Life, Brazil and Resilience!!!
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 29 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. It has been 11 days since I returned to Rio, and I feel somewhat back in the rhythm of things. I manage early exercise in the mornings when I can, along with classes and blogging, but it still feels like it’s not enough. I […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 29 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. It’s Monday again, the start of a new week, so there are many tasks to tackle. At the moment, I don’t have any early classes on a Monday, and I am currently in sync with Brazil, with no time difference. In England, I was […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 30 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. Just a simple light exercise in the morning at the park. On the way back, I stopped by the Portuguese bakers and, while having two coffees, I wrote two journal entries. A good start to a Sunday. Nalva is working today, so it is […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 29 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. It is Saturday and the declaration day! I am up and in the street by 8:00 a.m., doing a heavy workout of walking, skipping, TRX straps, and elastic bands, a good two hours of exercise with tiny pauses between each module. Now I am […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 29 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. When I visited England in November last year, I didn’t take my TRX straps; I only brought a skipping rope that later broke. Due to the cold winter months of December and January, it was difficult for me to exercise outside in my mother’s […]
Thursday, the 13th of June 2024: “The Weight of Possessions: Finding Balance in a Cluttered Life”!!! Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 29 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. Now that I am back in Brazil and settling into a routine, I know that, having been away for about seven months, both Nalva and Yasmin would have […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 26 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. I am still in my first week back in Rio, Brazil, and I’m with mixed feelings. I am happy and content to be back and near Yasmin, Jessica, and Nalva, too, and, in many ways, to feel at home with what has been, more […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 28 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. I have been back in Rio for five days now, and I am trying to get into the old or maybe a new adapted routine. I had been doing all of this in England before, and now that I am back in Brazil, I […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 29 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a lovely day. It’s my first workday back in Rio. In England, it was four hours ahead of Brazil when I left, so I had the morning until 11 a.m. free to do what I wanted. Usually, I exercised and journaled in the local café near my […]
Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 27 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies. After a day and night of celebrations yesterday, I got up as usual early, but with only three hours’ sleep. The girls, Nalva and her sisters, had organised a BBQ for 20 people, but there were only six. I ate a lot of meat, and good meat […]