Today's blog entry is simple. originally i had plans to go with Daniel Urgelles - UPenn - to the beach to meet three other guys from the group. it was scheduled a little too early for both of us so plans ended up falling through but i got many good things out of it = a nice walk on avenida paulista, a blog entry that i wrote on a notebook i always carry around, nice images, lots of reading done, first attempt at McDonald's in Brazil, book store time and meeting two very nice brazilians...
here's what i wrote as i sat in one of the benches of the park
here's what i wrote as i sat in one of the benches of the park
i hope you enjoyed some of my observations and i apologize for the unorganized manner in which i recorded all these things. there are also a lot of assumptions or deductions that i made which you are free to contest, and i realize i might have been wrong about them .. i know dogs are repeated but i saw lots of them and everytime i noticed something different.
i went to the park Trianon, located along Avenida Paulista, in front of MASP, and this is some of what i saw from 09.16 to 10.16 am...
- a photographer and his relatively 'young' girlfriend
- lots of spiderwebs
- a security guard teaching the secrets of park security gained from his experience to a younger guard
- joggers -all kinds, ages, speeds, heights, humors
- a DEPAVE - Departamento de Parques e Areas Verdes - worker with his son
- two women sitting on a bench close to mine talking about me and staring at what i did
- a statue
- lots of dogs - and the owners behind them
- chlidren running - and their parents fast-walking after them while calling their names
- tatoos
- leaves, sticks and seeds falling from above
- a guy carrying his dog around the park
- two smokers
- dog poop - some was picked up, some... not so much
- flies flying around the 'not-picked-up poop'
- 5 baby carriages
- 3 people talking on their cellphones
- 6 digital cameras in use
- a girl giving water to her dog using her hand as the container
- lots of music devices
- two houseless people
- dogs sniffing each other
- three encounters of dog-owners meeting
- futebol shirts
- a golden retriever rolling on his back
- running shorts - the very short kind... those went by a couple of times
- a security guard talking -and smiling- to a girl guard
- people stretching
- dogs that follow orders, dogs that don't, dogs that follow orders only in English, owners that follow dogs
- impacient dogs, nervous dogs, calm dogs, obedient dogs, tired dogs, playful dogs, scary dogs, playful owners...
- interviewers/poll-takers
- myself being relaxed
- another DEPAVE worker chilling with his friend
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