The Differences!

People don't drink milk by itself and it ALWAYS comes in a box.

On city busses you must give up your seat for: Handicapped, Elderly, Pregnant, Women with small children aaaand Obese people!

People here eat roughly 4 meals a day: Breakfast, Lunch, Misto, and Dinner. Misto is a grilled ham and cheese that people usually eat between lunch and dinner!

No one has a coffee maker. They make coffee in a similar style to a french press and then in goes into one of those dispensers that you often see at business meetings and offices for people to drink from for the rest of the day.

People here buy gas tanks that hook up directly to the stove/oven you don't buy gas from a company.

Dryers don't exist. Just clothes lines.

Automatic cars are RARE and expensive.

Lunch and dinner consists of: Rice, Beans and Meat and sometimes salad. Usually the meat is fried.

Breakfast is usually bread and butter, NOT TOAST, or crackers and jam with coffee or juice.

Almost every store will offer you the option to pay for your purchase in 12 payments. Sneakers, Tv's, Dishes, you name it, you can divide it.

When baby girls are born they get their ears pierced immediately.

Lots of US cities have rats, cities here have dogs. Brazilians call them "vira latas" or "Can lifters"

Mops don't exist. You put a wet rag over your broom and go from there.

Everyone owns a water bubbler or something similar. The water here has too much fluoride to drink.

The phone companies mostly run on credits. Add credits to your cell phone and they only get used on outgoing calls or texts. Generally it's pretty cheap.

Kitchen and bathroom sinks don't have a temperature option. The water just comes out a cool/warm temperature all the time.

Reading for pleasure isn't popular over here.

Drinking is legal in way more places. You can have a beer at the mall, in an ice cream shop, in a nice clothing store, on the beach, just about wherever!

The drinking age is 18 here but I was never carded!

It's common for kids to live with their parents until they're through with college, and not have their first job until after they graduate.

If you order yourself a plain hamburger it will come with: lettuce, tomato, potato stix, corn and peas. Other popular toppings? Ham, bacon, and fried eggs.

Pineapple is not an appropriate pizza topping here, but fish and eggs are. Also dessert pizzas are very common here!

Big Brother the TV show is insanely popular over here. I think Big Brother Brasil is on their 13th season?

Older women dye their hair until they are SUPER old.

I'm sure there are TONS more, but these are all the ones I could think of and the ones I've experienced!

A Brazilian Rainbow

Looks the same as American ones!

The Beginning Of The End.

This was a weekend surprisingly filled with tours. A tour of Guarapari and all its beautiful beaches, a tour of Jabaquara and all it's welcoming people, a tour of Yuri's Grandmother's house. I took TONS of pictures and said my first goodbyes. It was quite a weekend.

Not the best picture, but a real picture of Jaca!

This guy talks SO MUCH!

Pedro would rather go to the beach without sunblock.

Another PACKED beach.

The neighbors found a box of puppies. They were PAINFULLY cute.

Aren't they to die for?

Since time flew by and I didn't post all of my pictures I'm going to do my best to do one or more post per day this week. My last week! Crazy! Stay tuned for more ;)

The Last Ubu.

It's my last full weekend here and we're off to say our goodbyes to Ubu. It looks like it might rain on Sunday, but Saturday looks nice. It'll be a tough goodbye, the realization that I have to return to (cold!) reality. Cheers to Ubu! I'll be sure to get more pictures of ME this weekend! Next post will be Sunday or Monday!

From the roof!

We discovered a very cool rooftop view while in Ubu this past week. We made it a daily habit to go up there and appreciate what a beautiful beach it really is. Here are some of the pictures we took while we were up there!

Pretty cool huh?

Guarapari!

I had hoped to post these yesterday, but we ended up going out to watch a soccer game. I'll post pictures of that another day! These pictures are from the beach that's up the coast from Ubu. It's a lot more crowded than Ubu and it's next to a good sized city with tons of shopping and restaurants. The water was so much brighter there. I'm nuts and didn't wear a bathing suit so we parked ourselves at a restaurant where I had my very first caipirinha.

The drive in

Did I mention it was crowded?

The water!!

The rockier side of the beach

That truck back there? FULL OF COCONUTS!!

The one, the only, caipirinha.

Bruno and Larissa

A picture that escaped the weird fruits post! Here we bought Jambo, I'd call it a Brazilian plum almost. I forgot this one in my weird fruits post!

Red, white and blue!

We saw all sorts of big trolly's and buses that were shaped funny. This one is the "Big worm of happiness"!

Weird Fruits.

I've been able to try some really neat fruits while I've been here. Unfortunately I didn't get pictures of all of them but I'm going to do my best to find some. I'll start with the more normal

Pessegos: Brazilian Peaches. Basically the same, except sweeter.

Uvas: Grapes. Always green, and never seedless.

Manga: Mangoes. A few different varieties, always SO good.

Maracuja: Passion Fruit. You can find these in the U.S. seasonally, but they aren't as tasty as the ones here. Another very popular juice flavor.

Jabuticaba: Doesn't exist in the U.S. so I can't give it a name. I posted about them a ways back. Similar to grapes in size and appearance but not in texture.

Goiaba: Again, doesn't exist in the U.S. so I can't name it. A very popular juice and popsicle flavor here.

Graviola: No translation here. This one is definitely a weird one. Doesn't look edible from the outside, but it's sweet, juicy and soft on the inside.

And last but not least Jaca: Supposedly it's called "Jack Fruit" in the U.S. but you won't find it there. They are absolutely massive. They're full of little "cloves" I'll call them, of fruit that each have a seed inside. People claim it tastes like bubblegum, but I wouldn't go that far. Sweet, but not bubblegum sweet.

No idea who this guy is, but the picture shows the size well!

Would you try these??