Hello everyone -- Welcome, welcome to my humble blog. I am embarking on the classic Januray diary-keeping mission that most likely will not survive... but it is worth a try. I am about to finish working at a restaurant -- the funkiest around -- and I am going to miss it like my own family. On paper, working during my gap year was going to be the hardest time -- but actually I have really loved it, meeting awesome people and learning so much about life... and I haven't even stepped out of Canterbury! I am off to Brasil at the end of next week sometime. The plan is to learn Portuguese (Florinapolis) and then meet a friend near Fortaleza, then Salvador for the carnival...then make my way home via Rio (and Morro de Sao Paulo)
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