Tuesday, October 30, 2007


COPA DO MUNDO
A Copa do Mundo de Futebol que voltará ao País em 2014, depois de 64 anos, deve atrair entre 500 mil e 600 mil turistas estrangeiros, durante o período dos jogos, segundo estimativas do Ministério do Turismo e da Associação Brasileira de Agências de Viagens (Abav).De acordo com os cálculos da Abav, cada turista estrangeiro deve desembolsar durante o evento entre US$ 5 mil e US$ 6 mil (cerca de R$ 8,75 mil e R$ 10,5 mil). ''''O impacto direto total da Copa no Brasil será de aproximadamente US$ 2,5 bilhões (por volta de R$ 4,37 bilhões)'''', destacou o presidente da Abav de São Paulo, Edmar Bull.


It would be nice to receive some of my international friends in Brazil! You are all invited to come! =)

Sunday, October 28, 2007

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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

MANY GOOD MEMORIES
Thanks Marte for the picture!
I can´t forget each view I´ve seen during these 10 months...each face, each conversation, each place, each feeling...everything is so alive yet. I do miss each of them...
Special one conversation I had with a Turkish man from our Norwegian course. I can´t stop thinking each word I could understand about his life. I can´t stop thinking how I would like to understand him better and express myself better. I remember him talking about Turkey and the situation in his country. Sometimes I doubt if he was just complaining with any reason...

Last Saturday I got scared. I saw my niece falling down and hitting her head on the floor. I took her and saw much blood. I felt guilty, thought something horrible thing could happen. Cried, cried, cried...
Then, remembered his calls when I was already at Hald. Just somedays before I left. Telling me his niece died in his country. He was again alone and sad.

He was the one telling me the Christmas was the saddest day in Norway, when no one is on the streets, all families closed in their houses, nothing to see on TV, as Muslims, nothing to celebrate, just the most boring day in the year.
I remember it was on December 24th and it was not Christmas for me, what made me think what was the Christmas for me...usually my father´s family have a gathering in a nice place, around 60 people together for around 4 days...until then I shared the feeling of no one around, nothing to do.
But the big difference was that I met two wonderful families in the Christmas days: Bjorn Willoch, Ruth, Aninha e Samuel and Anja´s family.

I think people were tired of listening to me saying they should invite muslim people to spend the Christmas day with their families, saying Norwegian culture shouldn´t be stronger than Christ love...
It´s talking loudly inside me again. But I can recognise the same in my Japanese Brazilian culture...and how it´s difficult to change...
It´s not something I would like to write on my blogg. I think I like to think no one is reading it.
I don´t know why I feel annoyed when some brazilians talk about things I´ve written here. I feel annoyed they are coming into my space or trying to investigate my life. But it´s silly...I wanna try to share more about things I´ve felt and learned in Norway. I want to share more about my life, how I am, who I am. I need to open up again...but it´s a process and will take some time...(even if I think blogg is not the best place to do it, I think it´s easier to write to anybody and everybody at the same time).


Tuesday, October 16, 2007

AME - Associação Missão e Esperança
Last week I´ve been in a Conference organized by an organization called AME - Association Mission and Hope.
To be sincere, I didn´t wanna go. In the last days, I felt I would like to be at home, alone. But I couldn´t go back...
But it was good to go. Challenging to listen their testemonies. Blessing to be in a fellowship again.
They work in West Timor and Indonesia. After the tsunami they want to help to rebuild the country. But also to preach the gospel. For many years, they were closed, but after the tsunami they ask where is their sin. They showed a commercial on TV where they ask God - not Alah, to forgive their sins.
But also much pain. Many Christians being killed, churches being burned. Persecution.
Among the workshops, we heard from some north americans. They own an organization to help in desasters situations. Also about long and short term mission. The preparation and intercession...and many others.
I´ve heard at Hald from one of the invited teachers, God gave us the mission to preach the Gospel for all nations, it´s more than 2000 years ago and we haven´t accomplished the mission...

Thursday, October 04, 2007

JULIA´S BIRTHDAY PARTY






Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Foto: Sindre
EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE (Robbie Willians)


"Everytime we say goodbye

I die a little

Everytime we say goodbye

I wonder why a little

Julia...sweetest baby...
Ricardo, my little brother

...I´m still trying to upload my blog...