When I was a kid growing up in rural Oregon, I spent a fair amount of time pretending I was somewhere far more exotic. For example, my backyard was usually Australia and I was living off the earth out in the Bush, gathering supplies of grass and pinecones for my faux meals off the [...][...]
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Yo No Hablo Español
Let’s say you’ve always had an interest in visiting Latin America. You’d like to travel in Ecuador, study in Mexico, work in Brazil, volunteer in Panama. Only one problem seems to stand in your way: you don’t speak Spanish or Portuguese. Or French, Quechua, Aymara, Nahuatl, Creole, Papiam[...]
