June 2011
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If I Don't Just...: Why Brazilians of Color love... →
ifidontjust:
On monday, we had a lecture by Edson Cardoso. He’s a black power movement heavyweight (even though he’s Pardo, not “black” according to brazilian society but that’s another story). In class, he quoted, of all things, a Will Smith interview where he was talking about how race is used to…
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Eve's Portugese Word of the day... "Futebol"
The Rio team won the soccer, I mean futebol (FOO-chee-bowl) game so there’s firecrackers going off in our neighborhood.
-Follow Eve’s her 6 week trip on twitter.
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Where? When? How? Our #Travlr, @EVEEEEEZY needs to...
We checked in on our travlr, @Eveeeeeezy via twitter on the second day of her 6 week trip to Rio De Janero, Brasil. It seems she wasn’t aware of the toilet differences….
RTT: Have you pooped yet? Also, has anyone explained not flushing the toilet paper?
EVE: Nope. still haven’t pooped. and the pipes here aren’t made for separating solids/tissue paper from sewage...
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“Some words have no translation so HIP HOP = “EEEP-ee OHHH-pee”...”
– Portuguese live language tips with @EVEEEEEZY.
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