Getting high...

This Monday, we (Bruno, Caio, Robert, Milena and Jeanette) got really high... about 7000 feet (2150 m). The place is called Bogus Basin, Ski station in the mountains that is closed by this time of the year because it's spring here, but there's still a lot of snow. It was freezing cold out there, and so was the snow! We weren't wearing gloves but we made a snowball war - as result, our hands turned purple and we couldn't feel them. We had fun, took lots of pictures and came down just in time (a terrible storm was coming just after us). It was the first time that some of us (Caio and Milena) could get in touch with snow.

Snooooow!

Jaro and Parker going down the hills

Boise's skyline from the way back from Bogus

On tuesday during the science class, we did S'mores to introduce limiting reactant, thats a great excuse for eating chocolate and marshmallows :) We went shopping with Robert after class. We went to BestBuy, a HUGE electronic stuff store, they had products like video-games, TV's, coffee machines, micro-waves... We also went to two sport stores looking for snickers, but our search for it was in vain. That night we ate pizza :D

"And how do you like Boise so far?"

more S'mores!

Hunger under the African sun

Today (Wednesday) we did a presentation to the kindergarten about the Pantanal's insects. We loved it, the kids are very nice and cute, we had lots of fun doing that. "Uncle Dudu", (aka Eduardo Ferraz), the other teacher that came with us to The US arrived in Boise to switch place with Gloria, who's going to Sun Valley now. Another important thing - today was Pizza Wednesday! - we had that amazing italian dish for lunch at school. After the and of the classes, we went shopping again, looking for snickers and sunglasses, but this time, after a lot of search and boredom, we had success!
Tonight we - Bruno, Caio, Larissa, Jenny (Larissa's host), Jeanette (Milena's host) and Lisa (Jenny's mother) went to the Cottonwood Grille. We had characteristic local food. It was awesome, the dishes were very pretty and tasteful. After the dinner, we went to supermarket to buy the ingredients to make "brigadeiro" and Lisa drove us back home.

What an awesome half of week!

(Obs.: the sun goes down around 21:00, so we usually say it's always 17:00)

Lots of hugs!
Caio and Bruno