Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Boren Fellowship: I'm going to Brazil!
I found out last week that I have been awarded a Boren Fellowship, which will pay for me to study Portuguese when I return to DC next year and then spend 9 months in Brazil studying the sugarcane ethanol industry and its social and environmental impacts. I will be mainly in Brasilia and Recife, as well as some of the rural sugarcane-growing regions around Recife in the northeast. I'm a bit surprised and of course overwhelmingly excited about getting to travel to Brazil- and have it paid for!!! This will mean that I won't actually graduate with my MA until spring 2010, as I have to be a graduate student during the entire time of the fellowship. It will definitely be worth it.
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Swimming hole
Nate, David, and me at the local swimming hole
Climbing
David climbing at the swimming hole near our house. This is the location of my first rock-climbing lesson.
Beautiful Miraflor
a home in Miraflor with the nature reserve and mountains beyond
Waterfall jumping!
sweet swimming hole in Miraflor
Catching chicharras in Miraflor
We spent half the day in Miraflor catching bugs in the trees with this awesome kid
Parasite tree in Miraflor, Nicaragua
this parasite killed the tree inside it over 200 years ago, now you can climb it inside and out, as David and these Nicaraguan kids
Sunset
sunset at Las Penitas, Nicaragua
Howler monkeys
a family of howler monkeys on Omotepe
Omotepe
Concepcion, one of the volcanos that makes up the island of Omotepe in Lake Nicaragua
In the jungle...
with Nathan and Crystal (visiting from Michigan) in the jungles of Claudio Barillo National Park
Hammock time
Crazy photo of Andrea and me hanging out in the hammock at my house
Charging in Dominical
After getting worked I went after some of these smaller waves which turned out to be a lot of fun
Gotta love waterproof cameras
taking surfing pics in the water at Dominical
Attempting backside in Dominical
I'm attempting to work on my backside here in Costa Rica
The "Cool Bus"
Chilling in the Cool Bus in Dominical
La Selva Biological Station
Venturing into the jungle
Ladro Ladies!
In Manuel Antonio with Andrea and Sheena
David and Lynn Manuel Antonio
David and me hiking (and swimming) though Manuel Antonio National Park
Volcan Poaz
Posing with the smoking crater of the beautiful Poaz
Cute huh?
David and me having a couple of beers at a surfers bar in Playa Hermosa
Surfing accident #1
A minor bruise from getting Sheena's leash caught around my arm while she was learning to surf at Jaco
Surfing accident #2
2 days after the incident in Jaco I broke my board in half trying to surf at low tide in Manuel Antonio
Surfing Playa Cocles
my first time out surfing in Costa Rica. I was pretty pumped
2 comments:
Congratulations! What exciting and wonderful news! I would guess Portuguese and Spanish are similar languages and that should be it easy for you to learn! :) Congrats again!
Love,
Becky
Hello,
I'm currently looking into this program for next year or the year after and I was wondering if you could answer a question for me. Do you have to pay anything to the graduate school you are currently enrolled in to maintain your student status for the year you are doing the fellowship? And if it would have been your 1st year at that institution is it just kind of "deferring" your studies? Thanks and congrats! I also want to go to Brasil! Boa Sorte!
Lauren
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