Tropical Tribulations, “Pilot Episode”: Airport Ponderings
Back in January, I wrote one of my first posts for this blog – titled “Un novo ano, um novo desafio” [a new year, a new challenge] – about how I wanted to start learning Portuguese. Why? Because I was...
View ArticleTropical Tribulations, Episode 1: “First Steps”. Qui a dit que le Brésil...
Recife!(Pernambuco, Brésil) Comment ne pas commencer un voyage: arriver à l’aéroport avec exactement 4 dollars canadiens dans les poches, pour se rendre compte que les cartes bancaires ne marchent pas...
View ArticleTropical Tribulations, Episode 2: Half-Time. Fieldwork, fast and slow.
According to rumours, something of importance came to end around a week ago in Brazil. Apparently. People still talk about it in the streets. It must have been a big deal. And indeed it was: after six...
View ArticleTropical Tribulations, Episode 3: Time on Fieldwork Flies – but Brazil Flies...
Les choses pourraient être pires au Brésil… Les dernières semaines n’ont, au niveau planétaire, pas exactement été joyeuses. Entre Gaza, la Syrie, l’Irak, le Soudan du Sud, et l’Ebola, on s’en retrouve...
View ArticleTropical Tribulations, Final Episode: Small Fieldwork, Grand Finale.
*** I just wrote a lengthy, thought-out post, then accidentally clicked on a link, and when I came back I had lost it all. I have no energy to write it again. Thanks, WordPress, for saying you have an...
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