Everyday they sit in their small portable ready to learn. Some days the furnace works, some days their jackets must stay on. With the winds of James Bay penetrating the cracks on the wall, they wonder when the government will give them a "real school."            "I have never had class in a real school," said [...]...

As Brazil got ready to put on the biggest party in the universe (Carnival), Rio de Janeiro's police laid out the red carpet…of blood. This past Wednesday, Rio's police killed six alleged drug traffickers in an operation that made its way through two favelas; Jacarezinho, and Mangueira.Brazil is a country that seems to be one huge [...]...

I don't know much about Singapore, but have met a girl from this amazing country who has left me curious to learn more. Diane Tang, told me that in Singapore all races and cultures live in "total harmony," with one another. "We are a multi-racial community mainly made up of Chinese, Malays, Indians and Eurasians," said Tang. The 30-year-old [...]...

Hey, I have moved to a farm here in Brazil and am left with no Internet. I do have cows and a lot of coffee trees, but no net… It´s sad how dependent we have become to that little phone wire that allows us to connect with the distant, and disconnect with the immediate. I [...]...

  "You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."This is a quote from the poet, philosopher and artist Kahlil Gibran. As the sun sets and gives room for the moon, mankind looses one more day. With advances in technology, this exchange of light [...]...