Life, Brazil and Resilience!!!
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 19 degrees, warm, sunny and slightly overcast. It is a bank holiday in England, Labour Day. It was last Wednesday in Brazil, but any bank holiday in the middle of the week in England is moved to the following Monday. So, for me, it is a little complicated to juggle the same bank holiday on different days. […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 19 degrees, warm, sunny and slightly overcast. It’s Sunday, and traditionally in England it’s the day for a family lunch —the usual Sunday lunch. I feel that my mother is trying to compete with Julie for attention, control, and perhaps even to sabotage my relationship. It has become clear that every Sunday she pretty much decides what […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 17 degrees, warm, sunny and slightly overcast. Exercising and skipping early, it is a beautiful day. The sun is shining, and the sky is blue with a few clouds. I watered the lawn and tidied up around the path. With the new turf laid on Thursday, my mother’s back garden looks really special. I have also started […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 16 degrees, warm, sunny, overcast and with some showers. Yesterday was a bank holiday in Brazil, so I couldn’t work or officially give classes. I posted a blog and made an entry in my journal. However, I couldn’t teach any classes, except for Marcelo at 10:00 p.m., and I also experienced some stress with my mother over […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 19 degrees, quite warm, sunny and with a few clouds. My birthday was on 22 April, marking the start of my new year, and today also begins the first month of this new year. Last year was very good for me: I came to England, saved and invested money, saw my mother, and met many new and […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 12 degrees, cold, slightly sunny, overcast and with showers. Sunday is traditionally a day when I try to be alone in the morning, enjoy quality time with myself, and do what I want. Today was no different; I exercised alone, worked upstairs in my bedroom, and basically just relaxed. My mother was pottering about upstairs, coming […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 12 degrees, cold, slightly sunny, overcast with showers. Our lunch appointment is at 2:15 at the old Wharf Inn pub, in the old Wharf, very close to Lower High Street, Stourbridge. Julie was getting her things together in the morning, and I was doing the same. I exercised in the back garden and enjoyed some gardening, […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 14 degrees, warm and sunny. Friday marks the end of the working week, and this one was among the craziest days I’ve experienced in a long time. I got up early, had my daily morning chat with Julie, exercised, and skipped— the first time I have skipped for more than a week. Now that I am […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 10 degrees, cold, grey and overcast. It’s Thursday after my birthday, and I’m still feeling its effects, especially since it fell on a Monday and Tuesday was a bank holiday. The whole week and my routine have been disrupted. Once you break a routine, it’s very hard to get back to the same pace or rhythm […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 10 degrees, cold, grey and overcast. It is the middle of the week, and I’m already tired. It’s been a marathon of a week, my birthday week, and it’s still going on. On Saturday, we visited Stourport and Bewdley with Austin and had lunch at the Hop Pole pub, which was decent but not outstanding. Later, […]