In recent days Portugal has become cold. The in-touch of people here, very few people (unless you are talking about Portuguese football gossip), know what is going on outside of Europe.
I did a recent experiemnt, a poll of my teenagers.
I asked them if they thought there was anything interesting or different about what is going on with the weather. They told me about the weather being dangerously cold in Portugal (minus 5). I reiterated, specifying news from ' the outside', about anywhere else, outside of the big P. 3 girls, out of over 30 students knew about Russia, only one knew any detail.
Meanwhile, the Portuguese government is giving out blanks, in a frantic hurry to save their population. Big ups to the populations of the other countries, on 'the outside', who manage to cope with minus 10 or minus 20, without gas.
Reading back over this there is a ' I know lots' kind of tone. I don't wish to portray this, as news to me isn't important. It is just interesting comparing Portuguese teenagers with their UK counterparts, I hope UK teenagers would know about ' the outside', without wanting to sound pompous, I did at their age.
Meanwhile, it is cold, at least for the Portuguese.
I saw people taking photos of the frost on Thursday morning, frantically clicking away while I looked on somewhat bemused. Interesting to see a different perspective.
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