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BSB 21/09/1985 Saturday Last night there was another earthquake in Mexico, 6.5 points on the Richter scale. Three hundred buildings collapsed and another 100 could go. A maternity collapsed killing 100 babies and 8 mums. Mexico City is isolated, it can only communicate via telex. My mum tried to ring there but couldn’t get through.…

BSB 20/09/1985 Friday The Geography teacher marked the test for Wednesday as she has finished our book. Next week is full of tests: English (24th & 26th), Geography (25th), Maths (26th), Science (25th) and Portuguese (29th). In PE we just chatted with the teachers, it was cool. Today Lara, me, Johnny and Orlando sat together…

BSB 19/09/1985 Thursday School was normal. In English we had our test and I walked back with Henrique. He’s being a bit weird, I think our friendship isn’t going very well. Cristina didn’t teach us yesterday, it seems she’s running away to Rio, tomorrow. Her, Ivone and Lucinha. Ana told this as I haven’t seen…

BSB 18/09/1985 Wednesday ‘D Day’ Today was ‘D Day’, Debate day, for us to discuss problems and find solutions. No other school kids were on the bus, only our school. Henrique and Riba were there but soon vanished. We rehearsed the ‘Jogral’ then joined the rest of our class drawing on the floor all over…

BSB 17/09/1985 Tuesday The bankers strike is over as of this morning, yesterday banks were open already. The private school strike continues. In school we only had the first three periods. I sat in front of Johnny and Orlando and we just fought a lot, as usual. Henrique and Riba weren’t in school but still…