More news from Lisboooa! 19/03/2009

First of all: happy daddy-day to the best dad in the world!!!  (you know who you are )

Sooo what’s been going on the past week…

I went to Barcelona with Paulinho for a long weekend, it was really nice to see him, my friends and the city again!  We mainly walked around through the city, not visiting anything in particular since we’ve both seen it all   By the way, Paulo, where are the pictures?

Then, two days ago I discovered a new crazy guy in my bairro!  Across the street we already have the lady with a hairdo that looks like the tower of Pisa.  She has this thing with cars.  She usually tries to get in those that are waiting for the green light.  Then there is another crazy, the yelling man!  He just walks around and suddenly he shouts something nasty.  If you are just crossing him in the moment that he shouts, that is kind of scary.  But it’s something you shouldn’t take personal, he also shouts when he’s alone in the street.  And now, my newest discovery!   A man in his fourties who seems pretty normal at first glance.  Except… he rolled up his pants on his right leg only, walks like a girl with an attitude (one hand on his waist, the other one making wrist-movements)  and he makes sensual dances with… the trashbins.  I know I am not supposed to laugh with people that have some kind of “problem” -depends what you define as problem- but you should’ve seen it, it was so funny to watch!  And he seemed happy too, that is the most important!

Hmmm furthermore… uh, a very unique event!  I made mathematics homework with the kids (1) in portuguese (2)!!  I’m good  

And I also recieved a package with goodies yesterday from Belgium (mommie) which was highly appreciated!  Now, I have to get back to work!

 

beijinhos!

 

ps: i’ve posted a new link to a video about extreme sheep herding.  It’s really funny and also amazing to see the creativity of sheppards!

Sinterklaaskapoentje! 06/12/2008

Hello everyone!

Finally a new post!!  I apologise for my long absence, I’ve been having some bad times/weeks here and didn’t feel like writing about it.  Thank god that pretty much everything is solved, lessons are learned and I have a nice new place to live!  I will clean my room later and then take some pictures so you can see it!  It is only temporary though, at the end of the month I will move to a bigger room in the same appartment.  I am still living in the centre of Lisbon, now near Marques de Pombal.

Today is also Sinterklaas his big day at home, here the people never heard of him.  So of course, if nobody believes, he won’t show up either.  Result: inspite of the delicious carrot and suger in my shoe, he didn’t bring me anything  I can understand though, after a long trip through Belgium, Portugal must seem like a big detour…  Maybe he left me something at home, mum said that dad was going to call Sinterklaas to see if he could arrange me something

At work things are still fine!  I’m working on a little project now so that I can work a bit more independent.   Yesterday we went to an old governmentbuilding that was closing down.  They left a lot (really a lot) of desks, chairs, computers and even a colour-copying machine behind.  Apperantely everytime one of these buildings closes or moves, they call organisations as mine to come and take what they want for free before they send it all to the trash.   So we dragged some desks and chairs out for the kids and 2 (hopefully working) computers!  Hurray!

Later in the afternoon Patricia and I tried to continue decorating the house for Christmas, which was quite a puzzle!   The trees here are made of plastic and need to be put together.  Only problem: there were only 2 feet and 6 tops.  Then there were a lot of branches… It took us 2 hours to get 1 complete tree out of this.  I don’t know why, but the leftovers have to stay (I would trash them to avoid confusion over the next years).  But ok, it won’t be my problem either next year

What else is there to say… Last weekend I went shopping with my “parents in law”  (this just made me feel very old)!  It was really nice, I already got my christmaspresent from them.  It’s already in use, I really needed those new pants so I couldn’t wait another 3 weeks.  The ones I had here were so worn out that they had holes and, that combined with a chilly wind here… well you can imagine that going outside wasn’t…nice…

Well that’s all for now!  I’m not sure yet what else I will do today, probabely catch up on all the e-mails etc, study a bit for Portuguese class and maybe test the bus to the airport to see how long it takes and where it stops exactly.  Because in exactly two weeks I’ll be coming home for Christmas, hurray!!

many kisses!