São Paulo

So despite having lived in Sao Paulo for more than half of my life, I have seen more places in the past two weeks than I in the 13 years I spent here.

Last week was "Environment Week" and I got the pleasure to help out in an amazing ecological fair in the Municipal Market, a place I had no idea even existed.

I had an absolute blast. I got to help out in a few stands, and talked to a lot of public school kids about the importance of recycling and ecological preservation. The kids were halarious and didn't skip out on the opportunity of making fun of my outdated vocab. What happen was that when I was taking pictures one of the girls said that my camera was "da hora", which the direct translation means "of time". I understood that she was asking me if the camera had a clock, so I said no, looked at my watch and said "it's 3:20". The girl looked at me for about 5 seconds and then turned to her friends and blasted out laughing saying "yoooo the "Tia" ("aunt" or way kids call older people) doesn't know what "da hora" means!" I was super embarassed but shook it off and asked the girls to group together for some more pics.

***If anyone knows how to add pictures to this blog please inform your fellow technologically challanged intern here!

Anyways, I had gone down to the fair with one of the workers from Ecoar (the NGO I'm working in) Luciano, who despite being the qualified and intelligent professional that he is, was very nervous before giving his lecture on the consequences of climate change. I tried to take his mind of it with a few dumb jokes and since I haven't been able to figure out how to upload pictures yet I figured I share one with you guys:

So before the global financial crisis the CEO of an IT firm would sell SOFTWARE
As times got tougher he began to sell HARDWARE
And by the end of the crisis the poor man was selling TUPPERWARE

Yes I suck at jokes, but hopefully this got a few chuckles out of some of you! :)