Help.
I don’t know what the fuck to do.  So, I am soliciting opinions and I will weigh and balance and shift and sink and figure this shit out.  I have a return ticket for January 13th.  Do I use it?
Staying or leaving.
Why I should stay:
a. It’s super fun down here.
b. I will speak just enough Portuguese in January to forget it all if I don’t practice enough.
c. Although the girls down here are a goddamned treat I think it’s unlikely that I will meet “her the one”.  I know I …

I’m going to start a new series of posts on the blog introducing my friends in Brazil (lifted from my friend Sarah, although I’m not going to interview anyone. I don’t really care what they have to say) and it’s a goddamned treat to present to you Miss Carmen Burns.
Carmen is Matias’s girlfriend (Matias, who will never make it on here. He’s got some ego problems) and is equal parts charming, hilarious, angry, beautiful, helpful, don’t take no shit from nobody, volatile, thoughtful and…angry. I know I said it twice …

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The black skin of my girl. Blue eyes. White smile. I am not leaving. Calm sleep. Her body. I’m thinking about her, is she thinking about me?
There is so much in this song that I understand. It’s a little bit of a Portuguese breakthrough. Although I probably have it all wrong.
Com malícia.
I looked up malícia and everywhere (the internet, my little dictionary) it said malice. I didn’t understand. This girl is not malicious. Listen to the way he sings about her! I pulled down the big …