We’ve been up early every day (because moving is so fun and we can’t wait to get started!) and are pretty zonked by the end of the day. So zonked that tonight, when I noticed that Marc was only wearing one slipper, I told him that he had lost a foot mitten because I couldn’t …
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Serenity Now
“Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber, as a word, was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound, but you couldn’t fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it, …
“And face unafraid, the plans that we’ve made…”
Happy Festivus! Up here in the northern hemisphere, this song has been running through my head. Though it’s hardly a winter wonderland in Boston (upper 40’s today), we’re apparently in for a big “wintry mix” soon. Meanwhile, it’s almost 80F (26C) degrees and thunderstorming in Belo Horizonte and I would be lying if I said …
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The Hard and the Stressful
We are frantically trying to get our papers together to apply for the visa. Fulbright recommends doing this 60 days before your travel date; right now we are about 5-6 weeks out and even if everything gets expedited we won’t be able to submit everything until about 4 weeks out. Eeeek. The holdup is that …
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 …
Location, Location, Location
Things have been a little busy on the family front over here, so there hasn’t been much focus on preparations, but we did secure a place to live! I had reached out to someone who had done a Fulbright in BH a couple of years ago and who was a wealth of information. She gave …
Uma introdução à comida
(An introduction to the food) When in doubt, a children’s librarian turns to… children’s books! I grabbed a book called Foods of Brazil by Christine Roholt from our children’s cooking section because I was curious about this famous feijoada dish. Duck and I have had several conversations about the food in Brazil, especially because I …
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 …
Horntoes in Brazil 