Life, Brazil and Resilience!!!
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 29 degrees, hot, sunny and slightly overcast. Stuff is getting done, and I like it when I am making progress, improving, and when important problems or obstacles are resolved. At the beginning of the week, I spoke to Renato, a pupil of mine who works in IT, specifically in software development and programming. I need […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 25 degrees, warm, sunny and with a blue sky. Today I had a pleasant surprise. Jim, the Scottish owner of the more sophisticated cafe in Wordsley, sent me a message. He is Julie’s boss, and over the months I was there, we began to build a kind of friendship. I like him, the cafe is […]
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: 28 degrees, hot, sunny, and beautiful, clear blue skies. It is Friday. I am a little tired. It has not been a particularly heavy week in terms of workload, but there has been stress with Julie and Nalva. I’m stressed about Julie because we haven’t spoken or exchanged a message for a little over 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, with beautiful, clear blue skies. It is the middle of the week in Rio, and it is just a typical day, but it is still very good. A heavy exercise session in the park in the morning, followed by classes on and off for the rest of the day. When I […]
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: 30 degrees, hot, sunny, and with beautiful blue skies. It is the beginning of a new working week, and I am starting a blog revision. I am not happy with the general layout of each post, so I’m updating each one, and everyone is also to iron out any mistakes that have been overlooked. I […]
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 […]