Ola,
We are in Sao Carlos City at the moment. Our last city & only 2 more nights to go. Time has flown by! We will upload photos from Sao Carlos to the blog soon.
We had a great day today(sat 24th) - visited a boutique winery this morning -Vinicola Bonucci, then to another amazing place for Almoço (lunch) - Damha. It was just fantastic! You must see photos (coming soon) and then an Aeroplane museum this afternoon.
Tomorrow (Sunday) we are heading to a lake/activity park for most of the day with our families, and then Monday we drive to Ribeirao Preto to catch our plane to Sao Paulo. We are all sad to be leaving our wonderful families!
More updates & photos coming.....
Tchau,
Sara
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
A day in Araraquara
The population is around 200,000 with the main industies in citrus, cotton socks, lingerie and recently a move to more technology based businesses.
Our first visit was with the Mayor who was very impressed by us and we with him. Interesting to hear about their social programmes and incentives for IT companies to set up in this city.
One place we visited was a local government run type of community restaurant. Pictured above feeds about 1300 people a day including their employees. The only meal served is lunch as this is the main meal of the day here in Brazil. Its very nutritious food and costs around $1.50 or half that for the elderly or very poor.
We are now in Sao Carlos our last city. Temperature today 32 and they told us this was the coldest place!!
Tchau for now.
Petra
Monday, May 19, 2008
Rotary Conference at Araxa
Oh yes we did earn our keep giving our presentation which was well received and at the opening ceremony Brenda led the flag parade with the NZ flag, closely followed behind by the flags and presidents from the other 82 clubs in the 4540 district.
Anyway one thing we have all learnt about Brazil is they know how to party. We attended the Conference Ball on the Saturday night which was just a blast. There are plenty of pics which will be forthcoming in the next blog.
Tchau Petra
Hi everyone. Sorry for the delay inupdating the blog. Here are some pics from our trip to Araxa. Below is Sugar Cane fields which just when for miles and miles lining the highway.

And Coffee plantations which also often went as far as you could see.
On the way I got to stop at Franca and spend some time with a lovely lady called Luiza. She is a shareholder in the company Magazine Luiza (similar to Harvey Normans) and they have 14,000 employee's and 400 stores. Definately the best vocational so far.
Gotta go so will edit this blog but below is the Hotel we stayed at in Araxa. Mouto Bom.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Our first day at Jaboticabal
So today we met the Mayor Jose Carlos Hori in the lovely City of Jaboticabal. For me the most attractive City so far. Lots of old buildings and parks. The City has a population of 74,000 which 10,000 of these are students. Their main industry is peanuts and sugar cane. The Mayor's focus initially was creating structure within the council and motivating the employees to work more passionately for the city. His focus when elected was on the social issues and he is currently working on the storm-water network. He seems well liked by the people and is expected to be re-elected next term
Here we see the Mayor exchanging gifts with Brenda

And a group photo of the team with our hosts and the Mayor.
Here we see the Mayor exchanging gifts with Brenda

And a group photo of the team with our hosts and the Mayor.
Tchau, James.
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