Painting the town green and yellow

All of you soccer fans be jealous. You would love Rio right now. Since Brazil’s first game was today the city was just revolving around and buzzing about soccer. We had a conference with the Secretary of the Dept. of Education today which was very interesting. They were interested in getting our input to help improve the way they do curriculum which I found to be a little flattering seeing as how I do not exactly consider myself an expert in curriculum. But anyways, it was really funny because not only was their entire building and all of the employees decked out in Brazilian colors and jerseys but throughout the meeting you could hear the noise and excitement on the streets getting louder and louder. They got out at noon in order to go watch the game…….at 3:30!! Haha. There is truly no sporting event to compare this to. We watched the game in a restaurant I learned a lot of new profanity in Portuguese…thankfully we got to celebrate 2 goals and a victory! Whoot woooo!!!!! Best moment though was walking down the street and seeing a little boy jumping up and down in the window so I turned and imitated him and he got so excited and was like “Brasil! Brasil!” ahhhhh he was so cute!!!! I wanted to put him in my purse and take him with me. (Him and every other unbelievably ADORABLE Brazilian kid…I want one. Very badly.  ) By the way…as I type this there is still incessant honking down on the streets post-soccer game…
Oh my and I found a sweet fruit stand today and got so much good fruit for like 6 reias (only like 3 dollars) Seriously….the best mangos I have ever laid eyes on were 50 cents!! Life doesn’t get much better than that. Most importantly I have learned how to order feijao at restaurants….since I can’t live without black beans.