Hey up everybody!

Wow! It was so nice to read all your comments that I couldn´t be able to see before. Thanks Paul :-)!

Many thanks to everyone who has sent comments on this blog area. You´re all great!

Well, I hope you all have enjoyed your wekeend as I have. I went to Liberdade, the São Paulo oriental neighbourhood, in order to see the celebrations of the Chinese New Year. This year the organisers have to antecipate the festivities because of the Carnival. So the year of the rat was celebrated with many cultural activites, such as typical dances, tai-chi-chuan and kung fu presentations, Chinese art exhibition and of course plenty of delicious typicals food :-).

Chinese and Japanese imigrants live in Liberdade neighbourhood. When you step out of the Liberdade subway station you´ll probably think you aren´t in Brazil. All the lampposts have an oriental design and the language you hear most there is the Japanese and the Chinese. At the outdoor market, which is set on the weekends, you can find handcraft works, flowers and typical food. It´s a wonderful place to visit.

Here are some photos of the Chinese New year´s party. I hope you like them:











Anita, you´re an artist! I´ve loved your work and so my mum! You know, my mum also do handcraft. She paints and does crochet very well :-).

Adri, your pictures are lovely as usual :-). The beach is dazzling beautiful! i wish I could be there.

Naheed it´s always nice hear from you :-).

Leila thanks for sending comments on my blog :-).

Benka! I´ve loved to read your comments :-) . And many thanks for your explanations.

Pary, I´m happy that you haven´t given up to send comments to us :-).

You-Sin BAE, keep sending your comments. It´s really nice read them.

Sayaka, don´t be sad! Everything is ok now. I´m glad to meet you :-).

Manoj, for sure I´ll keep exercising.

Mercè, I´m happy you´ve like of the sites.

Marianna, it´s nice hear from you again.

Krzysztof from Poland, how was the snow fall? Did you enjoy it?

Catherine, Yuan, Poorva a warm welcome to you all :-).

James, tanks for post comments on my blog.

Stephen, it´s great to catch up with you. I wish all the best for you and Lucy.
And who knows? Maybe we can meet again on the cyberspace. Take care and have a wonderful journey.

Rachel!!! Oh you´re back! And how lovely Owen looks like at the picture :-).

Ooops! I´ve just taken a quickly look at the clock. It´s time to dress up and go to my FCE course. Yep. The holiday is over and it´s time to come back to the FCE studies routine.

Have a good night or day,

Ana Paula.

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