A few people have asked me if I am keeping a blog to document and help process this journey I am on. Enough that I have finally taken the jump and began one. I will post a few things I wrote while I was in São Paulo (I am currently in Mexico City) and will interweave some other São Paulo things in with the Mexico City stuff in comparative or…
Tag: beginnings
my inspiration
During the fall of 2012, I participated in the study abroad programme IHP- International Honors Programme- Cities in the 21st Century. The programme was multi-destinational and we travelled in a group of about 35 students, 3 faculty and one travelling fellow to New Orleans, USA; São Paulo & Curitiba, Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; and Hà Nội, Vietnam. I was introduced to social movements (such as Movimento do Sem Teto…