Life, Brazil and Resilience!!!
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 29 degrees, hot, sunny and slightly overcast. Stuff is getting done, and I like it when I am making progress, improving, and when important problems or obstacles are resolved. At the beginning of the week, I spoke to Renato, a pupil of mine who works in IT, specifically in software development and programming. I need […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 28 degrees, hot, sunny, and slightly overcast. It is Saturday, and I haven’t spoken to Julie for about a week. Over the last couple of days, I have had a kind of crisis, wanting to send her a message and thinking about her too much, but I had to control myself. I don’t believe a […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 30 degrees, hot, sunny, and with beautiful blue skies. It is the beginning of a new working week, and I am starting a blog revision. I am not happy with the general layout of each post, so I’m updating each one, and everyone is also to iron out any mistakes that have been overlooked. I […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 23 oC, hottish, slightly sunny and overcast. Today marks another milestone—my second in just two days. I have completed my first journal, a small but compact notebook filled with my entries. All the entries from this mini journal have been transferred to my blog, ‘The Long Gringo.’ This is the first entry of what I call […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 25oC, hottish, Sunny and slightly overcast. This week is going well. All my weeks go well, but this one is particularly good because it is a short week. I will only be working until Wednesday, teaching classes. I plan to continue working on my projects throughout the rest of the week and into the weekend. I […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 28 °C, hot, sunny, and a little cloudy. Yasmin is currently with me. She went to bed in a bad mood last night and, unfortunately, seems to have woken up in a similar mood for school today. At times, maintaining patience and dealing with constant negativity can be challenging. I wish she could focus more on […]