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		<title>Vanilla Sky</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nika in the sky .</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They look like two eels going at it,&#8221; Lily says out of the blue. We&#8217;re sitting on the sidewalk, under the awning of the Vanilla Caffe on Augusta Street, São Paulo&#8217;s grimy freakshow strip. I give Lil&#8217; a look that says, info please, and she gestures keenly toward the interior of the café. There, through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brazilbyaccident.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3730025&amp;post=424&amp;subd=brazilbyaccident&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parque Mário Covas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nika in the sky .</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just discovered the FIRST ever, first-world tourist booth in São Paulo. For a city this huge and old aaand famous,  SP should&#8217;ve had visitor centers long ago. And though it claims to have them (in less than a handful of spots, by the way!), they are in wacky, scary locations such as the totally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brazilbyaccident.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3730025&amp;post=380&amp;subd=brazilbyaccident&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>He makes me wanna be a Mozambican…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nika in the sky .</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lusofone writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time last year, I was all about fleeing this tropical misfit of a society, convinced I could no more make it in Brazil than I could in the icy stretches of Antarctica. Today, I&#8217;m a fluent Portuguese speaker (and writer!) and can think of nothing else than to read my next all original Portuguese [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brazilbyaccident.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3730025&amp;post=373&amp;subd=brazilbyaccident&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Gringo Joke by Dona Helena</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nika in the sky .</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be told in a British accent: Mary e John, dois gringos velinhos, estavam juntos na sala de estar. John, tranquilíssimo em sua sagacidade, aquela que só vem com o contar dos anos, olhou para a Mary, e so pôs a falar. &#8220;Mary, quando você morrer eu vou madar escrever o seguinte em sua lápide: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brazilbyaccident.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3730025&amp;post=368&amp;subd=brazilbyaccident&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Loitering isn&#8217;t a word in Portuguese</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nika in the sky .</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As calçadas O inglês tem um verbo curioso, “to loiter”, que quer dizer, mais ou menos, andar devagar ou a esmo, ficar à-toa, zanzar (grande palavra), vagabundear ou simplesmente não transitar. E, nos Estados Unidos (não sei se na Inglaterra também), “loitering” é uma contravenção. Você pode ser preso por “loitering”, ou por estar parado em vez [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brazilbyaccident.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3730025&amp;post=296&amp;subd=brazilbyaccident&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nika in the sky .</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are people; they&#8217;ll always be different, similar, precocious, mercurial, outgoing, shy, etc. Above all, differences will sometimes rub against each other, and create a bit of friction. Posted in gringa life<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brazilbyaccident.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3730025&amp;post=207&amp;subd=brazilbyaccident&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The maid made me cry!</title>
		<link>http://brazilbyaccident.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/the-maid-made-me-cry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nika in the sky .</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, let me just fess up &#8211; I have a maid. Well, my mother in law does, and since I live with her&#8230; I&#8217;m not gonna launch into the sociological underpinnings of Brazilian society to justify just how it is that I can afford this luxury. I&#8217;m just gonna lay out the facts. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brazilbyaccident.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3730025&amp;post=221&amp;subd=brazilbyaccident&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Left fork, Right fork</title>
		<link>http://brazilbyaccident.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/left-fork-right-fork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nika in the sky .</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gringa life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was little, I started to use both my hands for things. Like every kid, I was figuring out if I was right handed or left handed. My grandmother, on the other hand, thought this was the mark of the devil. She was also in the practice of spitting on twins and detesting albinos [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brazilbyaccident.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3730025&amp;post=10&amp;subd=brazilbyaccident&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alleluja</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nika in the sky .</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking around tonight. The purpose &#8211; train the overly fat labrador to walk obediently upon the sleepy streets of small town Brazil. It was a task that led us through winding streets and surprising bends, and yet not very far from each place the dog chose to pee, there was a church. Or a big [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brazilbyaccident.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3730025&amp;post=209&amp;subd=brazilbyaccident&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What if feels like to be far from home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nika in the sky .</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gringa life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Living abroad, it&#8217;s easy to feel disconnected from what&#8217;s going on in your place back home. I feel like my umbillical chord is somewhere, tethered to an empty womb that&#8217;s fallen ill with abandonment. I have waking dreams of my hometown and of Brooklyn, the last place I lived. Little tumbleweeds of melancholy memory roll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brazilbyaccident.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3730025&amp;post=205&amp;subd=brazilbyaccident&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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