Life, Brazil and Resilience!!!
Over the Atlantic Ocean, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 26 degrees, hot, Sunny but slightly overcast. After all the confusion of yesterday, with two check-ins, paying extra for luggage twice, and instead of flying with KLM yesterday morning, I’m now flying with Lufthansa from yesterday evening. However, I won’t be flying directly to Rio; I will first pass through […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 17 degrees, cool, but sunny and with blue skies. It’s midweek and the day before I travel back to Brazil. I’m feeling strange, a bit anxious, wary of the unknown, and both happy and sad at the same time. I’ve sensed for some time that living with my mother is toxic, and I need to leave, take […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 19 degrees, cool, overcast with showers. It is Tuesday, two days before I return to Brazil. I do not know what to expect; it has been seven months since I was there. Will everything be the same, or have there been changes? Or have I changed during this time? I also have the Julie factor in the […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 18 degrees, cool, sunny and slightly overcast. Today has been a special day for me regarding my stay in England. I visited Clint Hills, a childhood treasure. Today is a bank holiday in Brazil, for Corpus Christi, so it’s a day off and the start of a long weekend. I woke up early, exercised both indoors and […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 18 degrees, warmish, sunny and slightly cloudy. It is a bank holiday in England; I don’t know why, but it is. I don’t have classes until four or five this afternoon, so I am free to do something good until then. I am up early, having a typical morning, talking with Julie, exercising both inside and outside […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 19 degrees, warmish, sunny and slightly cloudy. It’s the day after I made the big decision to go back, to return to Brazil. Yesterday, I bought a KLM flight ticket, and if everything goes smoothly, I should be back for Yasmin’s birthday. I will fly on the morning of 6th June, transfer in Schiphol, Amsterdam, and in […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 18 degrees, warmish, sunny and slightly cloudy. It is Thursday, the day after a dreadful argument with my mother. I feel somewhat guilty for shouting and criticising what she has been doing all her life, and, more recently, for my visit to England and going out with Julie. It seems that the saying, “a leopard never changes […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 15 degrees, cold, overcast, rainy and miserable. It is Wednesday, the middle of the week, and the day that sets off a series of events that could change everything. From morning until early afternoon, it was just normal, exercising, having an early conversation with Julie, working on a blog post, and giving classes until about 2:00 p.m. […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 15 degrees, cold, overcast, rainy and miserable. My first experiences with Amazon are truly quite amazing. Until this week, I had never used Amazon. The company entered Brazil relatively late; I used some other Brazilian online retailers but never Amazon. Friends in Brazil and Julie have raved about their efficiency, especially in delivery. Last weekend was a […]
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 22 degrees, warmish, sunny and slightly overcast. Saturday, thank goodness for Saturdays! A day when I can organise my thoughts, simply by having time for myself, without thinking about classes, blog posting, etc. It is so lovely to get up in the morning and not worry about the time or what needs to be done. Exercise early, […]