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 …
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Wisconsin of Brazil
Imagine Chicago is actually the biggest city in Wisconsin (it’s not hard to do, I know all your Midwest geography is so good that you know Chicago basically borders Wisconsin already). So a big city in the heart of cheese country. Sprinkle in a few West Virginia mines, and here we are. For the beginning …
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 …
Iguaçu Falls Roundup
Birds: I snapped a shot of this cheerful little (ie about the size of a starling) guy at breakfast this morning before he hopped away. There were also some birds soaring above the falls that Duck thinks were vultures – they were amazing to watch, huge wingspans and really just riding the thermals, not flapping …
Horntoes in Brazil 