Brazil strikes

Unicamp is one of the best universities in Brazil. It's public and it's totally free. The school is like a district with a population of 50 000. They have restaurantes, hospital, shops, a market and all kinds of institutes and faculties. People study all day and a lot of them eaven have a job in addition to the study. They leave in the morning and come home at night. So nobody can say that brazilians are lazy,(at least not all of them). But they also want the payment for the work they do, no matter if you have an education or not. And that's what they all are fighting for right now.
Brazil is a growing country and it has become one of the most important industrial country in Latin America and has the seventh largest economy. The economy is getting stronger (at least the GNP), but the differences between rich and poor isn't getting much better. The people pays a LOT of taxes on everything and the prices for food, clothes and things are getting higher in line with the countrys economy. No wonder they want higher payment. Brazil is expensive!



The student restaurant was in strike! The place were the students can eat a good lunch (meaning; Rice and beans! Everything else is unhealthy for lunch) for only 6 kroner! That was what hit the students the most.






Notice: Everybody stand in ONE line and everybody waits until people have gone of the bus, before entering.. Culture SHOCK!

The other day, I was going to my Portuguese class at nine in the morning, but I overslept and woke up at 8:45. I "ran" to take the bus and was lucky; the bus came at once. But when I arrived to the next bus-stop were I was supposed to change bus, it never came. I waited for one hour, just sitting and listening to music, enjoying the freetime I got. I just thought it was because I was later than usuall that the busses didn’t show up. That the rush hour was over or something. When I left I took a look at the place and thought it was kind of strange that there were no busses. But I've never understood the Brazilian bussystem anyway. I gave up after one our and walked to the house Julianne and me usually stays. That's when I first got to know that the bus drivers had desided the bus drivers decided to strike to. Just like that, nobody even knew about it, and the day after, everything was back to normal.