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July 27 But... I love Harry Potter :)Getting on to more optimism than in the last post...
I love Harry Potter and I am totally happy that my copy of the 7th book (HP and the deathly hallows) arrived on Tuesday from amazon.com.
I found the package really original... it had a note on it saying: "Attention Muggles - Do not deliver or open before July 21st!"... who read the book in English will understand it :). Loooooved it!
Just that maybe only today, Friday, I will actually be able to start to read it... with a project finishing (today!!!) it's impossible to find time to read... But now... nobody can stop me!!! (maybe just my huge translation project that I have to take care of...).
Well... one thing I can celebrate for sure... this is the first time when I write two days in a raw in my blog... and today I actually wrote twice!!! I'm getting better!!!
I hate cold showers!!!Yes.. indeed... I really hate cold showers!!!
And I had to take one this morning!!!! Argh!!
It just happens that the head of the shower in my appartment (here in Brazil is this electric head that heats the water, which comes actually veryyy cold) broke... with no apparent reason (if not just to make me apreciate indeed how good it is to have a hot shower in the cold Brazilian winter mornings... yes .. it can be cold in Brazil).
So, praying, swearing, shaking and almost crying, all in the same time, I had to take a reallllllyyyyyy cold shower ... I hate it!!! And when I'm thinking that Vladi (my apartment mate from Colombia) usualy takes cold showers in the morning... I have no clue how he does it!!
And another thing I hate in the mornings is to feel / inhale the smoke of cigarrets on the street, while walking towards my office... Mrrrr... Taking aside the fact that São Paulo is not a very clean city and with all the cars... I am sure that the air I'm breathing during my 20 minutes walk every morning is not one of the cleanest ones... but let's just not add cigarrets smoke to it...
Did I seem stressed in this post? hmmm... I must be tired :) July 26 Still alive and kickingWell... again it takes me (God Damn it!!) more than 6 months to write a new blog entry... I am wondering why is it so difficult to keep it updated??? Working like hell might be an explanation... but then again... excuses... excuses... it doesn't take that long to write two lines in your blog and let your friends know that you're still alive...
Just to wrap up my life since November:
- Went home to Bucharest, met my family (including my black cat - Toto), seen snow for about 2 hours in the night of 25th to 26th of December... and then... just sun.. this weather is crazy!!! I want my classic winter, classic summer, spring and autumn in Romania!!
- Was good to be there and see all (or part of) my friends again, see how people change (or not) and how things evolve in a country that was heading for the EU
- participated at the New Year's party and festivities in Piata Universitatii in Bucharest, to celebrate the official entry on Romania in EU
- on the 2nd of January took the flight back to Brazil and started the second part of my Brazilian adventures
- had to say goobye to some good friends from my Friends of the UN group (Gerardo (MX), Laura (GB), Adrián (MX), Valeria (MX)) and said "Hello and welcome" to some new friends (of the UN :) ): Fidel (MX), Inês (PT), Nicolas (AR), Edgardo, Júlio and Pablo(Peru), Andres (CO), etc.
- fel in and out of love several times =) (yes, that's me)... and now I'm falling in love again :)
- worked like hell with my "ghostwriting" projects and started to translate (and I won a great and huge translation contract - still working on it)
- planned a Latin American Trip to start in January 2008 and to pass through Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala (probably), Cuba (maybe) and Mexico... and then: Romania!!! Well, this is supposed to las for about 4 months... and in order to finance this I am doing all these other projects outside my regular work... let's see how is going to work out. If somebody reading this post is interested in joining me... please let me know - for now I will be on my own, and how knows me knows also that I love to have company...
- today I just got a very interesting job offer from an executive search company in Amsterdam... mmmm.... curious how this will evolve... need to think fast and strategic, because they will not wait for me to finish my job here in Brazil and I would also have to quit my Latin American trip... tough one! I'll have to put all the + and - on a paper and decide...
Well... no one can say that things do not happen around here... I'll do my best to keep this blog updated, even if that means to write 2-3 lines every one or two weeks... in the end, if I'll do my Latin American trip, I will use this blog as a journey diary... :).
-... Last but not least... just for you to know: I still love Brazil, I love Caipirinhas and ... I love life!!! :) |
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