All the leaves are green and the sky is grey...

Guess where I spent the last 5 days?

A city where it's been raining a lot in the last... months!

A city where when you call someone to pick you up at the airport - it might happen that this person's phone is in this person's car - not working anymore - because there had been a flood so there was water in the car and the phone drowned... (phones can't swim...) (And don't worry Vivie - I still like you!)

A city where wearing shorts and my new white Havaianas probably looked strange for some people - but fortunately, I don't care! And there are small brasilian flags on them - but I don't think it made it less strange...

A city where they sell the biggest mortadella sandwiches in the world - mortadella is a kind of bologne, but what makes it so special is that there are big chunks of fat to add to the taste - seriously, there were probably more than 50 layers of mortadella + the cheese!

A city where when the people say they go to the beach, they actually go to the shopping mall! And when you think that they talk about eating filet mignon, they talk about filet miau... (cats filets! ...joke...)

A brasilian city where I looked like a tourist - not because I was white, but because I was actually more tanned than at least 2 people whom I compared the color of my arm with!

A city that has a museum called MASP (oh! the name of the city is in the museum's name) - where I went thinking that I would need a few hours to visit it... but after I arrived, met someone, made 2 or 3 photos, I left because the cool thing is the building itself and not the exhibition - because some of the important paintings had been stolen... (but there are still some paintings - don't worry)

A city where - surprisingly - they tried to steal my kidney! It happened in the Museu da lingua portuguesa - There was a short movie in a small room after which a wall opened - and some quiet person asked us to come behind the wall - then the wall went back to its original position - and once again, we were stuck in the dark - about to have our kidneys stolen... but I guess that the doctors were busy (probably watching the Olympics) so they didn't come...

A city where - after giving my email address to a woman in a bar - after she asked for it - I considered making one up but I didn't - she gave me her phone numberS! She was a little bit creepy...

If you don't know the name of the city after all this very precise information, just forget it...

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So with Mariana, I've also been to the park Ibirapuera - the gay street (there was not much gay stuff - at least at daytime) - the Cathedral - an area called Liberdade (a place where many Japanese people lived (and still live) after they immigrated in Brasil 100 years ago... the downtown with many pedestrians streets - where there are people who sell stuff and some people who watch for people who would see them - because it's illegal - so when someone arrives, they scream something *a*a (guess what - I forgot the word) so everybody takes its stuff and pretend that they just like to walk their cellphones or their boxes of CDs and DVDs - and of course the cellphones are not stolen and they are not trying to sell them... We also met with Lucas and Jessica - two of last summer's students at the school - not by chance this time! I tried two kinds of Cachaca (a suave one and a strong one - which makes me not understand why sometimes some students say that they miss it - because it is not something I would really miss - it is really good in drinks though) We made brigadeiros - let's keep it as a secret - it was already the third time I was making some here - so I had a lot of sugar to eat during the 11hours bus ride to the next city... where I am now... in the South... about which I still don't have much to say except that at 6h30pm, through the bus windows, I saw something I had not seen in the last 5 days... the SUN!