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My time rolls on. Since I have been moved to Brazil I felt that I had to take the time to learn the city of Salvador. That being my first order of business, I went about it and feel I have accomplished it. With Christmas approaching, it is getting hot. Summer is peaking and it will soon come to full force. I now think about how I have not been through a Salvador summer since before I moved to America more then eighteen years ago. Since the summer in America is winter here, and that is the only time I had the chance to come and visit, I missed out on the experience. I feel prepared for it and cant wait. Carnival is coming soon as well, and it is a huge street party here in Salvador and many say a whole lot better then in Rio, there it is more of a parade. In Salvador it is millions of people hitting the streets for a few days and getting crazy.

Before Carnival their is a more of a religious festival called Lavagem do Bonfim (Washing of Bonfim church) Second Thursday in January. A Candomblé festival culminating in the ritual cleansing of Bonfim church in Salvador, Bahia. This year it falls on the 14th of January, I had not heard much about this festival but from what I am told that people walk from a point to a Bonfim Church for the cleansing ritual. But afterwords there is also a great party that takes place and I am told it is a fun as Carnival. Candomblé is a religion with its origins in Catholicism and old traditional African religions, so it should be great. I am looking very foreword to it because it should be a great opportunity to take great photos.

(Picture of the Bonfin Festival. Link to Photo http://media.photobucket.com/image/Salvador%20Brazil%20January%2014th%20Lavagem%20do%20Bonfim/cacau18/lavagem.jpg)

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I had surgery a bit ago, and can finally say that i am recovering well, the problem was not the pain of anything, what occurred was I came down with Anemia. So my skin and eyes turned yellow. So I had to fight that for some time.  The only thing that sticks in cause of the scars on the arm and chest I am not able to go to the beach for some time, well I am to avoid the sun. I feel a bit cheated at this cause I had started to really understand surfing and how to do it, I got a second hand surfboard and everything. The only good thing about the surgery is it gives one time without the burden of pressure to be productive, I can sit here and just read, and write, and draw, think.

I did some good thinking, one of the things I kept coming came back to is loss, and how much lost a person goes through to get to the place where they are now. I have lost plenty, friends, loved ones, ideas, and countless others things that I have yet to realize I have lost. I know that I still have yet to loose, but I think that is fine cause to me how you deal with the loose is the measure of what kind of person you are. Of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most. I think about the one that got away and how I lost her. I looked for perfection and in your eyes I found better, but I could not hold on to it.

I share the books that I feel need to read by everyone, and had a chance to do so while stuck in bed, some where rereads, others first time here the list.

The Road – Cormac McCarthy

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Beautiful Loser – Leanord Cohan

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Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson

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Ender’s Saga – Orson Scott Card

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World War Z An Oral History of the Zombie War – Max Brooks

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After sometime of not seeing my mom she arrives here in Brazil on Thursday, I am very excited. I have been cleaning my house like crazy, you know all the stuff you do before a parent arrives.

This weekend I am going to a friends farm. Well he is the boyfriend of my cousin Lua. Maderson is his name his father owns a farm and it is a holiday this weekend, on Sunday the holiday is called Children’s Day and on Monday it is another holiday so everyone also has off. I think that it will be a very a good time and a great opportunity to tour the outskirts of Salvador. That is something that I have been dying to do. I do not own a car and have not many ways to explore the state of Bahia so I jump at the chance too.

My writing has been chugging along and I can say I am some what happy with my progress. I hope to be done with this book within the year, or at least the last day of the year. If I can get accomplish the completion of this novel it will be great. I accidentally ran into an idea of another book the other day, which is good too.

I am going to take many pictures at the farm this weekend so it will be great. I will post them when I get back.

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Nossa própria felicidade é inexplicavelmente ligado na felicidade dos outros.

Todo mundo muda muito todos os dias, nunca estamos completamente cientes das mudanças que estamos submetidos, mesmo com o mais pequeno golpe de tempo. O mundo continua, e continua fazendo o seu trabalho. Para mim, a sua muito surpreendente para um e eu sou grato por isso, ele mostra theperseverance de pessoas, e os coloque entre outros. Os mundos estado constante de mudança é milagre que me dá o querer eo desejo de se levantar a cada dia.
Eu amei Brasil até agora e ter obtido nada, mas ajuda e aceitação da família e dos que me cercam. Seus parece ser uma compreensão e paciência comigo que eu estimo e amor, e não posso estar de agradecer a todos. Uma das melhores coisas que se deslocam para o Brasil me deu é a ligação com a família. Somos moldados por aqueles que nos rodeiam, o tempo bom ou ruim, apenas é, e eu quero besurrounded por aqueles que me sinto mais confortável ao redor.
Salvador é um lugar que eu encontrar apenas o meu ritmo, que é dizer que eu nunca me senti completamente movido ao ritmo América entrou, a América não é mais rápido ou mais devagar, porque a verdade é que não importa onde você é uma pessoa escolhe a velocidade que você definir sobre sua vida. Eu quero dizer uma descontraída pensamento vai fácil esmagadora é algo que tem me dado plataforma aeasily adotáveis mais facilmente ajustar a minha jogada.

Eu não gosto de pensar que eu sou diferente de ninguém, mas me parece ser uma pessoa que é protegida e um introvertido. Estou na minha cabeça muito. Eu gosto de pensar e da quantidade de coisas para pensar quando um se move, como eu fiz e tem de aprender a língua e se conectar com a família, e fazer amigos e encontrar um trabalho que realmente encheu minha cabeça, e trouxe um sorriso para enfrentar a cada minuto que eu estar aqui tão longe. Quanto mais, melhor para mim, eu gosto do desafio da forma como eu vejo, mais guardada do que é mais difícil. Mas eu tive um monte de ajuda, que é grande e bem-vindos.

“Se em nossa vida diária, pode sorrir, se pudermos estar em paz e feliz, não só nós, mas todo mundo vai lucrar com isso.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“Seu corpo é precioso. É o nosso veículo para o despertar. Tratá-lo com cuidado.” ~ Buda

“Não importa o quanto você pode pensar que você é, você deve encontrar tempo para a leitura, ou render-se à auto-escolhido ignorância.” ~ Confúcio

“Aprenda como se você nunca seria capaz de dominá-lo, segure-o como se você estaria com medo de perdê-lo” ~ Confúcio

<End Note: I wanted to give a shoot in writing my first entry in Portuguese, it seemed like a great way to practice my writing, you can keep scrolling if you want to read in English.>

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<Our own happiness is inexplicably bound in the happiness of others.

Everyone changes so much every day, we are never quite aware of the changes that we undergo even with the littlest stroke of time. The world goes on, and keeps doing its thing. To me it’s a very amazing and I for one am grateful for it, it shows the perseverance of people, and ones place among others. The world’s constant state of change is miracle that gives me the want and desire to get up each day.

I have loved Brazil so far and have gotten nothing but help and acceptance from family and those around me. Their seems to be an understanding and patience with me that I cherish and love, and cant being to thank everyone for. One of the best things that moving back to Brazil have given me is the connecting with family. We are shaped by those around us, weather good or bad, it just is and I want to be surrounded by those that I am most comfortable around.

Salvador is a place that I find just my pace, that is to say I never quite felt I moved at the pace America went in, America is not faster or slower because the truth is no matter where you are a person chooses the speed you set your life on. I mean a laid back easy going overwhelming thought is something that has given me an easily adoptable platform to more easily adjust to my move.

I don’t like to think I am different than anyone but I seem to be a person a who is sheltered and an introvert. I am in my head a lot. I like to think and the amount of things to think about when one moves such as I did and has to learn the language and connect with family, and make friends, and find a job has really filled up my head, and has brought a smile to face every minute I have been here so far. The more the better for me, I like the challenge the way I see, the more stacked the harder it is. But I have had a whole lot of help which is great and welcome.

“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

“Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.” ~Buddha

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” ~Confucius

“Learn as though you would never be able to master it; Hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it” ~Confucius>

Etiquette is a code of behavior for social interaction. It is usually developed through years of interaction and formality a way to treat people well without going out of the way of insulting them. Etiquette is something adaptive to culture and location it forms independently, from house to house, situation to situation, state to state and country to country. Business Etiquette seems to be much more of a universal entity throughout the world but social etiquette is something that can be different from place to place, something you thought was OK may not be. I am not saying we must fallow these things such as laws cause if we do a people can become prisoners to their systems and unadaptive to change, and without change and growth comes death. I mention this cause I had and interesting experience that made me think about an aspect of my move to Brasil (Brazil: for those who will say I spelled it wrong.) and that is the etiquette rules here. My Portuguese lesson was wrapping up and I let my teacher open the door to my apartment, she told me that when you let a guest open the door it means you don’t want to come back, I found this interesting and it right away started to get me thinking, cause the opposite is what I am used too, when you  “show someone the door” it means you want them to leave, but if you let them open it to leave it means that you let them decide when to part from you place cause you have enjoyed their company, I honestly think the American way makes a bit more sense to me cause “showing someone the door” is just saying get out we are done here, but if I am insulting here it is good to know and easy to do. This got me to ask Cristiana my teacher to tell me some more practical etiquette rules that one would find insulting if I mistakenly carry out.

I have gotten into a good grove here I have been running (on a treadmill) and have started my P90X routine over again. I have not found a place to go and do Yoga but have been doing it at home. Also have not yet joined a gym which is something that I would like to do so I can cover some weight work that P90X does not do, only cause I use bands for the P90x routine due to that I do not have enough room for free weights or desire to spend the crazy amount of money a good free weight set costs with no practical place to put it. But with a gym I can use free weights and much more, hopefully like a sauna. I want to add if you have not tried P90X, I recommend trying it, this will be my third time doing the three month program and I have to say it works very well and does transform the body it did wonder for me.

My grandmother does not keep a whole lot of plants in the house, she stays here for six months of the year and travels to Spain for the rest of the year. Because of this she is not able to properly take care of plants. I myself enjoy plants and greenery around the place especially during my morning meditation. I bought some very nice plants for the place, and something that is cool here in Brasil the temperature and climate is perfect for Orchids and I have gotten three blossomed Orchids and six that are very young. Four of which should be blossoming here within six months and every six months on. The other two I was told that it will not start blossoming or flowering for three years so that is a long term commitment. I saw the flowers for the six plants I choose and they are amazing so I cant wait. I will take some pictures and post them on flickr to share. I got a bed as well, which is something that I was quite excited about. The bed is a whole lot bigger then the one that was in my room, and I actually fit on it. The other one was to short and my feet hung down which did not allow me to get good sleep at all. But I am now floating on clouds with a this new bed which is soft and called American style simply because it has a box spring, the size is a full, fits two people nicely, now I need a girlfriend. Everything else is going great and I am having fun, their is still a few things that I need to came this apartment a bit more homely for me. My grandmother keeps it sort of like a museum with a whole lot of things on the tables, such as highly decorated boxes and bowls which is cool and all but take up lots of space and serves no direct purpose and that is my only problem with it, one thing that I do like is the paintings their is a whole lot of original large paintings on the walls, which I like a lot, I am going to move one to put in a flat screen television but I am going to hang up else where. I am bit reluctant to move it cause I do enjoy the works. Original art is something that should be admired and I do, that is all but the painted bowls and boxes they take up practical space.

Little by little all things get done, it is what I practice and believe. Over time everything will come together, and hopefully everyone will stop trying to get me a job, my whole family have came out with stuff I can do for work some with my degree others not. I feel I need to do some learning and just being a little here before I am ready to work and what I want to do is teach English, but I also feel that dismissing offers  is shutting doors and I hate to do that. So I will keep my eyes and ears opened and if I get offered something that seems really interesting I will hear it out. That is if I cant get my English lessons going.

Final note: The Graffiti here is amazing, true art and pure talent. I have not taken many photographs lately, but not because lack of desire. I am told that carrying a nice camera like that by myself is not a good idea so I cant walk and shoot like I like to, but once I figure a way around it I will be taking lots of photos. Salvador itself is beautiful, the beaches are amazing, the people are pretty (I think that most women here are beautiful), so their a whole lot of subjects not including the stellar graffiti.

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I had a great weekend, with a lot going on. I have a very busy next few days. I also have one hundred 9mm bullets for my gun, and so when the indoor range opens today I am going to go down there and do some shooting. I really enjoy it is, very fun.

I was thinking about some truism that I believe. The thing I have found about life is how often belief changes from day to day. Well only if you are a smart critically thinking person, we have all spoken to those people who are willing to budge on something no matter how much proof given. But for the rest of us their are some things that we learn going through our days. Some of mine are.

Every passing face on the street represents a story every bit as compelling and complicated as yours.

Anger reveals weakness of character, violence even moreso.

When people are uncomfortable with the present moment, they fidget with their hands or their minds.  Watch and see.

You never have to deal with more than one moment at a time.

Those who complain the most, accomplish the least

Putting something off makes it instantly harder and scarier.

The most common addiction in the world is the draw of comfort.  It wrecks dreams and breaks people.

Always tell people what you think of them, and never expect the answer what you want to hear from them back.

If what you’re doing feels perfectly safe, there is probably a better course of action.

Blame is the favorite pastime of those who dislike responsibility.

Everyone you meet is better than you at something.

Proof is nothing but a collection of opinions that match one’s own.

Whoever you are, you will die.  To know and understand that means you are alive. To many have a problem with this

The ability to be happy is nothing other than the ability to come to terms with how things change.

You must love yourself before you can love another, and to allow anyone else love you.

A true friend is someone who cares that you are happy, not what you have or what you can do for them.

You cant wait for something to happen, you must make it happen.

The first step is to start.

Stepping away from a problem to get a fresh perspective sometimes does great wonders.

To get a solution at times you may have solve things that don’t deal with the problem directly.

Don’t lie to yourself, it is not worth it.

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Hello to you all on a wonderful Sunday morning. The weather is nice here with a nice 79°F and sunny. Not much going on for me today, their is a few soccer games going on that I would like to watch so that should be good. But it will be a nice at home day.

But I was watching Food Network, yesterday and saw this women, who I think is amazing, she is very hot. Her name is Claire Robinson, she is the the host of 5 Ingredient Fix.

Here is a picture of her, looking awesome. She is a good host, on her she uses five ingredients to make all her dishes and her food looks good as well. I just have a problem with her limiting herself to five ingredients, but she seems to work it well.

But speaking on her hotness she to me looks amazing the perfect women in my eyes when it comes to look and from the little one can see of her personality on television seems cool, but she has nice eyes, long brown/ black hair, great cheeks, and smile. But at last she lives in New York and is married, but one can still ogle.

Claire Robinson Food Network profile.

5 Ingredient Fix.

This upcoming week is my last week in America, I have just a few things to wrap up. I just hope that my exercise schedule is not interrupted.

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Hello, I have to say the week has been going well, getting a lot of things done. I am trying to get my personal trainer certification, the classes are quite easy. I have been reading a lot about training and learning about the body so that has made it a whole lot easier, I hope that everything goes good, and I should have it all finished by the time i leave for Brazil.

I got some links to share.

The first is an article about priming, it is an amazing human quality, that seems like something that can be taken advantage off to use people. Well that is if you don’t know what to look for.

http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/priming.htm

These are a few more interesting articles from the same website that I really like, the site is changingminds.org. I really love the studies that have been done on human nature and how to influence minds and trying to control people. That is one of the reason I read up on things like advertising and the techniques used to try to sell stuff, but also I have to admit if you can understand these principles you are able to try them out, and block them from being used on yourself. But I do have to admit it may discourage you at how it can work, it makes me feel dirty and very manipulative to see it working, but I try it just for experiment, but be sure to explain it to those you try it on if they are your friends so you can teach them something. I have had people feel bad and and some get angry, and I can really understand it, but the way I explain it we all do some form of manipulation by the way we act or phrase our statements, at all times we try to manipulate other to get what we want. It is really interesting to see how many techniques are really out there. One of the biggest fields and the grossest to me is the male dating game. Their are all kinds of programs to try to teach men how to mind fuck a women into fucking them, that’s sick. But you know I have never done any research to see if their are such programs for women, that’s is something I will look into see if women try to manipulate men the same way. I have to say women seem to do it more visually as in appearance rather then mentally as men like to go about it. It makes sense, I mean most women do think that men are stupid just visual creatures, which I don’t think they are wrong, I don’t even exclude myself in this, cause at bars conversations and time to get to know someone is not presented their. So if you wanna know a little bit more about psychology mind studies read these articles, they are pretty intriguing.

Articles:

Forced Compliance

Information Manipulation Theory

Reciprocity Norm

Scarcity Principle

Sleeper Effect

Yale Attitude Change Approach

Last Sunday Katie and I spent most of the day in bed watching videos on the Internet, just some stuff she and I had collected and had not watched yet, so we spent a good day just laying and watching. It is a great way to spend the day.

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So first of all I want to talk about some shortwave radio stuff, last Thursday the 16Th of July I was doing some exploring on the shortwave band and found some new stations I wanted to share. My location is Louisville Kentucky 38 degrees 15′37″N  85 degrees 26′53″W elev 214m  at 12:40p.m. on frequency 15398MHZ I picked up a French speaking talk station I could not understand much of but I know it was France cause I could pick up the Station identification every once in a while, at 12:46p.m. on frequency 11549 I received a Spanish speaking station broadcasting from Costa Rica, I can speak Spanish pretty well so I was able to listen to it for some time I liked it and am gonna see if I can get again. Then finally I got good old Voice of America at 9881 at 1:12p.m. I was pretty happy at what I found just searching the shortwave band cause it was the middle of the day and usually night is the time for scanning. I want to talk a little about shortwave radio, I don’t many people my age that like to listen to as much radio I do, and even less that like shortwave, but thanks to the Internet I have met many people all over the world that like the hobby. I am not gonna go into what shortwave is and what frequencies it includes and information on it cause their are so many websites that do such a good job, better then i could do here. Radio is fun to me, waves in the air that if you have the right equipment you can pick up sounds from all over the world.

On Friday I got up before the sun rose, I went to the park to get some photos of the lake, it had rained the night before and I was hoping to capture some fog raising from the lake, the picture came out OK, I posted one on my flickr account. Then I left the park and went to the grocery store. But what made my day was I went to a indoor gun range to practice my marksmanship. I own a Smith & Wesson SW9VE. It is a nice gun a 9mm and I like to practice with it. But while I was at the range it was me and two pretty older ladies shooting. I was shocked at the company at the range I mean to pretty ladies shooting I have to say I find hot.

On Saturday I took a class from the American Red Cross, to get my CPR/AED, and First Aid certificate. After the six hour class and taking and passing the test, I got certified. The reason I have for doing this is, I would like to get my personal trainer certificate. So now with my certificates from the Red Cross it will be a whole lot easier to become a personal trainer. I don’t have much time before I move to Brazil so I have to finish this up quickly.

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More time spent preparing for my move. today was spent mostly taking copies of my records. Goodness we have so many papers that are attached to our names, medical records, papers that say we completed certain things like high school, college, birth certificate, social security, and all the other stuff that makes one a registered human being. Also today the first wave of auctions I had up eBay ended. I was surprised at how much I made. I surely was lucky that  people wanted that stuff well mostly old video games. I am about to start a second round of auctions which include most of my musical equipment, and some records, and toys I have from childhood. I hope that this stuff sells well too. I have now organized all my things to less then about fifty items, that is not including clothe, and shoes.  It kinda feels freeing to have so little, I feel like I have nothing holding me to a location.

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