Life, Brazil and Resilience!!!
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: 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: 27 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. It is Friday and the beginning of the weekend. The conversation between Julie and me has gone down a lot over the past couple of days. I have been a little off with her since Tuesday; I had to go out, and Nalva was […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 28 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. It is Thursday, and while I am happy with the classes and the revision I am currently doing on all blog posts, I am tired, worried, and insecure. It hasn’t been a month since I returned to Brazil, and my thoughts are more focused […]
Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 27 degrees, hot, Sunny and beautiful blue skies; a beautiful day. I’ve been in England for just under two weeks, and the long-distance conversations between Julie and me are starting to feel stressful. It has become more difficult when I cannot speak to her, either because I am working, have something to do, or because […]