perks of a taking career break means i finally have the time to write all those essays i couldn’t be bothered to write
here’s my first substack post (feeling v shy 😭)
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i have no concept of time anymore but i’ve been in rio de janeiro for over 5 weeks that’s brazyyy i didn’t think i’d spend more time here than medellin
had the most realistic nightmare (?) that i broke 2 of my teeth and couldn’t find a good emergency dentist out here. forced myself to wake up when my only choice was to either book a flight home or head to Rio carnival with missing teeth 💀💀💀
sitting amongst the red shirts at the final derby game of the season in the opposition’s colour (green) was a v risky move. glad to have survived that 😭
made friends in the lift at our rooftop bar then made more friends who invited me out on a bar crawl and then when i got back i befriend a Colombian girl who works here and invited me back out with all her skater friends i love this city man 🤣
i think it’s beautiful that there have always been and will always be people who passionately devote their lives to learning about some niche topic they consider beautiful and all-encompassing. humanity loves to get lost in the worlds within a world
Venezuela is essentially now under an air and sea blockade. America is going to attempt to suffocate Venezuela and by stopping it's oil shipments, they will also cause more pain to Cuba whose already fragile energy sector partly relies on Venezuelan oil to function
made it in time waaheeyyyy but there’s a child seated behind me who’s kicking the hell outta my seat rip for the next 1.5hr thank god it’s a quick flight 🙃
You’d think the Scottish weren’t involved in slavery and colonialism in Barbados like the nasty Brits, but from just a cursory glance I can see like 10 Bajan surnames