Apparently keys, and copies of keys, is big business in Brazil (or at least Rio). Throughout the city (quite densely in some areas) you will…
If you are Brazilian or have been to Brazil, then you (had damn well better) have a pair of Havaianas. From the poorest people of…
In the United States students tend to keep relationships with their professors strictly professional (although, as we know, sometimes things get out of hand). However,…
Some things here in Brazil, once strange and unfamiliar customs that confused me in uncomfortable ways, have somehow become second nature to me (and I’m…
You have a cough. Shouldn’t have gotten sick in the first place, but now you have to do something to remedy this. What do you do? Nothing?…
If there is one thing you can expect to encounter in Brazil it is lines. Now these may be the kinds of lines you are…
Before arriving in Rio de Janeiro I was convinced that I would never find myself wearing anything smaller than a pair of board shorts whilst…
Brazil is different. Rio is different. PUC-Rio is really different. Let me explain. The following is an account of my typical Tuesday and Thursday morning class between…
Apparently today is Easter (or Páscoa if you are in Brazil). I did not see any egg hunts going on, and I did not see…
Without cachaça we would not have Brazil’s national drink: the caipirinha. Cheap and readily available, cachaça has become a staple of my weekend binges.
Let’s say you are asked out on a dinner date by a Brazilian who is way out of your league (not likely, but we are…
