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The Great Cookie Quest
Hi friends,
I must admit I have a bit of a sweet tooth and a habit for sampling sweets wherever I am. As it is winter here, my usual pick for dessert - ice cream - is a bit less appealing. However, I have chosen another sweet snack to substitute, inspired by the chocolate chip cookies that greeted me upon my arrival, I have embarked on the ...
Small Time in a Giant City... (Day 31)
... is if they speak Brazilian Portuguese. Even in this big city, I find brazilian people to be very welcoming. Even though the Portuguese dictionary is probably three times the size of an English one, I doubt they have a word for standoffish as it is very normal to spark up a conversation with a stranger, even with my Portuguese vocabulary of around 5 phrases. My biggest and undoubtedly longest lasting memory will be a tattoo I had done by a guy named Marco. ...
The big, big city
My week in Sao Paulo has sped by. What a crazy, frenetic city! There are crowds everywhere, and taking the metro at rush hour is a real trip. Yesterday, I had to physically fight my way out of a train when we got to my stop because the people waiting to get on don´t pause for even a second to let people off.
On Tuesday, I went with some other students from the Portuguese school to MASP, the Sao Paulo ...
From one SA to another...
... shake. "Just a bit of turbulence, nothing to worry about" i thought as we bumped along through the clouds.
This continued for about 15min, with those little microsecond losses in height, where your stomach gets that funny feeling like it's gonna come out your mouth...and then it was back to normal again.
By the time the plane landed at Sao Paulo, my palms were moist.
Glad to be on the ground, i headed off ...
De Guaratuba a São Paulo
... o reencontro com os amigos, em Santiago, Buenos Aires, Porto Alegre e Guaratuba.....os momentos passados juntos ficando na memória a saudade e alegria dos encontros....
As últimas fotos do dan-dan na partida da última etapa da viagem e a ceia em casa com a família estão neste escrito....
Até a próxima viagem que só Deus sabe quando será.....e esperamos que Ele nos permita realizar.......
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