During the summer between my sophomore and junior years of undergrad, I traveled to Brazil with a group of professors and fellow students from the Family and Consumer Sciences department at Western. We started in Rio de Janeiro and traveled by bus and plane to Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Ouro Preto and other cities along the way. The above pages are an excerpt from the project I submitted documenting the architecture, culture, and art of the region. It was one of the most moving and incredible learning experiences I’ve had thus far and I intend to go back one day.