Im leaving for Sao Paulo Dec 23 and staying until Jan 13. Ive been studying my portuguese for 8 months now and am semi fluent. I will be staying with my girlfriends family down there. Any advice where to go or what to do?
Yeah, go to the favelas, at night (past 23.00) with an expensive camera round your neck, a tonne of jewelry on display, knee length cargo pants (from Macy's), a Hawaiian shirt left open & a T-shirt that says, I heart NY underneath

You will be fine!!
If you get lost, they look like this.
PT