nathalia’s blog

Well, some days ago, here in São Paulo, we can say that “a bomb exploded”. I’ll accept, I don’t know very well how it started, and I can’t say that I know the reason very well. But, some gangsters started to attack the entire city. They burned lots of buses, killed lots of police men, they were almost destroying the city.

Apparently, all those “attacks” started on Friday, but it “exploded” on Saturday, and I really think I was a bit lucky because, on Saturday, anyone at home knew about what was going on. So, like every Saturday, my sister and I went out home, and, we walked on buses and on the subway, but nothing happened to us.

Yesterday, it was worst. The gangsters (they are part of the PCC*) got what they wanted. They stopped the city. Everyone stopped working at 16h (not everyone, but almost) and, our school is just in front of a subway. Everyone was scared, so everyone lived. My sister and I called my father, and he came to took us at school.

He arrived a bit “later”, and when we were coming back home, his girlfriend called saying that there, were she works (with my aunt and my grand-father), they “stopped” also, and she asked us to take her. But, the city was REALLY stopped, the streets were full of cars, we couldn’t even drive normally, everything was stop.

A few minutes later, she called again, asking if she could go with my aunt and my grand-father to their house and if we could join her there. Ok, it was fine. But we stood 4h on the traffic in São Paulo, some times, my father even turned off the car. It was horrible, when I arrived at home, I never felt so tired.

Later, at night, the streets were empty. No one wanted to get out. Everyone was scared. A friend of mine (Laura) called me when I was waiting on the car, and she said that at 8 PM anyone could be on the streets because some police men ridding horses were going to walk around, shooting the PCC men.

I don’t know if this happened because, I was out at 8 PM (in the car) and I saw nothing. So I don’t know if they did that or not. I just hope that this kind of “war” really stopped this morning, because I was really scared.

I think São Paulo is falling down, it’s everything going wrong. It’s very dangerous to walk here, you can’t be fine when you get out, or even if you are at school or at home. You must pay attention to anything!! It’s an absurd!! Things should change. Any place you go, you are in danger. “You can’t save yourself” (Dir en grey - CLEVER SLEAZOID).

I like São Paulo, but I’m almost every time thinking about what can happen to me when I get out, or even when I’m home. It’s… Kind of… Boring… We need to be worrying about everything, every time… Because things happen when you don’t think they’ll happen.

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