Today the two sugar plums and I went downtown to find crowns for us… actually we have no idea whether one will come included in our costumes or not, but we went there to take a look.
It was a fun tour, we went to the Chinatown Sao Paulo version, which is actually called “Liberdade” (means freedom, liberty). It looks quite similar to NYC’s chinatown, but with typical lamps on the streets and a few gardens around (I didn’t take any pictures because I was afraid that someone would take my cam away! We were three girls, you know, better be cautious! Next time I’ll try, I’ll have to go back there anyway).
And a small fun fact: Brazil has the biggest Japanese population of the world outside of Japan!

As we couldnt find anything there, we took the subway and went to another neighbourhood, in a very crowded street where carnival costumes and accessories are sold.
It’s quite hard to walk there actually! But anyway, we went to all the stores that we could, we would even go up in buildings to look for the crowns.

Can we say… lots of crowns?

Of course we found lots of options, but we ended up noy buying. But we had some fun trying them =D
It’s hard to tell what will look good on stage and so on, at least I don’t know much about this, and I haven’t seen my outfit yet.

As for ballet and rehearsals, we had our first rehearsal on stage, with all the school, so we rehearsed the entire ballet.
It was nice, but apparently we will need to have a lot more of rehearsals in the theatre because well, let’s say the waltz is looking a bit messy in terms of ”organization”. Meaning diagonals are almost snakes. =P

That’s it for now!