{"id":387,"date":"2008-10-07T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2008-10-07T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T10:07:00","slug":"fourth-largest-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Largest City"},"content":{"rendered":"

I returned to S\u00e3o Paulo, to the same hostel I slept at when I arrived by plane three months ago. I was surprised by how reminiscent everything felt. The way I struggled with my Portuguese with the deskworker felt the same, with few new strengths and few fewer weaknesses. I went to the large grocery store, and if I could feel that my sense of bewilderment was less, it wasn’t much less: I moved through those aisles with similar confidence and similar confusion three months ago. I spoke with the same mouth, heard with the same ears, saw with the same eyes.<\/p>\n

I was there for a week and met a bunch of travelers, but balancing in work and preparing for the beta release of the Travelers Network, I didn’t have so much time to explore the city. The last few days, however, I met some folks from England, and played the tourist with them. Except, now I was the one explaining Brazil: showing them what to try, telling what I knew of the elections happening this weekend, translating words around then city. When they wanted to try a comida-por-kilo, I just went and asked some locals where one was. When they went the get tickets, I tried to explain the dizzying array of options and help them at the counter. I was their first Brazilian.<\/p>\n

I’m now back in Rio, and glad to be out of the smog.<\/p>\n

I was also reunited with my camera! Here are some pics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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S\u00e3o Bento Stained Glass<\/b><\/td>\n		<\/a>
S\u00e3o Paulo, from high up<\/b><\/td>\n		<\/a>
Catedral de S\u00e9<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Goldleaf in Catedral de S\u00e9<\/b><\/td>\n		<\/a>
Lake in Parque de Ipiranga<\/b><\/td>\n		<\/a>
Out a Window <\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Hotel Unique<\/b><\/td>\n		<\/a>
Green-Covered Wall<\/b><\/td>\n		<\/a>
Vila Madalena Mural<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Vila Madalena Mural<\/b><\/td>\n		<\/a>
Vila Madalena Mural<\/b><\/td>\n		<\/a>
Vila Madalena Mural<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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More murals we can’t see<\/b><\/td>\n		<\/a>
Vila Madalena Cemetery<\/b><\/td>\n		<\/a>
Expensive “Poor Family” Monument<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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