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I was living in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is a huge city, with more people living in it than in my whole country(Hungary, which has a population of 10 million). We rented a flat in a community, but there was a shanty town (贫民区) quite near.
I used public transportation to go to the city centre three times a week. During these trips, I would ride with the people who took the same bus from the shanty town to go to work.
When I got on the bus, all the seats were already taken. But when people saw that my bag was heavy (full of books), they offered to hold it on their lap, to make me feel lighter standing. At first, I was shocked. Then I realized that these people had absolutely no intention to steal from me: they only wanted to help.
Once, on my way back, I had to wait for a long time at a bus stop. I was
