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		<title>Ritta Hoppner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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Let me tell you now about Ritta Hoppner, the hotel in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul where we stayed during our visit there. 
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		<title>Weekend in Gramado</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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After spending three days in Gramado with my family and friends, I felt like I wasn&#8217;t ready to go back to Pelotas.  It was a sign of satisfaction, I believe, as  it is easy to fall in love with this part of Serra Gaucha.  I wasn&#8217;t really expecting too much before the travel and the weather forecast [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kdspublish.wordpress.com&blog=1018773&post=442&subd=kdspublish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not just another football game</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Solis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loud bangs and fireworks lighting up the sky! Our first new year in Brazil, Pelotas, to be exact, could have been just another exciting football match if we spent it just among the three of us. 
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		<title>The pains of Christmas shopping</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Solis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas unwraps a bundle of surprises for children but undeniably, it unnecessarily drags them into the pre-Christmas rush, having to hop from one store to another and wait with their parents in long winding queues.
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		<title>Mom, are you listening?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not the best listener in the world and there was never a time my mind didn&#8217;t fly to dreamland even at the most, supposed to be, important and serious of all conversations.  While it can be personally gratifying and refreshing, I know that it can also be annoying.
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		<title>Christmas bread project</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Solis</dc:creator>
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I like panettone! Don&#8217;t you? Whether fruit- or chocolate-studded, this sumptuous Italian Christmas bread never fails to satisfy my taste buds. But like any other bread that I come to like and keep coming back to as long as it is in abundance, I often find myself experimenting in the kitchen after a while for a homemade [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kdspublish.wordpress.com&blog=1018773&post=410&subd=kdspublish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simple pleasures of patis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Solis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good friend brought us patis (fish/anchovy sauce) last week all the way from the US and since then, I&#8217;ve been enjoying all the simple pleasures of having it on the dinner table.
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		<title>Filipinos in Pelotas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Solis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who would have thought that more than a couple of decades ago, a Filipino family came to live here in this small city of Pelotas? 
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		<title>Dads &amp; daughters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Solis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got amused while eavesdropping on a conversation between a young man and his daughter as the three of us gathered around a heap of red, succulent tomatoes in a frutaria.  The girl, about 9 years old, was holding a small piece of paper, which I supposed was a list made by her mother. 
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		<title>Life 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Solis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When things go wrong and I seem to be at a lost, sometimes I whine and think that life would be so much better if someone would just tell us what to do and in general, how to live and how to be wise &#8211; how to make good decisions, how to pray, how to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kdspublish.wordpress.com&blog=1018773&post=368&subd=kdspublish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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