The one negative I can say is that I still don't know enough Portuguese yet. I have been trying to study in Europe despite how hard it was to learn multiple languages at the same time. I know that with time it will come to me as long as I keep it up. The challenge is really in hearing the spoken language for me. There are many ways to say even the simplest of things and many more ways people can inflect their speech. If people speak slowly and enunciate I can usually do pretty well. If they talk fast, are excited, mumble, slur, use slang, speak quietly, talk over each other, or if there is too much extraneous noise...I am lost. I keep telling myself it will take time.
Patrícia starts her new job as Corporate Manager of Human Resources at Politec (very big IT company)tomorrow and will unfortunately be working a lot. It is a great job and I am very proud of her. She is very intelligent, professional, and sexy too. With that combination she can go far. Her working so much means that I will have plenty of time to study the language during the day. And hopefully catch up on blogging. We will see how well I do.
For some reason I always get about a half dozen mosquito bites right at first when I arrive here and then rarely after that. I don't know if it changes because I start eating the Brasilian diet or I develop an immunity and don't react as much. I don't care as long as I stop itching. Luckily this is not a malarial area.
