Wednesday evening, Duck bounced all around me like Tigger until we left for our very first Carnaval experience. He did all the research online and found two blocos (Carnaval block parties) on the other side of our neighborhood (Boston readers: think of our neighborhood as JP, so a smaller segment of the city, but still …
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Mercado Central and Mass
If anyone out there is as into Anthony Bourdain as Duck is, you probably know that he did an episode of Parts Unknown in Minas Gerais. He spends a good long time in the Mercado Central (central market) and this episode was one of the first things Duck watched in preparation for coming here, so …
You Can’t Get There From Here
We had Duck’s Portuguese teacher and his wife over for dinner the other night and at some point, the topic turned to transportation. Allan had spent some time in Belo Horizonte and was giving us advice on getting around without a car. However, one of the things on our giant pre-Brazil to do list is …
Lições em portugues
Duck and I have begun learning Portuguese! To be fair, our journeys are pretty different. Duck is proficient in Romanian, which, although also a Romance language, is pretty far from Portuguese (though he keeps remarking on how much easier it is to learn than Hungarian!). He’s meeting with a tutor to get him up to …
Oh hello!
My partner (affectionately known here as Duck) and I are heading to Belo Horizonte, Brazil from February-November 2020. I will be doing research through a Fulbright grant and Duck will be doing… who knows? Teaching English? Getting a dog? Doing research? Tagging along with me? It remains to be seen. Stay tuned here!
Horntoes in Brazil 