Have you ever sat in your house, perhaps your living room, with the big screen TV or other simple luxuries, and wondered what is the exteme opposite of your life. Normally, we in the middle class contemplate with question with a view towards the super rich, their lifestyles and homes intrigue us and even entertain us, but how often do you ponder the extremes in the other direction. Today I/We visited that place...the raw extreme opposite of our life in Canada...La Chureca, the dump. Now I have been to the dump before, at least the Canadian version, but nothing could prepare us for the sights and smell of literally acres of garbage, much of it burning, raw mounds of garbage, literally for as far as the eye can see. It was literally, as one student aptly
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