looking backwards

Today has been Daniel's first day at his new job.

This morning, and yesterday evening as well, he was very nervous and worried; as usual he does not trust on his skills and on his qualities and this affects him by means of a lot of stress.

After several months we are both working again, we are adding new brick to our path towards a calm life together. A few minutes ago I was sitting in my bed and I thought about the past months in Sao Paulo and in San Mauro and everything seemed to me so far away from this moment we are experiencing. At the same time I feel nostalgic of our life in Brazil, of the friends we have there and glad that those days are completely over; same feeling, but even stronger, when I think about the months in Italy, because we enjoyed ourselves a lot and had no certainty for our future.

[Dan has just told me I love you twice... :-)))))))) ]

When I hear or read news from Italy I am scared and I wonder what would have happened if we hadn't taken the decision of coming to the UK. In nearly two years the Centre-Left government did not manage to change the Immigration law nor to pass any Act ruling same sex couples issue... I wonder what would happened to Daniel, a black gay, in my country, now that racism and intolerance have risen to unpredictable levels...
In some way, I am happy that the person who had promised to provide Dan with a work permit in Italy showed herself what she really is so quickly. Otherwise I would have insisted in following that way...

Let's see... I hope calm and nice days are coming. We both deserve.

Ne e' trascorso di tempo...

Diamine... ! Un paio di giorni fa Dan ed io abbiamo aperto il nostro blog e realizzato che da tempo memorabile non lo aggiorniamo.... che vergogna!

Da quel 28 febbraio, ultima data in cui abbiamo scritto, sono cambiate moltissime cose nella nostra vita, fortunatamente in meglio. Quella piu' significativa e' la sottoscrizione della Civil Partnership oltre un mese fa, il 29 marzo. Ancora oggi mi pare strano se ci penso...