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Brazilian Culture

Rio-de-Janeiro-Key-Stand

April 25, 2013

Brazil’s Lucrative Key Duplication Business

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 find small kiosks, supposedly 24 hours, that will make duplicate keys for you "quickly and securely". In some places you can literally stand at one kiosk

Brazil Brazilian Culture

Havaianas Logo Sign

April 3, 2013

Havaianas: The Footwear of Brazil

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 the favelas, to the richest most chique real housewives of Brazil, everyone has Havaianas. Used by most for going to the beach, Havaianas are a simple pair of

Brazil Beachwear,  Brazilian Culture,  Clothing

Brazilian Teachers Self

October 10, 2011

Student-Teacher Love Making In Brazil

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, Brazil has once again afforded me the opportunity to experience things in a new light. Once the workday is over my professors

Brazil Brazilian Culture,  School

Vault Boy Thumbs Up

September 12, 2011

How To Execute the Thumbs-Up in Brazil

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 not just talking about eating HALLS). Let us take a closer look at the hand gesture known commonly as the "thumbs-up", beginning with its

Brazil Brazilian Culture,  How To

HALLS Feature

September 3, 2011

Kids in the HALLS

You have a cough. Shouldn't have gotten sick in the first place,ย butย now you have to do something to remedy this. What do you do? Nothing? Go to a doctor? Take some cough drops? Oh, cough drops you say? You mean like Halls? Because Halls are cough drops right? According to their website: HALLS

Brazil Brazilian Culture,  Brazilian Food

Mercado Zona Sul

August 27, 2011

Why Grocery Shopping In Brazil Is Soul Crushing

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 used to, or maybe they aren't, but the lines I am addressing here are particular to supermarkets. So, you are out of food, toilet paper, cerveja, chokito, nudie mags, whatever and

Brazil Brazilian Culture,  Rants

Brazilian Sunga

May 1, 2011

Brazil Beachwear: The Sunga

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 at the beach. Nothing you could have said would have changed that fact; but Brazil proved aย formidableย catalyst for change in the bathing suit

Brazil Beach,  Brazilian Culture,  Clothing

PUC-Rio Quad

April 26, 2011

A Day In The Life Of A PUC-Rio Student

Brazil is different. Rio is different. PUC-Rio isย really different. Let me explain. The following is an account of myย typical Tuesday and Thursday morning class between the hours of 09:00 and 11:00. A TYPICAL DAY 9:00ย - Classย officially begins according to the PUC-Rio schedule of

Brazil Brazilian Culture,  Daily Life

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