Flat Stanley from Brazil

Where are you from? We are from Brazil .

How old are you? ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­We’re about 11 years old.

What language or languages do you speak?We speak Portuguese, but we’re on the border of Paraguay and Argentina so some of us speak or understand Spanish too.

What language or languages do you write in? We’re write in Portuguese because it’s our first language.

Describe your schooling. It’s a kind of big school. There are about 600 students from 5° to 3rd year of high school.

What kind of clothing do you wear?At school we use the uniform(a white t-shirt and blue pants).In the summer we wear light clothes because our city is very hot, during the winter we have to wear heavy clothes because it’s very cold, almost freezing we reach 0° C easily but in the summer the temperature is more than 45°C . It’s a crazy weather.

Describe your climate.It’s crazy as we said. It’s temperate but because we have a lake and the city is below the sea level the weather is always hot. Our winter is short but very intense.

Describe your town, city, or village.Foz do Iguaçu is a small city in the south western of Paraná, there are over than 300.000 people from different etnies like Arabic, Lebanese, Chinese, Japanese and people from all over Brazil too. It’s famous for the Iguaçu Falls, one of the 7th Natural Wonder, Itaipu Dam the biggest dam in energy production, there is the Bird Park, a place where you can see birds like flamingos, macaws, parrots, ostriches and others in there you go into the cages where the birds live and be in contact with them. Eco Museum is another place to go to it tells of the human evolution an the animals that were rescued from the flood caused by the river changing during the dam construction.

Do you have supermarkets?Sure there lots of them, we also have Wal-mart here.

Do you have fast food chains?Sure, here we can eat at MacDonald’s or at Subway downtown or at Bob’s Burgers at the mall.

How do you get around?By car , bus or taxi if you got the money that is.

What kind of food do you eat?We eat everything. But feijoada is one of the brazilian tradition dish. In Foz a kind of Fish is the city food , barbecue is also eaten here and seafood at the beaches.

Do you have colleges where you are from?Sure. We also some from Argentiona and Paraguay .

Would you like to share cool words with us?yes. Caramba(something really good or if you are disappointed you can use it too, said in a low and sad voice.

What do homes look like by you?Our houses are like yours.

How do you get to school? By car , bus or walking some students who live nearby come by bike too.

Any additional information.

We’re about to finish our school year. We start studying in early February, there is 2-week break in July, we back in late July and end in early December.

We have vacation from December to January and start school again after the Carnival a party that you have probably seen on tv.