Life, Brazil and Resilience!!!
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 30 °C, hot, sunny, and a little overcast. Friday was a day of hard work and discipline. The hard workout required discipline, and giving at least eight classes on a Friday also needed a certain amount of strength and stamina. Rio de Janeiro is experiencing another heatwave right now; it is literally 30 degreesall the time. […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 30 °C, hot, sunny, and a little overcast. It’s just a normal first couple of days at the beginning of the New Year. I’m giving classes and receiving money that I neither feel, see, nor smell. And I will have to leave my bubble of cold refrigerated air in my bedroom, where my home office is, […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 27 °C, hot, sunny, and a little overcast. It is the beginning of the Brazilian New Year, and I am ready! I have started renegotiating my monthly fees with my students as they need to be readjusted. The end-of-year festivities are over, along with the financial obligations at the beginning of every new year here in […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 31 °C, hot, sunny and sometimes overcast. In Brazil, the new year starts on the first Monday after the carnival. This tradition holds both symbolic and metaphorical meanings; however, given the current circumstances in Brazil and the modern world, it is unclear whether this tradition remains valid. Saying this! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! In the morning, […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 29 °C, hot, sunny, and slightly overcast. Today was a contradictory day for me. It marked the first Friday after carnival and my first full day of classes in a week, leaving me slightly confused. On the one hand, I was eager and determined to get back to work after about a week of doing nothing; […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 28 °C, hot and a little overcast. Today was a tough workout despite being very early. It’s technically the first full workday after carnival, but most people aren’t back into work mode yet. Some are still travelling or celebrating carnival with street parades over the weekend, while others may be feeling sluggish from too much food, […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 28 °C, hot and a clear sky. In the past, people were only required to work from noon on the Wednesday after carnival if they had to return to work that day. However, during my time running the school, I tried to hold classes on Wednesday afternoons, but no one ever showed up. In some other […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 32 °C, very hot and stormy. Today marks the official end of the carnival in Brazil, though many people will continue to relax, celebrate, and travel until the following weekend. It is common for people to host barbecues and enjoy themselves before returning to work on the first Monday after the carnival. In Brazil, this day […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 28 °C, hot and sunny. It was the second and last night of the special league of samba schools’ processions at Sambodromo and the penultimate day of the carnival. It was the middle of the morning, and as Yasmin was not with me, I decided to take a walk along Av. Atlantica by the beach. To […]
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 32 °C, hot with a clear sky. It is Friday before the carnival, and rain is forecasted for during it, but I do not really care. I will stay home, watch films, study, and drink wine. Today, I had classes that lasted until 5 pm. Finally, I was free, which was a relief. In the evening, […]