Brazilian New Year: Grapes For Good Luck

January 1, 2015

by Maria Luiza Lago

YJI student reporter Maria Luiza Lago from Curitiba, Brazil, shares her New Year's tradition of eating 12 grapes, one for each month of the new year, to bring good luck. Happy 2015!

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