I still have almost a full month before I leave for Brazil, but I am SO excited I can barely sleep. Looks like I've got a long wait ahead of me ;) I'm guessing mostly my family and friends will be reading this, but in case anyone else does (I am superbly awesome, haha) here is my background with Brazil thus far. I first went to Brazil winter of 2005 and spent a little less than a month there with my then Brazilian boyfriend. We spent most of our time in his home city of Sao Paulo but we spent New Year's week in Rio and another week in Campinas. I have been to what are considered some of world's most brilliant cities, but nothing compared to Rio. I really fell in love with it. Since
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