Goals: The List

Life in Brazil...what do I want to get out of it?
It is my hope that this list will grow and shrink as I learn more about this country and cross things off the list!

Beginning August 2012:

• 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. Update: Done! 
• Get back in the pool - Not a goal at the moment.
• 52 in 52 - Check!

New as of August 2013:

• Travel more!  A little bit...World Cup helped!
• Present at a PD Workshop Nope.  Attended AASSA Conference though...
• Finish four Masters classes Check! (Actually, five - booya!)
• Get World Cup tickets to see Selección Colombia Check!  And USA vs Germany.

New as of August 2014:

• Finish four more Masters classes
• Find a new job
• Choose one day each weekend to do no work