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Today is the 457th birthday of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, where I have lived for the past 5 months.

The first Brazilian astronaut is going into space very soon. He said he was going to bring a Brazilian flag and soccer jersey with him in the hopes that the national team would win the World Cup. How bringing a jersey into space will help with this is of course a little unclear, but I'm sure the thinking is that anything helps.

And for those of you who were on the edge of your seats about what I'm going to say next, the winner of the most recent round of Big Brother Brasil is a Bahian woman, for the second time in a row. She gets to take home R$1 million. Sweet. Or as they say in Brazil, "Otimo".

And I'm leaving for Buenos Aires on Saturday (April 1). I should be there maybe 4-5 weeks and then I'll be back in the States for my brother's graduation from college, and then back in Salvador at the beginning of June for a few months at least. I'm not willing to look much farther into the future than that. I'm very much looking forward to European-style coffee and different street smells.