Opticians and the forgotten election

I had quite a lot of fun this morning helping at explorers, the sunday school at my home church. I did it more regularly before I disappeared for uni, and it turns out kids are a funny lot, but kids work is a good laugh.But I still got that look I often seem to get from seven year olds when I crack a joke, that sort of superior 'you-are-just-not-funny-get-a-life' look, which normally puts me back in my place, and makes me feel rather old.

The weekend has been fairly standard but quite relaxing, yesterday afternoon I helped Dad plant some potatos on his allotment. Allotments are great cos everybody is very friendly, and poke their heads over the fence to talk about vegetables.
I was quite looking forward to picking up my new pairs glasses yesterday, but sadly the opticians didn't ring. Hopefully, though, they will ring tommorrow. I flatter myself that they will make me look more thoughtful and intelligent; as I said to the woman in the opticians when I ordered them, it's good to have ones that make you look intelligent, because that compensates for the fact that I'm...well...I'm an english student.

It may have escaped your notice (in fact, it probably has) but today is the day of the Peruvian presedential election. This may sound insignificant to anybody who hasn't been there, but at the moment any election in south america is hugely important for world politics since South America is currently slowly, one country at a time, swinging towards the left and beginning to talk fighting talk, particularly towards America. Trouble is, however well intentioned, this often leads to ineffective governments who begin by fighting for the rights of the poor but end up landing them in even worse positions than those they started with. Because of all this, I was rather distressed to see nothing in the paper today nothing about the election, and only one article on the bbc website if you look really hard (apparently it is likely that there will be no out-right winner today, and therefore a second round of voting in May). What with all the (perfectly legitimate) concentration on Africa and Asia and the Middle East, people tend to forget that some of the worlds poorest people are in South America and that countries there suffer from huge divides in wealth. I could witter on about this for a long time, but I sadly I must go.
There's a lot more to South America than just good music.