Florianopolis

Bom Dia from Florianopolis, Brasil.

We are here in Floripa, as they call it, taking a Portuguese class for a week. We are staying with a family as part of the class, with two other students. The family is great - they are very friendly and extremely patient with our sorry attempts at communicating in their native language. They make breakfast and cook a huge dinner for us every day, which is nice after eating at restaurants for so long. And they have a black and white cat.

Some of the things that we love about Brasil so far - tropical fruits, ubiquitous fruit juice stands, friendly people, and nice beaches. One other thing that we love, and that would make a killing in the US - ice cream buffets. Why didn´t they think of this when we were growing up? You get to pick as many flavors as you want with as many toppings as you want and they charge you by the kilo (not that we have bought a kilo . . . yet).

Sorry we don´t have any pictures to post now - taking the camera to the beach is not the best idea. We hope everyone is doing well!

Tchau!