i'm making travel plans and trying to learn as much portuguese as i can before i go to brazil. i was originally going to bus around a lot, but now i'm planning on just going to a few places in order to know each better... so my tentative plan is as follows: give notice to my landlord that i'll be out at the end of november, leave my stuff in hannah's room (she's keeping it and paying rent for the months she's not there), staying on my professor's futon because i have my bassoon final on december 5th (talk about pressure to practice at home...). fly on the 6th of december to salvador de bahia and kick it there for a week and a half with some friends of a friend (who i'm going salsa dancing with tonight!), then bus down to rio to meet up with chelsea. i hope to stay and travel with her and her friends until around the 20th of january at which point i'll fly to medellin to see juan. he promised to take me to the caribbean coast and possibly to ecuador. i plan to stay in colombia for two or three weeks and then go down to Lima to see the family i stayed with and visit a couple new friends... hopefully do some touristy peru stuff outside of the city, too. Ursula and I will meet up there (she's from lima, so she has family there) and search online for apartments before starting our bus trip back to santiago. en route we're planning on going to arequipa, san pedro de atacama, and la valle de la luna.
in the meantime i've started practicing portuguese somewhat regularly with a couple friends and working in a textbook.
today i had rehearsal with my accompanist and it was the first time that i felt i had played the piece worth a damn... he said so too. i'm going to make some reeds this week to start getting prepaired for juries.
i like chile more as i understand it's humor better. some books, articles and movies i've seen have helped me through my brief period of angst toward the country.
i've got a beard/moustache grown in... i'm going to leave it until the end of the month to complete the fidel castro costume for halloween. I was considering just leaving the moustache, getting the right glasses and suit and being Allende. Liz then suggested getting darker glasses and a military suit and being pinoche, but i think i'll pass on both of those options and roll with the further-from-home politician so as not to offend.
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big plans man, that sounds awesome. just watch out for yourself!
I'm glad you're feeling better towards your host country, i think it's pretty normal for foreigners to feel a strong bond with other foreigners, and kind of a distance from the locals. part of this is always "foreigners in my country are treated a lot better", but i think there are very few countries where that's really true. i think it's just cause all the foreign kids are starting new and are trying to form a social circle asap, whereas locals have there own preoccupations and social lives and aren't necessarily looking to make new friends. the benefit of this is that you're meeting the coolest people of all these different countries, the people who are brave enough to leave home and are open to experiencing something new. however it works out it's a totally rewarding experience. I'm glad you're having fun.
aqui ta tudo bem. a gente vai fazer a festa da halloween amanha! acho q vai ter muita gente de york e monterey high la. deve ser foda.
eu tambem to oraganizando tudo agora pra conseguir a minha visa. mas vale a pena, cara, vai ser mttooo divertido.
entao, de aqui a poco a gente vai se ver in rio!!
bis dann, freu mich voll
beijo
hey!
on a different note do you want to do your colombia adventure before the brazil one?
cause i won't be there till pretty late in december. you could go straight to my folks, then go check out your other connections. mom (and me for that matter haha) want you to go first to people you know. i think you could go to dani's house even before i got there but it would probably be more fun to get there when i'm already there.
just let me know what your plans are, and if you have stuff set up with people and don't want to change it around that's totally fine. i think it'll all work out really well.
see you!!!
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