Preparing for the Last Week -June 25, 2007

This being the last week, I could really feel the trip ending.
The first week was fun, lengthy and adventurous. The second went by rather fast and only had a good weekend. For my stay at Brazil I wanted to enjoy from personal development, a foreign adventure full experience, and a small social network of local friends. I was not necessarily there yet and if I wanted to get more of an experience I felt like I should stop trying to do everything with an English speaking group of twelve. I definitely enjoyed spending time with them, but in Brazil there are surely many more experiences to be found.

Monday I didn’t do much at all since I had to catch up with sleep from the night before and stay in during the night to catch up with homework. That night, I got to visit an internet café for the first time and was surprised to see expensive webcams and earphones connected to each one. The computers were very useful and the girl in charge was an affable person who later became a good friend.In class, we discussed the media in the middle E. and Africa region of the world. I found there are many things to learn from other countries and just because we are one of the core nations of the world, does not mean we shouldn’t learn about other developing nations. The prestigious local university, for example, has lunch breaks when classes are suspended and students pay no tuition to attend, we could surely learn from that!