For my first post, I wanted to write something about my amazing trip to Brasil. I think, however, that I'm going to save that post for a later date, when I'm more awake and perhaps more "back in the groove" of life here in New York. Right now I am feeling like I'm not here, I'm not in Brasil, and I'm having a difficult time doing things like grad school assignments. I would rather be speaking in Portuguese and getting sunburned in 85 degree heat rather than be wearing huge boots, gloves, and a woolly hat (I do like my hat, though). I'm happy that tomorrow I will be playing with my quartet, and that tonight I finished a new arrangement of an Advent hymn, "Creator of the Stars of Night." It's a plainsong chant, and I'm excited to test out the music at Saint Peter's jazz vespers tomorrow.
I'm uploading a few photos to give a visual sense of my trip...tou com muito saudades.
Abraços,
Deanna
