In this episode we welcome Brunella Martinelli de Medeiros Fiuza, a native of Vitória, Brazil, who now lives in Johnson City, TN. Both Brunella and her husband are trilingual, being native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese, and second language speakers of English and Spanish. In this episode, we discuss the importance of connecting children’s home language to the culture, the importance of literacy, and some unexpected benefits of the COVID stay-at-home orders.