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LaValley Family
February 21, 2025

Announcement

All of us kids have started sports! I (Caleb) have started indoor soccer and judo. Naomi has started “artistic” gymnastics as well as swimming. Joanna has also started “artistic” gymnastics.

Culture

The federal Brazilian government does not allow homeschooling (LAME!). Good thing we are starting school here next month! Wait… should that be an announcement too?

Vocabulary & Phrases

All the colors of the rainbow:

Red: Vermelho (Ver-may-liu)

Orange: Laranja (La-dahn-ja)

Yellow: Amarelo (Ah-ma-deh-lu

Green: Verde (Ver-ge)

Blue: Azul (A-zuw)

Purple: Roxo (Ho-shu)

Interesting Facts

  • Brazil has over 4,000 airports!

  • Brazil covers four different time zones.

  • Brazil’s highest mountain is 9,823 feet.

Top 3 Moments

Fred: Preaching in another city called Curitiba, making wild capybaras jump in the water, going back to the Dona Francisca mountain lookout.

Dona Francisca

Rachel: Visiting Curitiba, seeing a capybara, and watching the kids play sports.

In Curitiba with pastor Rocky and his wife, Ingrid

Caleb: Having a “Who can stay up the longest challenge: boys vs girls” with some friends in Georgia, (I stayed up until 7:00AM! Then my dad made me go to sleep) Yes, of course, I/the boys won. Going to a fair in Curitiba, and going to a trampoline park in Curitiba.

Naomi: Going to Curitiba, going to two different friends’ birthday parties, and getting signed up for gymnastics.

Joanna: Going to the trampoline park in Curitiba, getting signed up for gymnastics, and going on bike rides.

Opinion:

I absolutely LOVED the trampoline park. It had everything that a trampoline park in America has. They also have a game where you are in a little area with walls set up like really small maze, and on the walls are lights that flash either the color green or red. If you are on you red team, you have touch the red lights and the green team has to touch the green lights. The team who touches the most lights at the end wins. A lot of people didn’t know how to play so they would just touch all the colors so the team who won was random. It was pretty funny.