Sao Paulo, one of the biggest cities in the world, and I got the pleasure of getting a tour round it… 

The weekend actually started a day early for me, there was a music festival being held in sao Paulo on the Friday and seeing as my host mother is a music teacher, we had to go, not that I’m complaining or anything, I got to skip a day off school :D after a much needed lie in and late breakfast my host mother, father and I were on our way. The music festival was held in a massive auditorium with hundreds of little stalls selling everything musical. I found a cute little stall that sold little musical instruments trinkets. I bought myself a necklace with a treble clef and a little clarinet pin to add to my blazer of badges.

me and other exchange 
students at the music festival

The tour of Sao Paulo was on a Saturday and because it took so long for me to actually get to Sao Paulo, I was going to be having a sleepover with a fellow exchange student. We met her and her family at the music festival and I left with them. Us being typical girls we stayed up late doing hair and talking about all things girly. It probably wasn’t the best of ideas but it was a great sleepover.



We met all the other exchange students at the tube station, we had to get the tube to get to the start of the tour,  it was pretty funny because I started to panic because the women only have me two tickets. Me coming from England and used to having the put a ticket into a machine to get both IN and OUT of a station didn’t realise that you only have to put the ticket in the machine once in brazil. A lot of people laughed at me because of that :$ 

after managing to get though the metro system alive we arrived at our first point on the tour, it was a huge church, and inside it was so beautiful. They even had a shop selling gifts specifically from that church.

the huge church

 We walked and walked through Sao Paulo, being shown all the weird and interesting things the city had to offer. One of the most amazing things we saw was the Sao Paulo skyline. We went to the top of a massive building, with about 34 floors and I have to admit, it was actually breathtaking. Sao Paulo is soo hugeee!!! It looked like it was went on forever.



sao paulos amazing skyline

The rest of the day went on with us being shown more and more wonderful things. At about five o’clock it was time for us to go home, saying goodbye was especially hard because we knew we wouldn’t be seeing each other in a while, but it was okay because absent makes the heart grow stronger right? I’m kidding!! But it will definatly be more special went I finally meet up with the other exchanges again :’)

Oh and I nearly forgot to say, this day was extra extra special because I saw my fellow English exchanger Millie! I hadn’t seen her since the day we parted at the airport, and I didn’t know I would be seeing her until the day before the actual tour. As I got to the train station I heard a scream and saw this little bundle of English-ness running towards me which was Millie! I think we stood their hugging and screaming each other for like ten minutes!

me and millie!

So yeah, that’s what happened on the day that I went to Sao Paulo city :D