Its 6:05 PM and I’m hurrying out the door to my capoeira group. Capoeira is the traditional fight-dancing art of Brazil, and my exercise of the day. I’m a bit late but, luckily for me, I’m in Brazil where ten minutes late is right on time. I’m conspicuously dressed in white stretchy pants and...

Danaë Huijser visited AEC-TEA for 10 days in 2005 and wrote this article about her experience.

Report of a journey April/May 2005

AEC-TEA is located in a small town in Bahia called Capim Grosso (“thick grass”). Capim Grosso lacks good educational opportunities and is tortured by corrupt...

Traveling is the closest we come to time travel. One minute I’m at Carr´s Aurora picking up some bagels and milk, and the next minute (ok, two days later) I’m being jostled around an open air market on a sweltering morning trying to remember the Portuguese word for carrot. One minute I’m...