Another Day in Paradise
Today I’m finding this place so depressing that I’m fighting the urge to just pack it in and go home. As I discussed with another volunteer recently, the thing that is most disheartening is the banality and juvenility of the culture. Sometimes I imagine this entire nation of 90 million souls ricochets cluelessly through every day steeped in telenovelas, beauty contests and karaoke, lubricated with cock fighting and wife beating, all swilled down with coke and spaghetti with hot dog sauce. Just another day in paradise, as they say.
