Why does it seem that every time I am in the largest city in southern hemisphere, I am so sleepy? The first time I was in São Paulo was my first day in Brazil, after 14 hours of travelling. I slept sixteen hours that night. This time I arrived in São Paulo at 8:30, after catching a 2:30 bus from Rio de Janeiro.
Upon arriving in São Paulo, we took a cab to the apartment of Natalia's cousin, who lives in the Pinheiros neighborhood of São Paulo. We dropped off our luggage there, and head out to explore the city. We took the ônibus to the center of town to see the theatre and Praça Ramos. As we were about to take the metro to Avenida Paulista, which they say is a street you have to visit while in São Paulo, we all legitimately were falling asleep standing up. I was too tired to take pictures and don't have any pictures from this trip to São Paulo. So we took the metro back to Natalia's cousin's apartment and all slept until 20:30.
To top off the preguiça (laziness), I also had a minor case of food poisoning. We had been economizing with food during the trip, and I probably ate too many R$4 (2 USD) lanches and sandwiches. We had a running joke that every time we saw a very expensive item, we would say: why would I buy that? I could buy "x" hamburgers with that...At the time the burgers tasted good because you are so hungry and they are so cheap, but your body can only process so many of them at a time.
Therefore, on Saturday night, instead of having more lanches, we went to have sushi. With the large Japanese population in São Paulo, sushi is something that you must eat while there. Somehow we found the only place in São Paulo that didn't serve normal sushi, but I'm just happy that it some sort of Asian food and not lanches.
On Sunday morning, I said goodbye to Natalia, who was heading back to Colombia, and then I took the 8 hour bus ride back to Joinville. After sleeping 6 of the 8 hours and getting a good night's rest, I think I've recovered from the really great time exploring and cheap meats that from last week.
And now back to work in Joinville! 19 days left in Brasil.
Beijos!
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