Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

First stop: The Copacabana Beach.  Because music and passion are always in fashion

Clueless:  the luckiest kids in the world.

Look closer:  between Genevieve and Adler's head, on the mountaintop, is Jesus.

The sand, water, temperature, and atmosphere was perfect for a long long long day at the beach.

Oliver quickly got busy on his architectural ambitions.

At the beachfront boardwalk, running into some other SAS students.

She found her store.

An artistic interpretation of a Brazilian favela.  This is made entirely of painted bricks.

The cheap street-front shop/restaurant where we ate most of our meals in Rio.

At the train station to go up to see the Cristo Redentor statue.

Two students and a professor:  Ryan Leach, Read Schuchardt, Daniel Glunz.

Rio from the top looking down to the bay.

Look left.  

Look right. 

Daniel Glunz's girlfriend Lauren (not a student of mine) came with us, and the three students posed for various fun pictures.  

Looking into one of the many favelas.

This is one of Rio's oldest favela -- born of freed slaves with nowhere to go, they started building make-shift housing on the mountainsides, and now they've taken on their own architectural form, political style, and danger to life and limb to outsider.

Ryan Leach in Rio.

Lauren and Danny.

Three students in front of the mountain.

The joy of youth.

I saw a one-hundred foot-tall Jesus.

And there was this unavoidable urge to take this mandatory picture.

Which we all pretty much did.

Coca-Cola in Brazil.

Later, I went to the famous tiled staircase of Jose Selaron

These steps are quite impressive.

And you could spend (if you were inclined) all day just looking at their uniqueness. 

Back on the ship.  Next stop:  Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.