Arrival

So, after spending about a bajillion hours (like 11) sitting in the airplane (and not getting up once), it felt great to step on to land. After JFK, Guarulhos seemed rather small. Fortunately it wasn´t too busy, and I had no trouble finding Prof. Giancarlo, with whom I am staying.

The ride in his car back to his home was interesting, especially for two reasons. 1) People would get pulled over in a heartbeat in the US for driving like they do, and 2) Sao Paulo is massive. NYC on steroids massive. Death Star massive. MASSIVE massive. I think you get my point. Driving from the airport to the house took 35 minutes or so, around 45 miles perhaps, and we weren´t going from far-end to far-end of the city. Also, there was hardly traffic. I can´t imagine a busy day (although I´ll see that firsthand tomorrow).

My host family is very nice, the professor, his wife, and three girls. Although only two speak English I should be fine by mashing my limited Portuguese with Spanish, forming what I´ll call Sportuguese.

Tomorrow I begin working at Mackenzie University´s language department, bright and early.

That´s all for now, more later.

P.S. Appreciate the length of this post: all the punctuation buttons are different, the shift keys are smaller, etc, so every fourth keystroke I usually have to backtrack and delete some random characters. Tchau!