Curitiba Travel Blogs

He couldn´t sing, the music was wrong, beer guts got in the way of kitchy rock poses and with faces like they worked at mcDonalds this poor old Bon Jovi copy had nothing but three paraletic members of a spinal tap tributeband going for them. Meanwhile we had an excellent time in the bar with the l…

today, we all handed in our final papers.  nearly an entire semester's worth full of work.  it felt..GOOD.  i definitely had mixed feelings though.  on the one hand, i was happy to be completed my field work and looked forward to travelling and enjoying Brazil without school.&nb…

Let’s pretend that my name is Dr. Kirk Bowman and I need to plan a schedule for next year’s study abroad trip to Argentina and Brazil.  How would I plan it?  Would I keep everything the same as this year?  What would I change?    Well first of all, I would try and ge…

Hey you guys! I seriously can´t wait to go to Lima.  I´ve been a little worried about clothing,shoes, money.. I´ll be glad to hear from any one you that have been to Lima or are locals. I am truly excited about this trip and my heart goes to you who are residents. PLEASE, give me tips and …

Group Members: Mary Beth Strawn, Shannon Joiner, Lynn Deaton You have been asked by the state department to prepare a constitutional overhaul for Brazil. The current electoral system has numerous problems and many complaints. You are to analyze the current electoral system and provide an a…

Argentina has Tango.  Spain has Flamenco.  What does Brazil have?  Brazil has Samba, Carnival & Funk.  These musical genres are what I have been exposed to during my travels in South America.  Out of all the listed genres, the only one I was familiar was National Rock a…

After a month of following the Argentine “dine-out” culture and eating Anita’s dinners at the Residencia, a tiny stove and aluminum pot are now my saving grace.             Brazilian supermercados offer a wide variety if veggies, f…

24 / 7 / 365 CASE 1: “Siesta Time” Its Saturday afternoon, around 3:30 and you are hungry. You gather a few friends together with the intentions of having a late lunch. Your options are endless, and you never contemplate the entire town closing down. It is very apparent by the vast an…

When you think about Brazil and make word associations with the country, pictures that come to mind, you could think all day, and I bet these names wouldn’t make it in your list of top hundred words, and likely not even make it to the top thousand: John Cage, Yoko Ono, Emmett Williams, George…

Hey guys!  Finals are coming up soon - one Friday and one Saturday - though I still have about 18 days left of the trip.  We're in Curitiba right now, been here since Friday (when we left Iguacu) and will leave for Sao Paulo on Sunday.  Went to a club Saturday night, was pretty sweet…

Well at first time in my life I took music as prority, so I came here to Curitiba to have some lessons about music production with an expert. Plus this the city Curitiba is beautiful, people are nice and I'm enjoying a lot :) ! These pics are by the way going to lunch somewhere, nothing especial about touristic places...

after my first ever overland bus-journey of 6 hours from sao paulo i arrived in curitba. it was already dark and i didn't have any reservation for a hotel, i managed to get on the right bus and to get off at the right stop (lucky me!) where i knew was a hostel, a taxi driver showed me where, it…

Yammie, KUAT!

The country of Brazil first embraced democracy when it became a Republic in 1889, and with the various lapses since that time, it is a relatively young democratic nation.  Hence, Brazil is by no means politically perfect, and there exist certain problems that are quite evident in its system.&n…

Well, the train to Paranagua didn’t work out. I didn’t want to miss another world cup game so we elected to not go on Tuesday, and the train had already left for today (Monday) so we were out a train ride. This was actually the only reason we came to Curitiba was the ride the scenic train down …