Safe Home - 4 Jun

We were safe home on 4 Jun after a 24 hour flight with one connection at JNB. The surprise for us when we were landed was...... three out of four of our check-in luggages were missed and we can only claimed one piece of check-in luggage that contained the Samba Costumes on our arrival. The luggages were returned a day later with a delivery to our home directly.

Here were all luggages we have on our arrival. Joe has only his hand baggage. Ha ha.... A special ending.

Don't Say Goodbye Farewell Dinner

It was the last day of the group activities. Yolanda and Kenneth would go back home on 30 May. With a great help by Fernadinho, Joe's host dad at Santo Andre, we organized a farewell party at the self-service club house in the apartment building. Joe devoted his city tour time to prepare his signature dish, curry vegetable and pork rice. Yolanda, Pauline and Kenneth had a quick visit at Liberdade, Asian Town and shopped for some food to prepare pork and vegetable dumplings for dinner.

We have a joyful dinner with all friends in Sao Paulo, Brazil. They all enjoyed the food and chats with each other. We sang a Chinese song for our beloved guests.

Team B prepared food in kitchen.

Plumnito salad (left) & Fried Rice Noodle, a signature dish by Melissa's mother (right) Antoniho enjoyed Joe's signature dish.

Pork & vegetable dumpling

Pork cake

Condensed milk custard pudding by Sandra, Pauline's host family.

Sing a song "The moon represent our heart"

Kenneth thanked Thais's coordination

Applause to all host families

Yolanda's appreciation

Joe's words from his heart

Enjoy the foodUS GSE team leader Monica attended our farewell dinner

Estela, Pauline and Victor

Deborah, Marcio and Pauline

GSE Teams from/to Sao Paulo

Group Photo

A quick look in an all-grade school

Rotarian Marcello is a Director of Colegio Arbos, a school offer kindergarten, primary school and secondary school education for the neighbourhood.  Arbos means trees.  The three colleges nurished a lot of offsprings for the community.

A high level of security outside the campus

The garden

We met Pauline' host sister, Estela in her school.

Also, the tall host brother, Victor.

We have a good chat with the students

Fruitful and busy days

The team was working to update the blog and prepare for the presentations.

It is only the 5th day we were staying in Sao Paulo, but everyday it is full of programmes that make us think that we have stayed here for more than a week.

The people in this district are all very friendly, they like to arrange more things for us to explore.  It just felt like that we have 30 hours a day.  All days are packed.  Usually we came back to the host family at midnight.  We really hope to have 48-hour a day.

Our big challenge here is the delicious food that we have all round the clock.  We worried we need more exercise when we come back home.  We will have a special feature on the food in Brazil very soon.

We apologize if we could not update everyday.  We will try our best to update you.

~ Pauline

Arrive in Sao Paulo, finally..

GSE 2010 four of us from outbound team, we leave Hong Kong on May 2 night at Hong Kong International Airport. After 26 hours flight, we finally arrive Sao Paulo, Brazil. Our Journey starts...

Beautiful skyline of Sao Paulo

Yolanda's host mother Andrea Garbelotti is picking her up from airport

We stopped by at Thais Helena's family and she served us coffe and cake.

Four of us from Sun Amigo look fresh after 26 hours flight!

Our welcoming dinner at Dinho's.

~ Yolanda & Pauline