Life, Brazil and Resilience!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 4 degrees, rainy, grey and shitty. It is New Year’s Eve, and I am reflecting inwardly after my disastrous visit to my brothers in the north of England. I’m grateful to Stephen for hosting me and showing me around, but the rest of the experience was disastrous. Perhaps I was naive or foolish, or during all these […]
Sheffield, England: 4 degrees, rain, wind and very cold. I’m in Sheffield. Yesterday, I had an argument with my brother. The weather is super shitty, and I have to do what I want to do and go back to Wordsley. Even though it is not good for everybody, especially my niece and nephew, I think it’s best to avoid further […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 8 degrees, cold, rainy; a shitty day. It’s time to head to the north of England to meet my brother and his family after over 20 years. I set the alarm for 6:00 a.m., but I didn’t get up until 7:00 a.m. I worked on the computer, saved my work, finished packing my suitcase, and then woke […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 7 degrees, cold, but a beautiful day. Today turned out to be a challenging walk. I left home not knowing where I would go and not interested in walking far, which is the opposite of what finally happened. I found myself going back to York Crescent, where I spent most of my childhood. There was a route […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 10 degrees, cold, rainy and dreary. My mother and I had prepared the leg of lamb on Christmas Eve. Essentially, it involved taking it out of its plastic, cleaning and drying it, covering it with salt, pepper, lemon juice, and olive oil, and making slits in the meat to insert small slices of garlic. We also placed […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 10 degrees, cold, overcast and drizzly. Three days before Christmas Day and two days before Christmas Eve in Brazil, everything is in order. I was up early and worked out downstairs in the living room. I got a tea and prepared myself to go out for a walk, then headed down to the canal to feed the […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 8 degrees, cold, rainy and with flashes of the sun trying to appear. There are five or six days until Christmas, depending on how you look at it. In Brazil, we celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve at midnight. In England, we officially celebrate on the 25th with lunch. I have always felt that Christmas in Brazil is […]
It is cold; the day feels like night due to the darkness, and it seems to be trying to rain. Although it is not raining yet, it is attempting to. I was going to walk along the cut- the canal until I reached a place where I used to work for a man when I was 10 or 11 years […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 8 degrees, cold, overcast, and rainy. I have been in England for 19 days now, and I’m having a whale of a time. Not a good time as in partying and going out every night, but a whale of a time in respect to being able to do all the things I had come to England to […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 8 degrees, cold, overcast, and rainy. I will be officially on holiday in a week and a half until the new year. I was going to go to Sheffield this coming weekend to visit my brother and his family, but after talking to my mother, I think it would be better to go for the new year. […]