Final Pre-trip Brazil Updates

I have been meaning to write for almost two weeks that I’ve got my Visa back from the Brazilian Consulate in San Francisco, which is pretty cool. I saw a picture of it and it looks really sweet. I’m slowly turning into a world traveler! It took about a week inside the consulate, then they FedEx Next Day Air’d it to Memphis, then Spokane, then the Tri-Cities, then Prosser. They dropped it off with Mom.

I finished my Typhoid oral vaccine earlier this week. I felt a little crappy for about an evening, and then kinda leveled off. One of my roommates went to South America and had no ill-effects from the shot, so I’m gonna say that I highly recommend anyone to go that route instead. I also finally got the Hepatitis and Tetanus vaccines today. She warned me it’d hurt and told me to take some asprin, but I passed on the painkillers and have been quite okay anyways–I’ve made it hurt far worse with pushups.

All I really have left at this point is some stuff at work, my math381 project, to move out of Stevens Court, and to pack for the trip. That’s gonna make for a very busy 13 days, though… Wow.