Henrique has arrived

All Henrique needs to be happy is peanut butter and apricot jam from Trader Joes. Patricia´s brother arrives from São Carlos where he is studying chemistry and USP. Henrique will now enjoy his summer break to return to classes in March after Carnaval.

Like most men in their early 20s, he sleeps all day and is out all night. However, being a Brazilian, once awake his first impulse is to run down the street to a local escola (school) yard and play a pickup game of futebol with other guys from the neighborhood. For Henrique, playing futebol is a workout regiment but it is also a national passion and birthright.

We are having troubles making our connections the the internet. I feel a little bit like a bandit trying to slip into drak rooms and ask if they have an internet connection. Not speaking Ingles, the proprietors frequently do not understand what I am asking for and even if they did their are such a variety of ways ´internet connection´ can be misunderstood. I am either offered something I am embarrassed to have to turn down or the connections involve complex registrations, paying of elaborate fees or a background check. Legit business people fact hurdles and obsticles to just being open during regualr hours.

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Tchau for now!