Dum dum dum.... Happy Friggin' New Year!

. Well yes, I'm still in SP. I have to be careful of what I say about Paulistas/Paulistanos as you may never know... there could one day be a mysterious knocking on my door ...

Right new years eve. I was feeling kinda bored. It's not a big thing to me, new years in the Gregorian calendar. But I figured, better to spend with friends rather than couples etc. So ended up travelling to Villa Marilena or something like that to meet a friend who would collect me and we would go to Santo Andre. We had discussed specifically before meeting, that meeting point would be at the ticket counter. So when I arrived 10mins early (being the Brit that I am)  I found that they weren't there. So I stood there waiting like a lemon. Then an hour and a half had passed and I picked up the courage to ask a stranger if I could borrow her phone to send an sms to this friend. She was kind enough to let me. Then we found out that this friend not only arrived at the metro, but rather than bother to enter the actual station, he decided to wait outside in his bloody car (cos it was raining) and then bugger off. The audacity of some people! So 2 hours later we arrived in Santo Andre. A lot of people were there, and it was ok. The usual happened, I ate some stuff and drank some beers real quickly. Then was sick and then slept through new years. WAHEY! 


Then new years day. Nothing special to be honest. Ate some sausage and meat. Drank some soda. rsrs I wasn't exactly in a hungry mode. :p So that was my new years! But the company was nice, a mixed crowd of the mature, the incredibly young folk (who ask way too many nosey questions) and the young teenagers who just smoke way too much and drink too much. I mean c'mon, they idolise Bob Marley. Like how old are they! Get with the times man! :p

had it been Skol I would've been fine...

Ok moving on, on Tuesday I went to Shopping 3 to meet someone to start giving private English classes. Now why on earth Av Paulista needs shit loads of shopping centres is beyond me. PLUS they need to fix that metro map that they have been distributing. I had to go to Consolação metro station. I changed at Paulista metro and saw an exit that said 'Rua Consolação' so I followed it all the way up the never ending escalators. Then when I got out of the exit, I thought to myself.... 'hang on, this doesn't look like Av Paulista'. They don't actually tell you that you have to turn left out of the station, then turn left again and walk down. I took the other turning and walked down the street til I noticed a highway and female instinct kicked in and said 'let's turn back'. It didn't help that I was wearing my bright green 'I Love London' t-shirt and shorts. I must have looked like a right pleb! But I arrived in the end and had the lesson. 

Live music down Av Paulista

Rules for the metro... pt1.

Saw this in Liberdade

The next day I gave another lesson but this time in front of the library. Private classes for friends, is SO much more enjoyable and fun. I think I should join the trend of getting business cards printed. But I will distribute the business cards to those ONLY interested in learning English and not tarados. I've come across too many of those lately and since this is a new year, it's time to turn over a new leaf and behave like a really GOOD GIRL... so no tarados!