ah ouais donc en fait ton séjour consiste à t'immiscer dans des paysages style "fond d'écran windows"....pfff...tu ne fais que renforcer les inégalités david... :p
rich and poor I think you have socialist bones David. That is why you can't bring yourself to hate them. I'm sure they appreciated your obliging reaction to being robbed and I expect it was worth the 3 euro mobile phone to get those interesting reactions... glad to see you are using your blog-space to put the world to rights - or at least not to stand by and watch the wrongs in silence - or at least to critically analyse it all anyway....let us know of any conclusions you come to, un beso, Lydia
inequality inequality is much higher in Brazil than in the US - the gini is around 0.6 in Brazil and only (well, "only" is the wrong word) 0.4 in the US - and the brazil estimates ignore the population in the rural amazon area. The race inequalities do overlap with the regional inequalities - as you'll have noticed by now! The definitions used by the stats agency in the household surveys are really interesting - people are classified literally by colour - white, brown, black and yellow. I'm not joking. I have a stack of stuff on all of this! Loving your blog and very jealous. xxxxxx
are you sure that was not some american sitcom which was dubbed into portugese? one of the pictures looks a lot like the mum of the 70 show...
secondly, dont worry about dryness, i am still looking for something drier than that politics books we had in second year... theories of state? bwerk..... i have goose bimps just to think about it again! =)
keep on writing it brightens my day here at the office
Jealous? You think *that* will make me jealous? As if sunshine, beautiful landscapes and the warm blue ocean could possibly better than -2 degrees, snowstorms, wind, and no hope of it ever getting warmer. Pleeeeeeeeeease, surely you jest.
Aw, so French worrying about structure and clarity, haha. I'm kinda jealous of you learning Portuguese with a Brazilian accent! I think it's the sweetest and most beautiful language...
Keep writing! It's nice to hear how you're doing and your posts always give you something to think about :). xxx
Of course as a tourist you have to be more careful because some bad people may try to take advantage of you but I'm brazilian and i live in a bigger city then salvador( Belo horizotne which is the 3rd largest city here) and dude, its really sad that tourists aways have the same impressions about brazilians, that all they know how to do is drugs, parties, caipirinhas, churrasco, etc........
this is kind of true(not the drug party for me lol) but hey every country has their upper and lower side do you agree? I've lived in the US and I can tell you, people use way more drugs there then anyone that I know and i mean, maybe the poorer here use lots of drugs but there the middle class guys like me and my friends(who don't do shit like that) never even seen in front of
hey David,
loving the blog, so sorry to hear about your camera. I remember when I got mugged when I was traveling round France, it really sucks and hits your confidence hard. Anyways, chin up, it sounds so cool all the different sights you're seeing etc.
Tom
... I cannot see the photo of the cristo and you!!! where is that picture!!!!
(In aslight puerto rican tone as in one of the episodes of seinfield with the 2 puertoricans.. hehehe)
general... just to let you know I'm reading... also tough break about being robbed, I think not being stabbed was the right decision though.
hope the ankle gets better soon - take it easy, you've got all year!
The Journey Begins [-- ...and so Bilbo set off on the track, his knapsack on his back, at the crack of dawn with the sky just shy off black.
The little hobbit was not at all scared, for he was well prepared, bread pack with care, a few socks spare and a mat to sleep anywhere.
Over beaches and through rainforest, the hippie hobbit hopped, and in the towns he shopped alot, and told many a tale of.... France. --]
I can see this will be come an epic adventure :-)
I look forward to reading more about your adventures in Bazil-land!
ta soeur coincée a la maison
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wow c'est trop beau!!!!!!!!!!je suis trop jalouse!