Jan. 8th churrasco and birthday celebration:

Churrasco = Brazilian BBQ
Jan 8 = My birthday
Put'em together and you have lots of meat, lots of beer, and lots of happy Brazilians.





"Garota de Ipanema"
Mais "Garota de Ipanema"
Lookin' down on the churrasco.
Awesome, fresh-cooked churrasco food. We had sausage (which was awesome even though I=Jew and hate sausage), chicken legs, pork ribs, beef ribs, picanha (beef from the back of the cow), and a few other things. It was awesome.
I tried three different Brazilian beers in about 45 minutes: Skol, Antarctica, and Brahma. I went back for another Skol.

My homemade birthday cake. I turned 22 on Jan. 8th.
A few cars that we don't have in America. There are a whole lot more than this that we don't have in the USA.


Cachaça, the national drink of Brasil. It's fermented out of sugar-cane juice and it about 85 proof (42.5% alc/vol). It's very strong. I won't post the pics of me taking shots of this stuff.
Os estudantes eating at an Italian pizzaria in São Fransisco.
The pizzaria.
All of us students at Centro de Lìnguas, where we're taking our Portuguese classes.
Centro de Lìnguas.
Picture of some buildings in Curitiba near Centro de Lìnguas.