We're back in Italy, after a lapse of nearly three months in Angola Mr. Greg you are replacing in the Western world, Italian. Luanda is a city for a bit 'difficult for expatriates to live: very expensive, a perennial building site, still without service, it is difficult to access health and dispendiosissimo and unfortunately it is very dirty, the beach ache that would be a godsend! We had a great month together with Matt, I shared with him a bit 'of his work, we visited beautiful beaches on weekends and also one of the projects Cuamm to the north, in Uige. But unfortunately I was not able to immerse myself in the culture and understand the Angolan people and the country that remains a mystery to many dynamics. Maybe I had little time, perhaps little chance of movement or perhaps a little "push", I do not know. However now we ricatapultati a new dimension, certainly not new to us adults because we are at home ... but for the first time I face the life of the mother of a child in age from preschool. Yeah, Mr. Greg has just started kindergarten in Padua.
I'll tell you the things that surprised me this back and I'm trying to find solutions, we hope you can help:
- I was amazed at the bureaucracy and the timing of the schools ... one year before a child must enter the city, but if you do not even know where we will be tomorrow!? I find it an absurd system. Solution: subscribe to an individual.
- I was amazed at the pace of life home from school, I seem to live and to Mr. Greg live in a prison but a bit 'at a time we adjust and find alternative work places and even if I see him very much playing at home, to live among our seratine bath, paint, eat dinner and read the small book ... in reality in not so different from our evenings in Uganda or Angola apart from the weather! solution: take him out even in bad weather, do not scare us mud and cold!
-not-surprised me the taste of foods: carrots, tomatoes and fennel taste the same! The vegetable has the colors and lively "looks painted but it is absolutely tasteless. In Angola, but at least I found a few varieties were collected from the fields! The same in Uganda .. in short I felt genuine and to eat local here I seem to eat plastic! And I'm worried about my babies! Solution: joining a buying group solidarity, search for nearby farms and I've already started reading "how, where, why buy eco" Serena Viviani, ed. Red, which I highly recommend especially to learn to read labels!
surprised me-waste of assets: It is possible that it is no longer possible to adjust an iron, a printer, a television, a blender. ... I always say: "cheaper to buy it again" and then we find ourselves with four mobile phones, 2 blender, 3 printers, half of which do not work but then I did not understand where all this should be disposed of consumerism? Not to mention the wonder of television, we bought a TV (with proposals for consumerism always fall for it even though it was the first time for us, who are not 5 years from now) but still I have not looked at, there I can and especially the terror of what I could see Mr. Greg, and then use it only as a screen to watch the dvd ... maybe a bit 'toverò the courage to watch some program, maybe when I'm in Italy long enough to be submerged from this world. Solution: Wanted!
When we started four years ago for Tanzania but perhaps it was all so I had not realized? Indeed, this return is amazing to me, maybe because my eyes of her mother's family?
I feel I have to do something, we are here now if I have to commit to improve my piece of the world, at least in our small .. help me! Accettasi tips.
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Mr Greg as always is the best adaptation ... is our little superhero!
