Muito caro

LIVING IN RIO IS EXPENSIVE.
Reale is the currency in brazil ( 1 reale=approx .66 USD) A decent lunch costs anywhere from 20-30 reales in Rio...obviously, things can get pretty costly. A beer is abour 7reales. However, we did find our way around this! At the PUC campus, lunch at the cafeteria is 6 reales, muito barato (very cheap). So we decided we will eat there as much as possible! Dad if you are reading this, I am trying but its really expensive living here!Taxis, buses, food...drinks...it adds up!

Last night a group of us went out to Mud Bar in Copacabana. At night, we have to take taxis everywhere as safety precautions...that's Rio! We all drank Skol, a type of Brazilian beer but I also tried one called Bohemia which was tasted pretty good as well.

In other news, we found out in class today that our professor has a boyfriend-there goes that hope!

It was raining this morning and me and Juan had to walk 7 blocks in the terrential downpour. We ended up being late to class at IBEU because of it. Portuguese classes are 8:30am-11:30 am every day with a 15 minute break...fun stuff.

After class we took the bus over to PUC (Pontificial Catholic University)where we have a business seminar from 2:30-5:30pm three days a week. Its actually a really cool program because we are lectured by a different person about a different business subject every time.BUT THE LECTURES ARE BORING AS HELL. We also go on business visits like to Petrobras etc. Today we have a guest lecture on bringing Starbucks coffee to Brazil, who are said "coffee conossiers". Tomorrow we are visiting a favela (the slums in Brazil).

Going out tonight, Tchau!