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But Sao Paulo is ‘squalid’

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hours by bus from - Sao
Paulo, to spend the day with
some people Fd met a few
years before in Argentine.

We took a taxi to the bus
station. So far, so good.
Things began to get com-
plicated when I disco'ered
how big that station was. I
cannot speak one wo:d of
Portugese and believe me,
people in Brazilian bus
Stations can’t speak English.
By sheer luck, Igot the right
tickets and found the right
bus. ;

Handing the ‘tickets to the
driver, we tried to get on
board the bus. No way! The
driver unleashed a torrent of
Portugese - and the only
word I understood was
“NO!.

I argued. He waved his
hands and lyelled. I
examined the tickets. They
laoked OK to me. Then he

inted at my daughter,
again saying, “No”. Her
ticket looked. OK, too.
Then, realizing that he had
to get going, he gave up and
let us aboard.

We got to San Jose right

on schedule and our friends

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met us. In the excitement of the officials. The law was
greetings, I forgot all about designed to prevent kid-
nappings. Can you imagine’
night, when waiting for the the problem-for that poor
bus to take us back - lo and__ driver, faced with an irate
behold € same driver. ~ Canadian without a pass and
Right away, he flew into without the brains to know
another torrent of Por- she needed one? He ex-
tuguese - but this time to my plained to my friends that he
Brazilian friends. They
Started to laugh. Soon, all when he decided the kid
three were nearly hysterical. looked enough like me to
Finally, they stopped long pass. Besides, she had called
enough to tell me the joke. me Mom and didn’t look like

the victim of an abduction.
In Brazil, there is a law

Stating that NO-ONE can We learned something

. take a child from one city to else, too. Seats on Brazilian

another by bus or train buses are numbered and the
without a special pass from numbers are right on the

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tickets. We'd spent the first
three-hour ride sitting in
someone elses’ seats but the
driver didn’t risk trying to
tell us - he just explained to
everyone on the bus that we
were a little sub-normal but
not dangerous. .

And to think that all those
funny looks we kept gettin
from the other passengers
weren't because we were
tourists but because we were
nuts!

I love Brazilians!

Oh yes, in case you ever

wondered about the term .
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