the girl from ipanema...

So it seems that because i was born in Brazil i have to automatically love that place...

its hard, when all you know is corruption and poverty from such a beautiful place...yes it is beuatiful, but i would never go back there...my family keep on pestering me to go back there and today my little cousin asked me that if i had the choices of A: being so poor and be thrown in jail or
B: go back to live in Brazil and have enough money to live well but not enough to buy a ticket to come back to the UK which one i'd prefer...
i picked the first one...


I love the UK, i love having 4 seasons, i love to wake up in the cold mornings and just chill out for a while before braving the cold, i also love getting up when the sun is shining into my room and it puts a smile on your face.

Brazil is a beautiful place, the people however arent so nice.

it has everything, every resource needed to get itself out of the financial and livin situations it is currently in...corrupt politicians, prevent that from happening, but the people who say that need help, dont do anything to help themselves... so i have absolutly no sympathy.

the minimum wage there is around R$390.00 conver that to pounds, its about £130. not a lot i know but most people get at least 3 times the minimum wages.
shops there basically loan you whatever you buy...you have the choice of paying it in installments...just like a loan, you need to pay it off every month.

they will go nowhere like that.

i know its hard when you have the plastic in your wallet aind the most "basic" things needs buying...but there you get supplied with the basic shopping needs, which are flour, sugar, spaghetti, eggs, milk, oil, salt, rice, beans and some other things...and depending on the sixe of your family you get more then one...doesnt sound like a lot, but those are the actual BASICS.

most people will go to brazil and only see the "touristic" side of things, not all the crime (which i will add, comes from the police too...not such saints) all the poverty, favelas and bad sanitation. which is good, but that country, recently awarded one of the "wonders" of the world for the Christ on the sugar loafs should start to clean up.

enough about that for now...other thoughts in my head....

i gotta start getting ready to go to the airport...my cousin in flying out there at 6am today.
-Gaby