After lunch today, Duck and I went on an adventure. We walked nearly an hour to one of the city libraries, around the east side of Lake Pampulha and north. We finally reached the Parque Municipal Fazenda Lagoa Do Nado (City Park Farm Lake of Swimming, where swimming is curiously not allowed), which houses a …
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Aguas de Março
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 …
Library Cards and Hot Dogs
Well, we made it through Carnaval! A couple of times we found ourselves at blocos where everyone was singing along to the music and dancing so freely and I have never felt whiter! My Puritanical blood rebelled against even trying to imagine my body moving in those ways. While things were closed, we killed time …
Books, livrerias, and heebie gibis
This afternoon Duck managed to get me out of the house and downtown to browse at some livrerias. As in Spanish, this word is a false cognate; it does not mean library (that’s biblioteca) but rather bookstore. But the two we went to today were not what you’re thinking. One, called Pauline, we arrived at …
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 …
Horntoes in Brazil 