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Kate

hail simone de beauvoir

About Me

i'm teaching in Manaus Brasil. if you want to write, my address is (beware, it's a paragraph):International School of Amazonas Rua Dos Igarapes 20 Cond. Ponto Marina Taua Ponta Negra 66049-630 Manaus Amazonas Brasil

My Interests

portuguese, figuring out how to speak to julhio, taking walks, synchronized planes, books about nautical trips, music, mountain biking, watching movies with people, gusto and calm, backpacking, wearing those walking shoes, catching up with friends

I'd like to meet:

an alarm clock that will sing rhapsody when i fall asleep during the long day

Music:

offspring, los hermanos, cat stevens, bjork

Movies:

life aquatic, honey i shruck the kids, romancing the stone, jungle fever, braveheart, spy movies, documentaries with a beer

Television:

arrested development, l word

Books:

beware of books

Heroes:

dali lama, rocilda selva, make motza, zide mkabela, parents, ghandi, james herriot, oscar wilde, mandela, kris salisbury, e horne and j comeau

My Blog

Facets of the jungle

Here are some tidbits..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   The clue behind the shoe              It is ...
Posted by Kate on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:55:00 PST

birds of a feather

so, let me continue this story. fridays are rebellious days, the struts must give a little and allow minor earthquakes to shimmy and blow off steam. at the desperado school in the jungle the same oc...
Posted by Kate on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:50:00 PST

barrio of watership C

my barrio is Adrianopolis- with an accent over the first o. Manaus is comprised of many different barrios- and mine has flamboyant existential graffiti. to describe it, i’ll start with the money...
Posted by Kate on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:11:00 PST

harmonics

i forget exactly the name of the sounds that resonate, or vibrate, in response to a played chord, but the standard thirds and resolutions function here as anywhere. like, these kids (and myself) cant ...
Posted by Kate on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:06:00 PST

who is sadie hawkins?

Last night i went out with a couple other teachers to see the action along Ponta Negra. we didnt quite jive- andrew attacked Swazis as stupid for having unprotected sex, and i was lost in too many syn...
Posted by Kate on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:53:00 PST

in a terrarium

Its a hothouse here with rapido showers and gentle space designed for growth. we explored a park in the vast sprawl of Manaus today. Fortified with traslated prayers from Madonna, we left the suspende...
Posted by Kate on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:25:00 PST

report from the jungle

it´s been Carnival in Brasil, and the Castro in San Francisco during Halloween has nothing on this in terms of sheer production and fancy. although the really decadent head down to Rio Dejanero and Sa...
Posted by Kate on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:45:00 PST

hola

"Welcome to the Jungle, do da da, welcome to the jungle," and so i got in a van with an singing aging anglican pastor and his kith and kin, and away we went.  it's muggy here, much like Georgia, ...
Posted by Kate on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:25:00 PST

Manaus, Brasil

I feel like I'm dodging the draft, but i'm going to Manaus, the capital city of the state of Amazonas in Brasil. i'm flying out later today, and wish i could pack toothpaste, cause that's the thing i ...
Posted by Kate on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:34:00 PST

good grief, sorry about my comments

hello, i'm really sorry about the boob picture and macy's comments i've been sending around. i caught their virus without any sharing of fluids, and am now spreading their junk everywhere. i hope you'...
Posted by Kate on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:34:00 PST