The more you travel, the more you realize we are all more alike than different. In the Southeastern United States, we express our love through food. "Help your plate!" "Don't you want some more?" "Let me fix you something!" In Nova Campina, it is the same. My new friends are so happy to share their lives and culture with me; I feel right at home. Every school we visited offered café, hot chocolate, banana cake. When we had a break--more food. And, what is so wonderful is that the teachers and many of the students' parents cooked food for us. Cakes and cakes and cakes. Chicken pie, rice and beans, and more cake. Traditional Brazilian dishes--homemade---and more cake. Did I mention that we had cake? All made with love. I have eaten everything offered to me not only out of politeness, but out of a hope that all the meals will allow Brazil to get inside me and stay a while.
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Jayme Holaway HicksMs. Hicks is a 12th grade Language Arts and Advanced Placement teacher at Peachtree Ridge High School in Suwanee, Georgia. Archives
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