Name: Rafael do Nascimento de Andrade
Major: Physics
Hometown: Arapongas, Parana in Brazil
Year: Junior
Birthday: May 30
Favorite Movie: Lord of the Rings
Favorite TV Show: The Middle or Friends
Favorite Band: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Her Campus Siena: What activities do you do on campus? Right now, I’m involved in the Urban Scholars program.
HC: What is your favorite holiday? I don’t know, I like all holidays! Maybe Christmas, because I get together with my family and we eat churrasco, which is like our kind of barbeque.
HC: What is your favorite dessert? I really like passion fruit mousse and pudim, which is like flan.
HC: What is your favorite thing about Siena? The people! I like everyone here. There’s no one that I don’t like.
HC: What is the best thing you’ve done since coming to the United States? I went to New York City with some of my friends! We had a great time. We went to Times Square, to the 9/11 Memorial, and we saw the Statue of Liberty.
HC: What are your plans for your career? I want to study Physics and maybe become a professor at a university. I’d maybe work in a lab and do some research on particle physics.
HC: What are you looking forward to for the rest of your time in the United States? I really want to join more clubs! I also want to travel all over-Boston, Chicago, Miami, Las Vegas, Niagara Falls. I wish I had gone apple picking, and I’m excited to go to an American Thanksgiving.