28 April 2012

Rio and summer

Summer here was very hot. And it was pretty long. For person from middle Europe was twice that difficult because of humidity and the fact that in Europe was winter.
Right now it's beatiful fall with a lot of sun and occasional raining. I'm not sweating anymore. The worst time of year is gone. Sea looks pretty good. Waves are bigger than usualy. It's surfing time. In our city will start surf championship. But unfortunately I will move in Rio de Janeiro. Right now things are becoming dificult and I have no reason to stay here in this small city.
I was doing some research of renting flats there. Looks like the most cheaper "flats" are in slums :) A couple days ago I was visiting favela da Rocinha. The biggest slum in Latin America. It was awesome. I never felt something like that. The city has its own life. According to all information you can feel save in that kind of slums. It's much safer than in Copacabana where people are assaulted.
I will give a try. There's no reason why spend money on flats in other parts of Rio when I have chance to live in Rocinha.
I think that Brazil accepted me with open arms. But I have to say that there is nothing that I was thinking. Nothing is so easy. There's a lot of oportunity for making money here but the path is full of obstacles and people who doesn't have enough money like me will suffer here.

19 April 2012

Clinging

I was thinking and I realize that what leaves us unsatisfied is clinging on things or circumstances. And I don't speak only about sticking with a good things. Sometimes we're sticked on bad thing but we can't recognize that is bad because that thing can bring us feeling of security.
I don't want to look like some kind of guru, but I feel right now that would be 100 times easier to live when you know that anything doesn't matter and you can give up imediately. It has something to do with internal feedback.
Back in Europe I was men of good living standards with good position in society. Leaving my coutry I lost all of my statuses and I came here to discover that almost nothing is that important I can't give up. More and more I'm realizing that.
And also more and more I am discovering that live without all modern equipments is much easier. Of course that I'm forced to think like that. Of course that I don't have money for buying all that beautifull stuff from stores, but right now I'm feeling that I am much closer of  freedom. I simply don't care about other's opinion about me. That's a beauty of this.

05 April 2012

What am I doing in Rio

I live approximately 100 km north of Rio de Janeiro in small town/village on the border of the ocean. I'm here because of my frind who invited me in this place. There's possibility that I would choose other place to live such as big anonymous city but thigs happened and I'm here. 
In our small city we have small comunity of inhabitants of one small european country. We all live in the same neighborhood and we're trying to make a restaurant business with delivery of the pizza. This restaurant or pizza factory is propriety of friend who was here originaly first. Needless to say that we don't earn almost nothing yet but in this situation should help new prospects and campaing. 
I personally live in pousada - kind of family hotel - and trying to figure out how to live for R$ 3,00 per day to survive. And my last 2 months are about constant hard work without sleeping. Local people doesn't believe that someone from Europe can live like that. They have perfectly distorted image of european welth.
They won't admit that an icons of rich life such as Europe or USA are on decline. That people are lost in their games too much that someday have to shoot 50 people for getting rid of frustration. Brazilians are to naive and they want to believe their lies about other world. Really hard to explain them the situation in Europe. And I don't mention the financial situation there because it's something that brasileiros don't want to hear at all.

I'm also trying to do some SEO and business about POS systems. And most recently I'm trying to explain one company that brazilian market is full of oportunities but it's really hard to succeed without proper knowledge and major skills such as language and patience.

04 April 2012

Emigration

Hello stranger,
it's been a while when I leave my country and move to Brazil (about 5 months) and I want to describe it for whole world what is happening and how the life in Brazil can be hard. If you are thinking of leaving your country too, consider it to a kind of guidline or whatever. More than guidline it should be warning for all that think that life in Brazil only means partying, carneval ou beach visiting. It certainly doesn't.
I'm young 24 years-old guy that emigrated from my country because of the financial and existencional crises. I couldn't stand that middle-class life with all  loans and stereotypes. All that games that leads to that was fake. I really didn't discover the meaning of life or something, but one thing that I can do right now is to help other people to understand how this things (not so in Brazil) just works.
Emigration is one way to loose your connection with your old life easier. But it's not that easy anyway.
In the world where symbols rule us, you will need money. For so so exististence here you will need equivalent of R$ 200.000. This will help you with your visa if you like doing things officialy.
For those who don't have this money is other way, but I don't like it. Problem is that I'm not indenpendent and I have to still make things just for money.
Really I think that here is not a problem get a job and work as whatever for minimal wage. If you can concentrate on this and bring some efectivity you can create a good oportunity that can give you some money. For me it's hard life right now. I don't sleep but symbols are required.

So let's work