Brazil's main language is Portuguese, but you can find people who speak English and Spanish, too. Many people here in southern Brazil have Italian heritage, so there is even a language here that is a mixture of Italian and Portuguese.
Brazilian currency is called the real. There are 5, 10, 25 and 50-cent coins, and 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 reais bills.
A bottle of water costs about 1.5 reais, which is less than $.50. Brazil has many rivers, so water is easy to get. At my house, I usually drink water from the tap.
The best meal I ate this week was the traditional feijão (beans) and rice that my host mom made for lunch. In Brazil, lunch is the biggest, most important meal of the day. Many people even leave work for an hour or two to eat a big, relaxing lunch with their families at home.
