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I took three years of Brasillian Portuguese and spent six weeks in Brasil. Loved it so much I never wanted to come home.

Just came back from five weeks in the Azores. The accent is totally different from Brasil and each island ( there are 9) is totally different one from another. QUITE an adventure!

The islands are 900 miles off the coast of Portugal and are small ( one was only 14 miles long) and sparsely populated---4k or 2k. Very rural, lots of cows and seafood.

I ate EVERYTHING, octopus, raw limpets, tila, fish I'd never heard of, all parts of pig ( they use every bit if it)...everything except Mao d'vaca. Next time. I just could not wrap my head around a HOOF.

There are tea plantations, coffee plantations, weavers, embroiderers, cheese factories, tuna factories....if they made it, I saw it.

I live in an area where there are a lot of immigrants from Sao Jorge, Terciera (pronounced T'sayDA), San Miguel and Pico. LOTS of people I know visi...See More
Positive person On 4/18/16,

Wow, Chloe! What an adventure! You went by yourself? Maybe your next career should be travel agent.

Catch us up!

Chloe wrote: > I took three years of Brasillian Portuguese and spent six > weeks in Brasil. Loved it so much I never wanted to come home. > > Just came back from five weeks in the Azore...See More
Apr 18, 2016
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Apr 18, 2016
Betty Ann Good to hear from you. You have a true gift for language-- both for learning languages and for writing. Probably requires similar skills.

I have been studying Spanish for a LONG time and know quite a lot, but will never be mistaken for a native speaker. We went to a play this weekend called Clean House by Sarah Ruhl. One of the main charac...See More
Apr 18, 2016
Elaine/ret/IN Wow! What an exciting life you lead! Thanks for checking in.

Elaine
Apr 21, 2016


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