Monthly Archives: March 2014

My 20 year journey of black militancy

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Las Fallas or spring start in Valencia

Originally posted on Costa Blanca Lifestyle Blog:
It happens every year and each time the city of Valencia turns into a hotspot for a week. Starting on March 15 (father’s day), ninots are set up in the streets. They are awesome…

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Las Fallas: Outside looking in

Originally posted on CaliLBohemian:
Las Fallas 2014 Something struck me recently when someone from back home (Canada) asked me, “what exactly is Las Fallas?”. I had never even thought of the possibility that someone didn’t know what it was, I…

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SPRING CUSTOMS AROUND THE GLOBE

Originally posted on ▲Kathy Kiefer:
SPRING CUSTOMS AROUND THE GLOBE What makes spring special in many places of our world?    Why do people look forward to the spring?   The whole world (or, at least, the entire Northern Hemisphere) is celebrating…

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As favelas e a UPP

Originally posted on Kelcilene Maria de volta no Brasil! :
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/24/brazil-army-rio-slums-violence-world-cup A few days ago, a friend of mine sent me this article published by the Guardian. When I saw the headline, I thought, “The army??? Am I living in the…

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Feeling Bored? Go to Chicago and Play Monopoly

Originally posted on Abominable Ink by Fazooli:
Bored hit the city of Chicago with some really innovative street art in the summer of 2012 that pretty much put the anonymous artist on the “must see” list of up and comers.…

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Exchange Square, Manchester

Originally posted on Being 42:
Monday 24th March 2014, 4.35pm (day 942) I have to work all five days this week in Manchester and that happens very rarely. So I am making a point from Monday – Friday this week of…

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Lazy brown fox stages a coop in the hen-house: Caught red-handed – the predator turned protector

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Ex-pat Poles

Originally posted on Newzar:
Polish Pride The Warsaw-based “Świat na Tak” Foundation has organised yet another competition for young Poles living abroad. Submissions should be sent in by 28 March. The competition is directed at young Polish people who are living and studying outside Poland. The competition’s…

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Paranapiacaba, Brazil

Originally posted on Tossing off the Bowlines:
This weekend, Tom and I drove to Paranapiacaba, a town founded in the 1800s by the British-owned Sao Paulo Railway Company. It sits in the Atlantic rainforest of the Serra do Mar, about…

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