We arrived in Somerville on Sunday and were pretty blitzed from the red-eye flight and general stress of traveling through airports at this particular moment in time. We discovered last week that our friends Leah and Ariela’s apartment was unoccupied and they agreed to let us stay there for the time being, especially as we …
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Well friends, it looks like our Brazil adventure is coming to a close and our stateside Coronadventure is just beginning. Yesterday morning, we were feeling optimistic about the situation in Brazil (650 cases) vs in the US (14,000 cases) and decided to try to stick it out a little longer here, so we changed our …
Hi friends. We appreciate everyone who has checked in, and also everyone who has not checked in but are thinking of us – responding to everyone would be overwhelming when we are already overwhelmed with news and decisions. Every Fulbright program in every country (and there are usually multiple per country; I think 4 different …
Wednesday evening, Duck bounced all around me like Tigger until we left for our very first Carnaval experience. He did all the research online and found two blocos (Carnaval block parties) on the other side of our neighborhood (Boston readers: think of our neighborhood as JP, so a smaller segment of the city, but still …
Duck and I have discovered many things here about which we have had a 180-degree role reversal. One of these is my sudden and near-total directional challenge in our neighborhood (just our neighborhood, and really just leaving our house – I can usually get home just fine). I have no idea why this is, except …
Duck and I arrived on Monday and took a cab to the hotel (Uber is about half the cost but we couldn’t get it to work for us). At Duck’s encouragement, I introduced myself to other obvious Fulbrighters also checking in. We went out into the drizzly mid-afternoon for some food where it started downpouring …
Things have been a little busy on the family front over here, so there hasn’t been much focus on preparations, but we did secure a place to live! I had reached out to someone who had done a Fulbright in BH a couple of years ago and who was a wealth of information. She gave …
My partner (affectionately known here as Duck) and I are heading to Belo Horizonte, Brazil from February-November 2020. I will be doing research through a Fulbright grant and Duck will be doing… who knows? Teaching English? Getting a dog? Doing research? Tagging along with me? It remains to be seen. Stay tuned here!
Horntoes in Brazil