Life, Brazil and Resilience!!!
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 33 °C, hot, sunny, and slightly overcast. Something happened this morning that I am not proud of, but it shows what life in Brazil is like right now. Even though it was Sunday, I woke up early to exercise. It was not as early as during the week, but still quite early. When I arrived at […]
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: 35 °C, very hot, sunny and unstable weather. I would have liked to say it was just a typical Sunday, but it wasn’t. Okay, I played chess, the best of 3, with Yasmin again, and again, I lost. I bought lunch for Yasmin as I don’t like to cook on a Sunday; normal, too. I did […]
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: 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 the first day of carnival, and Copacabana is bustling with a diverse mix of people. There are street vendors, tourists from other states and countries, many homeless people, and chicken thieves. It is essential to be cautious and watchful to avoid any theft or harm. I was […]