After that we drove past the oldest standing residence in Sao Paulo. We also drove past the Bovespa (the Brazilian stock market). There was a sign that showed how many dollars of taxes the Brazilians were paying. The numbers were going up so fast it was amazing. I’d like to see one of those for the States too =)
After the city tour we went back to use the internet and check our email. I got to talk to Meg for a bit before she had to go to church and teach Sunbeams. We were both happy to talk since we didn’t get to talk the night before.
Osmar, Kathryn, and I also tried to figure out where we were really supposed to be staying. Kathryn got the email from Isabel off her KPMG email (which Osmar and I never got) and we walked over to the address. We asked them to look up our names for checking in on Monday (which we thought might be the case since Simon Kho had said that sometimes you would stay in a hotel until
Monday and then move into your housing (in hindsight what we should have done was look up our reservation for Saturday, but they told us that if it had already past 6pm on the day of check-in then the reservation was forfeited, but that isn’t true either since we found out on Monday that they did have our reservation =). After giving up on our search for the right place, we walked over to the office and took pictures in front of the big KPMG sign (which we later learned used to be at the top of the building, but they had to take it down because SP passed a visual pollution law which means you can’t have the name of the company on the top of the building).On our way back we stopped in at a pizza place called the Forgalia and ordered a pepperoni pizza for R$35. That’s a lot more expensive than Curitiba, but it was also the best pepperoni pizza I’ve ever had in Brazil. Megan called me later that evening and we were able to talk for awhile and read scriptures together.
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