Categorie archief: South America

I think Rio is the kind of place where you can’t help but have a certain picture in mind of what the city is like. In certain ways, all is true. Long beaches, christ the redeemer, jungle, sugarloaf mountain and the favelas up against the mountains. But it is also so much more than that.Meer lezen over “Muito Bom”

From São Paulo to Source Temple. The bus ride to Guaratingueta took approx. 3 hours and from there to our first workaway we shared a taxi, with two other volunteers, which took another 45 minutes. Source Temple. Man, really it is still hard to discribe our stay there but especially my very own experience isMeer lezen over “Rice, beans and hummingbirds”

I am trying to push aside, almost ignore, the presence of feeling like a goddamn lucky European girl who endlessly whines when writing. Is it even my story to tell everything I am seeing? Honestly, I don’t know. Nonetheless, it might be good to pick up where I left off. I wrote (São Paulo is)Meer lezen over “First encounters pt. 2”

I have gone from happiness to sadness to disbelief to embarrassment (and) to excitement. More than ever before have I become aware of the bubble of which I live in, in which I think, most of us or at least a lot of us live in. And I have found them in so many differentMeer lezen over “First encounters pt. 1”