We started at 9 with a very interactive lesson about a general overview on the brazilian economy. Professor Paulo Pfeil clearly explained us the main strenghts and weaknesses of this enormous country. First of all he gave us some numbers, comparing Brasil to other countries and in particular to Italy.
He analysed the big deal of brazilian economy, the inflaction, showing us the different governative politics, which tried and try to solve the problem, with quite good results. We discover also that 20% of brazilian population has an italian ancient, due to the migration between the XIX and the XX century.
After the lesson we came out under the tropical sun and we reached the restaurant just behind the Uff University, theatre of a hilarious misunderstanding... we tried to ask for some bread...but the waiters didn´t speak english...so we tried to pronouciate the word in portuguese, that is pão. The waiters were shocked! Actually we pronounced pão as pau! We leave you the burden of translation...
In the afternoon we visited the Judicial Cultural Centre, where we could see the old room of the Brazilian Supreme Court. They guided us in a tour of the palace and of the art exibition there. They also explaine dus the origins and the inspiration of the Brasilian laws: we discovered that the brazilian labour law derivates from the italian Carta dei Lavoratori!
Not yet tired we decided to climb the Corcovado in order to reach the statue of the Christ...
We took the train through the tropical jungle populated by monkeys (that´s what our guides said...) and we reached the top, where the photo session began...
the panorama was amazing, but a surprise was waiting for us...
A tropical storm suddenly began!! We ran to the train station fighting to find a seat and hoping to reach safe and sound the hotel.
We got it!
Federica e Valeria
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