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I know, it has been a long time… The truth is life went insane just after I came back from holiday. First, the internet was not really in the mood for working in my last two days in Maputo, probably telling me that I better keep away from the computer and say goodbye to the city properly. And so I did, we had our leaving dinner, our leaving meeting and I guess our leaving moment, the one the tears let out the rage in me “I hate leaving this country”…

The 11 hours flight took us to a crazy week in Lisbon. With the appearance on live national TV on Tuesday, the NGO phone, email and any contact method went totally insane. More than 150 people tried to reach us in the meantime. Yes, it is a good thing, but it is totally a killing as well. In the middle of trying to visit family and friends, buying flights in and out of home, figuring out what subjects to get in Harvard (once I get a loan) and worse than all saying goodbye to Bernardo, the week flew by with a feeling of being totally overwhelmed by the events. As the first phase seems to have ended I now try to go back to normal, blogging, sleeping, and raising funds for the NGO. All this, while I try not to feel lonely. Tough one.

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