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Rio de Janeiro by night.

Reflecting on a Summer in Rio

By Allison Hillsbery August 19, 2014

I’ll admit that when I first got my housing assignment for this summer, I was a little wary. The sheet of paper said that I was to be living with a 76-year-old woman named Josenir. I didn’t have...

Romance Rewards in the Pursuit of Language Fluency

By Allison Hillsbery August 4, 2014

My great aunt once told me that she only learned French because she had a Parisian lover. I was 11 at the time and therefore considered this information both slightly disturbing and completely irrelevant...

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A samba class performs in Rio de Janeiro.

The Power of Dance in Brazil

By Allison Hillsbery July 21, 2014

There’s an expression here in Brazil: “Tudo acaba em samba.” Translated literally, the phrase means “Everything ends in samba.” That is to say, no matter what disagreements, differences or...

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From Tourist to Native in Rio

By Allison Hillsbery July 7, 2014

I’ve reached the point where I’ve stopped speaking English in grocery stores. I realized early on that eating lunch at restaurants every day was not going to work out, so now every other day I...

The Importance of Understanding Our Baggage

By Allison Hillsbery June 23, 2014

In a few hours, I will be getting on a plane bound for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For six weeks, I will be living in Copacabana with a 76-year-old woman named Jô and taking classes at the Instituto Brasil-Estados...

The Stress of Preparing to Travel Abroad

By Allison Hillsbery June 9, 2014

Visto. Consulado. Estrangeiro. Visa. Consulate. Foreigner. These are words that have unfortunately become very familiar for me over the past few weeks. It all started when I returned home to California...

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Rio de Janeiro

In the Pursuit of Words in Rio

By Allison Hillsbery May 26, 2014

Cafune. I learned this word in a translation class when I was 17. That day’s lesson was on idioms and phrases that have no exact English equivalents. We learned age-otori, the Japanese way of saying...

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