Tag: beginnings

beginnings

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…

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…