Brazil, Life and Perserverence!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 10 degrees, cold, overcast and drizzly. We are running up to Christmas night in Brazil and Christmas Day in England in terms of respective importance. It is cold, not as cold as when I arrived in November, but it is cold for an adopted carioca. For me, it’s amusing how there is so much hype leading up […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 13 degrees, warmish and very windy. Today was a quiet day. I woke up early, followed by a hard workout in the living room. I had just two classes during the day, and the rest of the time was spent feeding the ducks and swans, taking a walk and doing little else. I have no more classes […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 8 degrees, cold, rainy and overcast. One more chapter of my visits, journeys, trips, etc, reminiscing on the past. Today I went with my mother to Bewdley, a beautiful rural village about 15 miles from where my mother lives. My mother lives in a very privileged part of England, 20 miles from Birmingham, the second largest city […]
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 […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 10 degrees, cold, grey and rainy. It is one week before Christmas, and I am beginning to wind down. The truth is that classes have been slower than usual since the beginning of December, but now they are even slower, and I am uncertain whether I like it or not. My lazy side likes it, but my […]
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: 7 degrees, cold, overcast, and rainy. Today was another day of visiting places from the past, either from my childhood or adolescence. Even though it was bitterly cold, I decided to go out and walk, walk, and walk. I fed them, my friends, the swans and ducks along the canal. Then I found myself walking toward my […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 7 degrees, cold, cloudy, and rainy. I have been in England for a little over two weeks now, and I am visiting places that are stuck in my memories from childhood and adolescence. Yesterday, I went to Mary Stevens Park and the house I shared when I was beginning my professional life and living alone. Today, I […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 7 degrees, cold, cloudy and slightly rainy. It has been two weeks since I arrived in England, and the time has rushed by. Only after two weeks have, I got to talk to my brother. When I arrived on November 25th, my brother’s wife Debbie called me with the first words of incrimination: “Well, you kept this […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 6 degrees, cold, overcast and rainy. This is the beginning of my second working week in England, and it is raining all the time. I found a space in the rain to go out and feed the swans at the canal. On the way back, I stopped at the local cafe in the precinct on the green […]