i don't know about you, but i want to meet sorocaba.

toni's computer died this last week (tragic!), and so he's been hanging lots around a little internet cafe in our neighborhood. i went there with him there the other night, and the guy behind the counter heard us speaking english... i left a bit early, and then when toni went up to pay, the following conversation (in broken english) ensued...

"are you american?"

"no, i'm german, but my girlfriend is american."

(in complete shock and disbelief) "WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN SOROCABA?!? i want to TRAVEL! i want to see the world! I WANT TO MEET MANHATTAN."


ha. hahaha! oh haha. HA. finally someone gets it. hahhaa. oh sorocaba! what a funny place. little did this guy know that i virtually moved to sorocaba from manhattan. (via berlin, of course). oh hilarious.

still. as dull and frustrating and annoying and bureaucratic as life can be here in this town, at this blasted NGO, it does have one compelling reason for me to stay:

oh! i love these girls. all of that rest melts away when i'm working with them and their darling babies. um, isn't mariana gorgeous? and her baby aaaadoooorable?! ah!

happy weekend!

beijos,
jooj

despite the fact that my LAST post was about a holiday...

i promise i did work a bit in the meantime (full post dedicated to awesome new lua nova pics coming later today, maybs), but toni and i took another mini-cheap-little-holiday, this time to the beach...


ah... lovely, no? aren't we looking so happy on this beautiful, jungly, remote beach on the northern strip of an island off the brazilian coast? mmm.. i can taste the fresh maracuja juice now....

but wait wait wait - do you spy something fishy behind us?

let's look closer, shall we?...

oh yes. AWESOME. i told toni that if he dressed like that i too would snap some sassy photos of him. hehheheehehehe love.it.

newsssss

i was accepted into oxford's dphil (british way to say phd) history (of medicine) program(me) beginning fall of this year! YAY YAY YAY

one waiting game is over! (phew) yet three more remain in pending status....

toni has to be accepted.

i need to get funding.

toni has to get funding.


.....and if these three other things (miraculously) (truly, it would be miraculous) all happen, then in 7 short months toni and i will (once again) be cycling in narrow alleyways past ancient pubs like...

<----- this. (!!!)



aaaiii!!!!