Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Posted by Reverend Ref + at 10:47 PM

SAO PAULO

I woke up this morning and checked the newswire as I do almost every morning, and there I read about serious rioting in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Our foreign exchange student is from just outside Porto Allegro, Brazil, and Sao Paulo is not that far away. It sounded like a serious situation . . . fighting in the streets for something like five days, hundreds of people killed, bad news all around.

Thinking that she might want to know about this, I mentioned it at breakfast.

"I saw that there was serious rioting in Sao Paulo for the last several days; bad stuff, lots of deaths. It looked really serious."

She responded (I kid you not), "Eh . . . it's Sao Paulo. They're big city with lots of problems. It happens."

All righteee then.

2 comments:

Anonymous | 11:36 PM, May 17, 2006  

Eh, it's Chicago. Big city. Lots of problems. These things happen.

No, somehow that just doesn't sound right.

Anonymous | 9:27 AM, May 18, 2006  

A friend of mine travels to Brasil a couple of times a year. He says that the country is a mess in that way. The extreme poverty brings this out. Sure, it is an affluent country with educated people and a good economy. There are also people living in shanty towns within Rio and Sao. No sewage. No education.

So, yeah. Hmmm.

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