Oooookaaaay....First: I have ignored my own blog for the better part of a year now. Oops. I will fix that. I'm going to have to fix that because well...upcoming events make things...different.
Second: for those of you who don't know yet, Evan and I are moving to Brazil. A small town 3 hours north of Rio, to be exact. The city is called Macae, (Say it with me: mock-eye-AY) and it is the home of the new Training Center that Evan is going to manage. It's not going to be totally permanent, since I doubt the Brazilian government will allow that sort of thing, but it is permanent enough to require the selling of our house and moving and/or storing all of our stuff (By the way, holy crap we have a lot of stuff - that's another post for another time, but WOW).
Macae is a very cool place. For the second time in my life, I am moving (along with all my stuff) to go and live on another continent. I like it. Things are very different here than they are in the US, and that is a good thing. Everyone needs to get out and experience culture shock, even just a little bit. I don't speak Portuguese, yet, but I have already picked up a surprising amount of it in the week that I have been here. There is a three hour drive from the airport in Rio up to Macae, and it is nice to see the mountains that jut up at crazy angles, so close to the ocean. I am also a realist. Brazil is an emerging country, and there will be cultural and economical things that we simply must deal with here. It's all part of the the package.
There are trade-offs though.
The photo above was taken from what will be our living room - right on the beach in the quieter end of town. Where in the Lincoln am I supposed to find a few like that? Something that you can actually hear roaring and sloshing every day. Nice.
But there is a WalMart. In Brazil. And a McDonald's. Just when I want to hide a little from the culture I was born into, it follows me to South America. Seriously?
That again is another post for another time. Until then, mea culpa. I will blog more. Promise. I know I've said that before but this time I mean it....
Really....
Seriously....
3 comments:
Oooh yes, please do a bunch of Brazil updates -- I'm so vicariously happy about this move!
--Kristy
Wow! Awesome news.
And I neglected my blog from late July until this week (when I traveled to Spain). So don't feel bad!
I hope you do blog about it, I'm looking forward to reading! Best of luck with the move, and let me know if I can help in any way. We live in Rio das Ostras, just a short bus ride south of Macae, and I know a lot of people up your way.
Welcome to Brazil!
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