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Winter is here - well, autumn anyway. Terribly cold - look - 16 celsius - and no Christmas to look forward to. But the World Cup is coming. Madness is already descending. The streets are being decorated: Good Luck, Brazil! You cannot watch 5 minutes of television without football being mentioned, and a replica of Our Lady Aparecida decorated with the national flag is being flown out to help the national side.

In the Peregrinos, interest is broad-based: we now have three teams in the cup - Brazil, England and ... Ghana. Solomon, our Pharmacy student from Ghana, will be behind his national team. Cora does not have the pleasure of seeing India play, so she will have to make do with supporting Brazil. Apparently they are not too bad - they may have a better chance than the rather weak team of 2002. Now, what happened to them...?