Today in the gym they were playing "Alors on Danse" and it made me think about the "normal" and "different" that Marina was writing about the other day.
I heard from many of my friends in Oslo "oh you are so brave", "it's so cool you're moving to Brazil to open a hotel", "so many people want to do something like this, but so few actually do it". I did feel kinda different. Here in Jeri we are surrounded by these kind of people! Our new Serbian friends had quit there jobs last summer and stay wherever in the wind is. They work on the internet in the morning and surf after that. They are planning to go to Vietnam when the season is over here. We met this Dutch guy working on a luxury yacht having like around 6 months of vacation a year, surf-bumming the rest of the time. There are other hotel owners, working during the high season and going back to Europe for the rest of the year.
We are still very busy, today our tasks ranged from working on the web-site contents to sewing curtains and planting papaya seeds. The working hours are obviously pretty flexible though. I fit in quite a lot of sports and it's fantastic. It's always sunny and around +30 during the day and +25 during the night. Yesterday I managed to put together the first session of beach rugby here - we played 3 on 4 and after the sun went down I went for a swim in the ocean. It's all pretty movie-like, but - you do start taking it for granted in no time!
We are still quite far from the civilization here, separated by about 15 km (?) of sand "roads" in the dunes from the closest village and by 300 km from Fortaleza. There is no cable internet and we still haven't managed to get our own connection established, so we really appreciate that our neighbors share their password. We don't wear a watch cos time is irrelevant here and people make the I-will-pass-by-later kind of appointments. We never know for sure what week-day it is, cos for us it doesn't really matter, we don't really have the days off. We don't have mobile phones, cos the place is so small, you just pass-by-at-some-point.
I am not really attached to the material things and brands and gadgets don't mean anything to me. At the same time, the selection of the things you can buy in local supermarkets and other shops seriously reminds me of my childhood in Soviet Union! It's pretty strange to know that there is no IKEA (in the whole of Brazil) and in order to get some pretty basic things you actually have to go to Fortaleza!
So anyhow, I have many questions in my head. What do you actually do when your dreams have already come true? Is too good still good? Am I going to miss the city-life? Where do I go from here?
I heard from many of my friends in Oslo "oh you are so brave", "it's so cool you're moving to Brazil to open a hotel", "so many people want to do something like this, but so few actually do it". I did feel kinda different. Here in Jeri we are surrounded by these kind of people! Our new Serbian friends had quit there jobs last summer and stay wherever in the wind is. They work on the internet in the morning and surf after that. They are planning to go to Vietnam when the season is over here. We met this Dutch guy working on a luxury yacht having like around 6 months of vacation a year, surf-bumming the rest of the time. There are other hotel owners, working during the high season and going back to Europe for the rest of the year.
We are still very busy, today our tasks ranged from working on the web-site contents to sewing curtains and planting papaya seeds. The working hours are obviously pretty flexible though. I fit in quite a lot of sports and it's fantastic. It's always sunny and around +30 during the day and +25 during the night. Yesterday I managed to put together the first session of beach rugby here - we played 3 on 4 and after the sun went down I went for a swim in the ocean. It's all pretty movie-like, but - you do start taking it for granted in no time!
We are still quite far from the civilization here, separated by about 15 km (?) of sand "roads" in the dunes from the closest village and by 300 km from Fortaleza. There is no cable internet and we still haven't managed to get our own connection established, so we really appreciate that our neighbors share their password. We don't wear a watch cos time is irrelevant here and people make the I-will-pass-by-later kind of appointments. We never know for sure what week-day it is, cos for us it doesn't really matter, we don't really have the days off. We don't have mobile phones, cos the place is so small, you just pass-by-at-some-point.
I am not really attached to the material things and brands and gadgets don't mean anything to me. At the same time, the selection of the things you can buy in local supermarkets and other shops seriously reminds me of my childhood in Soviet Union! It's pretty strange to know that there is no IKEA (in the whole of Brazil) and in order to get some pretty basic things you actually have to go to Fortaleza!
So anyhow, I have many questions in my head. What do you actually do when your dreams have already come true? Is too good still good? Am I going to miss the city-life? Where do I go from here?
"I say deliver me from Swedish furniture. I say deliver me from clever art. I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth"
ReplyDeletethe absence of IKEA is a sign of antiglobalism
unleash your creativity and make your own handy-kraft lamps that nobody else has ;-)