Travelog for: Stanley Monkey

I am no longer hosting Stanley and I hope he made it safely home

Hello everyone,
                          My name is Stanley Monkey and I live in Queensland, Australia. I have caught the travel bug, but my person, Bec, is too busy with school to be able to take me. She has promised me next year, but I can't wait. So today, I heard about Toyvoyagers and have packed my metaphorical bags and am waving goodbye to Bec. Off I go, a monkey traveller on his own. I know I'm going to have SO much fun!
                                                          Stanley.

Hi Mommy!
I finally arrived in Brazil.
Yesterday I was getting to know around. We walked the dog together. As soon as I arrived, Alizeé came to welcome me.
Today I came to my hosts job, but the pictures havent been uploaded yet. Saturday we will hit the road and go to the beach!

Hi!
Today I went to my hosts internship, then I came back and slept with Alizée.  Today is very rainy here, so we might not go to the beach like we had planned to

After the park and the mall we just gave the puppy a shower. He sure looks funny!
Monday Alessandra will upload the other pictures!

Hi,

We just came back from the supermarket and gosh, I cant believe how lucky we are. They had just brought in a Pirarucu, a huge fish only found in the Amazon river, Australia and Africa. Many legends try to explain the origins of this fish. My host told me one that is told by one indian tribe in the Amazon. It tells about a man, called Pirarucu an indian from a local tribe. He was a brave warrior, but was very mean. Tupã, the god of the gods, then punished him by turning him into this big fish.

Today was such a funny day. We went to the museum!! But I will tell you about it in a few days, my host is still managing the pictures.
The other day we ate tuna  and cheese pizza! ummm yummy, my host loves it!

After the museum, we went to a very cool bakery to get a pie. This bakery is very famous here.
Some people laughed at my host because she was taking my pic, can you believe that? She was a little embarassed, but thats fine! She shouted "he is not from here!!" !!! hahahaha!

The next picture features me and Alizeé about to taste a "goiaba" (the sliced one). It is a very popular fruit here, I dont know if other countries have it too. It was delicious!

Hi mom

Yesterday was such a busy day. We went to a new mall and to Ale's godson's house. On saturday we went to the mall ( a different one). She will update the pics later this week. Ah and we went to a park too... and to the museum as I mentioned! Oh my, what a busy weekend that was!
At night, Ale showed my some books she loves.
1- First, we read poems of Fernando Pessoa. He is definetly the most important poet in Portugal and Brazil (but he is from Portugal). Anyone with a high school diploma in these countries know him. My host really loves this heteronim (a poet he created) called Alberto Caeiro. In this picture I was reading this poem:

When spring comes,
if Im already dead,
the flowers will bloom the same way
and the trees will not be less green than they were last spring.
reality doesnt need me.

I feel so much happiness
thinking that my death doesnt have any importance at all.

If I knew tomorrow I would die
and spring was the day after tomorrow,
I would die happy, because it would be the day after tomorrow.
If thats the time, when else would it come, if not on its time?
I like that everything is real and everything is right.
and I like it because thats the way it would be, even if I didnt like it.
Therefore, if i die now, i will die happy,
because everything is real and is right.

You can pray in latin over my coffin if you want to,
or you can dance and sing around it.
I have no preferences for when i could not have preferences.
what it is, when it is, it will be what it is.


2- This is Hamlet. Ale loves it too! in this page you can read
Hamlet: "what is that? Treat them better. If we would treat everone the way they deserved, none would escape the beating"

3. Here is King Oedipus. Thats so nice! in the left page you can read
Oedipus: " Expel me from this country, hurry up, to a place where anyone could ever talk to me again"
 

Hi!

Today I will show the pictures of the park. The day was very cloudy and gray, but it was fun anyway! 

Dear Mommy,

Here are the pictures from when we went to a new mall in here. It is across the city, Ale had never been there either. They had an ice skating rink!

Bye,
Stanley

Hi Mom.

Here are the pictures of when I visited Ale's godson, Cauã. I didnt exactly interact with him, because he was asleep! In the pictures you can also see his mother and grandmother.

The mall here is very nice. Many fancy stores!
Here in Brazil the biggest holiday is Carnival. And it will be next week! Here we even say the year only starts after Carnival. We will definetly watch it on TV !
So the next update will be only wednesday.

Mommy,

Here are the pics from our last week trip to the museum. We didnt actually enter it, we just went to the antiques fair that happens every sunday under it. It is called  MASP, and you can read about it here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_Museum_of_Art


It was really fun!

Hello.

The other day we went to school with Ale and the way back was so interesting.
She told us there are so many motorcycles in São Paulo! They go around making food deliveries or most common,  document deliveries. The car drivers are not so found of them, because they are reckless drivers and will call  you names for very silly reasons!

In the next picture, you can see, at the top of the helmet, the Copan, a very famous building in the country, just as famous as the museum! You can read about it here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edif%C3%ADcio_Copan

In the next picture, we were right in front of the entrance to the Hospital das Clinicas, which is the largest and most important Hospital complex in Latin America.

Only a few more updates to go!
I hope you are all enjoying looking at my adventure!

Hi.
Here are some random pictures of me!
First you see us going to college.
Then we stopping for some gas.
In the last picture you can see the flag of Brazil in the middle, the State of São Paulo to the left and the City of São Paulo to the right!