May 31st or: busca de vida

Finally free! Sleeping in, not working, doesn't that sound great. That's what I thought, and that's when my alarm went off after just six hours of sleep -- I wanted to remember something the day before, but forgot to turn it off. Well, might as well start the day.

sunny day in Sao Paulo

I spent most of the time blogging and catching up on several things going on in Germany. We were scheduled to have lunch at 2 brazilian time, so I left the house at 1.50 and decided to walk there, which would take about half an hour. The weather was great, blasting sun, no clouds, and it really was enjoyable to see Sao Paulo from this perspective as well. I got there just in time for this abonimation of a feijoada: 

hungry?

Normally, feijoada is a bean stew with some meat. This time, it was meat with a little bean stew. It tasted great, as usual (at this point a huge obrigado to Sylvia, who has been cooking magnificient food for us almost every day. We loved it!), and filled us more than up. After seven people had eaten from it more than half of it was still left. We spent the rest of the day there aswell and just had a good time with our brazilian friends. 

One thing still bothered us, though: we had not gone out in Sao Paulo yet. So we decided we need to do exactly that. We bought some beers and some cachaca at the supermarket (actually, Ailton did -- we really appreciated that. Thanks!) before going back to consume these goods. It was a great opportunity to try lots of different stuff. Beer that tastes like cinnamon, beer that tastes like actual bananas (wayyyy better than the rwandese banana beer), different sorts of cachaca and especially one called "busca de vida". It is a cachaca with ginger and lemon, so it is healthy and alcoholic at the same time. Also, it has a quite unique taste, which I loved. On a side note, the fanciest cachaca I've had so far was "cachaca de jambu", which makes your lips and mouth go numb. Interesting stuff. 

busca de vida

Next up: party! There was a huge university party going on, 10k people going on Facebook, 100R$, open bar. Sounded like a plan. The whole street in front of it was really crowded, and we tried to get tickets. Too bad the price for men's tickets had just gone up to 300R$. Yeah, we're not gonna pay that. Getting cheaper tickets was impossible, as one of the blackmarket sellers told us: "I can get you anything, world cup tickets, drugs, a fake passport, but getting 5 men's ticket is impossible." 

no, this isn't the party

Men's tickets, you ask? Here in Brazil, gender does make a difference when it comes to ticket prices. Men's tickets usually are about twice as expensive as women's tickets. Also, when going to clubs, there are different options: either you pay an amount to just get in, or you pay more but can consume all that inside. Either way, it's expensive.

Due to our severe lack of tickets, we hit it off to Rua Augusta, where lots of night life is going on aswell. We quickly found a club there, which was a little alternative and not too sterile, exactly the way I love it. Music was good, beer was cheap, girls were pretty -- can't say I didn't have fun. And well, that's it. Now we made this experience, we could go to bed peacefully.