Gramado / Porto Alegre!

03/31/16 - Gramado / Porto Alegre!
 

We started our day in Gramado with a visit to a car museum. After admiring the spectacular cars we went to a lake called Lago Negro (Black Lake). The lake looked beautiful surrounded by flowers of all different shades of pink and purple and the greenest trees I’ve seen here in Brasil. After visiting the cute artesan shops near the lake, some of us walked around it and others rented swan shaped peddle boats to ride around the lake. We went for a wonderful lunch in downtown Gramado and afterwards passed a few hours looking in the cute little shops and eating chocolates from the many chocolate shops that Gramado is known for. Gramado is a city very different from the rest of Brasil. The European influence in Gramado is very obvious in all the architecture. The temperature today was also very nice- much cooler than the cities that most of us are living in here. After walking around downtown for a bit, we travelled for two hours to get to Porto Alegre where we met a bunch of other exchange students that will be travelling with us for the next part of the trip. Dinner was in a churrascaria, which is a typical meal in Brazil with rice and beans and waiters constantly offering you barbecued meat, sausages, and chicken directly from the spit onto your plate. There was live music while we were eating and afterwards there was a show with typical styles of dance from Argentina. We are all very excited to go to Uruguay tomorrow and have the chance to see yet another culture!

 

Written by Emily Mayes and Yuan Chi Chao (Angel).

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31/03/16 - Gramado / Porto Alegre!

A gente começou nosso dia em Gramado visitando um museu de carros antigos - Hollywood Dream Cars. Tinha muito carro bacana. Depois, fomos para um lago chamado de Lago Negro. O lago ficou muito lindo cercado de flores coloridas e arvores extremamente verdes. Visitamos as lojinhas perto do lago antes de andar ao redor do lago ou pegar um pedalinhos na forma de um cisne. Então, a gente almoçou no centro de Gramado. Passamos um tempo conhecendo as lojas e comendo chocolates das Chocolaterias pelos quais Gramado é conhecido. Gramado é uma cidade muito diferente do resto do Brasil. Deu para ver a influência europeia no arquitetura. A diferença no clima foi bem gostosa também. A gente viajou duas horas de ônibus para chegar em Porto Alegre e conhecer os outros intercambistas que vão viajar conosco por essa parte da viagem. Jantamos em uma churrascaria enquanto assistíamos um show de dança nos estilos típicos da Argentina. Nós estamos animados para conhecer o Uruguai amanhã!

 

Escrito por Emily Mayes e Yuan Chi Chao (Angel).