From Italy with Love

Well, answering to inumerous (01) pleads, I am updating my "ticket" condition. Yes, I am leaving Italy in December. December, 14th! It was not an easy operation, if you ask me. Well, lots of hard work, arms twisting, and $1,000 euros less in my pockets. Bye bye Gucci in my closet! Hello sun and wamth, lots of juice, rice and beans, and beloved friends and family!

Picture: Aeroplane by Camilla Engman.

Trying to leave Europe

I am trying so hard to leave Italy, but I guess that British Airways think that I am too valuable to the European Comunity so I might as well stay! Well, either I stay or I win the lottery so I can pay for a first class ticket (obviously with maximum fare!)

Here is someone who recently passed by a similar situation! >>> Tequila Mockingbird - home again, home again!

And with that, I leave all the airlines thinking about what they are doing to me! Grounded and looking at the wall, like my mom used to do when I was nasty (obviously this is fiction because I was never a nasty girl! obviously!!!)

For you...

Picture: i will miss you when you are across the sea by Sam Brown (explodingdog)

GRE Tomorrow...

Have you ever felt like all you do is to say that you have to study but then... you do not study at all????

Picture: isthisreallymylife by Sam Brown (explodingdog)

The Miracle of Fish and Katrina

It is interesting to observe how everything in nature is connected. Well, pretty much everything in life is connected. The same conditions that permitted Katrina to be formed now have caused the biggest draught in North Brazil for the last 50 years. Even more interesting is that this drought is not located in one of our desert regions (sertoão), but rather the drought is in the biggest river (by volume) in the world: The Amazon River

The Amazon River comes in a mere second when it comes to length (although depending on the season it beats the Nile by a few miles), but it is by far the widest. The Amazon alone produces approximately 20 percent of all river water that is poured into the entire world’s oceans. The Amazon has so much volume that one can find fresh water in the Atlantic 200 kilometers off the coast of Brazil.

It is shameful to observe what the Brazilian Government is doing (or not doing) to help the people affected in light of this natural disaster. Only after two months are food and medication being sent to the people who live in the affected area.

This is the current situation in the Amazon region and its tributary rivers:

• 120 “peixes-boi” (the Amazonian manatee, which is an endangered species) have already died;

• There is a risk of a new Cholera epidemic;

• More than 32,000 families are isolated without fresh food or water;

• Most schools are closed (a good portion of the transportation is made by boat);

• 61 cities have declared a state of emergency;

• Some cities will still have to wait 10 more days to receive help;

• More than a thousand fishermen are out of work;

• Thousands of fish are dieing, rotting, and polluting the main source of life to this region.

Yes, the situation will soon get better since the Flood Season is supposed to arrive in less than a month. But what about the suffering all those people are going through because no one cares to help? Where are all the forecast alerts, the funds to help the poor families, sensationalistic news segments, famous people “giving a hand” or crying on TV?
Why is no one helping or caring? Is it because it was not fast like a hurricane? Is it because people are dying slowly? Is it because Brazilians do not care about their own fellow countrymen? Are people dying too slow to make the news? Why? I really wish I knew the answer.
It makes me ashamed to admit that I read the news about the drought in BBC UK. I even tried to find something in BBC Brazil, but they were too worried about Hurricane Wilma, Saddam, and the baby that was born in front of the cameras of Big Brother. It took me some effort to find out what is really happening. It was even more embarrassing to realize that the drought started in August, and I am now just reading about it. Where are the reporters? Where are the newspapers? Where are the television cameras?

Where are the Brazilians who care about other Brazilians? I read the news everyday, why was I not informed?




Picture 1: Wikipedia
Picture 2: BBC Americas

Life and… Airplanes

I need to go home.
Fact.

I miss my family.
Fact.

My money is over.
Fact.

All the flights are full.
Fact.

I miss Florence already.
Fact.

I need more practice in my work.
Fact.

I miss DT already.
Double Fact!

Picure: Merry Christmas by Mile Raykhawk

Days Like This

Sometimes I have the sensation that all I want is all I do not have. I know it is a common feeling among "no-satisfaction club" members; and it does not matter how much I try to ignore it... it just hits me from time to time. Argh... Small thoughts, small thoughts!

On the positive side, I read this interesting phrase from Robert Frost "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on" and it made me think of how true it is. We suffer, we cry, we laugh and we die. And life goes on. Be it ours (which would be impossible in the case of our death, although ghosts might disagree) or the general life. It keeps going.

I just hope I find a nice alien before I die (more proof that life indeed goes on after we destroy our planet)!!!!

Picture: http://www.camillaengman.com

Yes, it does..

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." (Robert Frost)

Questions of Life and Death

1. Why does it rain every time I wash clothes? (I really think that my washing machine makes a sound only known before by the Indians who would do the Rain Dance...)
2. Why is people's hunger proportionaly inverse to the quantity of food I cooked?
3. Why is the amount of things I have to do proportional to my lazyness?
4. Why do Italians keep telling me to come back later and when I come back they tell me that I should have come earlier????

Why why why why????

Me in English...

Well, after not posting at all, I have come to the conclusion that separating languages is going to be a lot more effective for me. So... This is me in English...