Way to go Grandparents!

Grandmom and Grandad celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 3rd!!! Go Grandparents! It was a square dancing celebration:)

3 Day Wine Tasting Event

I have joined a 3 Day team that is raising money for Breast Cancer Research. Here are some pics from our recent fundraiser...
If you would like to contribute to the cause please feel free to visit my website: www.the3day.org/atlanta07/paigesilva

Happy Birthday Dad!

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First Game / Primeiro Jogo

Esqueci de mencionar que semana passada (sexta-deira dia 12 de Abril) foi o dia em que assisti o primeiro jogo profissional da minha vida (de qualquer esporte). Nem de futebol eu tinha assistido e sexta-feira eu fui assistir a um jogo de Baseball do Atlanta Braves com o Scott (irmão da Paige), Wes e Chris (dois amigos dele).
Mais devagar que futebol, mas interessante...

I forgot to mention that last week (April 12) I went to my first professional match (not playing, but watching of course:). Not even soccer I had seen a professional match, and this past friday I wnt to a Braves game with Scott, Wes and Chris...
Interesting but much slower than soccer... :)

The Grass is always greener on the other side!

On the way the way to Naples:)

Napoli and Pompea (the city devasted by the volcano Vesuvius)

Pizza Pizza and more Pizza

Each Pizza cost 3 Euros!!!! Whooo hoo!!!

Lesson that we learned while being in Italy...

Well well well..life has been a BIG adventure here in Italy. When we first arrived in Venice there was a strike with the entire security department. That really isn't a good feeling, especially when you are traveling abroad. Anyways, to make a long story short, the airline ended up losing all of our luggage. So for the past 4 days we have been borrowing clothes and wearing our own clothes multiple times... Last night the airline was able to find my 2 suitcase however Enzo's still was nowhere in site. BUT...the most amazing thing happened. Since we ended up buying our tickets through American Express I was able to call them and they ended up reinbursing us both $500 (together $1000)!!! What a wonderful thing to have happen! Enzo and I have had a really great time spending $. I really urge everyone to buy plane tickets through American Express and paying an extra $10 for luggage insurance like Enzo and I did.

Another thing wonderful about this card company...since Enzo's luggage is still missing they have an entire department dedicated to calling the airline and bugging them about finding the luggage! We don't even have to call.They do all the work for us! Our responsibility is to shop! I love it!

One more thing of why everyone should have an American Express...when I called I found out that there is traveling medical insurance. What I mean by that is that for $13 (i think this is what it was) a month American Express will pay for medical expenses that happen at 150 miles from home or more). It can be used anywhere in the world! They even said that if something happened they would fly someone out to see you!!! I really need to get more details about this but it sounded incredible. Enzo and I are always worried about that but with this we don't have to...

ok I know I sound like a commercial for this card company but I really am in shock at how much they have done for us over the past week. I can't imagine being here in Italy and trying to deal with this on our own...

Lesson of this story: Get American Express.

Here are some pics from when we bought clothes..notice Enzo new chique Italian outfit;)

Esquecemos de colocar fotos dos Alpes Suíços sobre os quais voamos rumo a Veneza na segunda-feira, dia 2 de Abril.

We forgot to post pics we took of the Swiss Alps when we flew over them on our way to Venice, monday April 2.

Ci siamo dimenticati di upload le foto degli Alpi su di cui abbiamo volato rumo a Venezia, Lunedì, 2 di Aprile.

Still first day in Italy / Ancora il Primo Giorno in Italia / Ainda o Primeiro Dia na Italia

Paige e Raffy,









Una chiesa a
Polignano - A church in Polignano

Il Mare Adriatico - The Adriatic Sea

Anniversary in Italy / Aniversario de casamento na Italia

1 ano de casados! 1 year anniversary! Na Italia.
In the States there's a tradition of giving a differnt type of gift each year. The first gift requirement is that it must be somthing made of paper. Our gift to each other were our tickets to Italy! The best paper gift ever.

Traditional Anniversary Gifts by Year:

First: Paper
Second: Cotton
Third: Leather
Fourth: Fruit or Flowers
Fifth: Wood
Sixth: Candy or Iron
Seventh: Wool or Copper
Eight Bronze or Pottery
Ninth: Pottery
Tenth: Tin
Eleventh: Steel
Twelfth: Silk or Linen
Thirteenth: Lace
Fourteenth: Ivory
Fifteenth: Crystal
Twentieth: China
Twenty-Fifth: Silver
Thirtieth: Pearls
Thirty-Fifth: Coral
Fortieth: Ruby
Forty-Fifth: Sapphire
Fiftieth: Gold
Fifty-Fifth: Emerald
Sixtieth: Diamond

I guess if our gifts are always this kind of paper we wouldn't mind getting paper as presents every year... :)

Pics from our first day in Italia

The Adriatic Sea


A restaurant in Pugliano

I Trulli in AlberoBello City

Enzo and Paige in Pugliano City

Siamo Arrivati in Italia _ Chegamos à Itália _ We arrived in Italy

Paige and Raffaella in Pugliano City (near Noicattaro)

Church in Pugliano City

Pugliano City - Città di Pugliano - Cidade de Pugliano

(Próximo Noicattaro)

Chegamos ontem a Bari!!! Um sonho realizado!!! L'Italia!!!
São notáveis as semalhanças entre a Itália e o Brasil... Realmente há uma conexão entre esses dois povos talvez até comparável à relação entre Brasil e (nações_tribos da Africa).
Chegando a Veneza, onde teríamos um vôo de conexão pra Bari (no Sul da Itália) tivemos que encarar longas "filas" ou emaranhados de pessoas tentando passar pela inspeção, uma vez que havia uma greve dos funcionários da segurança do aeroporto (apenas alguns trabalhavam).
Passado o sufoco (mais de 1 hora na bagunça) pegamos o vôo (agradável) a Bari.
Chegamos no aeroporto e nossas malas não tinham pegado o mesmo rumo... ainda estamos contactanto o aeroporto pra que envien-nas hoje ou amanhã. Tive que vestir roupas do irmão da Raffaella.
Por falar em Raffaella, havia já 6 anos que não via essa minha amiga e só nos comunicávamos por telefone e messenger. Foi uma alegria revê-la e conhecer seu noivo (que é muuuuito legal e até nos pegou no aeroporto, já que Raffy estava no trabalho).
Chegando a Bari, a mamma nos prepara um delicioso macarrã0 (fusilli)!!! Madonna!!!
La mamma é "così carina"!!! Me lembra muito minha mãe.

Hoje fomos a Polignano, uma pequena vila a beira-mar com construções tipicamente italianas. Ma che bello!!! Uma senhora que me via tirar fotos à porta da sua casa começou a convesar comigo dizendo que eu tirasse muitas fotos para levar como recordação do país dela, auqndo descobriu que eu era do Brasil me contou de sua ida ao Cristo e como isso ficou na memória dela - ainda nos convidou pra um café que não aceitamos pois Raffaella tinha que ir trabalhar.

Comemos uns aperitivos em um bar local muito aconchegante e conversamos sobre viagens com a Raffaella.

Hoje a tarde um de seus irmãos, Michelle, nos levará a uma outra cidade, Alberobello.

Os irmãos, tios, a mãe e a vovó da Raffaella (la nonna tem 87 anos de idade) são muito acolhedores e divertidos.

Já sinto saudades desse país! Às vezes queria que minha mãe estivesse aqui, ela adoraria conversar com a vovó da Raffaella que se parece muito com a tia da minha mãe que faleceu a algum tempo atrás.

Que país!!!!

Italy Bound

With all the traveling Enzo and I do, can anyone believe we have never gotten to travel together?! Well that all is about to change..thank God! We booked a flight to Bari, Italy over Spring break. Enzo gets to practice his Italian and I get to go shoppin'..both of us will be living our dreams!

Dove defines beauty...

Check out this video...

http://www.doveproage.com/

Dove couldn't show this commercial on TV because it was too "scandalous."

Korean Friends

Um tecnico do governo da Coreia veio para os EUA pra fazer uns cursos em Controle de Desastres e trouxe sua mulher. Em sua parada em Atlanta (foram para varios lugares dos EUA de trem) os meus chefes pediram que eu instalasse nosso software no computador deles e que os levasse a alguns ligares e desse umas aulinhas de ingles. Se eles gostassem do software seria uma boa porta de entrada naquela companhia estatal, poderiamos vender pra varios empregados.
De toda forma, foi muito interessante almocar com eles, irmos a Stone Mountain com eles ... no ultimo dia ficaram aqui em casa porque seria mais facil leva-los a estacao de trem rumo a Washington no dia seguinte... eles adoraram a Paige e vice-versa...
Casal simpatico.

Why we love Apple computers...

Fun At NEMA / Diversao na NEMA

Today I went to NEMA (National Emergency Management Agency), the Korean FEMA. What a good time I had. I was there to install the program on their computers. I ended up teaching English again, informally of course: this nice guy named Jee (gees, he was kind!) was following me around with his English book asking me questions and practicing his English (he barely knows how to ask "What's your name?"). It was so pleasant to see someone eager to learn like he is. Everyone was so nice there, talking to me, asking me question, laughing, wating me to tape the view from their office (great view by the way).
Then we (Janis and I) had dinner with Mr. Hyeon-Mun and a coworker of his at a typical Korean restaurant (like the one from yesterday), the kind of restaurant where you take your shoes off and sit on the floor around a short table.
I had fun with them. Mr. Hyeon-Mun wants me to bring my wife and he'll show us around (Namsaa Tower, the palaces and all).

Changwon, great time / Changwon, experiencia boa

Like all my other blogs, this one is just a draft.. stream of consciousness without any editing...

Yesterday was our second day at Chanwon (city in the South of South Korea, a 4-hour Bullet Train ride on KoRail).
After runnign into some problems with the installation of our program there I finally got it done.
I had a pleasant day at Changwon (Tuesday , January 9, 2007). The program worked. The teachers were teaching good classes. The students were having fun. Even laughing at how I greeted them “Hi”. And How I asked others what their names were. They were laughing and I asked why, the teacher said “The gils like you. And the boys are jealous”… hahaha… I had dinner at a nice restaurant with and his wife and kid. Sitting on the flooor we ate some good fried meat. On the train I was showing them my iPod, Dr. Lee liked it and was listening to it with me watching U2. We talked about science (chemistry and electreonic microscopes). His wife says I’m really intelligent (nothing new here ;) and wants to go to a karaoke bar with me (karaoke bars are like a fever here, they are places full of booths where you get in and close the door behind you, they have a sofa, TV and the karaoke machine..not like in Japan or China where you have a whole open area with the machines). I invited them to go to Atlanta for a visit. They liked the idea. Told them a lot about Brazil and its history, about the regions because they asked where to go first in Brazil, etc…

Snow in Seoul / Nevve em Seoul

Got back to Seoul last night, friday, at around 8:30 pm local time.
This morning I realized it had snowed... all roofs are white, the trees have their branches in white... the grass looks so beautiful in white...

Cheguei em Seoul ontem a noite, sexta-feira, por volta das 8:30 horario local.
Hoje de manha eu percebi que tinha nevado... todos os telhados brancos, as arvores e seus galhos de branco ... a grama fica tao bonita de branco...

Today is saturday and I'm adding to this previous blog: I did see snow today, I saw it falling... The flakes are really soft (I know this sounds cheesy, but it really is an interesting phenomenum)... All the trees and hills covered with snow, even cars... I love it!

Hoje eh sabado e eu estou acrescentando ao blog anterior: Eu realmente vi neve hoje, eu a vi cair... Os flocos sao bem macios mesmo (Eu sei que parece meio frescura, mas eh verdadeiramente um fenomeno interessante)... Todas as arvores e morros cobertos de neve, ate carros... Eu adoro neve!

This Time Last Year...

Over the holidays Enzo and I kept getting the same questions.. "So..how's married life?" "When will you be having kids?" "How does Enzo like the US?" etc... Isn't it funny how quick one's life can change within a one year period??? For New Years we went to Loca Luna with our friends Ben and Eva and we were talking about how big of a year 2006 was for us...just a few things: (1.) Enzo got a Visa (2.) He moved to another country (3.) We got married (4.) We bought a house (5.)He started a new job (6.) He is traveling the world (this really is amazing because our prayers were just to get him into the US and God did more than we could ever ask for)...
I was also think of the little things God has done in our lives...for example this time last year when I would tell Enzo I was going to Target I would refer to it as "the store" because I knew he had no idea what I was talking about. Now he has had the same experiences I have had and and he can understand why I do the things I do. This is isn't much of a blog but I thought it was interesting.

Christmas / Natal

Todos me perguntam as diferencas entre o Natal no Brasil e o Natal nos EUA.
Ha algumas diferencas, claro. Por exemplo, aqui realmente se celebra o significado do Natal. As pessoas procuram clebrar com suas familias o aniversario de Jesus. Aqui eles ainda parecem lembrar em maior numero que o Natal tem uma "certa" conexao com Deus.
Nao ha uma ceia tarde da noite como no Brasil e o peru nao eh um prato importante. Trocam-se muitos presentes na vespera e no dia de Natal (nesse ultimo, trazidos pelo Papai Noel). O povo aqui gosta de gastar muito dinheiro, diria eu, em presentes para a familia e amigos.
O pessoal aqui, ate nas casas mais isoladas, nao poupa esforcos pra decoracao natalina: de renas a Papai Noel na chamine tem de tudo (e muito bem iluminado)...
O clima do Natal ja eh construido desde Novembro: algumas das radios mais populares comecam a tocar musicas natalinas classicas (ou nao)... algumas estacoes as tocam o dia inteiro...
Aqui ate as renas tem nome e historias pra contar... sendo o Rudolph, a rena de nariz vermelho, a rena mais famosa...
O mais interessante de se ver aqui e que, por mais que se comprem presentes e se decorem as casas, o Natal ainda eh uma epoca de celebracao do nascimento do menino-Deus, ou Deus-menino...

Christmas Morning @ Janets House