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Kiran Chapman | Sao Paolo, Brazil & Cape Town, South Africa | Post 3

Kiran Chapman | Sao Paolo, Brazil & Cape Town, South Africa | Post 3

During my program’s last week in Brazil, we had the week off of classes. It was wonderful to have the executive power to choose where to go; I settled on spending five days on an island named Ilhabela off the eastern coast of the country. I and twelve other students booked rooms at a hostel on the island right on the beach. With the moon still bright in the sky, my friend Alex and I left our house at 4:00 a.m. to catch the 6:00…

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Kiran Chapman | Sao Paulo, Brazil | Post 2

Kiran Chapman | Sao Paulo, Brazil | Post 2

Sao Paulo is huge. Flying over the city, I thought I had a sense of its scope, but I didn’t at all. You can never see where it ends. Standing on a mountain in the forests above the city, the urban landscape seems to stretch forever, with atmospheric perspective engulfing the horizon. I am living with a family in Villa Madalena, which is one of the nicest areas of the city, in my opinion. It’s located about fifty minutes away from Mackenzie University,…

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