Making it up as I go
So I've been absent from the blog for a little while, and while this is obviously a post, I'm not sure I'd consider it a "real" post. It's more of a "I promise I'm not dead" kinda deal. For starters, for most of the time since my last post, I was not doing anything that made for any spectacular reflections or photos. I was on my own, mainly focused on my continuing Portuguese lessons. Obviously very important stuff for me, but also pretty boring blog fodder, so I've spared you. Now I've hit a different stage, and I promise I'll get to the pictures and more exciting stuff I'm sure you want to hear about (moving out to Pedregal, going to Rio de Janeiro for Carnaval, and starting the school year) but these things are largely in process, so I don't feel at the moment there is time to adequately do them justice. I think of this stage, these things, as part of the Making inherent to my time here. So, I'm well aware that ...