Where to? Next stop Viçosa (MG, Brazil)

First of all, I want to thank you all very much for all your kind comments and reactions I receive from you guys 😃. It gives me the energy and motivation to keep writing for y'all 😊.  Since I have been ill a few days and other days I have been very busy I am a bit late with this blogpost. But there is enough to tell you all. So enough off this small talk and lets continue to the real thing. As always, muito prazer! The day after Juiz de Fora, a friend from the Netherlands arrived. Lucas who is also studing the same as me will start his internship too in  Viçosa. So I will do my best to show him the way around  Viçosa 💪. The ambassadors from the UFV who help all the international students with what ever help they need had organized a picknick! All the participants brought something to eat or drink to the picknick (preferably something typical from their homecountry). So there was a lot of different food to try, especially because there are a lot of people who c...

Enjoy reading (muito prazer)! Before coming to Brazil I heard stories about the cultural differences. As I said in my last post, you pay your food per kilo during lunch. And as I see it, most Brazilians in Viçosa go out eating during lunch, except on Sunday when everything is closed. It is really tempting to eat a lot this way...  One of the most common dishes during lunch is rice and/with beans (arroz e feijão).  One of the mean cultural things I knew before and experienced pretty soon after my arrival in  Viçosa  is that  hugging people is really common. Even when you just met someone you can hug them, or they will 😉. It is really something you need to get used to it. And I am still learning when I should hug and when not, sometimes it gets really confusing.  One day we went for a long walk to the old internship of one of my housemates. It was a farm were they perform research with cows, some cows had surgery in order to look into and take ...