/são paulo/was an experience. [on some chart´s] it has the 2nd largest population for a city in the world. [a said 20 million people.] that´s saying a lot. this just translates in daily life that it takes much longer to get anywhere. you will get lost [about once a day.] buses and roads are mysteries. and everyone wants to mug you. [ok, maybe just give you the look.]
/culture-shock/didn´t hit when i was in rio, but came a couple weeks after my arrival in são paulo. #1 item: brazilian men are not shy abut letting you know they want you. meaning. making noises. telling you. touching you. and yes the hair and innopropriate ways. but what do i know. i´m a woman in a men´s playground. atleast that´s just about how i feel.
/graffitti/in são paulo is outta this world. truly. it is on another level. the entire city is just one enormous cement playground of skyscrapers. that are all being slowly covered in graffitti of incredible ingenuity. i suggest you make a trip around the city just to look at all the masterpieces.
/classes/have commenced. i have one 4-credit hours course comprised of 5-days a week of daily 4+ hours of basíco II portuguese class and a... man i´m starting to forget. maybe it was a 2-days a week brazilian culture class. btw. it was taught by the most biased professor i´ve ever had. he let us know exactly what he was and what he thinks. black. gay. marxist. very sweaty and smelly. pretty much sums him up. my portuguese professor was an awesome little spunky brazilian woman. i learned more than i thought was possible in a month from her. and our culture class was in PUC [poo-ky]. don´t remember what that´s short for.
/another/side of large-ness. são paulo has about 1,391 million museums, 15 million restaurants, and a butt-load of clubs and bars. maybe not literally. but definitely feels like it. always something great to eat. fun to do. new to see.
/as/for what i´ve been doing.´[i mean was doing in são paulo.] sleeping a lot. eating a lot. learning a lot. meeting a lot of people. a and a whole lot more. probably the best thing socially was meeting fernando de sousa pereira when i was in rio. we were staying at the same hostel for one night and became facebook friends. the rest is history. managed to get a hold of him when i got to são paulo and meet up with him and friends just about every/other night.
/psiu!/i have really discovered in salvador - the use of the word/sound. psiu! really nothing could be uglier. and it´s used for/by everything! basically meaning: look at me/shush/buy my stuff/you are sexy.
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