Thursday, October 16th, 2008
One of my favorite parts of the week is most peoples' least favorite part: the rush-hour van drive from Gávea to Rocinha.
It's a little hard to explain why I enjoy it as much as I do. First of all, I'm invariably crammed up against the door - my school is ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
A look back on what the Two Brothers Institute has been up to the past few years.
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
I regularly saw youth with guns when I walked through Rocinha on my way to i2i when I volunteered this past summer. My response was predictable the first couple of times I encountered these situations: shock. Though I expected beforehand to see youth with guns or dealing drugs, actually having ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
My last trip to Rio was a short two weeks for Carnival. I did manage to make time for a final "Dia dos Esportes," a special field trip to the Bosque da Barra municipal park on the Friday before Carnival began. Although it took me six months to finally sift ...
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