The weekend (o final da semana) was chock full of hanging out with other Fulbrighters, between the raindrops. Victoria invited us over to her house on Saturday, which was great, and then I met up with Cara and her family on Sunday at the Hippie Fair downtown and we ended up getting caught in the …
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Shabbat Shalom!
We made it to our first synagogue experience in Brazil! We went down to the synagogue a bit early (around 5:30; services started at 7) because there are lots of street closures downtown for Carnaval and we weren’t sure how long it would take. We located the synagogue just to make sure we knew where …
Learning Experiences
Duck and I have discovered many things here about which we have had a 180-degree role reversal. One of these is my sudden and near-total directional challenge in our neighborhood (just our neighborhood, and really just leaving our house – I can usually get home just fine). I have no idea why this is, except …
The best laid plans
So remember how I said we were going to try to limit our outings? Ha. Yesterday we started the CPF (like a social security number) process at the local post office (don’t ask) and then my host at UFMG, Marilia, wrote that she would be on campus in the afternoon and would I like to …
São Paulo: Orientation
Duck and I arrived on Monday and took a cab to the hotel (Uber is about half the cost but we couldn’t get it to work for us). At Duck’s encouragement, I introduced myself to other obvious Fulbrighters also checking in. We went out into the drizzly mid-afternoon for some food where it started downpouring …
Horntoes in Brazil 