Homesick

Auckland is classified as the 4th city with the best quality of life in the world according to the Mercer's 2009 Quality of Living survey. Curitiba, my hometown, doesn't even appear in the ranking, and as a typical Brazilian city has a lot of crime, poverty, a crap public transportation (although all the ad about it, only who needs to use it knows how good it is) and public healthy services, etc.

But even with all those rational reasons to forget about Curitiba I miss it! I've been a year away from Curitiba and I'm missing my family, the barbecues I used to cook with my family, the barbecues that my grandfather, Lenir, used to cook every Sunday, the nights I used to sleep at my grandmother's (Rosa) house, the afternoons that I spent with my father and brother in a kart racing, the pizza that Rosi used to cook when the domestic made had a day off, to go fishing at the beach with my aunt Lenira, to spend a night playing "Age of Empires" at my uncle´s (Lenir) house, to do a "socks war" with my brother and sister, to play PlayStation with my sister Rafa, to play canastra with my father, to study math with my mother during the 7th grade (I almost failed), my grandma's banana pie (Roni). I miss the birthdays parties!

I also miss Gabi's family, that became mine also, going to play soccer in the Saturday morning with Guga and Caio, go to Alba's house to have a afternoon tea.

I miss my friends, going to Itapoá with Álvaro´s family, playing truco in a bar in fort of my university (Mi-Au), the one day travel to the beach (just to surf), doing the final bachelor assignment in which I, Bruno Bassoti and Bruno Manfredine did everything to the funking lazy Maurilio, going to a barbecue in the Leo´s farm, going with Igor to Itapema.

I miss speaking in portuguese, it is so easier to communicate, the food, know the name of the streets. Although all the big problems that Curitiba has, are the details that make me miss it. All the situations that I described above or I´m eating something, or playing something, but what I really miss are the people and spending good time with them.

I don´t know how much time I´m going to spend here, more 6 months, a year or maybe 10 year. Maybe I´ll go to Australia or São Paulo, but I fell that in the end I´ll go back home.