Day 9, Jan 12, 2006: another beach day
Another day at the famous Croco Beach, Praia do Futuro. A highlight of this day for me was getting to meet Fernanda Calvalcantes and her older sister Andrea, old friends of Cristiany's. Fernanda teaches French at the Alliance Française in Rio de Janeiro, and her sister is an economist at a Brazilian government bank in Fortaleza that makes loans to micro and medium enterprises. This meeting was especially fun because I got to speak French to Fernanda, and particularly auspicious, because she offered to let me stay in her apartment in Rio (while she is still on vacation in Foraleza).
Andrea and Fernanda