Notes from the TEFL Graveyard

I can barely control my bladder with the excitement of finding out that Rio de Janeiro will be hosting the Olympics in 2016 . That'll be a football World Cup in 2014 and an Olympics two years later, with non-stop samba in between. Big winners? Lula , who will no doubt use this as a victory for his government. Politicians and construction company owners (often the politicians' brothers-in-law) who will be already totting up just how much they can overcharge and what this amount will buy in country mansions, good snuff and bikini-clad teenagers. Pelé , who has finally got a call right, after never managing to predict the correct result of a World Cup since he last played in one. And the drug lords in Rio , who will no doubt be offered unofficial "concessions" in exchange for being good boys during the event. And, last but not least, Paulo Coelho , a somewhat unexpected inclusion in the Olympic delegation, but who may now be remembered for something other than his book...