Madrid 26/10/1989 Thursday We go to London today at 17:00. I woke up at 8:30 this morning (5:30 in Brazil) and organised my things. When my mum gets back from her run we are going shopping. Still not used to 3 hour difference!
Madrid 25/10/1989 Wednesday Well, the penance is over. My mum just phoned me from Banco do Brasil saying the money had arrived. When we were at the airport in Rio, we bumped into Eneas, the PRONA candidate. He is such a character! We have only been here for two days but it feels like weeks.…
At the age of 18, I moved to London with my mother. She was doing a PhD at LSE. I had just started a university degree in Literature at UFRJ but was taking a couple of years off to come to London. I was in the habit of writing from the age of 12, so…