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Wednesday afternoon, September 15, 2010
After we made a visit
this morning, Sue was asked to help out a friend this afternoon, so
I’ll take a little time to make a journal entry right now.
Thirty-one years ago
today we first arrived in Brazil. We came with only
three suitcases and ten small boxes to start our life in this country. My, how things have changed since then. But we’ve just kept going and going and going
. . .
The other day I
looked out the window and couldn’t believe it when I saw a yellow
school bus going down the street. Now in the States these are very
common, but they are totally "foreign" down here. I don’t know who owns
it or what it is doing here, but there it was big and yellow with
“School Bus” written in English on the sides – a touch of the states in
Bauru.
(see pics on our blog – http://spoelhof-brazilnuts.blogspot.com/)
It’s been my turn to
see doctors and have exams these past couple weeks. Thankfully, clinics
and laboratories have been within walking distance – one nice thing
with having to large hospitals within blocks of our apartment – because
the city has been repaving streets around our neighborhood., and rather
than doing it at night with little traffic, they do it during the day
at heavy traffic times.
Anyway, the street
behind us is a heavily traveled four-lane thoroughfare. So when it
closed down for repaving, all westbound traffic – cars, buses, trucks,
you name it… - was redirected down our little one way cobblestone
street. What confusion just trying to get out or back home!
I imagine the city
figures that as “holey” as streets are here, no one would complain how
or when they were repaved. And it is a smooth ride to church now (once
off our cobblestone street).
Then if traffic noise
wasn’t enough, it is also national election time, so candidates have
sound trucks going around with loud music and announcements of why you
should vote for that candidate.
With all
the progress we’ve seen in Brazil over the
years, some things still seem “third-world”.
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