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Brazil for 2nd-graders
U persuaded me to give a little talk on Brazil to her class. I made pão de queijo, showed them that in Portuguese a tilde goes over a vowel, wore white and brought flowers for Iemanjá, talked about New Year's Eve on the beach in Rio, and passed around a pile of books with pretty pictures.
Oh, yeah, and U made a mix CD of her favorite Brazilian tracks for every kid in the class. Think we could get into a Mac ad? Probably not, since we didn't buy them at the iTunes Store.
The books mostly came from the APL. I tried UT first, but despite having arguably the best Latin American library in the world, it is segregated in a non-circulating special collection. UT's main library has a total of about two dozen books on Brazil. It's madness. But one of them is the 1962 Life classic in the middle with the Rio shot I most needed.
Brazil for 2nd-graders
U persuaded me to give a little talk on Brazil to her class. I made pão de queijo, showed them that in Portuguese a tilde goes over a vowel, wore white and brought flowers for Iemanjá, talked about New Year's Eve on the beach in Rio, and passed around a pile of books with pretty pictures.
Oh, yeah, and U made a mix CD of her favorite Brazilian tracks for every kid in the class. Think we could get into a Mac ad? Probably not, since we didn't buy them at the iTunes Store.
The books mostly came from the APL. I tried UT first, but despite having arguably the best Latin American library in the world, it is segregated in a non-circulating special collection. UT's main library has a total of about two dozen books on Brazil. It's madness. But one of them is the 1962 Life classic in the middle with the Rio shot I most needed.