liberdade!

soooo, guess who just finished her 31-pages-with-acknowledgements indie study project?
i'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count.

ahoy, lovies! estou em fortaleza de novo, com sua como sempre, mas terminada ao fim!

the last days before the Last Day of salvador were stressful and wasteful, until the Last Day, which was like a best of. i finally got my stuff back from angélica that she had had for 10 days, saw her cool friends again (não fica). gazed at the beautiful av. oceanica which gets a hat over the e or the a, can't remember. got *something* (tune in next semester!), took care of some business, bought the book i wanted to buy, chilled with chill people in pelourinho, a little dancey, a little drinky, and tchau. the next morning we were gone. it was a good send off, we will be com saudade de salvador, but we needed to get back. did you know? i'll be home in one short week.

it was nice to see the host fam again, but little time to enjoy it given my ISP field journal and write up had to happen in a weekend. if this semester ends the same way the last few previous semesters have with major stress and despair and then bowing out with a sweet grade, i have bested myself. if not, well, it was time for it, anyway.

anyway, you probably want to hear about my project some more or being back in fortaleza or i don't know what. but the thing is, i don't know what. i've been terribly terribly spoiled. study abroad is pretty much a joke in terms of hardhitting realities that will change the world as i know it. what else is new?

we're about to shove off for the wrapping-shit-up excursion on a beach that i won't be able to fully enjoy. got another eeensy weensy paper to do, but it's not biggie after the baby behemoth. i wish i was clever.

just know that i'm doing well, spoiled as ever, miss you tons, and am super psyched for next semester (although i'll probably be begging to graduate with this years seniors by the end of january).
amor e paz.

oh and pinochet died? hm.