I arrived at the Porto Alegre airport late this afternoon after about 24 hours of travel. I was running on 4 plane-hours of sleep (one plane-hour of sleep is ~¼ bed-hours in my book) and an airport nap (which looked a little like this), but I was eager to see familiar faces. We waited a bit for Allie, checked in at our hotel, and met our university host: Professor Carlos, Dean of Engineering. But before we had time to think about anything else, Prof Carlos told us that we had been invited for a welcome dinner – a “barbecue” – by one of the faculty members, Ana, her partner, Marcelo, as well as some of their family.
Month: May 2017
Veggie Veg Veg
— You might skim over the About the Trip page before you start here, it’ll make more sense 😀 —
Road to Veggie
Around Thanksgiving last year, I decided to turn to a pescatarian diet (though I often referred to myself as a vegetarian). My motivation didn’t lie in the implications for animal’s rights and/or for the environment, although these were certainly benefits of the diet. I was mostly interested in how it would affect my health; I wasn’t convinced that it would “make me happier than my meat eating friends” or increase my life expectance by 3.6 years, but I wanted to try it out for myself.