For Thanksgiving, we did not get a chance to make it home for the holidays. Because there were some people from the department that were also going to be staying in town over the break, we decided to have a pot luck Thanksgiving dinner at Matías's house (Ironically enough, somehow Matías managed to escape all of the pictures....).
Later that evening, KU2Bros and GRASP co-sponsored a fundraising event to support educational opportunities for the children living in Rocinha, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. All in all, the night was a success, and we were able to earn over $1000 to send to Brazil!
On November 2oth at 3:30pm, Matilde Ribeiro gave a lecture entitled, "Racial Equality Policy in Brazil: Myths and Realities." This event was co-sponsored by KU2Bros and GRASP, among other organizations.
Here are some pictures of us setting up the conference room where Matilde Ribeiro gave her talk later that afternoon. You can tell that we were hard at work....
CIBER, the Business School at KU, hosted a luncheon with Matilde Ribeiro at the Impromptu Café for a number of faculty members and students.
On November 20th, GRASP and KU2Bros co-hosted a guest lecture by ex-Minister of Brazil, Matilde Ribeiro, who served under the Lula administration from 2003 to 2008.
On November 6th and 7th, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at KU hosted the Mid-Atlantic Conference on Hispanic Literatures (MACHL).
As a last minute costume, Brian and I took decided to dress up as a high school prom date. Since he was my date for my Senior prom, it seemed most appropriate to shake off the cobwebs off my old dress and give it another whirl!
Completely spur of the moment, I decided on Halloween afternoon that Brian and I needed a pumpkin. My rationale was that if we didn't have one, then how were the trick-or-treaters going to know that we had candy to give out?
