Life, Brazil and Resilience!!!
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: 26 degrees, hot, sunny, and slightly overcast. When I returned to Brazil, the plan was to fly with KLM, taking a 9:00 a.m. flight from Birmingham Airport to Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, with a quick one-hour connection to Rio. I would arrive in Rio at approximately 8:00 p.m., the same day, the 6th of June, the […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 27 degrees, hot, sunny, and slightly overcast. Julie and I haven’t been messaging since last Thursday, and it feels much longer to me. I miss her, I miss us talking and communicating, but it may be better this way, and if she really was good for me. I had always felt, when I was with […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 33 degrees, hot, sunny, but slightly cloudy. It is Sunday. I am with a super cold. I should have had lunch at the Yacht Club, but I was too sick to go, so I had to cancel. Today, I do not want to do much—a long walk in the morning to try to open up […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 29 degrees, hot, Sunny but slightly cloudy. Today I was meant to have lunch at the Yacht Club with Dona Regina and her husband, Roberto. They had invited both Yasmin and me for lunch there, and we had already enjoyed a meal with them at the club a couple of years ago. Because of the […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 27 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. It is Friday and the beginning of the weekend. The conversation between Julie and me has gone down a lot over the past couple of days. I have been a little off with her since Tuesday; I had to go out, and Nalva was […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 28 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. It is Thursday, and while I am happy with the classes and the revision I am currently doing on all blog posts, I am tired, worried, and insecure. It hasn’t been a month since I returned to Brazil, and my thoughts are more focused […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 27 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. I’ve been in England for just under two weeks, and the long-distance conversations between Julie and me are starting to feel stressful. It has become more difficult when I cannot speak to her, either because I am working, have something to do, or because […]
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: 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 […]