Friday, August 15, 2008

First steps in Sao Paulo...



Augusta's Avenue....
Modern Art Museum...

Little White House... :-P


Good side...
Bad side...

Theatro Municipal...

Look like the Empire State Building...








Da Sé Cathedral

Justice's office and the museum

The thinest building ever...
Hotel's view...

Sao Paulo ??? Big, huge and... ugly (?) ! My first feeling about SP is contrasted. It's, as the biggest city in South Hemisphere, an amazing city : Many cars, many people, buildings... but what an strange city !!! Richness and poverty, old and new, clean and dirty... Everything is contrasted. But the worst is, of course, pollution !!!! Sick since Buenos Aires, it's just so hard to breath normally here. Clouds are down, the weather is too humid, you can see the smoke stays not higher than the building, really amazing and disgusting. So, i don't know what to think about this city.
But, sometimes, you can also have some nice surprise : During my rode to downtown, randomly i went to a small, yellow house (before last pic)which was, in fact, a justice museum. In there, i met 2 women who explained to me kind of the story of justice in SP and it's been so nice of them. They were trying to speak a little bit english. Quite interesting... If someone hold told me one year ago it would be the only way for me to understand something, i won't believe it (Not sure about the end of this sentence : Boogy's mum, what's your opinion ???). But now, it's a fact and it's very cool. And then, one of them came back with a book of justice's history just for me. It was a gift... So nice. I didn't know what to say....

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