Continuing on

Law school of USP

Continuing from where I had left of...

So, as I'd mentioned in my last post. This is the university of São Paulo in Butantã. It's supposed to be one of the best public universities in Sao Paulo. Unlike other countries, public schools are supposed to be better than the private ones. But, they only allow the super rich or super intelligent to study there. I went to the campus a few times and I tell you. It's bloody huge! I went for a Thursday evening 'party', when I say party, that's what I was told. It's basically everyone just having an excuse both students and teachers to smoke weed, eat some barbecue and drink shit loads.

USP Campus

 Well saying this, I had forgotten to mention that whilst I was living in the house of fucking idiots, shortly before moving there I was experiencing stress. As I'd been moving around all the time, within a short space of time. I had become unsettled and hence my hair was falling out. I had a great big golf ball of a hole on my head. I went to the dermatologist in order to get a diagnosis. She said that I had 'alopecia areta'. Basically balding in women. She asked me whether it was hereditory, to which I answered no. Therefore she said it was down to stress.
This being said, it did take a while til I visited the dermatologist. Had to be dragged there by the fella. Let me advise you that getting any sort of medical care here is FUCKING EXPENSIVE. R$220 for a bloody consultation. This is for a so-called 1 hour consultation. We ended up waiting 30mins into our allocated time and the dermatologist only spent 10 minutes with us. She shook my hair, and it was snowing like a snow globe. Then she wrote out two prescriptions; one for the pharmacy and one for the manipulation pharmacy. At the pharmacy I had to get a drug called prednison. It's a type of anti-depressant. So it knows the nervous system. Then I had to get this solution from the farmacia do manipulacao. Manipulation as we say in English, cos the price is a rip-off! R$60 for the prednison and R$45 for the bloody solution.

Vinho quente

When my hair starting to fall out and my bald spot was showing, I went straight to the Chinese hair salon in Liberdade. I'm now known as the Chinese girl with the bald spot. Bloody hell. My centre parting of my hair, had to be changed to a side parting, to disguise the bald spot plus I had to wear headbands and hair clips to cover the spot. Well now my hair is fine, but I have sworn since that time that I shan't get stressed again.

Corinthians currency

typical caipira clothes

Moving on during June there is a holiday called 'festa junina'. It's where everyone has the excuse of wearing chequered shirts, cowboy hats, boots, carry a woven basket around and drink fruit wine known as 'vinho quente'. I celebrated last year at Parque São Jorge. Home of Corinthians leisure centre. It was pretty cool when we went. They had a few food stores; consisting of Italian food, Japanese, Brazilian BBQ and of course alcohol. The fella staying true to his roots got a lasagna. He kept boasting about how nice it was. Yadda yadda. To me it's just pasta. Just like how we orientals have noodles. Same shit, different name.

Now speaking of Corinthians. In September, they celebrated 102 years as a club. So it was down to Parque Soa Jorge for the festivities. I took a few photos of the parade and had a look around.

 They have a huge academy, with an assortment of sporting events ranging from: archery, swimming team, aquatics, martial arts, American football, cheerleading etc.
Anderson Silva the famous undefeated UFC fighter has an academy there too. He is a huge supporter of Corinthian's and when he fights always wears a Corinthian's footy shirt. This guy is everywhere, every where I go he's advertising Wizard language school. He's Casa's Bahia, a home department store. He's also advertising cars. He's basically a seen as a legend here. His alias is 'the spider', arranha.

American football team: The Steam rollers

 I had a good time at this special event marking the birthday of Corinthian's. At the same time I got to look into at first-hand what my fella does at his other 'job'.
Web radio station, Radio Coringão. He doesn't work there as a commentator, as you'd imagine. He's the tecnician guy there. Making sure that the microphone is working, the cables are correct, the quality of sound is pitch person. yadda yadda. Mind you, even though he's there on a voluntary basis, he bloody loves it. It's through this that he's been able to get free tickets to some pretty good footy games and go behind the scenes, back stage and meet a few of the players. I am bloody jealous, but he's the man with the contacts.

Taça libertadores

Maybe it's because he's part Italian. The mafia side that can get anything... for a price. Just like the prohibition during the war in the States when the mafia was running the streets.

Not being biased at all, but I've tuned in to this radio station before and it's pretty good. They have those commentators that go: ''GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL''. The one's who break the sound scale. Giving you an earache at the same time and in some cases breaking your ear drums.
But please feel free to check it out at: www.radiocoringao.com.br

No, I don't get anything for name dropping. But it's all for a good cause.
I visited the Corinthians museum and to your left you see the trophy of the Libertadores, won the league 2011-2012. Saying that I've told the fella on numergous occasions that since I became a Corintiana, Corinthians have won; the league, South American championship, world championship (in Japan) and most recently Campeão Paulista against those smelly fishes Santos FC.
Saying that I've been regularly attending Corinthians games and am now an official member. I'm a Corintiana! As you would say, so becareful cos I'm a member of the band of crazies. Ready to cause havoc, have bbq's on buses, wreck airports, drink caipirinhas on the street, make bbq's from the boot of a car. Why you may ask? Because Corinthian's is the people's club. What's more, the club was originally founded in England back in 1892 when they were simply known as The Corinthian Football club, but later they merged with Casuals Fc back in 1939 and are now formerly known as Corinthian Casual's today.
The Corinthian's team who everyone knows and ever popular is Sport Club Corinthian's Paulista (SCCP), which was founded in 1910 by 5 railworkers who loved the performance of the London based team Corinthian's Fc and decided to bring that wonderful of game called football over to here.