The University of São Paulo is the most prestigious colleges in Brazil and one of the biggest institutions of higher education in Latin America. On Wednesday, Anders and I were invited to go visit the campus by a friend of ours called Aninha. Until I got there I didn't realize how enormous the campus was going to be. On a bus it takes at least 5- 10 minutes just to get around the entire university. We were actually invited to go attend an lecture by the ex-President of Chile Ricardo Lagos about international relations. Since it was an open forum and because it was in my area of study I thought it would be interesting to check out. What the three of us didn't realize until we got there was that it was going to be in Spanish! When he started talking i literally sat for a couple of minutes wondering when the translator was going to jump in. Even though it was hard to understand the graphs and different statistics he showed were very revealing about the economic plight of many modern countries.
The University of São Paulo is the most prestigious colleges in Brazil and one of the biggest institutions of higher education in Latin America. On Wednesday, Anders and I were invited to go visit the campus by a friend of ours called Aninha. Until I got there I didn't realize how enormous the campus was going to be. On a bus it takes at least 5- 10 minutes just to get around the entire university. We were actually invited to go attend an lecture by the ex-President of Chile Ricardo Lagos about international relations. Since it was an open forum and because it was in my area of study I thought it would be interesting to check out. What the three of us didn't realize until we got there was that it was going to be in Spanish! When he started talking i literally sat for a couple of minutes wondering when the translator was going to jump in. Even though it was hard to understand the graphs and different statistics he showed were very revealing about the economic plight of many modern countries. 
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