Teletón!

(American Idol + good cause)¹⁰ = Teletón! This National two-day event is held bi-annually to raise money for children with physical disabilities. The extent to which the entire country gets behind this effort is amazing. Friday and Saturday we were in some alternate universe where all television stations played nothing but Teletón! entertainment, interviews, and donations calls; bank workers voluntarily stayed open beyond their usually strict M-F, 9-2 schedule; and everyone (including me) was incessantly humming the Teletón! theme song. This event is so huge that politicians one year debated postponing the elections so that political advertisements wouldn’t interfere with those for Teletón!.

Jennifer