A Great Surprise

Hi guys!
What a long time!

How have you been?

Today I got a really nice surprise from Bristol!!!!
Let me tell you something before.

When I was leaving my room at St. Johns House (the ELC school accomodation) I saw myself with a lot of things I brought from Brazil including some bottles of Cachaça, some school suplies, condoms (not used haha) and the famous Brazilian Havaianas.
And I decided that I would leave all this stuff hidden under the last drawer of my room's chest of drawers (room 11).
I wrote a letter saying who I am and saying all the things that someone would like to hear from an unknown person: bullshit!! hahahaha

Well, I arranged it all under the drawer and left it there waiting for the day that someone will find it and contact me to let me know about it.

Today is this day!!

I just saw an email from a Dutch Girl called Marjte who found all my presents stuff!!!
Here is the email:

"Dear Raphael,

i'm in your room in st johns house!
i found your stuff, really nice that nobody who was here before me cleaned the room.
i'm sorry but your condom is still here.
thank you for your alcoholic drink, the brazilian guys are really happy to have a drink from home.

Bye,

Claudine Wijsmuller, Valerie de Smet, Alice Rodenberg, Eva van der Donk, Max Regtuit, Mart van den Berg
all from holland"

hahahaha

I'm trying to contact her and I'll let you guys know about it.

When I thought that everything that could remind me of Bristol was over here comes another chapter!

See you soon guys!

The Last Step

Guess who's back?
It's not me! It's the surgery!! =(
hahahaha
To finish this cycle, to end what began on February 2011, to let me free of this metal piece inside my arm!
So, on 1st of June, I'll be back to the same Hospital that I was on 25th of May 2011 and I'll remove the metal plate that is located inside my left arm.
And I'll be free!!!

hahahaha
cya!

End.

Today is turning one month that I arrived in Brazil.
Many things have changed since then. I'm setting everything up to get ready for this year.
But the most important thing is that I'm happy here. I'm where I wanted to be and doing the things I needed to do.
But now a cycle must end. This blog helped me a lot with writing and I'm very pleased that I made part of my journey.

I have now a place where I can come back later and read all this posts and remember all theses crazy things that happened.
Thanks everyone who visited this blog along 2011.

End.

ps.: don't forget guys, enjoy!

Our life it's too short to keep living like somebody else. Live your life. Follow your dreams. Make your own path. And be happy!

Cheers!

Cliffs of Moher, Dublin, Bristol and finally London

Hi guys!
I was feeling bad for a couple of days but now I'm back to business!
So last back in time a few days, when I was in Dublin. I went with Vini (my friend from Brazil) to the Cliffs of Moher. The cliffs are located in the west coast of Ireland and offer a great view from the top of its 250 meters. Awesome!!
So we went to a walk on the cliffs. Unfortunately, we misunderstood the time that the bus driver arranged to meet us and we took a longer time in the walk. When we were coming back, following a narrow track just next tho the cliffs (scary!), we saw a helicopter with the colours of the emergency watching the cliffs so we concluded that something must happened!
We ran back to the bus and for our surprise we found everyone waiting for us there!! And to be worst, they had sent the helicopter to try to find us!! Hahahahaha ohh my god!! We entered the bus with our heads down trying not to laugh about the shit that we had just made!

In Dublin, I met some brazilians in the Tesco and they invited us for a party. They said that their Irish neighbour was going to make a party in their apartment and it would be nice if we just pop in.
So we did it. We met a lot of nice people there! And we had a great night. In the end, we invited one busker that was performing just in front of their house to play for us inside the party!
But do you think that this ended up well?? Haha of course not! The guy started to sip some cachaça (Brazilian spirit). I'm saying some to not say too many! Hahaha At the end, he was so drunk that we had to put him out of the flat and we discovered that he slept on the streets and broke his guitar! Ohh shit again! Hahaha

So after this crazy days, I came back to Bristol. But it isn't the same now. What made it like that was that I had there a big group of crazy friends and this time I was missing them there.
I met Mohamed for a couple of drinks but my stomach was killing me, and I had to come back home.
It was strange to leave Bristol, but on the other hand, I wanted to move on. I have a long journey in front of me, and stating there even for a couple of days more, would make me live in the memories of those amazing moments that we had there.

So here I'm now in London for my goodbye to England (or better, just a see you soon?). I'm taking my flight tomorrow at 9 pm and I'll arrive in Brazil around 6 am! So Brazil, wait for me! I'm looking forward to see my brother, my parents and my friends. I really miss them!

Tonight is pub crawl night! I'll enjoy this night as if it was the last (but actually it is the last)!
So let's party hard! Haha
Cheers!