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.

Our Last Day in Sao Paulo - 2 Jun

This was the last day we were in Sao Paulo. We spent most of our time to be a tourist in the downtown area.

In the morning, we visited the Se Catherdal, the biggest catherdal in the downtown area. We walked through the old business district.

Then, Maria brought us to Liberdade and joined her mother to visit supermarkets and markets.

After a final round of shopping, we rushed back to Andrea's apartment to pack the Samba Dance Costomes that we planned to ship back to Hong Kong. Here, Joe and Joao were designing a cartoon box to fit the sets in it.

It is a day before the long weekend. The traffic to airport is terribly congested. Joao drove and took a short cut to our destination. Melissa met us in the airport to wave us goodbye for our midnight flight.

With all the sweet memories, we carried a full bag of friendship and valuable experience home.

Daily Summary - 1 Jun

AM
Pauline: Museum of Brazilian Home
Joe: Maersk

PM
Football Museum
Museum of Art Sao Paulo (MASP)

Evening

Dinner Party for Joao's Birthday at Dona Onca

Daily Summary - 31 May

Morning

Free

Noon

Terraco Italia

Paulista Avenue

Dinner

Arabic Restaurant

Daily Summary - 30 May (Pauline)

Morning
Sao Paulo City Tour - Ipiranga Museum

Municipal Market Buffet Lunch

Afternoon & Evening

Sandra's family gathering

Daily Summary - 29 May

AM Embu
PM Quick City Tour - Liberdade
Evening - Farewell Dinner

Daily Summary - 28 May

AM Transfer to Santo Andre's host families
PM Paranapiacaba
Evening Free time with host family

Daily Summary - 27 May

AM

Presentation at Universidadae Municipal de Sao Caetano Do Sul

Lunch
Colegio Arbos

PM

General Motors

Evening

Yellowstone Buffet (Yolanda's host family)

Dinner

Casa da Amizade (RC of Sao Caetano do Sul)
Presenation : RC of Sao Caetano do Sul Olimpico

Daily Summary - 26 May

AM 
Free

PM 
Mercedes-Benz

Samba Dance Costumes

Evening
RC of Santo Andre Norte

Daily Summary - 25 May

Tauras

Casa McDonald

Casa da Esperanca de Santo Andre

RC of Sao Caetano do Sul - Oeste

Daily Summary - 24 May

Rotary School - College Educate Gome

Ecovias

RC of Santo Andre Campestre

Daily Summary - 23 May

Back to GSE routine at Sao Caetano

Daily Summary - 22 May

A free day to explore Aguas de Lyndoia and a fun evening in the Governor's Ball.

Daily Summary - 21 May

Today is a big day.  We have our presentation in the District Conference of District 4420.  It is a highlight of the trip.  We prepare our presentation by staying the whole day in the hotel's room. 

At 9:30 p.m.  we finally completed our presentation in front of more than 2000 rotarians.  We used photos and videos taken in the previous weeks to link up our presentation.  We ended our presentation with Samba dance.