Instead of getting on a bus or taking the subway, this day we decided to get better acquainted with our own neighborhood of Casa Verde. So all of these shots were taken within easy walking distance of the MTC here in São Paulo. Normal garbage pick up usually takes place between mid-night and 6:00 A.M. People place the waste materials in plastic sacks and put the sacks in these metal baskets which are emptied during the night. No bulky garbage cans to haul back and forth and the sanitations trucks come by multiple times during the week.
This photo has nothing to do with our walk around the neighborhood. It was taken on New Year's Eve. Normally pictures are not allowed in the cafeteria, but an exception was made on this ocassion. We were sitting with the mission president and his wife and had dozens of missionareis wanting to take our picture. Jerry thought it would be fun to take this shot of them shooting us, so she barrowed a camera and this is the result.
A street corner on a little hill with a veiw of the city looking to the northeast. At this point we are about six or seven blocks away from the MTC.
Many people in this area don't have anyplace to park their vehicles except on the street. This family had space for several cars behind this gate. Ours is an older lower-middle class neighborhood. During our walk I stopped to talk with an 83 year old man who has lived in the same house since his marriage, well over 50 years ago. He wasn't sure how long he had been married. He answered my question about how he was doing by saying that he could still walk; and as long as he do that he said he was doing just fine.
This man was pulling bricks and mortar up to the third floor of the new building. Some one behind the plywood fence was mixing the mortar and supplying the bricks. So far as we could tell, there were only two people working on it as we watched for a few minutes.
Neighbors are out on the corners chatting with each other while the young boys are out flying there kites. This is the the first day without rain for about a week. You can tell the there have been a lot of kite accidents by noting all of the remnants of kites tangled up in the electrical wires above the streets in both the photo above and the one below.
This tree is typical of those found in many of the older parks in the city. This is the arae where we live and work. The longer we are here the more we are grateful to be here in this wonderful country. We have been very blessed during the almost three years of our missions.
Instead of getting on a bus or taking the subway, this day we decided to get better acquainted with our own neighborhood of Casa Verde. So all of these shots were taken within easy walking distance of the MTC here in São Paulo. Normal garbage pick up usually takes place between mid-night and 6:00 A.M. People place the waste materials in plastic sacks and put the sacks in these metal baskets which are emptied during the night. No bulky garbage cans to haul back and forth and the sanitations trucks come by multiple times during the week.
This photo has nothing to do with our walk around the neighborhood. It was taken on New Year's Eve. Normally pictures are not allowed in the cafeteria, but an exception was made on this ocassion. We were sitting with the mission president and his wife and had dozens of missionareis wanting to take our picture. Jerry thought it would be fun to take this shot of them shooting us, so she barrowed a camera and this is the result.
A street corner on a little hill with a veiw of the city looking to the northeast. At this point we are about six or seven blocks away from the MTC. 
Many people in this area don't have anyplace to park their vehicles except on the street. This family had space for several cars behind this gate. Ours is an older lower-middle class neighborhood. During our walk I stopped to talk with an 83 year old man who has lived in the same house since his marriage, well over 50 years ago. He wasn't sure how long he had been married. He answered my question about how he was doing by saying that he could still walk; and as long as he do that he said he was doing just fine.
This man was pulling bricks and mortar up to the third floor of the new building. Some one behind the plywood fence was mixing the mortar and supplying the bricks. So far as we could tell, there were only two people working on it as we watched for a few minutes.
Neighbors are out on the corners chatting with each other while the young boys are out flying there kites. This is the the first day without rain for about a week. You can tell the there have been a lot of kite accidents by noting all of the remnants of kites tangled up in the electrical wires above the streets in both the photo above and the one below. 
This tree is typical of those found in many of the older parks in the city. This is the arae where we live and work. The longer we are here the more we are grateful to be here in this wonderful country. We have been very blessed during the almost three years of our missions.
2 comments:
Fun, once again. It is nice to see your neighborhood.
D.
I loved your tour. I am going to send the link on to our family.
Thanks for your friendship and sharing!
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