Here we go! While this is our family's blog, Linda has made all the contributions until today. Today I'm hijacking it and in the spirt of Linda's previous post, Ten Things We See Everyday, I will show you Ten Things I See Everyday.
What's this you ask? Brazilians might be offended that you had to ask but it's a coffee cup of course. Never mind that you can't fully submerge a tea bag in it, it's a coffee cup and this is what it usually looks like about 30 seconds after I get it. The best part? This is a café grande. I would've put a picture of the normal cafézinho but couldn't find my macro lens.
Just looking at this should give you a dor de cabeça. Yes, four days per week this is what I see. But don't worry, I'm used to it, after all, I entered the classroom when I was 4 years old and at 32 I'm still in the classroom. Yes, that's 87% of my life has been receiving or giving instruction, but fortunately, always learning.
This is an apartment under construction two blocks from us. When we arrived in November it was just a hole in the ground and now their on the 4th level already. Why the pictures? Well because I'm too darn curious to just walk by. I may be walking home from the classroom but I have to stop and try to figure out how they build these things, because you just never know...well I don't know, I'm just curious - thanks Dad.
Say hello to our little friend. Apparently, the toilettes here have a rather strong gag reflex and don't react well to TP. So, everyone has a little garbage can beside their toilette. You can file this one under, Things We Didn't Know Before Coming to Brazil. If you're still curious, ask someone else.
Oops, sorry not sure how this got in here. This was supposed to be filed under, Things We Wish We Saw Everyday. But for the record, I did take this picture and did swim in this pool.
In case you think I'm complaining, here are two things I see everyday that I love. To use
love for the hammock seriously undervalues the word, but I really mean it for Isaac (here), Joel, and Linda. By the way, have you ever swung in a hammock from your 12th floor balcony? Gotta get that flying fix somehow.
Workers here know how to rest! And I mean that in the best sense of the word. They work really hard in hot weather and then they rest hard. No doubt, north americans have lost the value of resting, for even our vacations take more work than our jobs.
Yes, that's a hammock strung under the truck. Hopefully he's the driver too...
This is probably what I see more than anything. What is it? Hint: we live in the middle of a 2 million person city. We see lots of
cement. And when you walk everywhere you have lots of time to investigate the formerly mundane details of cement. Linda and I are thankful we lived in Chicago to help prepare us for this period of urban living.
This is our friendly elevator. I suspect that if the two elevators ever break simultaneously or the power goes out we will question why we ever came to Brazil...and our baby will be born about 10 minutes later.
No significance to this being number 10, but just an interesting slice of life. This is our ever-changing shopping list, unmodified for this post. I have no idea why "honey" is on the list twice. We really don't go through it so quickly that we need more before we checkout. Can anyone guess what we needed shoelaces, a nail brush, potting mix and a pot for? For Isaac's shoes, to clean under our nails, and for our Orchid. Why, what were you thinking?
That's life as I see it! And to be clear, please don't take anything here as complaining. Somethings are better, somethings worse, most things different. But we have much to be thankful for and are needs are provided for. Now if I can just post this before Linda can find it and proof it...
