While we were almost landed in Brazil, I used the restroom on the plan while waiting an abnormal time. When I finally was able to go in, I noticed all the toothpaste in the sink, which I found somewhat different. When we were in the airport, I also noticed people brushing their teeth. As we meet our guides, they spotted a man outside in the town brushing his teeth on the street with a bottle of water. She continued to explain how hygiene is extremely important to them, taking two or more showers a day and carrying their toothbrush with them everywhere. We had a brief meeting in our hotel in Sao Paulo where coffee, juice and their famous bread stuffed with cheese was served called Pao de Queijo. Shortly after we headed to Vagas.com.br and met
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I really enjoyed that as well as the sausage. The first stop in our city tour was the Municipal Market where we were giving a sheet of items, in Portuguese that we were supposed to collect with 10 reals. We went to a stand with buckets of all different types of beans, rice, grain, candy and more. Attempting to speak Portuguese, we asked the lady if she had any of the items and we were told she had two. As we went to pay, it was way over our budget. We tried to bargain with the man and were not successful so we took out some of the beans to bring the price down even though we spent all our money. Even though we knew we lost, we walked around the market trying fruit, looking at the meat just sitting out and the different types of olives. In the middle of the market, they had a Christmas tree built out of recycled cans. Recycling is important to Brazilians, you can always spot a recycling can and many times you will see more than one color coordinated. It was attention-grabbing to see many just open up a cardboard box and set items they were selling. From my view, they would sell anything for example, plastic cockroaches, to make some money compared to people in the U.S. who will not make any effort. Our next stop was Batman Alley where there was graffiti art spray painted throughout the alley. Not only in the alley would you see graffiti, it was throughout Sao Paulo because it is legal. When I was walking through Batman Alley, I realized how much graffiti means to the city and the people because it represents meaning and a way to be expressive. Even though graffiti is illegal in the U.S., our graffiti is more gang related compared to Brazil being more artistic holding deeper meaning. While walking, there was a group recording a music video and asked us to be in it which was a good laugh. Next we went to a Somba restaurant where many tried their first experience of the
I really enjoyed that as well as the sausage. The first stop in our city tour was the Municipal Market where we were giving a sheet of items, in Portuguese that we were supposed to collect with 10 reals. We went to a stand with buckets of all different types of beans, rice, grain, candy and more. Attempting to speak Portuguese, we asked the lady if she had any of the items and we were told she had two. As we went to pay, it was way over our budget. We tried to bargain with the man and were not successful so we took out some of the beans to bring the price down even though we spent all our money. Even though we knew we lost, we walked around the market trying fruit, looking at the meat just sitting out and the different types of olives. In the middle of the market, they had a Christmas tree built out of recycled cans. Recycling is important to Brazilians, you can always spot a recycling can and many times you will see more than one color coordinated. It was attention-grabbing to see many just open up a cardboard box and set items they were selling. From my view, they would sell anything for example, plastic cockroaches, to make some money compared to people in the U.S. who will not make any effort. Our next stop was Batman Alley where there was graffiti art spray painted throughout the alley. Not only in the alley would you see graffiti, it was throughout Sao Paulo because it is legal. When I was walking through Batman Alley, I realized how much graffiti means to the city and the people because it represents meaning and a way to be expressive. Even though graffiti is illegal in the U.S., our graffiti is more gang related compared to Brazil being more artistic holding deeper meaning. While walking, there was a group recording a music video and asked us to be in it which was a good laugh. Next we went to a Somba restaurant where many tried their first experience of the