Juiz de Fora
Bozeman departure
Oh hey, Jesus!
Ipanema
Rio, from the top of Corcovado
My apartment
Moving into my new room
TV room in the apartment
The churrasco
Felipe and I
The Beatles cover band at Caroline's sister's graduation ceremony
The Beatles cover band was followed by an opera singer
Parabens!
With Caroline, Garrett and Caroline's family
An engineering building on campus
The view from on top of campus
Each facultade has its own "cantina," which are fun hangout spots
Science buildings
The "Praça Civil"
This area is almost like a campus quad
Blending in on my first day of school!
Making hamburgers for "American food night"
Felipe and Roberta, helping with the cooking
Garrett and Co. getting dinner ready
Thumbs up!
Everyone with the food!
Samba lesson post-dinner
In Portuguese: "Overuse condoms", Juiz de Fora Pride
Lots of people at the "parada gay"
More people at JF Pride
"Education without homophobia"
Interesting outfit, JF Pride
Juiz de Fora Pride
In Spanish: "I want to get married, I'm going to Argentina"
By tickets at Maracanã; the windows were comically low
Maracanã! Note the World Cup propaganda in background
Thumbs up to soccer! Lucio and the Americans
Big Fluminense flag!
Torcidores do time melhor!
Pre-game the game, Maracanã in background
Starting to fill up
We sat in the crazy part of the stadium
I don't remember why we were saluting...
Under a big flag they pull over everyone
I always wanted to be part of one of these!
Sport fans
We just scored! Take it off!
Under another big flag, with some guy who was trying to talk on his phone
The stadium got pretty full that day. The blue section with the people in red was the entire representation of the other team, they had to travel a really long way to get to Rio....
Post victory
With Vick, Caroline and Mari
Vick, Caroline, Mari, Lucas & Jaime
Juiz de Fora sunrise... Time for the garden tour
We are doing some learning about botany
Botanical garden
Looking a little tired, with Fran in the jardim botânico
Me and the gals, learning about trees
Me and "Queen Germany"
Me and "MASTER Queen Germany, very unclear what these names meant.
Modeling some fellow's hat
I asked "Master Queen Germany" to dance
Burning up the dance floor with "Master Queen Germany"
I was very surprised when I needed to switch partners...
Lucas, Carolyn, Me, Mari, Macarena and Paloma
The Americans with our professor, Carol
Lucas, Athena, Vick, Carolyn, Mari, Macarena, Paloma, Me and Garret
Working on my creepy face...
Me with my extended Brazilian family!
Felipe's friend Vitor, Garret, Felipe's brother Fernando, Fernando's girlfriend, Felipe's girlfriend, Felipe
We love Japanese food!
With our Portuguese teacher, Ulisses
Garret and company
The "churrasqueiro" doing his thang
The Argentines showing their "poker faces"
Congrats Garrett!
Brazil family
Learning to dance
Breaking it down with Mom
Love
Our future is so bright, we have to wear shades or close our eyes
My Brazilian Mom
This may or may not have been posed...
At "Heaven's Window"
I got jealous of the picture I took of Garrett, so I made him take one of me doing the exact same thing
President Lula
That's the President of Brazil in the background
Our beautiful house on Ilha Grande
View from our porch on Ilha Grande
Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos