Progress Report

As I start my second year in Campinas and Brazil I look back at some of the goals I had when I first touched down in São Paulo 12 months ago.  I did not accomplish all the goals I had set for myself, and as busy as last year was, I am okay with that:

• Learn Portuguese - Check (?) ...mais o menos. Always in progress!
• Dance samba - I have gone to samba clubs a couple times, need to make more effort to truly learn and not just slip into salsa.
• Make a delicious caipirinha myself - As delicious as these are, I try to avoid them for the instant rassaca they give me so this goal is not one I'm motivated to achieve...we'll see.
• Find a guitar teacher (preferably with limited English) -  Before 2014 it will happen.
• Get a bike and then bike to work - Not a goal at the moment.
• Volunteer - Check!  Co-sponsored a school Social Justice Club working with kids in a favela.
• Find and run a marathon within 12 months of arrival - Check...kind of.  Find?  Yes.  Register?  Yes.  Train for?  Yes.  Marathon postponed until October 2013?  Also, yes.  So...pending.
• Get back in the pool - Not a goal at the moment.
• 52 in 52 - Check!

Two original goals are no longer logical or logistical, however, I may decide to refocus on them in the future, so, I will leave them on the master list.  Without Portuguese class twice a week in the evenings anymore, I plan to replace that with guitar classes.

So, what do you do when you've crossed off goals?  You make more!

• Travel more! 
• Present at a PD Workshop
• Finish four Masters classes
• Get World Cup tickets to see Selección Colombia