Well, it doesn't take me long.
Thanks to a couple introductions from colleagues to their friends with emphatic promises that they will "take care of me", and the local expat group, I suddenly have a very busy social calendar. Loving that!
It's MY time now (i.e. party time). Though, I guess I have to get some work done at some point too?
Hard to focus on that when the city has the pre carnaval vibe going on. In my first couple weeks I've been taken to a samba school pre-party (great experience, though gives me a preview of what's waiting in Salvador where we're going to Carnaval, and I learn the perils of drinking where there's no functional bathrooms).
I also checked out the Beyonce concert in Morumbi football stadium, dampened only slightly by the torrential downpour and complete flood in the stadium, but more importantly Now I have learned all about Brazilian music --Ivete sangalo I've now seen sing live twice! She believes she is an international diva like madonna or beyonce apparently, I don't think anyone has the heart to break it to her that no one outside of Brasil has any idea who she is. (She is fab though, you can youtube her Carnaval videos).
And to keep my American ties, I even manage to fit in a super bowl party with the expats. There are a number of Canucks here also, which is always nice to see though the expat crew is well mixed with brits, dutch, americanos, canucks and a number of brazilians who have lived abroad also.
Busy weekends! I think I need a disco nap.
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