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| Jau: Town of roughly 145,000 people in center of São Paulo State, 300 km northwest from São Paulo City. Known for sugar and women's shoe capital of Brazil. |
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| Lots of my favorite color: Green sugar cane! Excellent highways too |
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| Typical scenery once you leave São Paulo. Not too cool, not too hot right now. Perfect temperature for springtime in the Southern Hemisphere. (Certainly much cooler and less humidity that the Caribbean!) |
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| Cristiany Castro (President of FEAPAES Franca) with one of the "continuing education" clients of Jau Special Ed Program. |
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| Papa giving impromptu closing ceremony speech. You can tell how interesting it was by the two women in the background! The audience and my senior comp. thought it was OK. |
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| One of the 2 garden projects we inherited. If they only knew how limited our gardening skills are! |
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| Wonderful project for families with small space. |
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| With a little fertilizer, topsoil mixed with sandy soil and water, anything grows in this part of the "promised land." |
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| Hollambra city entrance |
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| Did we mention that they have beaches an hour from SP? (Guauja) |
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| Definitely need my Churchill fins! (Ryan? Sara? Por favor! Snorkel gear too please.) |
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| P-day with Senior Comp |
Thanks for sharing some of your experiences in Brazil. How is your language skills coming along? The gardening projects look promising...what other welfare projects are there in your area?
ReplyDeleteOur big project right now is wheelchairs! We just started a 2 week training with the Dows and 2 OT/PT trainers from the states. We are excited! We are also doing a project with Codornas ( type of quail) We are making fewer mistakes with our Portuguese 😁!
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear how your language skills are coming right along. I though we had heard of all the different animal projects but raising quail is a new one. I imagine they are being raised for food and to sell as breeders.
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