Here in Brazil everyday in all TVs, radios, magazines and newspapers the main information is about the world crisis effects in brazilian economy; every event that happens has something to do about the crisis; the food’s price increase, the dollar’s value increase, people are fired from their jobs, market data decreases, petrol increases (even with the price of barrel decreasing) and so on, and the crisis is the guilty. Our President and almost all congressmen say that the crisis comes late here in Brazil, that our economy is strong and that with government help all is gonna be ok, but unfortunatelly it is not what we citizens are living. In my business many people were fired and those who stayed are afraid about the future.

The Brazilian people are known about the optimist spirit and the hability to deal with really difficult situations, but I believe that at real a large ammount of the population do not realize what is going on by the lack of the education in lower levels of the society.

Regards,
Andrea

The movie called The Grapes of Wrath based on a romance by John Steinbeck/ In Spanish would be something like Las Uvas de la Ira.

Absolutely, I agree with elcomadant and Jose Maria but my point of view is even worst, and my thoughts about Mr. Zapatero and his Goverment is …..impossible to be worst, but as elcomadant said is amazing that people support him yet, till them?. Nobody konws.
The opposition now is really bad too, so we don’t know what is going to happed with this poor country. I am very dissapointed with all politicians.

Much better to think about other things. Regards.

I’m glad to hear what you say, or rather, I’m glad to read what you have written. Then it seems we are already two people in whole Spain who think the same way.

Regards.

The signs of this times here in Spain, the thing is that women don’t wear neither low nor high hemline, people don’t buy neither less deodorant nor more laxative. In fact most of people are in shock. Just they don’t buy anything. Why?. Well, I think, the shock has happened due to our President socialist Mr. Zapatero has lied to all of citizens.

On March 9, 2008 were General Elections, and the President socialist, Mr. Zapatero, told all of citizens that Spain didn’t have any crisis, despite that all organisms Europeans and worldwide press, were warning to Spain a long time ago that it was in serious danger of depresion.

Mr. Zapatero won the elections lying, and four or five months later he started to to tell us that Spain had the bigest crisis of its history. This it was too much.

One of the two, or Mr. Zapatero was lying to all of us or, The President was a naïf and didn’t even realize the real situation of the economy. Whatever of two are enough reasons to resign as a President of Spain. However, he still has very much support from citizens. I can’t understand it.

As Jeff says “The signs of times don’t necessarily work in every situation or for every person.

I’m sorry but this is my opinion.

Regards.

I have asked her about it and she told me that is not neccesary to spend money buying make up or perfume as you can make up your face with a smile and of course is
so nice that I think it is a wonderful idea that I want to share.

We have a said in spanish that it is ” a mal tiempo buena cara ” it should be: ” a good face for the bad time “

I really hope that the Obama’s administration can do pretty good and take us off outside this crisis as soon as possible, cause I don’t want see another tragedy like that one happen again.

jeff, thanks a lot for the outstanding report that you let’s known.

to all of you that join the esl blog,
my best regards!