The COUNTDOWN begins

So not much is new here in Brazil. The second round of elections for Brazil's new president are Sunday so we'll see how that plays out. Things have become very routine here for me, so I forget what interests you all back home. But here are the highlights from the past couple weeks:

I finished midterms today!

Black Eyed Peas concert!

Guitar jam sessions on the beach with Brazilian friends!

Gorgeous, sunny beach days!

Amazing Political Science professor (he studied abroad in Chile during the military dictatorship there)!

Dancing to music blasted from car speakers in a parking lot on the beach in the rain!

Package from home! (chocolate chips for chocolate chip banana bread!)

Reading books from my childhood in Portuguese with the children in the library where I volunteer!

Best Mexican food in Salvador!

Riding along the coast on a motorcycle!

Learning how to make brigadeiro! (traditional Brazilian dessert. condensed milk, butter, chocolate. YES)

Showing a Polish volunteer around the city!

Planning my future! (Nicaragua? Washington DC? Ecuador? Berkeley?)

Registering for classes back at Pacific for next semester and looking for a place to live have me missing home a lot! But two more months and I'm there!!

Love to you all!

PS. Movie you should ALL watch: Onibus 174. It's about a bus hostage situation in Rio in 2000 and gives the social background and reasoning that this event occurred. You can find it on Google Videos with English subtitles. I highly recommend it.