from the tropics http://brazil.eslblogs.org sights, sound, feel, flavour and other impressions Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:03:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Moving http://brazil.eslblogs.org/2006/08/10/moving/ http://brazil.eslblogs.org/2006/08/10/moving/#comments Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:03:26 +0000 barbara dieu http://brazil.eslblogs.org/2006/08/10/moving/ Update your links!

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On Monday, we covered 25km of a rough rutted track in a Land Rover all the way to Castelhanos, a long, wild and pristine beach on the open sea side of the island. The 1 1/2 hour ride was worth every bump and shake and on our way back we stopped at a waterfall in the middle of the Atlantic rainforest to refresh  after a day in the sun and two hefty and heady caipirinhas.

to be continued


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A parallel cultural project will be happening at Dave Cormier’s Personal Learning Spaces (Elgg) involving Lee Baber with her 8th grade class in Forth Valley (VA), USA and Deivis Pothin with Year 6 class in London, UK. We are planning to start the project after the Easter break and exchange cultural information through multimedia artifacts like photographs, podcasts and videocasts.


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