The unfamiliar is not to be feared. Only once it is embraced can the unfamiliar become familiar and fear become understanding.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

too much but not enough

i always intended to keep up with this blog even after my return to the u.s. here's the problem though...i just haven't felt quite as inspired. it's not that nothing happens in my day - actually, a lot happens. i'm busy all day, sometimes on campus until almost 7pm doing who knows what, then return home and still don't have a minute to sit down and just veg with a good book...what do i do all day? really, my days aren't so different than those in brazil, it's just that i'm here now and not there. so why am i not inspired? i felt like i reconnected with my inner writer in brazil, a passion forgotten since my high school years...and i loved it :) here, tech is taking my creativity again, ha ha ha ha...well, probably not, just my time, and that's valid i guess. i think the real reason i'm not inspired to write here is that, well, no matter what happens, it all fits in to how i think that things happen. i'm back in the middle of my comfort zone, and though i've been trying to push myself out of it a little here, it's more difficult than it was in brazil considering that this whole place, basically, IS my comfort zone and that the whole place there, basically, wasn't.

along the way, though, i think some of it became a part of my comfort zone, and not having some of its aspects here doesn't make me feel uncomfortable, exactly, just saudade (as they say in portuguese)...saudade is nostalgia (according to google translator), but really just the noun form of missing something. well, maybe that's nostalgia, ha ha :) i don't know, i'm so comfortable here, but at the same time i miss the surprise and the challenge every day. i miss my friends too, and it's incredible that we became as close as we did in such a short time. there are lots of things i don't miss, exactly, but lots of things that i do, and some things that i've tried to bring back here :)

tomorrow i get the opportunity to stand up and talk about my traineeship in front of a group of people that are trying to decide if they want to join aiesec. there's so much to say and so many things that don't have words, so i'm not sure what i'm going to say, exactly. at the same time, though, if i can get across to one person the impact that my experience in brazil has had on my life, then i've done my job. hopefully tomorrow, i'll go above and beyond :)

eu sempre intentava para manter este blog depois de voltar nos estados unidos. mas quando eu tento escrever, as vezes, eu não posso encontrar a inspiração...por que? não é porque nada ocurre durante meu dia - na verdade, muitas coisas acontecem. em geral, estou ocupada...fico na faculdade até 19:00 horas as vezes então chego em casa e faço mais coisas sem tempo para relaxar e leer um livro...o que eu faço dia em todo? em realidade, meus dias aquí não têm muitas diferenças com meus dias no brasil. então, por que não estou inspirada? no brasil, eu senti como eu reconectei com minha paixão para escrita, algo eu deixei nos anos do colégio. eu a adorei :) e eu acho que não estou inspirada aquí porque coisas acontecem na manera que eu espere. agora estou confortavel, e ainda que eu tento para encontrar coisas diferentes aquí com quais não estou confortavel, é mais dificil porque no brasil, tudo era assim.

mas agora, eu sinto como algums aspetos da cultura no brasil são um parte de minha zona de conforto. eu não sinto desconfortável sem eles aquí, mas eu sinto saudade para os desafios e aventuras todo dia. eu tenho muita saudade para meus amigos também, gente com quem eu ficava perto depois de só um pouco tempo. não sinto saudade para tudo lá, mas sinto para muitas coisas e tentei para trazer algumas coisas aquí de lá :)

amanha eu vou fazer uma presentação sobre meu traineeship enfrente de gente que está interesado em AIESEC. eu tenho muitas coisas para dizer e também muitas coisas que não têm palavras para describir-las. pois, eu não sei o que vou dizer, exatamente, ha ha :) mas se eu posso divulgar para uma pessoa o impacto que meu traineeship tivesse em minha vida, então eu tenho sucesso. eu espero que eu vou acima e além disso :D

1 Comments:

Blogger Irene said...

I cannot express how utterly similar my thoughts and feelings are to those described in this post. I posted only 1nce since getting back... and don't feel inclined to post any time soon. Btw, the lacking thing? Falta, in Spanish. Hehe.

:)

August 27, 2008 at 8:18 PM

 

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