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Goodbye Brazil: The Architecture of Travel, Theater and Questions 16 Aug 2011 | 02:05 pm
My travels structure the chapters in my life. This chapter is coming to a close and after so many months outside of the US, the though of returning is a bit scary. I am amazed by the ability we now ...
A alegria não é só samba… é forro, sertanejo e uma sinfonia 8 Aug 2011 | 04:04 pm
In Argentina someone said to me that happiness isn’t only a samba… they were trying to prove that Argentinians could be happy too. Here in Brazil I’ve learned that happiness really isn’t just samba, ...
Buenos Aires -> Santiago -> Rio de Janeiro 4 Aug 2011 | 03:11 am
My semester in Buenos Aires is over, it wasn’t all fun and games but I am happy that I don’t have the same “OMG it was amazing” study abroad story to tell that most people do. Not that I begrudge hav...
How is your University Public? 4 Aug 2011 | 02:32 am
In my last week in Buenos Aires went to give a talk about the state of public education in California in my friend’s US History class. She is studying at one of the public universities here in Buenos ...
My Father, himself 20 Jun 2011 | 03:29 pm
We all lie sometimes. I remember one particularly embarrassing incident at the age of eight. My mother and I were taking the train to Santa Barbara and I told a girl with whom I was playing with in th...
Con Texto: Actuar en una Segunda Lengua 14 Jun 2011 | 02:26 pm
Amor. Amor. Amor. No importa las veces que la dijera, esta palabra cae de mi lengua como la diría una niña de seis años imitando una telenovela venezolana. Estaba intentando preparar un monólogo para ...
Play is the Thing: Virtues and Vices of Vacations 23 May 2011 | 08:04 am
April was a month of playful vacations. Vacations from writing posts, vacations from Buenos Aires, vacations from myself. But the month of May brought some rude wake up calls. Being a month of vacat...
Bubbles Tend to Burst: “The Inside Job” and Privilege 27 Mar 2011 | 04:12 am
The global financial bubble has burst, and so has my own. Thankfully, mine burst figuratively. Surviving my first week at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) made me realized that my level of privi...
Summetime, Jazztime, Argentime 15 Mar 2011 | 12:42 pm
My first two musical experiences in Argentina were concerts of classic American jazz and modern Brazilian folkloric music. Bizarre that I should come to Argentina and find myself hearing Summertime. ...
Better Room, Worse Plumbing 9 Mar 2011 | 03:27 pm
My first experience in Argentina (besides waiting in a ridiculously long customs line) was being able to use wifi in the taxi from the airport to my house on my new ipod touch (a seriously early and g...
