Day 29: Vacation Plans!

I am excited to announce that I finally have my Brazil vacation plans sketched out! Here are the adventures I'll be having after I perform my recital on June 26th.

• Visiting my boyfriend's family in Curitiba. For those who don't understand, Jeff and his parents live in the States, but he was born in Brazil and lived there in his childhood.

• Seeing a Brazilian production (in Portuguese) of The Sound of Music, or, Música do Coração, in Portuguese.

• Spending a week on Yuka's husband's farm with Yuka and her husband. The farm is in Matto Grosso and right on the border of Bolivia and Brazil. Part of the farm is in the Amazon, the other half is a clearing. Yuka says we can ride horses every morning. Really, it's meant as a sort of retreat from city life, so that I can start to put together my presentation which I will give back in the U.S.

• Going to Rio, to be a true tourist. Hopefully I'll be able to go with my friend, Andreia, who really wants to visit, as well. Yuka thinks I should stay for three or four days, and try to make connections between the music libraries there and University of New Hampshire, which is a brilliant idea.

There are other possibilities on my to-do list (a couple other possible performance opportunities that have come up, Campos do Jordao, which holds one of the biggest music festivals in Brazil, and hopefully Minas Gerais) but I don't want to officially mention those until they are for sure (even thought I technically did just officially mention them).

I'll hopefully be back in the U.S. between July 27th and the 29th.

USP at sunset