September 12, 2008

• Elections

  So this is my first time in Brasil for Election time. this is their off time for president, so it is just city elections. but that’s enough. people paint their houses for these things. blank cement walls are covered with candidate information. each candidate makes up a song, ditty, whatever to get stuck in everyone’s heads. the song says something about how wonderful they will be, and then their number. they pay kids to ride around with loud speakers on their bikes and blast this song out EVERYWHERE. you randomly hear yourself singing “vote for 652895″ or something like that.

  flags are everywhere. (i like that part, because the flags here are not ugly, just a color and number, and then are put on bamboo poles bamboo poles make me happy.) Since i have friends that work in the mayor’s office, i get the inside scoop. three main choices: bad, worse, or worst. i forget names, so that is why they have numbers:

  14: is the bad one. but at least his wife really likes the Living Stones program, so she will keep it in progress. he is yellow.
  45: he is worse. but not as well known, i guess he would be like the third party candidate. he is blue.
  15: he’s the worst. people in the mayors office tremble at the thought of having to work with him again (aparently, he was a mayor in the past). i personally dislike him because when he was in office before, he took out the whole PETI program (which Living stones is a part of) and replaced it with a bowl of soup. that was it. the whole help for all the children…once a day, they lined up for a bowl of soup. disgusting. and it was bad soup from what i hear. he is red.

  i personally like the current mayor. he has nice, kind eyes.

  and this…my friends, is the extent of my political knowledge. but i guess it does come down to you finding what issues matter to you…and then voting for the one who is closest to that? it is a sad day when you have to vote by process of elimination, rather than chosing someone you believe in. but i guess it is too risky to believe in anyone these days.

  i try to look up politics on the internet once a week or so. it isn’t working very well. my previous formula was asking my mom what was going on in the politics world, and that worked much better for me. my mom speaks plainly. i am beginning to hope that being out of the country is a good enough reason to not vote. but then again…

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