Mama(e) in Translation

2 sons, 2 languages, 2 countries, 2 "worlds" (work/home), 2 PhDs. Where translation and "in-between-ness" have become a way of life. Now with 2 cats & 2 Universities!

Friday, August 31, 2012

Spotify is the bomb

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& I will probably get premium once I have a new phone. Today I just put the name of one of my "favoritest" Brazilian singers...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Feliz

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I just wish, I really do, that I could blog more. Other than that (and of course little things of life that go wrong but which are meaningle...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

And So It Begins...

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This is the post that I would have written on Monday, had I had time to blog, but I was frantically trying to prepare my "tele-teaching...

Because I have two syllabi to write...

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... I obviously need to blog instead. :) I mean, really need to share with you lots of things that have been happening in this CRAZY week...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

They decided for me...

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I lost sleep a couple of nights (as in being awake until very late talking to K, I don't really ever have any insomnia, thankfully) whil...
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Busy, But Happy

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I will try to blog more about the new job soon, for now, suffice it to say that I've been busy (and I haven't unpacked ONE suitcas...
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First Day & I wasn't there

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My sons' first day of school was today, but I couldn't take them because I had to drive to an orientation event at my new job. :( ...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

At her house *poof*

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poof! (email me if you're too curious) Please don't make revealing comments on this or future posts or I'll have to delete the...
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Happy There, Happy Here: The "Well-Adjusted" Immigrant

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K has an uncle who immigrated to the U.S. a couple of years before we came here to study (with his help). This uncle tells everyone who will...

Airport Blogging/ Computer "Conversion"

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Our plane to Washington D.C. is boarding in just a minute, so I have to hurry and blog quickly -- wifi is just excellent here in Toronto. ...
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Monday, August 20, 2012

Swallowed

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My son will read this post tomorrow and I will edit or delete it depending on his feedback, since he has full control over the stories I pos...
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2012 Brazil Trip Math

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To be updated as I remember more stuff, just for my own reference 2.5 years since our last trip to Brazil 48 days away from home (boys ...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Out of the Northeast

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The Northeastern Region of Brazil is like a different country. It's hard to explain and it's the middle of the night, so I'll le...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

Goodbye London, Hello Rio

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A facebook friend just shared this great image from Nathan the Nerd's Tumblr site -- direct link to post here (I suppose he created i...
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nah... they lost

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and we wasted a beautiful morning at the beach and will get to the beach only at noon. :( too bad... It's just what one of my facebo...

Nerve-Racking/ Dramatic Men's Volleyball

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Yesterday Brazil's women volleyball team beat the U.S. in an incredible come-back to win the gold medal (I wanted to blog about that, bu...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

The Cliffs in Gunga Beach

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Gunga beach, close to the city of Maceió (state of Alagoas) has (fortunately open) access through private land -- an incredibly huge coconut...
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Friday, August 10, 2012

At least I tried

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I tried to post photos to the blog, but it didn't work out. :( (the 3G internet connection fell through). Maybe I should have saved th...
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too intense for words

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this is the most overwhelmingly intense trip I've had to Brazil in 16 years... (insert exhausted sigh here). We're doing OK (K got...
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Thursday, August 02, 2012

2.5/4

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I shouldn't have been whiny last night , since this morning we woke up to three different channels of the Olympics in HD & a lady wh...
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I'm a Brazilian immigrant (used to say expatriate, have problems with this word now), living in the U.S. since 1996 with my husband and two sons (born in March 2002 and May 2004). I'm a mother, first and foremost, -- mamãe in my mother-tongue, hence the (e) of the blog title -- but after "ten years and two sons" I finally finished my Ph.D. in literature in 2008. After six years away from teaching (including a year home/cyber schooling my sons - 2009-10), I'm finally back in higher-education. I've been blogging here for eleven years, so welcome to my site and feel free to stay for a while and look around. Our lives are a roller coaster, never lacking in ups and downs! ;-)
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