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A Vida É Bela. Wink wink nudge nudge. 5 maio, 2010 às 11:21 pm Publicado em Uncategorized. Corruption in Brazil is big news and major gossip – scandals involving politicians trading cash for votes. Police allied with drug lords, soccer club owners and church leaders getting fat off the opiates of the masses. But my first direct experience with tainted money was a minor thing. Last Saturday catching the bus home. So what, you ask? Or why, when applying for funding to travel to a workshop in the US, I had ...
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outubro | 2009 | A Vida É Bela
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A Vida É Bela. 18 outubro, 2009 às 11:49 pm Publicado em Uncategorized. On October 12, Americans commemorated Columbus stumbling upon Hispaniola, and. Got the day off in honor of Nossa Senhora Aparecida, the country’s patron saint. Mexico’s Virgen de Guadelupe appeared on a peasant’s cloak; Aparecida’s statue was hauled out of the Rio Paraíba do Sul just north of here in 1717 by fishermen casting for a good catch to gift the governor. Expats in São José, it was the perfect excuse for a. 8220;), and.
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Expectations | A Vida É Bela
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A Vida É Bela. 25 dezembro, 2009 às 1:05 pm Publicado em Uncategorized. Me to a convenience-store clerk in Copacabana:. Vocês têm protetor solar? Do you speak French? Deixe um comentário ». Feed for comments on this post. Deixe uma resposta Cancelar resposta. Insira seu comentário aqui. Preencha os seus dados abaixo ou clique em um ícone para log in:. Nunca tornar endereço público). Você está comentando utilizando sua conta WordPress.com. ( Sair. Avise-me sobre novos comentários por email.
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Rio 2016: Kind of a Really Big Deal | A Vida É Bela
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A Vida É Bela. Rio 2016: Kind of a Really Big Deal. 10 outubro, 2009 às 3:43 pm Publicado em Uncategorized. So over skype last weekend, my mother says to me, “Oh did you hear? The Olympics are going to be in Brazil in 2016.”. Even if I didn’t stream NPR and the BBC nonstop, it would have been impossible to not notice. Here in Brazil, it’s kind of a really big deal. Officemate blasted the announcment live on Globo Esporte. Throughout my building there was shrieking and jumping and running about. Skeptics ...
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stuff | A Vida É Bela
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A Vida É Bela. 28 julho, 2010 às 3:00 am Publicado em Uncategorized. So what’s my problem? Deixe um comentário ». Feed for comments on this post. Deixe uma resposta Cancelar resposta. Insira seu comentário aqui. Preencha os seus dados abaixo ou clique em um ícone para log in:. Nunca tornar endereço público). Você está comentando utilizando sua conta WordPress.com. ( Sair. Você está comentando utilizando sua conta Twitter. ( Sair. Você está comentando utilizando sua conta Facebook. ( Sair.
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agosto | 2009 | A Vida É Bela
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A Vida É Bela. 19 agosto, 2009 às 12:46 am Publicado em Uncategorized. A couple of weeks ago I was background listening to an NPR Science Friday show. About the impending fall burst of swine flu in the US, when a phrase jerked me to attention. 8220;…head of the Division of epidemiology at UC Berkeley…You’re down there in São Paulo, Brazil, where it’s wintertime, right? Then my roommate, who is often sniffling with one thing or another, got the flu. But her high fever subsided by the time she left on ...
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maio | 2010 | A Vida É Bela
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A Vida É Bela. So this is why Brazilians are in such good shape. 15 maio, 2010 às 6:06 pm Publicado em Uncategorized. It’s the new sensation! 1) A shuffling, hip-swinging dance step, (2) an anglicization of the Portuguese verb. Or, (2) the latest catchy/obnoxious pop song heard in ring tones and street CD kiosks everywhere. Yeah, this is exactly what living in Brazil is like. ;). Rebolation has also inspired some clever parodies. My favorite is from the produce market chain Hortifrutti. To swing, to sway.
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Hipper, Happier, More Seductive | A Vida É Bela
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A Vida É Bela. Hipper, Happier, More Seductive. 4 outubro, 2009 às 12:02 am Publicado em Uncategorized. Overheard on the bus, inner SE Portland, from one skateboard-lugging teenage boy to another:. 8220;So if you wear skinny pants, a small shirt and have hair that covers your eyes, you can get a ton of girls. You don’t even have to do anything! I was in the mall yesterday and I couldn’t sit down for five minutes without a girl coming up and talking to me.”. Gotta love those Portland boys!
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Sotaquezinho | A Vida É Bela
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A Vida É Bela. 6 maio, 2010 às 10:43 pm Publicado em Uncategorized. In Rio last weekend, I met, for the first time, an American who passed the native test: a real live Brazilian assumed she was one of them. Everything – accent, posture, body language, platform sandals – was spot on. Of course, perhaps a native of. Could have told the difference – apparently they can distinguish between natives of different. The pluses of each place but unwilling to romanticize or overlook the minuses. 5) NPR/BBC live str...