sooo brazil brazil brazil. we embarked upon a 27 hour bus ride - me and emily sitting arriba en frente and the other girls below...they played no movies but I breezed through 2 books and slept like 12 hours so it was relatively painless. we arrived in bustling florianopolis and took two buses to pantano do sul - the small fishing village where we would be renting a chalet for the next week. sooo serene, easily the most quiet place I've ever been....our house had 71 stone steps that led right up onto the beach. we rented the top floor of [View Full Entry]

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time for an emergency blog post, i haven't written anything in about a decade to the increased amount of work/studying/paper writing/reading that has been occurring. but this weekend was one for the books, or in this case the blogs, so let's begin. stayed in buenos aires til friday morning, 6 am. didn't want to skip my uba class because we only have one more left...it was pretty useless but we watched apocalypse now and i got some reading done so woohoo. then at 6 am, legit the crack of down I met molly at the buquebus station to get on our [View Full Entry]

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gahh should be doing my monografía due miercoles fucking scared about tomorroww what if grandpa wins! my rash is completely gone and maite is out of the hospital wooo hoooo. [View Full Entry]

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about to get all down on everything... what happened to july 21st? i landed in buenos aires, scared shitless, it was a rainy day the type of rainy that's not actually raining but chilly and wet and i got here and couldn't speak spanish and ate horrible spaghetti and sauce and got lost walking a foot to the supermercado for toilet trees and unpacked and met the whole family and was scared and went to circolo italiano with angeles and met new people and was nervous and awkward and grew to dread reuniones with mario and ate in really bad overpriced [View Full Entry]

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2001: space odyssey must be seen high i guess, cause I didn't fucking get what was worth my 2 hours. had a dream that my dad was screaming at me to shoot myself with a shot gun? i need help i guess, or possibly more sleep. was literally dozing off in graciela's class today that i hit my head against the wall cause i fell asleep starting the people surrounding me, what a joke. my desk is strewn with bad pot and the seeds, dirt that came in the brick. my life is a joke, i should have gone to pick [View Full Entry]

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so haven't written in awhile, obviously I should be writing a paper about the fluidity of time and space in borges, but at 40 to midnight writing a blog entry seems like a more pressing matter. bariloche was fucking ill, hiked an entire mountain bottom to snowy top and then down again ( bajaring hurt so fucking much). saw some beautiful beautiful places, stayed in a cute hotel, roomed with edson watching horror movies to the wee hours of the morning, ate a MONTON of delicious chocolates. bought my host family a box that is sitting on my bookshelf right now [View Full Entry]

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wish I wrote on this thing more often...last night I had my first night of going out alll night and then straight to breakfast with everyone, it was so much fun. sugar got raided, I hope they don't get shut down that would be a legit travesty :(((( voted in my first election this week, discovered the best iced coffee of buenos aires, and have no more energy to write in this, off to watch slacker uprising [View Full Entry]

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thursday: 2 stella artois, 2 gin and tonic, 2 whiskey cokes friday: 1 bottle of champagne, 1 gin and tonic, 2 red bull vodkas saturday: 1 appletini, 2 glasses of wine, 2 liters of stella, 5 shots of tequila sunday: 2 tequila sunrises, 1 shot of tequila t w e n t y o n e had the best birthday yet, with amazing people, amazing times...never leaving here [View Full Entry]

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soo last wedensday becca and I got on an 18 hour bus to salta from retiro at like 6:15 in the evening. they played bomb movies - premonition, made of honor, 27 dresses, and fed us delish alfajors and an edible dinner. we got to salta the next morning around noonish. we dropped off our stuff at backpackers hostel - city and made out for the city to do some exploring. we saw some linda churches, ate amazing food at doña salta - an amazing empanada with dried salted meat. we took a tram thing up to the top of the [View Full Entry]

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wow i don't use this ever anymore. going to salta and jujuy this wednesday. it's seriously horrible what happened and is still happening in bolivia right now, hopefully things get resolved sooner rather than later and countries like argentina that surround bolivia will do the right thing and assist refugees if need be. hope it gets resolved soon. i finally saw the charlie gibson interview with sarah palin - wow what an embarrassment, she didn't even know what the Bush doctrine was, only got her passport 2 years ago, knows nothing about foreign policy or different cultures if McCain wi [View Full Entry]

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