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South America — A Predilection for Exposition Home Ancestry Travel North America South America Europe Australia Musings Portfolio Non-Fiction Short FictionWell-nighA Predilection for Exposition Home Ancestry Travel North America South America Europe Australia Musings Portfolio Non-Fiction Short FictionWell-nighSouth America North America Europe Australia First off, full disclosure: I'm pretty sure I took 0% of these photographs. They were taken by adults who were virtually little young me during that summer of 2004. My impressions of Brazil were varied- it was the first time I had left the United States, and we all needed to get passports surpassing the journey. We spent an unshortened day in travel and customs. When we arrived in Florianopolis we crush to the house of my mother's colleague. It was the first time I had overly seen poverty and slums. We crush through a tamed lanugo tin shack section of the municipality surpassing we climbed a hill to escalade to the houses of the people who were largest off. The house we visited had a full time maid, a pool, a gate- it was certainly a cut above. We sat out on the porch and I was shown the Southern Cross for the first time, but I don't know if I really saw it. I think without a while of people's pointing, I gave up and nodded, pretending I could see. The neighborhood kids were playing soccer in the street, and I went out to join them. I was never interested in sports, but I was interested in going out into the neighborhood and this strangely foreign concept of playing in the street. Our house, however rural, was on the main highway through town. Our dad referred to it as "The River of Death." It was never unscratched to go near the road, where we lived. There were few opportunities to play with neighbor kids, either- just one of our neighbors had kids our age, and plane then they only rented the house for a couple of years surpassing moving to flipside part of town. It was novel and I enjoyed every minute of it, despite my well-constructed failure at the game. These are the things which stick in my memory well-nigh Brazil. These, and going to the mall lanugo the street in the afternoons while Mom was working, and ordering the same thing at the same stall in the supplies magistrate every day considering it was the only Portuguese we (well, I) knew how to say: "quatro queijo massas" meant succulent four cheese pasta. "Obrigado" meant thank you. That was well-nigh it. Actually I remember the supplies quite well. I remember the Kinder eggs in the shop window, a welter to me. I had only overly seen a kinder egg surpassing when my mother brought them when with her from her trips abroad. Equally delightful was the chocolate cake- full on chocolate cake, with frosting and everything- which was served for breakfast in our hotel. I remember going to a churrasqueira, where they served meat on huge skewers from which they sliced pieces onto your plate. I remember Domini's, our favorite restaurant in Brazil, where they served pizza with the wildest toppings imaginable. Any kind of pizza you could think of, they had at Domini's. There was a whole range of Dessert pizzas, my favorite, as I've unchangingly had something of a sweet tooth. The Luna sideboard (another word in Portuguese for me) served the weightier ice surf I've overly had. Aside from the cuisine, my memories of most of my time in Brazil is fuzzy. I remember I was reading Perloo the Bold by Avi, and listening avidly to Alice in Wonderland and Middlesex on my tape deck. I don't think I ought to have been listening to Middlesex; I think I got some thrill at listening to something intended for older audiences. As such, a good portion of it may have gone over my head. I haven't returned to the typesetting since my attempted read at ten years old, and I likely should. It is strange how little any of this reflects Brazil. I remember the cows and the mongrel dogs wandering the streets. We, all three of us, loved dogs and it was nonflexible to obey when my mother told us not to tideway them. I remember a man delivering two tons of groceries home on his bicycle, steering with no hands. I remember one hike when we were resting on the side of a hill and I saw an Aloe Vera plant. "We have one of these in our kitchen," I remarked. Our guides explained to me that they could be used to heal sunburns, and tomfool hot skin. I learned that our plant was not native, and it belonged here instead of in our house in Connecticut. I remember asking foolish questions like "When do you gloat Christmas?" considering we were there in Brazil's winter. Brazil's winter was very pleasant for me, wandering in a t-shirt and no bugs to worry about, as it was too unprepossessed for all of them. I remember thinking it was near to perfect. I moreover said "it gets over 100 degrees at home," in wordplay to a question well-nigh weather variation, and received some startled glances in return. "In Fahrenheit," I thought to add, feeling pleased to have learned something of the differences between my home and here. As far as cultural immersion, we saw a local parade and visited the x-rated fortress and saw the sights. We ate the supplies and attempted (very poorly) to speak the language. I remember when Garfield was in the theater, and we scrutinizingly went to see it surpassing we realized that it would not have English subtitles. Not too shabby for a tuft of kids. Some memories of Brazil certainly stuck with me, but they faded in time. I remember stuff struck in my Freshman Women's Studies matriculation by the sudden memories of the slums of Florianopolis when we began to talk well-nigh the poor people of Brazil. It was like I'd forgotten everything until that moment, when everything suddenly came back. I finger privileged to have had the opportunity to visit such a country at so impressionable an age. I have sworn that I must return someday, and hopefully someday soon. There's a whole continent still to explore.  Top PO Box 1, Salt Lake City, UT 84110 Email me at: amy.catherine.martin@gmail.com "A Predilection for Exposition" is compiled, written and maintained by Amy Martin. See increasingly Powered by Squarespace.