10/06/2021
HAPPY PORTUGALS´ DAY!!!!
Olá meus amigos!
Hello my dear friends. We´re back, I´m back, SHARE PORTUGAL WITH FATIMA is back… A long year… plenty of time for reflection and improvement. I haven´t posted in a while ( a long while…), because these troubled times we´re living put on hold people, towns, countries and dreams. I had to rearrange my life and went back into the classroom teaching young students. It has been quite an experience! I found myself having to teach from home, via zoom meeting, due to the closure of public schools for 3 months (the whole of second term), updating on technology and using all of my creative skills to captivate attention from teenagers that too were very anxious with what was in store for them. But all this has been a life lesson- Humans have an extraordinary capacity to turn over the page and read the best part of the story… and although Portugal was on 3 lockdowns, it has now opened up, and if we didn’t all know better, it seems ALMOST back to normal, eventually and soon it will be. Our restaurants, cafés, monuments, museums are open and beginning to be busy. So, I have been busy working on going back to another classroom that I love teaching in – MY COUNTRY! I cannot wait to go back to guiding, to meeting new people and do what makes my heart race.
So here I am, READY TO GO.. READY TO SHARE PORTUGAL WITH YOU in small groups. Check out for update soon! The great news is Portugal is opening up to US travellers very soon, talk has it- as from next week! YAY! I´m so excited.
Today, 10 June, is a public holiday- PORTUGAL DAY, officially Day of Portugal, Camões and the Portuguese Communities.
It commemorates the death on 10 June 1580 of Luis de Camões, a poet and national literary icon, best remembered for his epic work “Os Lusíadas”
We commemorate his death because nobody knows for sure when he was born. Luis de Camões’ died in an important year in the history of Portugal – 1580, which marked the end of Portugal as an independent nation, until self-rule was won back from Spain in 1640.
Portugal Day celebrations were officially suspended during the Carnation Revolution in 1974,(I´ll chat about this in another post), and were resumed after 1974 and expanded to include the Portuguese communities (Portuguese emigrants and their descendants) all around the world.
Look out for news soon, keep in touch!
Até breve!
