my lasts

i leave tomorrow. wow.

as with any part of your life that was once fiercely embedded in a routine or driven towards a singular purpose, when you approach the end, you start having your lasts...it´s a weird feeling to think that it may be your last time going to a certain place or eating a certain food or just doing a certain thing that you´ve done every day for the past (insert amount of time here). today is my last day of work, my last day of waking up in my small, sunlit room already bright with the light of the day at 6am. today i rode the "little bus," as i call it (ha ha) to work and watched the city pass me by for the last time before i leave. i just came back from my last lunch in comércio, which was a huge group affair with almost my entire office and delicious, traditional brazilian churrasco. lots of lasts today and only more to come.

it´s hard to wrap my mind around still, but i´m getting there, i think. i said a lot of goodbyes last night over drinks, homemade pão de queijo, and a mixture of reggae, brazilian pop, and electronica music. it was hard, yes - with the goodbyes, though, i´m not going to view these as lasts. as many good friends have told me, the world is smaller than you think, and there´s definitely a difference between a last and a goodbye. yeeeesssss :)

but in the midst of these lasts, i have found a first to add to the list. since it seems that one function of this blog was to keep people at home updated on my life and adventures here (not sure if it fulfilled that or not, sorry if not), when i return, this blog (for people that are reading from atlanta anyway) loses that purpose a little bit. but in the spirit of viewing nomading as having the world as your home, i figured this blog could still fulfill that purpose, just not necessarily for the same audience as before. so that´s why, with the help of some good friends here in salvador, this blog will from now on (hopefully) have a little section in portuguese to help keep some of my friends here updated for while i´m in my other home, atlanta :) this will have to start out slowly, of course, and will have lots of mistakes, but i´m hoping that in time it will grow, improve, and serve the purpose that this blog was always meant to serve, just with a further reach.

se você está lendo este parte, primeiro, desculpe por a gramática. Como eu disse acima (em inglês), eu quero que vocês podem leer isso para manter contato comigo, como meu familia e amigos nos estados unidos e outros lugares fazeram enquanto eu era no brasil. vou tentar para escrever em português mais e mais em este blog, e eu espero que 1. vocês possam entender-lo 2. vocês me ajude com gramática, escrevendo, etc. eu quero melhorar, especialmente porque eu não posso falar com vocês todo dia agora. vocês me avisem como estou fazendo, por favor :)

também, eu quero que vocês saibam que eu tinha 3 incrivel meses no salvador, e obrigada por tudo :) todo mundo é bem-vindo na atlanta (ou qualquer lugar nos estados unidos) qualquer tempo...só me liguem! meu país é seu país :)

é dificil para imaginar que talvez muito tempo vai passar antes de ver-nos de novo! estou triste quando eu penso sobre isso, mas emocionada também que consigo ver minha famila e amigos na atlanta. muitos sentimentos conflitantes. mas obrigada por tudo de novo, e não posso esperar até nos encontramos de novo :D

mantenha contacto! beijos :)