"The First Post"

Hello everyone! It has been a while since I've first wanted to create this blog. At the beginning, I thought that the main reason why I haven't created it yet, was because I was short in time! However, there is plenty of time! In fact, I'm short in organization. Organization to do everything I want and everything I need (in reverse priority). But besides lack of organization, I found out that I needed to break the inertia of the first post, and to do so, I discovered that this would require a certain dose of criativity and of the so desired, originality. I think the next posts will come out easier, but since the first one is more like an introduction, I really believe it's kinda harder to elaborate it!

Still about the creation of the blog: I have the goal to write each post both in english and in portuguse. The reasons for this are several. The first one and most obvious it's because I have friends in Brazil as well as in the USA and I want to make this blog accessible to all of them. The second reason it's that doing this way I'd be improving my english as well as my portuguese(!). I'll explain this better. Let's start with improving my portuguese. Yes, the portuguese is my mother tongue and living in the USA for more than two years now, I'm feeling like my portuguese it's not the same as it used to be. Frequently, at home, Dan – my husband – and I don't use only the portuguese to speak between us. While most of the words are in portuguese, indeed, the rest – not that few – are in english. IE, a big mix that it's not good, surely. Regarding my written portuguese, it's been a long time since I've noticed that it deteriorated a lot since I've finished High School and started doing college (civil engineering). But still in college I wrote a little and elaborated my thought in words another little. Now that I don't study anymore you can imagine my current ability to write an essay, for example. (ops!)

Now regarding my english. It's obvios that simply by writing in english it would result in a improvement in this language. But my goal it's a little bit more specific than that. Writing in good portuguese, I can write in good english too – I hope – and doing this, improve my vocabulary. Because I know that I can make myself understood here, but I end up using the same vocabulary since it has been enough for me. The thing is, that many times while I'm speaking to someone, they end up completing my sentences for me. This is very convenient and I kinda got used to it, but, let's agree with it, this is not the ideal! In sum, my main goal regarding my english is to grow in vocabulary.

About the subjects I intend to write about, I think all of them are liable to be found here in this blog. I think I'd like to write about everything that is worth it. Some of these subjects I already know that they'll be present here like things about my baby Rebecca, food (love it!), married life, the life of someone living in a foreign country, spirituality or simply good ideas that I consider being worth the share. However, don't be surprised if one of the post is about a completely different subject than the ones I just mentioned. I don't want to refrain myself to write anything I want simply because it didn't fit in the original mold of the blog. So there is no original form for it.

There is still one more thing I'd like to say about this blog. In true, it's about a fear I have. I have the certain impression that the people that maintain a blog end up living for it. This is something I always suspected and that only got stronger after I saw the movie “Julie and Julia”. (movie that I recommend specially for those who love food!) But back to my point. Yes. I have the fear to start living for the blog. And I say this literately! I can imagine myself in the situations I live already thinking about the post it could come out of this. Or think too much about the people that will read this blog more than what I really want to write (because this would be vanity, I believe). However, in the end, I still don't have a tactic to don't let this happen to me but the awareness of this possible evil it's already a good thing, I think.

So this was my first post. I think it's a little too long. But making short texts was never one of my qualities/abilities. So I think I'll have to deal with my famous gigantic texts!

And that's it! (My famous farewell phrase!)

The End.