Interlagos, Sao paulo

day 8: (2-10-2008)

it's Sunday now.. and Sao Paulo in the week-end is kinda tense. Lot of social out casted inhibitors of this big city are wondering around at the city center. i didnt see them because today we needed to checked out of our hotel and thus i need to move my stuff in the next hostel. there was one thing though that we managed to see, because it was really close, it was the sunday market in the praça republica. its a market of arts. fill up with paintings, indian handycrafts, hammock (i want one but it's really bulky). anyway it was nice to wandered about. well after moving too the new hostel, I went to see the formule 1. and that was also the moment that Jose Luis and I went separate ways. Jose is going to back to Campinha, to his research, it was really great travelling around with him. And learned alot too.`Jose mucho gusto a calle con ti, hasta lluego a Foz de Iguazu.' oh yeah, yesterday we met a chica from ecuador, and she is rally symphatique. she is here in Brasil for her study, ecological (environtment)thing.
I consider meself really lucky that i have met a lot of people from the hispanic part of the south america. it really help my spanish.. Jose and me mentioned lately, like it's been 6 days we hanged around.. and my spanish is from nada to mas y mas. FOOD in Brasil for the one who requested it: heavy on meat.. carne, carne, carne.. meat meat meat. we went yesterday in a restaurant chaurisso ( i dont know how to spell it) anyway, you seat, the waiters runned about with bunch of different type of meat and you just choose the one you like .. and you can do it the whole night (unlimited buffet)... :D. anyway here in Brasil meat is use in every dishes.. kinda tired of it so i went to eat japanese food today. Sao Paulo houses of the largest Japanese community outside japan. Most of them are descendant from the people working in the coffee field. so japanese food isn't that rare here in Sao Paulo. And you see lot of japanese people too.

back to Interlagos, the 30 reais for a ticket is not true. it's about 230 reais a piece. so similar as in Holland. but the ticket are sold out anyway, so i just go to look the race as any brasilians who live in the neighbourhood of interlagos, through the gaps in the fences. i actually stood at a good place. and could catched a glimpse of the cars. but itś not that good because i couldnt follow the race. but at the main entrance of the circuit there was a big screen where you could follow the race .. and with alot of people too. mostly Brasilians they really idolise Massa, and cheers and yell anytime they see him. Marvelous experience. especially when you here the 20 cars, 20 engines, hauling of their starting place. the sound of them is magnificent. before the race and after the race, it was raining. and not for a bit, itś now the raining season here in brasil so the rain was more like a heavy shower. but itś good because the rain is cooling down the temperature otherwise itś really humid and warm down here.

after the race i went back to the hostel. at least that was my intention. Portuguese is really hard to comprehend so i went out on a wrong place. it was a mall, a good mall too. but not knowing how to continue my trip is really frustating. and it was still raining and raining. and i was running out of day light... Sao paulo at night and especially in the week-end is really dangerous, so it was the first time in my trip that i felt a bit insecure. anyway i arrived back and safely in the hostel writing thing blog, SO EVERYBODY I'M OKAY. anyway i want to leave this city as soon as possible, next destination would be Goias near by Brasilia. but tomorrow still here in SP.

Miss you all back at home, especially after i talked through the telephone.

Hug and kisses

Christian