Life, Brazil and Resilience!!!
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 29 °C, hot, sunny, stuffy and slightly overcast. Today was supposed to be a productive day. I aimed to prepare and draft three or four posts for the blog. However, that didn’t happen. I managed to prepare one in the morning, but I either got delayed or distracted for the rest of the day. Nalva thinks […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 25 °C, hot, sunny and slightly overcast. My recent blog entries have focused on Brazil’s catastrophic and chaotic state at the moment. The economy is entering a severe recession, worse than anything the country has seen before. The three branches of government are fighting among themselves, and I have always believed that nothing can thrive in […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 25oC, hot and Sunny and slightly overcast. It has become clear over the last couple of months, particularly in the previous two weeks, that a fundamental reason to go to England is the situation in Brazil, which has become a dictatorship. Similar to the situation in North Korea, where small actions over time led the populace […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 27 °C, hot and sunny. It is precisely 1 month until I arrive in England on the 23rd of November. This morning, while I was taking a shower, I came up with a challenging idea: to lose 5 kilos before my trip to England. I haven’t weighed below 90 kg in seven or eight years. After […]
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: 23 oC, hottish, slightly sunny and overcast. Everyone knows or should know from my blog that I enjoy writing and putting my thoughts down on paper. When I had my school, I printed many high-quality marketing leaflets on Couche paper. They were printed on only one side, leaving me thousands of leftover leaflets and scrap paper. […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 23 oC, warm, sunny and slightly overcast. I do not know much about the Jewish religion, culture, and Israel. However, I do understand that the Jews are considered as the persecuted race. Throughout all the known history, the Jewish people have been persecuted in some form or another. The most recently known was the Holocaust during […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 27oC, hot, overcast and with showers. Today is a half-bank holiday, which marks the second day of the long weekend. Although it is not officially recognised as a bank holiday, many civil servants will treat it as one. However, it will not be a holiday for those in sectors like trade and healthcare. One of the […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 27oC, hottish, sunny, blue sky. It is Wednesday, the eve of a bank holiday, which I believe is Children’s Day. My daughters are grown up; Jessica is thirty and has graduated as a psychologist. She lives in Leme with Mario. Yasmin, on the other hand, is sixteen. I do not consider her a child anymore, so […]
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 […]