My adventures since October/2001, when I left Diadema/SP. After nearly 6 years in Germany I moved to the area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Divirta-se ! Have fun !
Glassbox
Eu Palhaço
O Remmelento Humano
Mariluca
Tierra Kanatas
Ezkía y Carlos (panita/hdcp2605)
Fernando Lui e banda
Palavreiros
THE END
9 years ago I left Brazil. 6 months later i started this blog to share with friends and family my adventures in germany.
when i moved to the US, i could not leave another bunch of friends without attention, so i kept the blog and changed the language to english mostly. i kept sharing the adventures in america.
now that i am back where everything started, this blog shall end.
i'll keep in touch with all friends in europe and the US via facebook and emails.
furthermore, i'll continue to share a little bit of my daily life in a new and anonymous, blog:
www.livinginsampa.blogger.com.br
of course you will know that it is me, but not the rest of the visitors who find it on the web. the new blog will be less personal, even less than this one was, and will contain more observations and opinions about the approached topics.
add to your favorites and keep coming back !
THANK YOU !
OBRIGADO !
DANKE !
HOME
sorry for the delay ! lots of events in the last 2 months.
sao paulo welcomed me back with a typical winter day: cold and rainy. packed with 5 big pieces of luggage, backpacks and a guitar, we stayed in a hotel for one month. then we moved to my in-laws and will be mainly there until the apartment is ready, in a month or so.
in the meantime i've been to another customer in the US - i told them they would miss me - why did they let me go ? :)
we are slowly settling down. bought a car 10 days ago. while i was back on vacations in the last 9 years i did not use to drive, since i did not have a car.
now i have been driving around, sometimes through streets i had not driven for years, sometimes through streets i had not driven since i left.
all the memories come back. i remember how i was when drove there the last time. it is wonderful.
the food is so good and so fresh i cant understand how i survived for 3 years having pizza-soup-and-salad in the company's cafeteria in the US, not to mention the 15-minute lunchtime based on sterile sandwiches while on business trips. sorry yankees, you really do not know what food is about. now i happily walk to any restaurant during lunch time.
for sure Brazil has its pitfalls, but it is MY country. no more visas, work permits, language difficulties and shit.
sheila started her own business in partnership with her sister: a small female clothes store. she is very happy and motivated.
in summary, we are happy to be back and there is nothing like home.
as for this blog, it shall end soon. i am coming up with a new one. stay tuned!
VIVA O BRASIL !
MAMA, I’M COMING HOME
First in portuguese, then in English.
Este talvez seja o post mais importante deste blog, criado ha 8 anos para os amigos se interarem das minhas aventuras na Alemanha e depois nos EUA.
Como disse anteriormente, eu sempre tenho um plano. E o plano agora e’ comecar de novo. Onde tudo comecou: Sao Paulo, Brasil.
Estou voltando !!!!!!
E estou muito feliz e ao mesmo tempo ansioso. Nao vivo regularmente em Sao Paulo ha 10 anos, desde quando peguei um projeto em Curitiba. De la fui pra Porto Alegre, depois Alemanha, depois EUA. Ja sao quase 9 anos fora do Brasil e acho que ja zuei bastante e conheci muita coisa. E finalmente achei as desculpas que precisava pra voltar :-)
Me sinto como me sentia quando fui pra Alemanha e depois quando vim pra ca. Pronto para descobrir um novo pais. E’ um novo pais sim… quando fui embora FHC era presidente, eramos tetra, nao haviam carros Flex, VW era campea de vendas e a VARIG era a maior empresa aerea do pais. Sem falar q Rush, Roger Waters e ZZ Top nunca haviam tocado no Brasil.
Voltando de ferias a cada ano sempre rolava aquele choque ao ver a miseria do nosso povo, mas de uns anos pra ca aprendi a valorizar as coisas boas do Brasil. O clima, as belezas naturais, o calor humano, os sorrisos e as risadas gratis proporcionadas por familia, amigos e ate’ mesmo desconhecidos. Mesmo com tanta dificuldade, nao falta alegria de viver. Parece que estar vivo ja e’ motivo de alegria, mesmo que seja morando num barraco na favela.
Essas coisas nao tem preco. E’ por essas coisas que eu volto. Volto com a mesma mentalidade com a qual mudei pra Alemanha e depois pros EUA: aproveitar o que ha de bom.
Deste blog nao sei o que vou fazer. Depois do post “Cheguei !” vai ficar por conta de vcs decidir.
Viva o Brasil !
English version:
This is maybe the most important post of this blog, created 8 years ago so that friends could get to know about my adventures in Germany and later in the US.
As I said before, I always have a plan. Ant the plan now is to start over. Where everything began: Sao Paulo, Brazil.
I am coming back !!!!
I am very happy and excited. I have not lived regularly in Sao Paulo for 10 years, since when I went for a project in Curitiba. From there I went to Porto Alegre, then Germany, then US. It has been almost 9 years abroad I think I have fooled around enough and learned a lot of things. And finally found the excuses I needed to go back :-)
I feel like I felt when I went to Germany and later when I came here. Ready to discover a new country. It is a new country indeed… when I left FHC was president, we were 4 times world champion, there were no Flex cars, VW was the biggest automaker and VARIG was the largest carrier of the country. Not to mention that Rush, Roger Waters and ZZ Top had never played in Brazil.
When I was back for vacations every year, I was always shocked to see our people’s misery, but in the last couple of years I learned to value the good things of Brazil. The weather, the nature, the “calor humano” (cant even translate that… friendliness ?), the free smiles and laughs provided by family, friends and even strangers. In despite of the difficulties, there is no lack of happiness. It seems like being alive is already a reason to be happy, even if you live in a hut in the slams.
These things have no price. It is because of them that I am coming back. I come back with the same mentality I left for Germany and later the US: enjoy what is good.
I don’t know what I am gonna do with this blog. After the “I’ve arrived” post it is gonna be up to you guys to decide.
Viva o Brasil !!!!
does anyone still come here ?
alguem ainda vem aqui ?
WHAT MY BOSSES EXPECT FROM ME
PLANS
Plans come and go, are created, changed and even disregarded.
I mentioned below that i had a plan. That did not work unfortunately.
But I also mentioned that I always have a plan. ;-)
In the meantime... Cancun was cool ! Way more americanized than I thought. This means that it could have been better. Go to Mexico just to find the same crappy restaurants with the same crappy food at the same (or even higher) prices was not the best part of trip. The best parts were the astonishing caribean sea with its blue/green waters and the mayan ruins of Chichen Itza.
Viva Mexico!
