El Canadiense

He looked up into the sky and saw a cool grey colour made him reminisce about his childhood.
An hour and a half ride inside of a large van driven by an old man named Raul with the words
Vehiculo Escolar written on the front of the fading grey clunker. Unlike a yellow school bus
this was about the size of a Westphalia and could carry around 12 children somewhat
comfortably. A long voyage from the Miraflores district to La Molina allowed for the children as
young as 6 years old to 17 to do.

The infernal traffic of Lima, created by a combination of city planning not expecting the massive
growth the city saw since the 1970s and the aggressive Limeo style of driving, allowed for a
whole industry to be created out of people selling things to you from your car. List of things you
could purchase included roasted corn kernels, giant colouring books with the popular television
cartoons of the day, car stereos, and mini electrical fans among other things. Apart from people
selling you things there was also many people that saw the long traffic lines as an opportunity to
panhandle. In the 1990s many young children would offer to clean your windshield for some
change, but as time went by the kids of the streets started to do more theatrical acts in order for a
sol. On the route to school there was also a man that had no arms walking by the cars asking for
change which would be deposited on his breast pocket. Every time he saw the man he wondered
how he did not get mugged for his money every day.

The commute to school in Winnipeg usually begun by tuning into channel 55, a local weather
station that had a vibrant red background and white letters telling you the dreaded wind chill
effect. Unlike many North American children that ate their morning cereal with milk, Jose ate it
with vanilla or strawberry yogurt- one of the practices he had kept from his south of the equator
days. The first three months his grandmother had come with him to the city in order to ease his
transition into One Great City as the sign outside the city borders proclaimed.

A confusing amount of clapping occurred as the plane safely landed into the

One time one of the bootleggers asked