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When I first thought to teach and travel abroad, I turned, naturally, to the internet. I found nothing but extensive dissertations on Samba and Carnaval as wellas long bossa nova playlists, which to me are just Brazil’s answer to smooth jazz and easy listening. Obviously, Brazil is about a lot more than that. So here’s [...]
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Brazil for Beginners
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Hans Eysenck
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Extroversion results were moderately high which suggests you are, at times, overly talkative, outgoing, sociable and interacting at the expense of developing your own individual interests and internally based identity.
Neuroticism results were medium which suggests you are moderately worrying, insecure, emotional, and anxious.
Psychoticism results were moderately low which suggests you are, at times, overly kind [...]
Loitering isn’t a word in Portuguese
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As calçadas
O inglês tem um verbo curioso, “to loiter”, que quer dizer, mais ou menos, andar devagar ou a esmo, ficar à-toa, zanzar (grande palavra), vagabundear ou simplesmente não transitar. E, nos Estados Unidos (não sei se na Inglaterra também), “loitering” é uma contravenção. Você pode ser preso por “loitering”, ou por estar parado em vez de [...]
Mimic
Posted in on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
V is S’s mother and bestest girlfriend in the world, the kind my mommy could be if she weren’t a million light years away. Unlike mine, though, S’s progenitress is also a sexy esoteric with a penchant for cosmology. Her other monumental passion is theater, which I now understand includes circus acts.
Yesterday was V’s birthday [...]
Wax and Wane
Posted in on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Her name is Mara and she cooks honey in a vat that she stirs with a popsicle stick. The cauldrony thing bubbles and sends a hallucinatory aroma of sweet bees and pollinated groves into the air. The room is small. It’s really just an ante-room, a foyer kind of place where people whom you don’t [...]
Posted in on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
People are people; they’ll always be different, similar, precocious, mercurial, outgoing, shy, etc. Above all, differences will sometimes rub against each other, and create a bit of friction.
The maid made me cry!
Posted in on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First of all, let me just fess up – I have a maid. I’m not gonna launch into the sociological underpinnings of Brazilian society to justify just how it is that I can afford this luxury, though. I’m just gonna lay out the facts.
She’s been burning my clothes on the iron and mixing lights and [...]
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