Katy en Paraguay: Una adventura nueva: Saudades in Sao Paulo

Fun lil video I spliced together @ the beach

Ok, I know my updates are waaaaaaaaaay behind, but life has been busy! Any whoo, reunions in Sao Paulo were amazing, literally brought tears to my eyes. I can't believe my time here was 3 years ago! However, after a couple of days staying with Profe Ana Katy and family, I felt my Portuguese coming back, and more important, my love for the insanely diverse city of Sao Paulo. We may not always have been on good terms (metro delays, expensive taxis, cloudy and chilly winter), but was and still is my first home in South America....Tenho saudades de voces! (I miss y'all heaps!)

first night out in SP....feijoada filled bolinhos! (a traditional bean n meat dish put inside a manioc-dough ball that's then deep fried....goes down great with a splash of lime, hot sauce, and of course ice cold beer!

Happy Easter!

So instead of hunting for small, numerous eggs like we do stateside, Brazil and other South American countries do the big egg, and you'll get a couple.....and they are BIG! Normally with smaller eggs or a toy inside, but just like candy on the day after in the US, the 50% discounted eggs are where it's at!

It's like magical eggs you can 'pick' from the sky!

Sofia!!!!!! She was my saving grace when first moving to SP, took this blubbering grad student and whipped her into a Paulistana in no time: Forro dancing, samba exploration, introduced me to catupiry (cream cheese on CRACK), helped me make friends, and most important, how to properly drink a good cachaca (Secredo....if you don't have the Sofia connection it's hard to come by). Now Sofia lives in Chicago getting her MBA @ Northwestern, we've swapped hemispheres one could say!

this gata really likes my bag.....ebony and ivory...

BEST ACAI EVER!!! Fruteria Paulista near my old apartment....hopped off the metro just to grab one with kiwi and granola, SOOO GOOD!

And we're back!

Amarelo line is still my fav!

Finally made it to Adriane's lovely home, mama cooked up a feast! My pen pal paulistana and my forever guide to SP!!!

CAMI Family Reunion!!!!!

These are the folks that make me cry....CAMI helps so many immigrants in SP and employs hard working folks that really do care, forever a special place in my heart.

Ana Katy & family! Celebrating keys to their first house, parabens! My Portuguese professor ROCKS with the best of them!

The infamous catupiry cheese n chicken pizza, delish...

Beco de Batman Alleyway Art! Permanent art installation in SP that just keeps growing...I wonder how many layers of paint and works of art are under the current ones...

Art in Progress

I spy Scott!

This is how I feel after a couple days of Brazilian-style parties ;)

Incredible detail

"Do not enter" the Love steps....agreed, love is far too dangerous!

This is by far my favorite, and so fitting for the current political environment of most powerful nations.....we just can't sweep anymore Sh*&% under the rug, it's time to face the music!