Federal University Minas Gerais and Pedro Henrique Nogueira Rezende

exchange student: This is the little plane move, said Pedro Henrique Nogueira de Rezende, as he explained the various moves of Forro dance, extending his arms, one up, one down, gliding his back against his partner’s, tilting his head, keeping eye contact, according to Toronto Star. This is the waiter move, continued the 21-year-old exchange student from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, lifting his right hand above his shoulder to lead his partner, a new student to the class, for a spin. The young men and women — in shorts, tights, jeans and dresses — jammed into a tiny room as South American pop-rock-folk music blasted through the hallway of this ornate Victorian-style building. The twice-a-week Forro dance club at U of T is probably the most visible presence for Brazilian students on Canadian university and college campuses, a growing contingent thanks to their government Science Without Borders program, which sends young people abroad for academic and cultural exchanges worldwide. The program has helped fuel a surge in the number of Brazilian students studying Canada, which has almost doubled from 5,696 in 2011 to 12,269 in 2013, the latest statistics available. Initiated in 2012, the one-year scholarship program has an ambitious goal to send 100,000 Brazilian students to study science, math and technology-related subjects overseas over three years, including 4,000 in Canada, many of them in Greater Toronto. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.