Ferias e um paradoxo. Estou cansada.Tenho uma lista de coisas que quero fazer. Entre elas estudar para o meu relatorio de estagio (que envolve teoria arquivistica e metodologia historica), estudar ingles, espanhol (coisa que nem comecei), voltar a praticar corrida e ler O Cemiterio de Praga de Humberto Eco. De tudo isso, a unica coisa que fiz foi voltar a correr.Uma vez li na internet que o corpo "responde rapido aos bons tratos". Aos maus tambem. Mas voltar a correr tem sido um prazer.Do resto... Nada. Isso porque queria incluir nas minhas ferias uma viagem de uma semana, ida ao dentista e... Descanso!Incrivel! Quanto mais tempo se tem, menos consigo fazer!Lembro do post que escrevi sobre ter menos horas no dia, para que os afazeres diarios nao nos sobrecarregassem. Oras, nas ferias (mas somente nas ferias), poderia ter um pouco mais de horas os dias, pois, assim, dedicariamos mais tempo para nos mesmo e nao para o trabalho e/ou faculdade (como tenho feito agora). Ops! Estou caindo nas armadilhas da contradicao.No fim, acho que se trata de um enigma. Um puzzle que tenho que resolver na minha vida e transformar as ferias em algo produtivo, mesmo que falte tempo. Antes que ela acabe. Brazil is a country of continental dimensions. Since its colonization in the 16th century, people from all over the world have arrived throughout Brazilian territory. If one does not focus on one specific immigration phenomenon, it is possible to spend hundreds of pages describing and analysing the arrival of Portuguese people, as well as Dutches, Japaneses, Chineses, Africans, Germans, Italians, Arabians, and others either in Rio Grande do Sul or Rio Grande do Norte. But it was in the end of the 19th century that the immigration in Sao Paulo changed forever the face of the Brazilian biggest city. The main deal, responsible for having enriched the city, was the coffee production and comercialization. Neverthless, the abolition, in 1888, forced the farmers to look for another kind of cheap labour and the immigrants was the solution. Since their homecountries were passing through a modernization process, these people were losing their lands and, consequently, the place they lived and worked. These immigrants, mostly Italians, Germans and Japaneses, were the protagonist of a much studied phenomenon in Brazilian history: the transition of slavery to wage labour. As every transitional moment, many difficulties needed to be overcome and, for long, these immigrants were seem and treated, many times, as slaves. In the next decades, immigrants continued to arrive in Sao Paulo, but as the coffee production and comercialization had declined, these people didnt go to the countryside and remained in the capital. Therefore, staying together with their compatriots, the immigrants shaped the citys neighborhoods, accent, eating habits, popular music, etc. Until today, Liberdade is a well-known japanese neighborhood, with tipical food, music and the place where Oriental festivities are celebrated. The same happens in Bixiga, where the factories Italian workers lived, turned to be a typically Italian neighborhood. What about the most famous shopping street trading in Sao Paulo? 25 de Marco