Everyone’s heard of that song The Girl from Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema, in Portuguese), right? It’s about a girl that goes walking on Rio’s famous Ipanema beach, “and when she passes each one she passes goes ‘a-a-ah.'” Well, anyway, this morning I was walking the ten steps from my room to the bathroom at my […]
An Experience at Estádio do Maracanã (Rio de Janeiro)
No trip to Brazil is complete without joining thousands of zealous, chanting, screaming, singing, flag-waving fans urging on their favorite team in the country’s all time favorite past-time, er… rather, obsession. Afterall, no one lives and breathes football like Brazilians do. And no one knows how to cheer on a team like Brazilians do. I […]
Six a.m. Thursday morning I awoke to the sounds of a guitar and the guys’ singing echoing through the hall of the YWAM base I’m staying at. I didn’t really think anything of it, but just rolled over and tried to go back to sleep anyway, wondering what would inspire these Brazilians to be so […]
While I try to live, really live, in the present moment, I can tend to get frustrated if I don´t know the next step and think about it a lot. This time, I´m trying to be content with what I do know, and to trust God with the rest. I´m certain that trust is one […]
Imagine snowboarding in a bikini (or boardies if your gender suggests such a substitute). Brrrrr, you say?!?! Well, now, change the snow to sand, cold winter blast to a breeze laden with sea salt, and the view from snow-covered forest to a spectacular view of the ocean… And what you have is sandboarding on the […]
Rumor has it, the toilet flushes the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere than it does in the northern. It really DOES. Really. Saw it with my very own eyes. If you really want proof, I “could” take a quicktime movie of it with my mini camera, but I think you’ll be better off just […]
Lush, infinite shades of green occasionally splashed with hues of purple, pink, and yellow, stretching for as far as the eye can see, broken only by the line of black dotted with yellow paint. Driving through the rainforest south of São Paulo, I could only feel how amazing it is that I am finally here […]