After several weeks (I believe it was closer to 3 weeks than 15 days..) I recieved my passport back from the Brazilian Consulate General of Brazil in Washington DC (they make you write it out like that every time you address them...) complete with passport. This means, there is nothing left to bar my passage to Brazil, unless something drastic happens in customs... which is unlikely.

I have also finished classes. I am currently in a state of euphoria! I spent some time today after my last final to give this blog a nice, clean feeling, rather than the cluttered junk I had before! While I believe I will hold off on giving flyers out to most of my friends and family about this blog until closer to the time of departure, I must give them to my Kent friends very soon, as I will only be living in Kent until the end of May.

My next post, I would like to share some of the places and things to see in Brazil that truly intrigue me; While I may not see all of these places, as they are stretched out across the country, they are things that I find to be almost whimsical... I truly feel that the only other place that I could imagine being even as close to as gorgeous as Brazil's lush and electrifying colors and sights to be seen, would be in a fairytale book. Stay tuned- I'll be posting some photos of these places... yes - "Eye candy!"

Haley