This month, I went to visit my roommate from USC, Gaby, in Sao Paulo where she's studying abroad. This was my first time in Brazil, and thank god I had Gab because she was my translator for everything Portuguese when Spanish didn't work. Besides for having a local tour guide/translator, it was also really nice to catch up because I hadn't seen her...

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On Friday, it was down-pouring (again) in Santiago, and I didn't have an umbrella or a raincoat with me. I was already in a pretty weird mood from work, and I was getting soaked. On my way to the metro, a stranger said she was walking the same way and shared her umbrella with me. We talked the whole way there about our...

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