FIFA officially announced this Tuesday that Brazil will be hosting the 2014 world cup.The meeting held in Zurich, Switzerland was attended by Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, several Brazilian senators, and Brazilian soccer personalities (The cost of their trip is covered by the Brazilian government.).The last world cup held in Brazil took place [...]
Archive for October, 2007
2014 World Cup in Brazil
Posted in Brazil on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Darfur
Posted in Africa on October 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
As you have noticed by now, I tend to only write stories about places I have either lived in, or travelled through. I do this because I find that it’s hard for you to tell a story that involves issues like injustice, repression and hunger from afar. You only really know what is going on [...]
It rains bullets in Rio
Posted in Brazil on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Stray bullets keep raining down on Rio de Janeiro’s future. And in the Marvelous City when it rains, it pours.
Yesterday an 8-year-old girl was hit by a stray bullet at her school in Jacarezinho Favela.
Joceline Gomes Paranhos was rehearsing a dance presentation in the school’s soccer court when the bullet hit her in the back.
Gomes’s teachers [...]
Cuba
Posted in Cuba on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On September 28, at approximately 12:30 in the afternoon, the
Air Canada Jet I was in landed at the International Airport in Havana, Cuba. Along with the Jet, the realization that I was alone in Cuba also landed very hard.
My dream to travel, that always seemed far away, had just turned into reality.
When I first left [...]
Dichotomy Between the Rich and Poor
Posted in Brazil on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
September 14, 2007
Espirito Santo do Pinhal, Brazil
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…Brazil… I love this country so much, it hurts to have to hate it!
Today I was at my house talking to our construction worker and he told me that this guy from Pinhal (My home city) put a 180 000 Reais ($90 000 Canadian dollars) light fixture in his [...]
Guatemala
Posted in Central America on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
After being stung by a scorpion and having my wallet stolen on a bus, I made it out of Guatemala safe and sound, and blessed to be a witness.
The people in Guatemala were very friendly. They made me feel at home everywhere I went. The landscape was breathtaking. The volcanoes, the lakes, the ocean, and [...]
The Marvelous City in a not so Marvelous War
Posted in Brazil on October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last year the Washington Post printed a story on the city of Rio de Janeiro that started as so;
From 2002 to 2006, 729 Israeli and Palestine minors were killed as a result of the violence in Israel and the occupied territories around it according B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group. During the same time period [...]
Granada, Nicaragua
Posted in Central America on October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday November 22, 2006.
Granada, Nicaragua
I am back at the Bearded Monkey hostel drinking some water to cool down from the extreme heat. It is so hot here in Nicaragua that a simple task such as brushing your teeth can make one sweat as if running for two hours… It’s crazy; the fight between deodorant and [...]
Aboriginal Peoples of Canada
Posted in Canada on October 17, 2007 | 6 Comments »
A man runs to catch the 505 streetcar. A woman enters the Gap on the corner of Yonge and Dundas. A senior ties his shoes as he waits for his wife to leave the Eaton Centre. James Ignace, Bruce Matinet, and Bradley Matinet sit on the hard, cold sidewalk of one of the busiest corners [...]
