A Nigerian Myth

Mother Woyengi sat on a special stone and made people out of handfuls of earth.  She put the people who chose lives of Luxury into a fast, dangerous stream, the rest into a slow, clear stream. 

I just thought this was interesting because I have always lived in the fast, dangerous stream.  Today, Rodrigo and I were talking about our plans to import a certain machine and to try to make extra income.  Yes, another business however now that he is a chef and excited to peruse his career and I have plenty of work and new ideas cranking on the computer… we decided to stop.  We decided not to complicate our lives anymore, we decided to get along and not to work together for once, and we decided to give ourselves a break and to let go.  I can’t imagine what it will be like to not work together or how long this will last.  I am so happy to make this decision for now, I feel so relieved. 

Quicky.

I had a fantastic night last night, then I talked to Kate & Shawna for an hour and a half or so till 1:30am.  Had a quiet day and tonight  I am going out with Rodrigo to the Restaurant that I have been wanting to go to since the day I moved here.  I cant wait, I just hope that they have a play place too.  If so, I think my husband and I are going to have a lot of fun!  If not... well at least I will have gotten to see the place. 

Saturday Night.

Tonight I took the kids for pizza… well I wanted to go for pizza but I missed the turn.  Took the next turn and a guy came up to the car to park the car for me for the specific Restaurant.  I walked in and sat down and realized that I wasn’t at the pizza place.  I could see the pizza place that I wanted to be at, but I wasn't there and now they have my car so I was staying.  I was actually at a place where the only thing on the menu is espetinhos (skewers).  I told the guy to bring me what is popular and we decided on chicken & Steak.  Ok, I still do not have a clue what Espetinhos are.  I just knew that the price is like $2.90- $4.80.  I am like, Oh good.  Filet Minion for $4.80.  This can’t be too bad.  Then the waiter brought Chicken, steak & Mozzarella skewers.  It was refreshing, what a great idea and it was fun to eat.  But the best part of all was that they had a play area for the kids that I could see right into and they had a member of the staff sitting there babysitting.  WHAT?  Oh Yes, I had a beer and the kids would play then come for a bite and some water.  It was amazing.  We were all happy.  Then we had Chocolate covered strawberry skewers and went home. 

I was also pleasantly surprised when Ben, my son brought me a drawing of a Vampire.  It looked just like a vampire; this is the first time that he had a head with eyes in the eye area and a mouth in the mouth area.  It was great; I now have a whole monster collection as I think he used all of the paper drawing monsters.  So proud of him. 

Also, Gabriela now chooses all of her own clothes and tells me that they are poison if she doesn’t like the clothes that I am holding up. 

Debbie Downer

Today life is definitely calmer.  I was teaching class on fate again yesterday and since I was apparently not in the most positive mood, when the class asked me to explain, I was giving examples of them having goals and something bad happening and this being the unexpected fate.  They actually caught on to me being a Debbie Downer, and that was funny…I think.  Today we are looking at motorcycles for a second vehicle.  Right now a liter of gas is $2.49, so to fill up my car is like $90.  It is very expensive and now that we are both going separate places at the same time one of us has to take a motor Taxi ($5-$7) a ride.  So we are in need of doing something different now.  I have always wanted a motorcycle but never thought I would have one.  Here many people use them for their daily transportation and it is very common.  When in Rome….Brasil, right?

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