From the last Rose Cafe, our speaker Andre Simores is a Ph.D. in Applied Economics and a Professor in his home country.  He spent his time allowing us to experience the beauty of Brazil’s landscape and gave us an insight into Brazilian culture.

Brazil is the fifth largest country behind China, the United States, Canada, and Russia. They use Celsius degrees and the metric system. He mentioned that the weather outside that day was about 10 degrees Celsius.  He explained what were appropriate dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. For breakfast, people ate bread and fruit, while drinking milk.  For lunch, they had a dish that included rice, bean paste, meat, and veggies.  For dinner, they ate a sandwich. People usually worked from 8-12, have a two-hour lunch break, and then continued to work from 2-6. The capital is Brazilia. He showed us pictures of other cities in Brazil and gave brief descriptions of the agriculture that make them unique from one another.

Pantanal is known for its breed of horses that can eat grass from the bottom of water which means that they have adapted to wetlands Pampas is a  flat area that has very productive soil. Amazonia has a dense rainforest. Cerrado has small trees. Caatinga is the poorest area in terms of agriculture it seems to represent a desert, water from the rivers are used to grow agriculture there.