Since my last post I've been to Palmeidas de goias, Brasilia, and Florianopolis. Each place is so different from each other , I'll be posting about them over the next few days. After that I have a more cultural/language based post... I LOVE portuguese expressions used here in brazil!Where else can I say "estou na mundo da lua"?
But I'm not going to get ahead of myself and my lack of updates, I'm just going to try to keep better track of updating this blog from now on. I've settled in now and things are way less hectic, allowing thoughts about the experiences of the past 3 months to gel and be presented into blog form.
So... Brasilia!
My art dept. at the Universidade Federal de Goias took a bus load of students from Goiania to Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, for an art exhibition. There , I saw works by Brazillian artists, as well as a neat post-revolution Russian exhibit they had.
Besides being the capital of Brazil , Brasilia is an attraction unto itself because the amazing contemporary Oscar Niemeyer architecture...space age and a stark white against a backdrop of flat for miles "cerrado" terrain and city buildings. One of his main architectural accomplishments in Brasilia is the Cathedral-Basilica of Our lady of the Aparecida( pictured above).
I didn't only visit exhibits in Brasilia, I walso visited the Central Bank of Brazil, akin to the USA's National Federal Reserve. I saw a currency museum, and a special museum dedicated to Brazil's historical involvement with gold. For the gold part of the tour, you walk up a tiny case of stairs to find yourself in a dounut shaped cement structure that is carpeted floor to celing with gold carpet! That exhibit definitely had some flair. The pictures don't do it justice. I'm having problems with my camera and I tried to google it and couldn't find any good pictures. Just imagine if Elvis were brazillian, and that is the gold room.
