As you all know I am portuguese but from the Azores Islands, and to be more precise, from Sao Miguel Island.
I have landed back home 2 days ago and will be staying for 4 weeks with my parents, I have not visited for 2 years and have a young niece which is also my Goddaughter in the eyes of the Lord! She is a sweet thing and looks just like my younger sister, her mother, although the neighbours say she looks just like me... but all my nieces and nephews look just like me according to the neighbours :).
It is good to be back home and it comes at a good time when I am going through some though moments and having to take some tough decisions in my life, personally and professionally.
I come to the Azores after having spent about 6 months in Dubai, where I went to find a job in the art world, following some encouraging prospects relayed to me by my contacts there. The truth is that nothing happened there on the job front, a lot of promisses and a lot of fluff job offers did not amount to a real job so I come to this holiday a bit disappointed that my Dubai project did not happen as I hoped...
In Portugal people say that when God closes a window, he opens a door, and that is more or less what has happened in Dubai, just about when I was ready to quit and pack up and return to London, I received a prospect of a job offer in Doha, after some visits to Qatar the prospect materialised into a verbal job offer that I accepted. I am now in the process of waiting to receive the proper offer and contract to decide when to move to Doha, what I hope will happen start of October.
The Azores is a beautiful place to rest, and God knows I need a rest, I need a recalibration of forces and energies before I decide finally if I am returning to Doha or to London!
This first post is just to give you all the background of why I am in the Azores now, and I will try and be disciplined enough to write here everyday about some aspect of my stay here. I can only hope that someone will be interested enough to read about it and maybe even comment, either here or through the facebook link!
For now that is it!
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2 comments:
I enjoyed this short post, as I am interested in two of your subjects--fine art, and the Azores. --Congratulations on your new prospect--and I like the saying about one door closing, another opening, but among my friends we say--one door closes, another door opens, but sometimes we stay awhile in the hallway between.
Thanks for the comment.
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