I walked to school today - 8 minute walk. We had to be at school by 9am. I got there a little early just to make sure of the distance.
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| Trash can - they are everywhere! |
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| Bus Stop |
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| Parking Lot |
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| All residences are in Quadras |
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| Time |
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| Day - I need to get used to this. |
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| Temperature |
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| School's Quadra |
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| Stop |
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| Enter |
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| Handicap parking sign |
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| Stop/ Exit |
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| My school |
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| Front gate of EAB |
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| Walkway into my school |
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| We Recycle!!! |
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| Lilian - my secretary and life saver!!! |
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| Newbies - waiting to get in the van |
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| Newbies again |
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| Paolo - we sang 'Happy Birthday' |
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| School sign - ironically not Escola Americana de Brasilia (EAB) |
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| 1,249.80 or 6 payments of 208.30 |
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| Scrapbooking store |
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| Kenya and Sue |
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| Clarissa and Mark |
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| Ashleigh and Emily |
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| Kristi and Ashleigh |
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| Danielle and Me |
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| Waiting to walk to the Metro after getting our pictures taken |
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| Liz and Newbies walking to the Metro |
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| The Metro Station Entrance |
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| Slowpokes of the group |
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| More slowpokes |
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| Long tunnel under the A coao (A shoun) |
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| Newbies and guides |
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| Where you buy your fare card |
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| The train |
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| Us getting on the subway |
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| Me getting on the subway - Thanks Kenya |
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| Where we got on |
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| Where we are going - yes "Shopping" is a noun in Brasilia |
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| Paolo and Dan - guides to help us buy stuff |
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| Mark and Denise (Den - E - Z) |
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| Women with babies, elderly, Pregnant women, injured people |
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| Get to seat here! |
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| Braille Subway map - How cool!?!? |
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| Liz explaining how Extra can be compared to Wal-Mart |
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| Ramp entering Extra |
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| We all grabbed a cart and a translator (or shared) |
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| Food place inside Extra |
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| Wine aisle - Yes indeed! |
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| We decided on multiple bottles! |
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| Which one - I can't tell the difference |
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| KINDER EGGS!!!! |
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| Cereal Selection |
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| I went with frosted flakes |
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| Cake mixes |
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| Brownie mix - do I buy it? |
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| Checkout lanes - I followed Sue so I could get help if needed |
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| EAB Maintenance met us and packed our stuff and took it back to our apartments for us!! |
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| Seriously - this place is great!! |
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| Thank you, come back always!! |
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| Walking back to the Subway enpty-handed after 2 hours of shopping - weird |
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| Lane for when you have a rechargeable card |
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| Clarissa and Beth (Lower School Principal) |
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| Kenya and Clarissa |
Made it safely back from the store and we headed to lunch. We were meeting the headmaster and my principal at Bardana.
