Sao Paulo – Day Four
May 30, 2009
Today was sort of a short day for information and pictures. We had three main things going on during the day:
- Tour of Brasilata
- Class on Social issues in Brazil
- Dinner at a local eatery
Brasilata is a can manufacturer. They are headquarted in Sao Paulo with a couple other facilities in the country. Doesn’t really sound exciting, but it isn’t that bad. It was cool to have a discussion with a real company in Brazil and how they are doing business. They are really into having employees feel that they are part of the company.
Brasilata makes cans....lots of them
Following this, we had our lunch break which was followed by our class that dealt with society in Brazil. It was interesting to learn about the educational system and how it is free to those that can get in, however to get in you have to take a test to determine if you make it in or not.
For dinner, we went to a new neighborhood that we hadn’t been in before. This one had us confused since we were use to going a certain way on the Metro. So when we got on after the first transfer to a new line, we eneded up going in the wrong direction. This was noticed right away and so it only cost us one stop.
Once we got off the train, we weren’t excactly sure where we were at. We had an address to the restaurant we were going , but didn’t exactly know where it was. We ended up asking this lady right outside of the Metro station. She was very nice and polite and even spoke English. She pointed us in the direction and told us where to go. The instructions she gave us actually were not correct. What was amazing was that she ended up finding us down the street to correct herself and show us where the restaurant was. I have to say I was very impressed. I would have NEVER expected that from anyone, and know that would not happen in Chicago.
We all had a great dinner, although it seemed that Michael ended up eating the same thing he had for lunch.
It was a short night. We were all getting ready for our weekend trips. Everyone except for me was heading to Rio for the weekend. I am heading to Buenos Aires for the weekend instead.
