Hi,

My plans to today's blog were writing about my marriage and the difficulties that I had in the beginning of my career, but then I thought it would be so boring to you guys to read that I changed my mind. I was looking my Brazilians vacations pictures and I found much more interesting stuff...
I found a picture of my daughter sand boarding in Florianopolis, which is a island in the South of Brazil, and I remmembered how much fun we had there.
Florianopolis is famous in Brazil because of its dunes and it is a popular summer holidays destination. Floripa, which is the popular name of the island, is famous because of the food, too. There I ate the best seafood of my entire life. Shrimp, lobster, crab and fish everything absolutely fresh, probably, captured at the same day as it was prepared. It was in December 2003 and I was with my family and some friends. The restaurant was close to the beach, so we could hear the waves. The wind was bringing the smell and salty taste of the sea. The temperature was about 37°C in a absolute blue sky. The waitress, who was wearing just a biquini, brought us the drinks: caipirinha and beer, which was almost frozen as it is usual in Brazil. After a while, she started to serve us with the food. First the shrimp, served in 6 or 7 different ways, then the lobster and crab and finally the fish. This lunch took almost 3 hours and we were exhausted after all that food and drinks.

I found other beach pictures, such as the two bellow, that I want to write about them next time.

I hope you have enjoyed it.

Bye.

Hi everyone,

This time I am going to write about my family, probably it is not the most interesting topic to read about, but I could not think in something better.
As you know I am married and I have a daughter who is 14 years
old. I met Beth when we were at university, in 1984. We both started in the same university at same time, but she was at a bachelor in chemistry program and I was at the chemical engineering, both evening courses. Both of us lived in the same neighbour so we had to take the same bus and we became friends. We started to date in 1985 and married in 1991. It took 6 years because both of us wanted to finish the university before the wedding. In adition, we were from poor families and we had to work during the day to pay for our studies. It was a hard time. I had to wake up at 5:30 to start to work at 8:00 (remember that I lived in Sao Paulo and in a city with a population bigger than 15 million, it is not easy to go where you want). After a whole day of work, I left the company and went to the university. The classes started at 7:00 pm and finished at 11:00, then I took a bus and arrived home at 12:00. The most difficulty part, however, was at Saturdays because I had classes from 8:00 am until 2:00 pm. I had only the Saturdays evenings and Sundays to do my homework, study and once a while parties and some free time.
The engineering program took me 6 years to finish. I graduated in 1990 and married in 1991, but this is another story that I will write about tomorrow. (I think I have more than 300 words, so lets save something to the next blog...)

Bye

The weather here in Calgary is incredible!!! Last week the temperature was around +10C, no snow in the streets and, because of this, the traffic was wonderful. However, today the temperature is -15C, snowing and the traffic is terrible…
Probably, if my Brazilians friends read this commentary about the traffic, they will laugh. The traffic in Sao Paulo is so terrible that even in the worst Calgary’s days, it is impossible to compare. In the other hand, Sao Paulo never gets so cold. The minimum temperature, ever, was 1C and never snows there.
Ok, sometimes the traffic here is bad, the weather is surprising and the public transportation is not efficient (the busses today are late and crowd…), but I could not think in other place to live.
Calgary is the city that my family and I chose to live and we have to accept it as it is.