In response to a question from my sister regarding my comments on the Carnival lead up water balloon wars, yes, there IS a water shortage here, but SOME people (read: the overly affluent who couldn't give a shit about the poor, whom the water shortage really effects) not only continue to water their concrete, and the pristine lawns but they choose to do it by and large, in the middle of the afternoon, at the hottest time when water has least chance to absorb into the ground, so is wasted. STUPID people everywhere (well, the "some people" force their Cholitas to do the watering). Oh, and the Carnival "spirit" of water balloons (or globos de agua) is fostered (by and large) by the wealthy also, wouldn't you guess. I walked down Calle de Pando (Pando St., which houses a number of "look at me prancing and preening - I'm so beautiful" nightclubs, and the only 5star hotel in the city) only to have to dodge the most congested number of water ballooners in town, all well to do young teenagers who, again, couldn't give a shit about the water shortage. After all, it's only the Cholitas and their families whose wells will run dry before Summer's out.
Anyone care for a literary enlightenment quiz? Where is this subject line's quote from? (can you really do it without googling?)
I'll give you a hint - it belongs in a "rime".
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Ah, you're learning! Pando in February is as no-go as the Zona Sur supposedly is the rest of the year. It's a warzone! Damn teens.
Shit, if this is February that means you've been there ten months now. Why am I all up myself, we've probably already gone beyond the point where YOU are the one giving ME a Bolivian education. Or a Bolivian 'schooling', to keep it street, as in "Oh, you just got schooled!"
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