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BRRRAZIL!
Thiago agreed to let me change the privacy settings of our current album from friends to public. Yay! Now you can see them too without a facebook login. Newer pics coming soon :)
Tourist Spotting
As is traditional in Brazil, everyone across the country will be dressed up very elegantly in white tonight to usher in the New Year.
Of course I didn’t know this, so I will be wearing one of two very bright colorful dresses, the only things I have that I haven’t dripped olive oil or chocolate on yet.
Happy New Year! I hope 2012 is full of family and long-anticipated travels for everyone!
Things I will need to get used to in Brazil
- The surface area of my butt exposed in a Brazilian bikini is roughly the same size as the rest of my bikini. This is despite Thiago’s efforts to find me a bikini bottom with the most coverage available in Brazil for Christmas. I am now wearing a Brazilian “Grande” sized bikini bottom which despite being a US / Euro Medium makes me feel like a baby whale. (more…)
Feliz Natal!
Happy Christmas from Guaecà Beach in Brazil!
I’ve been out here in São Paolo for a while and keep meaning to write about it… we are together at last! For a month more at least. I love the culture out here — it’s beautiful. I love the sounds of Brazilian Portuguese all around me. I love his family so much. I’m really blessed to be out here.
So we had Christmas dinner last night (Christmas Eve) around 10:30 pm and gave out gifts at midnight as is the custom. There are so many amazing customs here I keep meaning to write about and keep forgetting!!
Brazil reminds me a lot of Cape Town. From what I’m hearing Rio is especially similar, and the beaches, though I haven’t been out there yet. I feel very at home in these surroundings and with such warm and affectionate people. My Portuguese is coming along slowly, but enough to get the gist of half the conversations going on around me.
Well I guess we’d better get back to eating and sleeping Christmas away — later alligators!
Belize? P-lease!
THIS image exactly captures why I want to go back to Belize. And not only go back but live there. Imagine? Actually living there!? Waking up every single day to yet another gloriously hot sunshiny sky thinking, “What’s uuuup! Wow I’m in BELIZE!!! What am I doing here? Oh right, I LIVE HERE! EEEEEE!!!” So crazy. I’ve imagined it for years so eventually its going to happen. I’ll find this very island and pitch a tent on it and sleep at least one night. Uhhhhhhh…………………
And then kayak back to my ordinary every day life on a bigger island somewhere in belize. Now that doesn’t sound too shabby.
The Land of Over Seas
Even when I was in third grade I thought there was here (at the time ‘here’ was South Africa — the place where everyone in the world lives), and there was this country across the sea called “overseas”. The place my dad went to work, and where all the rich kids in school went on vacation to ski.
I couldn’t wait to be old enough to go overseas! The magical country of non-stop vacation.
The trouble with greencards
Oh I forgot to mention in previous posts that a couple of weeks ago I lost my greencard!! Ive been through all my possessions (2 whole bags of stuff), searched the house, the couch, behind the radiators. Morgan, was a total hero and dug through two weeks of maggoty, steaming old garbage with me, while she was stoned and therefore extra tweaked out. We were both gagging. I love her FOREVER for that (and really that’s just the beginning of what a true friend she is). I haven’t been able to locate it anywhere so I guess it fell out on a bus or the street and at this point its just never going to be found. (more…)
Blessed
Thanks to the wonderful healing powers of my dear friend Dragon and his Seawolf Medicine, I have bounced back, in an explosive way that I only remember in my teens. (more…)
My Tiny Sleeping Partner
But don’t be fooled by the cuteness. In the wilds of Colorado she killed a huge hare twice her size, dragged its severed headless body into the cabin and left it as a surprise in Joseph’s closet. That’s my baby girl!!
In the old neck of the woods
Pittsburgh, my original US ‘hometown’. Today I’m working from Crazy Mocha on Ellsworth Avenue, like old times. Sitting at my favourite table right by the window, people watching, like old times. Except this time I wont be going grocery shopping and then back home afterwards to think up what to make for dinner for the family and read bedtime stories afterwards. The house where we lived is just down a narrow side street I can see from this window. This time I’m walking back in the sunshine to Morgan’s seemingly non-stop-fun-house where I now live, and plan to live with her for a few more weeks of golden Pittsburgh summer. Saving up a bit for this ‘home’ wherever it is. Until the next place I live. Everything’s exactly the same around here as I remember yet completely different, and amazingly, in a really happy way. I don’t have limited time alone to do whatever I want whenever I want. I have all the time in the world. I’m as free as a bird, and having a lot more fun in Pittsburgh than I ever remember. Being alone is not the same as lonely. It is incredibly liberating. It amazes me how afraid I was for all my life to be alone. (more…)
Help Save Japan’s Dolphins!
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