I've finally found an apartment that I can stay at until April 20th. I spent the day helping Jin move, which got ugly because he was exploited by the landlord. She rented an apartment with two room and and a small storage area she uses as a room. Thus, the unlucky tourists have to pay for the entire apartment while she lives in her closet without paying rent and acting like the landlady.
My interaction with her was a bit more down to earth. It turns out she and her brother are both gay and from a poorer region of Brazil. She must have had it hard because now she is on drugs and very emaciated. Jin really shook her up after she demanded he pay for a doornob that was broken since his arrival. I hope the best for her, she was a very sweet girl and deep down, apart from all the ugliness, I could sense sense she had a good spirit.
Besides that, I've spent the day worrying about how I'm going to get this research methodology together. I need to conduct a more thourough literature review and turn that in by Friday. I have set up a few meetings with local gays but they will only provide me with the wealthy perspective of gay life. I need to befriend more local gays that come from the suburbs an favelas.
Tomorrow, I finally plan to send out postcards and a pink bikini for Jason, our IDF Director! lol. I just have to add: interest rates and bigger spending, especially from the EU isn't realistic. Merkel and Sarkozy are already critisizing the summit before its began. We need oversight of banks and institutions asap and hopefully that and a blueprint for better global economic oversight can somewhat be established. Man, Michelle Obama is smokin.....
Good night everyone and God bless.
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