2022 Brazil A-Term

 We started our first day of work with a refreshing breakfast, ready to be productive. Our activities today included working in the Unbotelling Minds vegetable garden and Spanish lessons, both of which were with groups of young kids. We arrived at the Unbottling Minds headquarters at 8:30AM where we got to meet all the  Worldpackers and Unbotelling Minds crew . Currently, there are six Worldpackers staying at the headquarters, five Brazilians from different places in Brazil, and one Angolan-Portuguese young lady. At around 9:00AM we started the first activity: working in the vegetable garden. A group of five kids showed up very early eager to begin. Fabricio and I along with three other Unbottling Minds crew members led this activity. We started off with something very familiar to the average Post Oak student, the kids themselves writing down and agreeing upon the community norms.  After this discussion we planted nine letuces, nine parsleys, and ni...

  The Beginning of the 2022 Brazil A-Term: Intro and Travel Day By Fabrício Guerra Personal Introduction And so it begins; finally the A-Term that I had been planning since before pandemic times is coming to life. Although its current form and structure varies differently from the original version, it's looking like this will be an incredible A-Term. If you're reading this, there's a high chance that you have no idea what the makeup of this A-Term is. Because of this, I've decided to use this first blog as a way of introducing and explaining the A-Term to my audience. I'm not going to be able to tell the entire story (I wouldn't want to drown you in pages of Fabricio-esque story telling) but I am going to give some key information. We've come a long way from where we originally started. Our plans and motives have evolved so much so that we are coming closer and closer to making this project nto an actual participative A-Term (and maybe even J-Term) for other...