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Just a need to write

2007-09-09T22:17:00.000+01:00

And we think our life is hard.... He found the peace to pray and in the meantime the others don't have a roof.
West bank - Luxor - Egypt
July 2007

It has been a long time since my last post and I really don't know why.

Maybe getting to lazy for it.

Wow what a great summer enjoying the family and new and different places.

We discovered the ancient Egypt with all of its beauties, we walked every possible inch, we felt how the people are and survive, either with the poverty and in between all of the difference between rich and poor. I heard the muslims calling for prayers early in the morning and during the day and at night. I couldn't discover what they say.
The food was fantastic the shisha as well. All those thumbs, pyramids, temples, museums...Everything is around it.
I saw the legendary Nile wow how incredible it is everything green, fertile, for about 2 or 3 km from it then the contrast with the desert....So dry and so beautiful, quiet....

We also walked from Oporto (Portugal) to Santiago de Compostela (Spain) no words...... Second time I do this pilgramage and this time with them the masters...(my parents).
So amazing to expend days and share everything with them, the possibility to return what they've done for me all of this years. There were days that we really connected with nature and with each other, we became part of it.
We met good friends had good food and another amazing experience. Fantastic 15 days.

Them to finish one more week in Barcelona aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. so good to return there. Sun, friends parties, the BEACH, food everything perfect, maybe one day I will move there. It is fantastic to be walking and people smile to you and when you ask explain things properly pull you or stop what are doing to help, simply to help.

Now back to work and returning to normal life....It is so good to dream....

Maybe one day I will have the courage to break the cord and fly free...

I wish....

In lak'ech

Gabriel

Near holidays!!!

2007-06-28T17:16:00.000+01:00

Too busy this time....and happy, many changes hapening and new challenges and adventures to come.

Trying to do a big step and if hapens I will probably fly....

Life is so good....

In Lak'ech

Gabriel

Plenitude

2007-04-30T22:19:00.000+01:00

An abundance / the condition of being full or complete.

Today on my 26th birthday is how I am feeling, it is full moon and I spent some time with my loved ones and now enjoying myself.

Last Saturday my sister asked me "what do you want for your birthday?" I started thinking, what do I need?

I answered " Thanks but I have everything."

We do not need much we just need to be balanced with ourselves and in harmony with nature and others.

Things happens and are given to us on the time we are ready to receive them.

It is so good to wake up in the morning listen to the birds the sun coming thru the window....Smiling looking to our sllepy face in the mirror be happy for what you are and what you do.

I grew loads last year, learnt a lot, I travelled as well and I loved too.

As I said on my last post when someone mentioned to me that I was like the wind.....

It is hard to say but looking into myself I feel things passing by without worrying much and when I notice them, they are gone... Memories, feelings, general stuff they just go...................................

Hard to explain, difficult to feel should I put the blind down and just live pretending everything is ok or should I stand up for myself and what I believe???

In Lak'ech
I am another yourself

Ahhhhhh London!!!

2007-04-02T00:33:00.000+01:00

Someone said that I am like the wind...

Wind whispers

Wind blows
Wind travels
Wind live

Wind wind wind wind wind...
wind wind wind wind...
wind wind wind ...
wind wind...
wind...

Long time....New thoughts...new things....

2007-02-24T18:20:00.000Z

Yeah, it is funny to say but what busy days I am in to much work and study...After a week of holiday first time snowboarding and seeing so many snow...
Yes, life, life, life....

If all the people from all nations start respecting each other, the planet, pkants everything, probably we will be living in a better world.

What paper we have here???? So many people living without an aim just being here, doing nothing, just breathing or destructing....

What is your part???? Where are you on the pyramid????? Constructing??? Destroying?????

What????

In Lak'ech

Gabriel

End of term / New year to come

2006-12-17T11:12:00.000Z

Wednesday will be my last day at work finally holidays!!!Coming back only on the 4th January isn't it good???
So many things happened this year, what a fantastic year.

Since the beggining from one of the best parties ever passing from nice trips and nice people that I met.
I visited Paris ( I met Vincent and Nathalie), Luxembourg, Brussels, Amsterdam (I visited Marie Jose after a year of the Camino), Tow in (Wales) 2 weeks Permaculture Design Course, Cardiff then my parents came and we travelled for a whole month and something extra, an amazing trip that will stay with us to the rest of ou lives again we met amazing people that probably we are going to meet again...

After some uncertainities I got my job again and wow I had a hard term but it was one of the best I think. I am following the right path on my life and slowly I am realizing how amazing is working on education especially with students with learning difficulties and disabilities.
I just finished my first part of my teacher trainning and trying to apply for a PGCE in Education maybe what will be a barrier to me is that i do not live in England for more then three years, so the law still say that I am an international student, I will try and do my best to get it let's see. Just for reference EU or home fee is a £1.000 and International Students is £8.000 it is a shame ah???

If not I will keep doing my teacher trainning and maybe in 2008 I can do my PGCE then....

I am really happy that the work is really showing results and in January I will start teaching once a week and it will be a really good experience.

A couple of weeks ago I sent a message for one of my old tutors from Uni telling him how the things were running in here and how life is.
I said that my life was going thru the path of education and that was already a year and a half doing this work and loving that either that my degree was in Communication.
I a really enjoyed his answer:

"Hi Gabriel
I got really happy with your actions.
I think that this is the real path, your style probably would lead you thru education...but not like an end...and really like a "border" or a frontier.
Lots of my professional life was to stay between the interfaces of the knowledge areas...what on one side give us the opportunity to know more another fileds of knowledge as people with different profiles...and for the eyes of the observers appears that you do not know what do you want...today, with the experience I have, i can tell you...It is very good to have the sensation of not to know something....Beacause it gives you the strenght to keep searching..."

So life is like it....

Just to mention another thing this year I met my love and between a lot of funny facts and coincidences we are having a good time....

In Lak'ech
biau

Confusion

2006-11-26T19:32:00.001Z

London is getting really cold and dark so early that when it is almost 6 in the afternoon I feel I want to go to bed.....
But with the change of the season came a couple of good things as well, it is amazing to see the sun risng in the morning and get that warmth and fill the whole body and soul with that, or the spectacle of leaves of different colours and shapes all flying around and dropping on the floor, walk in the park in this magic carpet....
Life is going well still missing some people and waiting some answers but I think I will solve some of this next week..

Good things are coming, new years eve in Barcelona, going to meet some friends and have some nice party. Maybe a PGCE (Post Grad for January) Maybe becoming a teacher who knows, how many surprises and how many things we feel and happens day by day that we get lost on our own toughts and sometimes we make traps inside our brain and gets so hard to let it go...

Thats it for today I do not want write anything else today.

So Inlak ech
Gabriel

Confusion

2006-11-26T19:32:00.000Z

Sorry, but still without internet at home!!!!!

2006-11-06T20:00:00.000Z

I am really trying to update it regularly because it still helps me with my writing and take the weight out of my back, special at this time that is happening thousands of things on my life.
Marketing CIM course
Teacher Trainning
Marketing plan for a institution
Brother at my flat
missing my girl
and a couple of doubts and things.....
Next time I come with some of the problems solved
Everbody has a time to stop and think,out on the paper what is most important and decide...or sometimes we need to have three deep breaths and throw ourselves into the world again...
Still in love and happy...
Life is amazing full of surprises...
bye

End of holidays!!!

2006-08-26T10:59:00.000+01:00

After a while I am coming back again from holidays and into reality...
What a hard thing after so many time of fun and party and knowledge and...and...
As I said my family is here and we were busy travelling together in a hwhole month we had been in almost 6 countries and visit a lot of different cities.
So, we had been in France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Spain and Morocco in this places we visited:
- Paris and Nice
- Berlin and Munich
- Bari, Bolgna, Ancona, Rome, Assissi
- Athens and the Island of Paros
- Barcelona, Madrid and Algeciras
- Assilah, Tanger and Sid Maghrit

Good or not???

We travelled by train some nights were good some not, some hostels were good some not.

After a while beeing alone it is hard to spend time with the family and share all the day by day activities, but the best thing is after a while and for the 1st time my parents went out of Brazil and discovered another world different form the one they are used to, and in it they discovered that the world is much bigger than our city.

Some advices please don't go to the Youth hostel in ROme is completely out of the center and hard to go, don't stay in the MArie de Clichy hostel in Paris is a mass...
But in the ohter hand walk every day in PAris by the Seine or get astonished with the sweet shops there or the amazing cheese and wine...Walk all day in Rome and get impressed with the huge amount of stuff that you can see there and a thousand of other stuff that I can write and say about this trip that was amazing...
But this I need to say for now German has the biggest amount o of beautifull girls per square meter that I have ever ssen in my life.

Take care and hello for all the new friends that I made on this journey and for the ones that I saw again...It was a pleasure for me and my family...

Yasu, Adios, Ciao, Tschuess, وقفه التاهب, 안녕, Aurrevoa (I don't know if its correct), Tchau!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS: As soon as I can I put some pictures......

Carnival Parents Friends Smiles and Fun!!!

2006-07-23T01:11:00.000+01:00

First of all I wanna say one thing:
- I am Brazilian but please don't come to talk with me about football or samba we are much more than this.
London London as I always say. I love this place and everything seems to be better and better!!!
After working so hard and on holidays now I am very happy that I can enjoy my free time doing what I want.......
I am very happy this days my parents just arrived and I am having a lot of fun with them, party, walk and walk and walk a lot of tourist things but it is good first time they flew and first time out of Brazil so this is really good.
Today we went to the Carnival in Angel is good to see your things from your country attracting so many people very far from where it is.
The mass was really huge and people were watching, dancing and enjoying it.
Another important thing is that my parents met one of my best friends here and they had such a nice fun.
I can say it was really good and I had an amazing afternoon.
Getting ready for my trip probably I will be writing here again only on September but here we are:
30 days of fun and relaxation.
I still have one more wish to come true so soon it will happen..
My dreams stile: Jumping on a parachute, ride more horses and sail fir some months without a route.
In lak'ech
Gabriel

It's Summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2006-06-22T16:17:00.000+01:00

Wow, it is crazy to say but finally the summer arrived and is getting really good here.
The difference between winter and summer is amazing. We can go out with shorts enjoy the weather and the sun the moody of the people, the streets, the birds, the trees everything become much better. Specially the girls, completely different from Brazil.
Like always I am in love with the summer and what it brings with...
London is amazing and I am glad I choose this place to live part of my life or maybe all of it.
Now life is going really good too much party sometimes, but we need them.
Meeting a lot of interesting people, seeing old friends (the special ones that every time we meet looks like we know each other from other times).
Some friends are leaving and new ones coming probably we are going to see each other soon in this big ball that is the world.
New contract for my job, one more year doing what I like and helping who needs. Just a bit of attention and that’s enough to save their day. The exchanges between both of us help the life running and understanding how crazy we are....
Planning summer holidays with my parents and my sister and on the end we are going to a Festival in Morocco this will be cool...
For now is this.
I just wanna say one more thing...
I read it these days and really get some impact on me.
When you point your finger to judge someone remember that there are three others pointing to you.
In lak'ech
Gabriel

No internet,no time!!!

2006-06-14T12:29:00.000+01:00

After 2 weeks on a Permaculture Design Course at Chickenshak (www.chickenshack.co.uk) I am still very busy but nice things happening so as soon as I have more time I return with some news.
Light and peace

Cardiff

2006-05-13T23:03:00.000+01:00

After a while I am back again. Not so many news just enjoying and being ready to do my course from next week www.chickeshack.co.uk .
Finally summer is coming and the weather is helping us to improve our day-by-day life, it is very good to wake up in the morning and just wear a T-shirt to go to work and see people smiling everywhere...
Today I've been to Cardiff and it was a nice trip, we arrive there and there was this FA Cup finals the city was completely full or I can say overcrowded it is a Capital but a small city as well on 4 hours is enough to walk all over the places.
There weren't to many Welsh’s on the streets maybe because of the match so I can't say anything about them but for a day is a nice place to go and have a walk.
One thing I should say how it is possible to exist so many beautiful girls at the same place like Europe???? Sometimes I want to get married 5 till 6 times per day...

25 years of what????

2006-05-01T13:39:00.000+01:00

It's very difficulty to write here every day but I still need to practice.
After 6 days I am back or halfback...
Yesterday was my birthday. I am very happy and glad because I had a blessed one. Partying since Friday and having a good time, nice friends together and meeting new friends, of course is different from the ones I used to do in Brazil in the farm with all friends together and family but life continue and it is impossible to do the same for all life...
Nag on Wednesday after 2 months nice party and scary at the same time...working sleepy on Thursday relax Friday Spanish party on Thames river in a boat (Paquito el chocolatero and a lot more) Saturday crazy day selling my art (www.inlakechbio.blogspot.com) all day and after starting my birthday party reggae music till 2 am and after the beloved Squat party this is a party that everything is possible and when I say everything is everything.... You can see since freaks till fairies all together in the same place...After a year I am still liking these parties and enjoying a lot. What we do there????? Dance dance dance dance dance dance dance dance dance dance and dance its enough???? No, because we dance dance dance dance dance dance dance dance dance dance dance dance dance. Than chill-out and dance dance dance dance dance.
One thing that I was thinking this days and the difference is very big is that here in England and Europe the culture of electronic music is giant and for example in Brazil the neo-hippies are the people that like reggae and some roots or typical music, different from here that the neo-hippies are the people that enjoy psychedelic trance what a big difference. A completely electronic thing. But can provide you the peace you want and travel in your mind with or without synthetic drugs. Where weed in Brazil is cheap the synthetics here are.
Another thing Europe is more than 1500 years in front of Brazil in terms of life and mind Brazil is now in the romantic era different from countries form the North and older that are more developed in terms not only culture but in mind as well the way people think here within the other is completely different because the mixture of races and culture are tremendous.
I don't know sometimes I think I am lost here but on the routine and life that I have plus the knowledge make me feel good and with the feeling to stay here for long...
Continuing with the dance... the party was really good and after all, lying down on the grass for a while under the Sun (when he comes is only celebration). Came home late Sunday afternoon and some sleep till today...
Now I say, 25 years of what???
Maybe the search of something or someone or somewhere
Maybe the search of myself
Maybe the fight to survive
Maybe the celebration of life day by day
Maybe to learn how to live and enjoy it
Maybe to find the great love....
Maybe, maybe, maybe
There are so much maybes but one thing I am sure.
Life is good and if be an adult is the life and the thoughts I am living and having now I want to be an adult forever.
God blesses and provides the better for all of us and in this short passage on earth give us the consciences to do the right.
Freedom and Knowledge
biau

Practicing writing

2006-04-25T21:46:00.000+01:00

Today one more busy busy day I am enjoying it as I was very bored before, just working...
Apllying for my new Permaculture Course preparing myself for the Master.
More travel more knowledge more people.....this is good...
Something good happened yesterday I was praying and as I was on it the words and the feelings were all flying and going away from my mind I was like guided by something or someone to send all that stuff out and make me feel really light and in peace...
I am very glad that day by day the things are running properly and I am happy with that.
I am always blessed with the opportunities and chance that are given for me and the choices I am making, sometimes we need to leave some nice things to run to others.
Someday maybe in return we receive it back.
I came home today with the feeling of listen Ponto de Equilibrio and this make me strong music and poetry at the same time. Words are power, if you hear sometimes they get lost but if you write you have the proof, but their not enough if you are not ready for. Do not ask me if you get confused but I think this is the way it should be...
Two words for today:
Life / hapiness

In Lak' ech

London London

2006-04-25T05:32:00.000+01:00

Caetano Veloso already sang this song...

I'm wandering round and round, nowhere to go
I'm lonely in London, London is lovely so
I cross the streets without fear
Everybody keeps the way clear
I know I know no one here to say hello
I know they keep the way clear
I am lonely in London without fear
I'm wandering round and round, nowhere to go
While my eyes go looking for flying saucers in the sky
Oh Sunday, Monday, Autumn pass by me
And people hurry on so peacefully
A group approaches a policeman
He seems so pleased to please them
It's good to live, at least, and I agree
He seems so pleased, at least
And it's so good to live in peace
And Sunday, Monday, years, and I agree...

What to say about this place each day a new thing new people new culture new knowledge....Everything is here!!! Aren't you???