Starting Work Today??????

Well today is the day that I will finally have someting to do to keep my mind busy.  I start teaching 2 Conversational English Classes tonight.  I will let you know how it goes.
Update-Nope didnt start today, job fell through at the last minute.  Not really suprised!

Over 2,500 Views- Thank You's

Oi Meu Amigos! 

Thank you so much for taking interest in my Blog.  I have gone over 2500 views Today!  I am considering this a huge accomplishment for me. 

If you are loving it please pass it on to 10 of your friends for me and tell them to do the same if they like it, would ya?
 
Or if you are a computer person and know how to get this out on the web or link me up, could ya?

Finally, thanks again for reading and dont forget to comment every once in a while, should ya?    

The truth is:  If it wasn't for this blog and for you, I might have thrown in the towel weeks ago! :)
Love You All!

The Real Challenge!

You know what the real challenge is for me, wrapping my brain around the fact that I am going to have to live with less.  As an American Consumer as sad as it is to say…. I miss it. 

I didn’t buy expensive stuff but I sure did buy things. The best thing that I did was bring my 15 boxes full of clothes and things that I thought I would need for a life here, because to replace my stuff would be triple. 

It is not that I need a huge amount of shit around me to feel happy.  Here it is; just the basic necessities are expensive and once we start working it will be goodbye to eating out, spending when I am feeling sad, and buying just to buy.  I sound like such a brat, don’t I? 

All I can say is SHIT!!!!!!!!   Someone told me that if I keep comparing things to America, I will drive myself Crazy!!!!   Guess What?  I am feeling a little Crazy now.  I don’t know what to do, my husband has a decision to make – do we get a job and just live with a little or do we go big.  If we just get a job we can live in a great place and see him more, but in 2 years all we have is more experience.  If we go big and have a business, we may see him less, have to live in a place that is further from the beach but we can go out, buy the extras that we want, afford a babysitter once in a while and afford to visit back home more often. 

My heart says I just want to live in peace and  to be together but my head says get a job that pays more.  And the rest of me says “What in the Fuck was I thinking”? 

Darn kids Anyway!

This is the view out of my window in my bedroom.  Every day I get a clearer picture of where I am.  Like I know what the front of those houses look like and I have walked by that tall building.  Last night I walked around the streets people were outside hanging out and talking.  Here I have only been wondering around in the day and when I would go out at night it was to a destination.  I like the way people hang out here.

 Yesterday Rodrigo’s parents took my son with them to have lunch with more of the family in another city.  I think Ben had fun but he doesn’t like to tell me everything or anything.  When he came home he told me that he didn’t eat anything.   Like nothing good, when you hear Ben talk you’d think- where did the 6 hours go and I’m glad I didn’t go with him?   Then you talk to everyone else and find out he played the whole time and had a blast.   You know the other day people told me that Ben was speaking Portuguese!!!!  When I talk Portuguese with my son he yells at me to stop and to talk English.  That little kiddo knows Portuguese.  When I sit and try to teach him words he pronounces them wrong, too.  He’s as smart as a Weasel.  Do you find that this is typical of kids, just boys, or just mine?   

Do you have a kid that is so much like you that you can hardly get mad at them?   I feel that when I have to punish him, I am punishing myself sometimes.  Because I know why he is doing what he is doing, I understand how he feels.  He had a breakdown the other day and it was identical to my breakdown.  Said the exact words for why he was feeling sad.  I always wanted to have a little girl just like me so that I could understand her and I got a boy.  I think this was a good thing.  You know what?  Rodrigo’s family tell me so many crazy stories about him and then I see “Gabi”  oh she never stops. 

Do you know that Saturday Night Live Skit “Gilly”?  This is my daughter.  Here is a link so that you can see for yourself.  My little “Gilly”  Is similar to “Rodrigo”. 

Check it out-  “Gilly SNL”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj0lboME4aw

Thanks for Reading! 

Fruit!

There are as many or more Fresh Juice Bars on every corner in Brasil just Like there are Coffee shops in America!  It is amazing to me.  I am getting my daily recommendations of Fruit everyday just in my juice.  Can you imagine?  Pineapple (abacaxi), Mango (Manga), Passion Fruit (my favotite-maracujáe ), Orange (laranja), Grape (Uva), Strawberry (morango) to name a few.  They take the fresh fruit, cut it up, throw it in the blender, add water and real sugar and there you go.  It is the best juice in the world and it is fresh.  Seriously Fresh. 

I tried Guava Fruit for the first time yesterday.  Goiaba is the name in Portuguese.  It looks like a cross between a pear and orange.  Attached is a picture.  You eat the whole fruit, an amazing texture.  There are hard seeds but you eat them too.  Gabi Loves them.  They are sweet and have a sour taste as you near the skin.  The most interesting thing for me is eating the outside.  I guess because it feels like an orange but the skin tastes like a thick skinned pear.  I have only had Guava candy up till now.  I don't know if you have them where you live, but it is worth a try.