Somehow, the cooking enthusiasm wasn’t as great as usual last Saturday and the going out for dinner option would have included a combined shower and wading mission comparable to Noah and his fellows’. Instead we decided to try out the delivery pizza quality of Rio. After a 15 min phone call, in something that should sound like Portuguese, and mainly consisting of repeating numbers for some reason, I had completed my biggest language mission in Brazil so far. And it was successful - the pizzas did arrive, on time, at the right flat, with the right toppings and in exchange of the expected amount of money. Sometimes, that’s a difficult enough achievement at home even. Learning new languages is great.
Another thing I like with living and working abroad is all the knowledge you constantly gain about life in that city or country. The learnings are always good for the understanding of the every day life in that particular place, but sometimes you also come across scary things. In this case I don’t have a “taxi ride scary” thing in mind but something which is scary on a different plane. Every day, between 7 pm and 8 pm, all the radio stations broadcast politics. The same show on every station, public or commercial and every day! Just feels wrong…
You also become an expert in making acquaintances when you move around and never stay too long in the same place. Meeting lots and lots of nice and interesting people all the time, who you perhaps will meet up with again, somewhere else, another time. Hopefully, you also become reasonably good at keeping in touch with your oldest and dearest friends, even if they most of the time seem to be located on the other side of the world from you. If I ever start drifting into the dark side of keeping in touch with, or appreciating, my friends, please remind me of last week. Thanks Pontus, Anders and Marcus for being such good friends and for the best week in Rio by far, miss your company already.
Another thing I like with living and working abroad is all the knowledge you constantly gain about life in that city or country. The learnings are always good for the understanding of the every day life in that particular place, but sometimes you also come across scary things. In this case I don’t have a “taxi ride scary” thing in mind but something which is scary on a different plane. Every day, between 7 pm and 8 pm, all the radio stations broadcast politics. The same show on every station, public or commercial and every day! Just feels wrong…
You also become an expert in making acquaintances when you move around and never stay too long in the same place. Meeting lots and lots of nice and interesting people all the time, who you perhaps will meet up with again, somewhere else, another time. Hopefully, you also become reasonably good at keeping in touch with your oldest and dearest friends, even if they most of the time seem to be located on the other side of the world from you. If I ever start drifting into the dark side of keeping in touch with, or appreciating, my friends, please remind me of last week. Thanks Pontus, Anders and Marcus for being such good friends and for the best week in Rio by far, miss your company already.
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