIP section after an hour of waiting for the person checking our luggage to stop flirting with this random guy who kept coming up to her for assistance (literally an hour wait). Luckily we had plenty of [View Full Entry]

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I have a week to go before I head to Brazil with Sara, so I'm getting packed. It's going to be between 40 and 60 degrees there. Naturally, as soon as it gets consistently warm here I'm heading off to someplace cold. There's not much for me to say right now because I haven't left yet, but I'm pretty excited about going. Don't worry, my updates in Brazil will be much longer and much more interesting. [View Full Entry]

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