Dude, wheres my year???

Ok, year is almost over, its already end of November, wow!!

Its been a while since I have written. One of my most avid readers actually complained but, the reason for my disappearance is no other then dating... Being single, going out, different places, 3 nights a week, different people, so many different experiences. However, once you start a relationship your life changes. And now... some places she doesn't like to go to, the drive to go out changes, some people do not like to go out with us 'cause they are single, quite different.

But, all-in-all its quite good. New experiences do occur. For example (quite childish but due to lack of stories it will be written):
I currently live with aunts and grandma to save rent, she lives with her parents (habit quite common in Brazil). I spend pretty much the whole day at work, so I can only see her at night but people here don't like her to be here until late at night, i.e. 2am (we are both late sleepers). End result, she comes here and we stay in the lobby of my apt where the apt guard also stays. So, we have mostly talking and very little dating. Yesterday out of curiosity I ask her to look at the guard post to see if hes there, and the poor fella was hidden away looking at us! What a shameless voyeur!! And he kept staring and staring and staring!! So, we were talking and talking with each other and this fella just wouldn't stop staring from his little hiding place (which he went to with difficulty). Sheeesh... But so is life.

Anyways, most of my excitement these days goes on into discovering more about her life and spending time with her. So surprisingly I don't miss my single life, at least don't miss it THAT much... lol

In other news... It has now been two weeks of working at our new location. Pretty nice to work in it. But these weeks I've done a lot of recruiting and selecting. As a result of that I will spend the next three weeks giving training. After that, vacation for a month!! yey!! I'm planning to travel, but it'll be somewhere close by. More details in later postings.

Yesterday earlier on the evening we went to a dinner party. Some of our students invited us for a potluck at a student's apartment (very spacious). Lots of marvelous food, wine, people, conversations,... Very pleasant evening indeed. So we had co-workers, our bosses, students and significant others, I had a blast.

Right now I am enjoying the last moments of this peaceful day before starting this week which seems will be very busy.

Peace out to everyone!! Take care!!!

Artwork: Chorinho - Candido Portinari (top-left); I Musicisti - Fernando Botero (bottom-right).