Most of my friends now have a place on the internet where they write and share what is in their minds and their personal experiences. I think it is a great idea! I’m not a ‘writing’ person. In fact I’m not very good at it and I never thought I had anything important or interesting to say. But some friends told me that I could write about my experiences in England and I thought I could give it a go.

First of all I must say I would rather write in Portuguese as it is my mother tongue and it would be a lot easier for me. But then my English friends wouldn’t be able to read it and, of course, I must practice my English writing for my thesis. I hope I don’t make too many mistakes

The purpose of this is to share my experiences in a different country with a different culture. I must point out that I’m not criticising in a bad way or saying that it is better or worse. They are just comments and personal thoughts, difficulties and good experiences. Ok, there are some things I can’t understand but that’s because it’s a different culture and that must be respected. I hope that none of my English (or Portuguese) friends get upset or offended by what I say. I love you all and I love being here!

Forgive me if this is a bit messy. There is a lot to say and I’m not quite sure which is the best way to say it. So I’ll start by explaining how I got here… in another post…

Right! I spent the last two days messing around and learning how to use this. It’s all very exciting

I’ve added a page with images and uploaded some. More is still to come as I don’t have them all on my laptop.

There is a new category (The English people and I). This was the original idea behind the creation of a weblog. Some months ago, I started writing about my experiences in England; the main differences in culture, the things that were harder to get used to, the things that are worse, better, or just different. Unlike the general posts, it won’t be in chronological order. I will write things as they come to mind with no particular events associated. To be honest, I started writing it but I didn’t get very far. But I will try my best to update it frequently

There are also some new links: PSSRI is the department where I am working as a PhD student, Jeronimo is my lovely boyfriend (still need him to teach me some stuff ) and the others are friends and colleagues about whom I will most certainly talk about in future posts. Feel free to browse their websites. They have more pictures and the descriptions of some events that occurred recently but before I had this page.

I have changed the ‘about’ page, although I doubt I will change it anytime soon.

Hopefully you will read my posts and comment on them. Comments! Comments! Comments! Even if they are just to correct my spelling

To my Portuguese friends, feel free to write in Portuguese. If I have the time I will translate it

OK. That is all for now. I will now play a bit more with the page and upload the first post on the new category. It will be the introduction to ‘The English people and I’.
Have fun!!

What a fantastic Christmas present that my lovely boyfriend offered me!!! (sorry about the soppyness but i need him to teach me how to use this)

The reason behind this present is in the fact that, for some months now, I’ve been thinking about having a space on the internet where i can post my experiences in England. And now i do!!! Thank you Russ, a.k.a, Jeronimo.

I’m still getting used to this, so there will be some changes for sure.

See you soon!

Merry Christmas honey – Welcome to SexyForeignWoman.com!!

This is the first post of hopefully many about your life in MK, your time with me, and anything else that springs to mind! It’s really easy to add new posts, new pages, pictures, movies and anything else you can think of. And I’ll be there along the way to help out.

I’m not sure if you like the design but if you don’t, we can play around with lots of different things until you are really happy. And it’s all yours to do with as you wish! I hope you use it lots (and nag me to use mine) and hopefully we’ll have a record of our times together to look back on in a few years!

Lots of love and cuddles,

Russ xx – Christmas 2006