I'm a dancing machine! Or, how everybody wants to be Brazilian

I had my first capoeira class yesterday! This guy from my masters is obsessed with the stuff, and convinced me to come along to a Sunday afternoon class. Turns out that it's tons o' fun! I pretty much sucked, but I can do a somewhat controlled cartwheel thing, a few kicky things, and took a few 'steps' walking on my hands. Good times! I'm going back next week for some more, assuming my aching body feels better by then.

Other than that, I'm hardly doing any work these days. Well, school work, that is. I wrote that article last week, and I'm doing another one about microfinance in the developed world. Hopefully this one will get me a three-month internship at the Economist this summer, but even if it doesn't (it's a really long shot) I'll have learned something. The gig would be in London, maybe paid (it's sponsored by a foundation), doing economic and financial writing for the magazine. I know, finance is hardly the most scintillating topic but I figure there are some interesting aspects to be uncovered -- microcredit, for example. And man, if the Economist isn't a resume boost, I don't know what is!

I'm also still looking for internships, and there are some good prospects in Bogota, Columbia, as well as Calcutta. China is officially out -- the language problem is just too much to deal with when I'm supposed to be working AND doing research in that language for my thesis -- not the best time to start the language. I figure my terrible Spanish can improve enough by September to allow me to do something interesting if I go to South America. I'm also doing some copyediting, which brings in cash but takes lotsa time and can be exhausting. I was in a terrible mood all last week because of it, but things have been looking up since this weekend.

So now you know everything. Hope it wasn't too boring.