ThelongGringo

24/08/2026

https://thelonggringo.com/let-it-be-let-me-be-voluntary-isolation/

22/08/2026

https://thelonggringo.com/heat-coffee-cake-and-chopp-in-leblon/

Journalled on Friday, 10th of January 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 28 degrees, hot and overcast. We're back home in Rio after three days in Paraty, the historic town about 200 km down the coast. It wasn't quite what we'd expected, with so much rain. Even so, we got to see a Journalle...

20/08/2026

https://thelonggringo.com/a-productive-tuesday-notes-on-time-truth-and-doing-the-work/

Journalled on Tuesday, 10th of June 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 21 degrees, warm, and overcast. Today is Tuesday, and it's been a productive day. I journaled twice, worked on four separate videos, and got through my daily classes as always. I have never felt so productive with video...

17/08/2026

https://thelonggringo.com/small-fish-big-sea-why-english-is-the-real-superpower/

Journalled on Wednesday, 14th of August 2024 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 22 degrees, hot, sunny, with a blue sky. It is the middle of the week, and I'm about to give an experimental class to a prospective new pupil. Thiago was referred to me by an ex-pupil of mine, Marcela. Marcela had A...

15/08/2026

https://thelonggringo.com/confidence-arrogance-and-knowing-yourself/

Journalled on Friday, 22 August 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 28 degrees, hot, sunny and blue sky. I think I was taught, from a young age, to put myself second, to forget my own needs in the name of others. And even when I did exactly that, it wasn't always met with Confidence vs arro...

13/08/2026

https://thelonggringo.com/consistency-practice-discipline/

Reordering my morning routine, posting first, before coffee, transformed my blog's consistency and quality. On discipline, practice, and daily habits.

11/08/2026

https://thelonggringo.com/when-guidance-becomes-letting-go-and-a-parents-uncertainty/

07/08/2026

https://thelonggringo.com/enem-exam-day-in-rio-a-sunday-walk-from-botafogo-to-gloria-market/

Journalled on Sunday, 16 November 2025 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 27 degrees, hot, sunny, and slightly overcast. It is Sunday, and I will take Yasmin to her ENEM exam. ENEM is a national Brazilian exam for all pupils who have completed or are about to complete second grade at school and...

05/08/2026

https://thelonggringo.com/a-day-full-of-nothing/

A frustrating day of nothing in Rio with no Internet, no gas, a toothache and little sleep brings a reminder to choose peace, resilience and kindness.

03/08/2026

https://thelonggringo.com/a-new-home-an-early-night-and-old-roads/

Journalled on Monday, 14 October 2024 | Santo Cristo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 24 degrees, hot, sunny, and slightly overcast. Last night was my first at my new address, and the first time in a year and a half that I had slept somewhere entirely my own. After so long sharing space with other people, A...