Right, I haven't posted for ages because I've been busy with a new relationship and being all lovey-dovey and all that boring romantic stuff that gets in the way of writing blogs.
I have done a few things that warrant blogging, but they're ages ago now and I like to write about things when they're fresh in my mind, so I'll file them away for another time. Probably worth blogging on Parada Gay, though.
I'm very happy and settled. I've moved in with my girlfriend to Gayville, SP. It's like Clapham Common without all the green stuff. My Portuguese is coming along slowly. According to my girlfriend (Brazilian, also an English teacher) I'm a Basic 2. This means I make horrific mistakes when I speak but I can communicate and make myself understood. I understand most things said to me.
I have been slacking off, so I'm trying to start a '1 hour a day minimum' for speaking Portuguese with my girlfriend and I've got a book that I intend to start studying soon to help with the grammar and vocabulary, etc. I watch some Brazilian TV programmes (I still don't get and can't stand Brazilian soaps) and if there's a film on that I've seen before, I watch it in Portuguese with Portuguese subtitles incase I miss something. I watched the whole of Pan's Labyrinth that way and I understood everything.
Business is a bit slow because of the school holidays, but it's starting to pick up. I need to push for more private students so I can save for the next holiday period in December/January/February which will be completely dead.
Anyhoo, normal service shall resume in the next few days. Future posts will probably lean more on the observational side because I'm not a tourist anymore and I'm now more ensconced in Brazilian culture than I was before.
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