After a year or so...I´m back

Gosh, after a year or so I decide to be corageous again and write about my life to the online world to read, After this year or so I finished my exchange program abroad but did manage to continue living there for a Master degree oportunity. I´m super happy with this opportunity but I can´t avoind confessing it´s been hard to live abroad, alone...but I´m happy, I feel mature and ready for whatever life can bring me...

Meanwhile I managed to get rid of a nasty boyfriend that, while I was living far, dated a "friend" of mine, and also managed to avoid me for 7 months or so...how hard do u think it feels?

I also managed to fall for a very successfull man, that turned out to be an ass.... yeah...what´s the point of being career smart, very successful if you cannot treat people decently....

So...in the meantime I was very busy....busy with the wrong people, or maybe I was making the wrong choices to deal with them...overall I had so many love disapointments that as any girl on my shoes would do, decided to focus on my career, my job, my live a less fulfilled, less happy life, but a safe one,

Just similar to what Ted Mosby from How I met you mother said: we believe in love, we believe in finding the one, but every day...we believe less and less....

Sorry about the sad post... : (

Winter Break 2010

NYC

DC

Boston

Orlando

to be continued.....

I have to write this one in Portuguese....

Uma aventura de ônibus nos EUA.

Cruzes...essa é a palavra ideal pra descrever essa loucura. Depois de três dias visitando o aeroporto diariamente na tentativa de entrar no avião com destino à Orlando, frustração batendo no teto, eu recebo a noticia que irá mudar o percurso dos meus próximos 2 dias: Dia 28 de Dezembro a querida atendente na cia aérea me diz que só irá ter um voo pra mim dia 30! Oh Lord. E eu com casa alugada desde o dia 26 e amigos esperando na Flórida tinha que tomar uma decisão rápida. Vou pegar o busão, não quero nem saber!

Fiz algumas ligações telefônicas para me certificar de que ainda me restava alguma sanidade mental nesta pessoa. Me dirigi ao balcão e pedi meu dinheiro de volta da passagem aérea, sem maiores problemas, pois neste momento e que a cia aérea mais queria era consumidores desistindo de voar depois de 10.000 voos cancelados.

Quando falo em sanidade mental me refiro a percorrer a costa leste dos EUA d onibus. Por favor, verifique no mapa mais próximo o tamanho dessa façanha.... de Boston à Orlando.

Eu realmente não tinha outra opção.

Terça-feira dia 28 compro passagem de Boston às 8:30 da matina. Quando chego na estação, me deparo com o caos! Mais de 500 pessoas tentando viajar de onibus, Sim! Não fui somente eu quem tive a brilhante ideia de ir em busca de transporte alternativo!

De 8:30 da manha embarco as 10:00 para NYC, ao invés de chegar na Big Apple as 11h chego as 16h, isso significa que todos os outros horarios de passagens que eu tinha atrasaram.

No fim das contas eu iria chegar em Orlando dia 29 as 15h, mas cheguei as 22h, pouca diferença...huhuhuh dois dias viajando, percebi que sou mais forte que imaginava. Brigas e discussões no onibus, um desce e sobe e embarque e desembarque de passageiros, ahhhh a cada parada uma surpresa pq eu nunca poderia imaginar qual seria meu próximo companheiro de assento de onibus; de soldados do exercito americano à estudantes de enfermagem de Montreal. Conversas longas que ajudaram a passar o tempo, uma farofada do caramba com direito a arroz e feijao geladinho direto do pote de pepino em conserva yuck! Crianças brincando, crianças incomodando; uma jovem senhora com dois filhos que espirrava e tossia a cada dois segundos parecendo q ia morrer. Tiozinho mexicano parceria, gente inconveniente falando no celular o tempo todos, tia gordinha revoltada que só fumava e bebia refrigerante; um exemplo de vida saudável...anyways, valeu a pena? tenho minhas dúvdas, não sei se faria de novo, mas fico feliz em ter podido encontrar meus amigos em Orlando e ter aproveitado alguns dias ao lado deles.

Pra quem tem d passar por isso no futuro, Boa Sorte, Muita Agua e Alongamento ajudam! # ficaadica. Fiquem longe das guloseimas pq o banheiro do onibus eh o local menos convidativo pra um mal estar...huhu

Feliz 2011!

bjbj

Flight Canceled_ Blizzard_ Stuck in the house

I meant to write a deep post for New Years but I´m not stuck in the house uncapable of flying anywhere because of a "Heart Attack" blizzard coming up. Felt sad, angry, whatever..I guess I cant do anything about it.

How was this past year for you?

Have you accomplished what you planned?

What it harder than you expected?

Easier?

Did you make new friends? Did you get new enemies?

Did you get married? Had a baby? Lost a family member? Had an accident or was diagnosed with a disease?

Did you break any bones? Got a severe flu?

Did you get a good job? Lost one?

Did you travel a lot? Did you buy a new car?

Did you read good books? Watched a good movie?

Did you fall in love? Did you break up?

Did you graduate? Were you admitted at college?

Did you get a scholarship or a new pet?

Did you do charity? Did you shop till you dropped?

Did you earn lots of money?

Did you get any big prizes?

Did you remodel your house? Did you get a new haircut?

Did you start studying a new language?

What was the most memorable moment in your life in 2010?

2010 was surely an unbelieveable year.

Changed and quit jobs.

Fell in love.

Traveled a lot.

Learned a lot: a lot

Missed my family a lot ( since I'm far from them)

Felt happy on my own skin, but a lil hopeless about eating healthy

Made tons of new friends.

Cooked and cleaned a lot.

Did not exercise as much as I wanted to.

Read good books but not as much as wished.

Watched a few movies.

Played games

Facebooked and twitted friends on a daily basis

Googled daily

Didnt paint.

Didnt cut grass

Didnt go shopping much

Got a new haircut! :)

Didnt do a lot of charity

Became more eco friendly

Started learning a new language

Got a scholarship

Overall it was a year filled with blessing but a lot of hardwork as well

I hope 2011 be as wonderful for you as 2010 was for me. Happy New Year!

Xmas

The first time you get to spend Xmas in the US in a freezing part of he country is certainly magical. All the Xmas lights and the songs, everything is careful taken care of. Now, all the magical days spent make me think why Xmas is not so magical in some other countries. Is this because of the weather? If you get to spend Xmas in a tropical country, Santa does look a lil silly wearing his North Pole clothes.

I guess Xmas in the US is magical because it makes you forget about all the problems that make most of the other countries suffer from: poverty, hunger etc... Spending Xmas in the US seems to be a time that it is OK to shop wildly and nobody will judge you for that. It is just fine to live your days spending as if nothing else mattered, actually the only thing that matters is getting the first and the best gadgets that will for sure "(dis)connect" you and your friends so you get to spend the following year lonely and happy!

What´s the real purpose of Xmas again? I don´t actually remember I could say, but the malls have just open and we better hurry up to do some shopping....

I hope you all can have Merry Days in December and get to "spend" around your family and real friends...and I truly hope It has a real meaning in the end.

XO MiMi OX

I can't think of a title, I hate when that happens...

Michigan
hotel room
roomate taking a shower
feelin sleepy
feelin excited
feelin confused
feeling like sharing everything online to the whole world
maybe wont be able to do it so,
but ...will try

a journey has just began...a journey from a young woman, who is living in the Us, and doing ordinary stuff, but trying to see this new world from a different perspecttive...

Enjoy it...