morning all welcome to monday january the 24th at least i think it is um i thought i would start
this video just by showing you monday morning in sao paulo brazil 7 30 a.m i think it is why
am i up so early well to film this that's why um anyway yeah that's my view by the window lovely
busy and bustling it's actually 7 18 am i think i'm up so early because of it being
summer in brazil and i think i naturally wake up early i think we all do right in the summer
also it's baking hot and apologies i look a bit [ __ ] because i'm recently out of the shower i
haven't done my hair and i cut myself shaving so if i do start bleeding in this video i apologize
anyway today is uh an update video on a few things so firstly welcome to brazil it's good to be
filming videos again i took a bit of a break over christmas and new year and i didn't even uh check
the comments over the new year i just completely time out yes there's noise in the background get
over it the second thing is the fact that i am currently about sort of five videos ahead
actually more than that ahead of youtube time so i filmed the next five regular travel videos and the
next three let's walk around videos obviously real time and youtube timeline are very different i'll
touch on that a little bit later but i'm trying not to mention future videos because i want to
keep things in chronological order lovely the next point is and if you saw the first video
at the end you would have seen this already i am now a polish citizen hallelujah it only took 16
months yes perseverance patience came into play because we don't get things overnight right so
what is happening next okay so the polish people the company i'm working with are sending me the
application form for a passport however because of the fact that i'm in brazil and i'm leaving
this city in like a week it's just not viable for me to be receiving things in the post or hoping
to receive them in the post so what i've done is i've got someone in mexico city to agree to
accept delivery of those documents so that when i'm in mexico in april i can then go to
the embassy consulate and apply for a passport you know um at the moment as always i'm spending
like a month in one place as a base to travel from and then i go to another base and you know i know
what post is like not just in brazil but across the world so um that'll be that because i'm in
no immediate need to have a polish passport i've still got a completely useless british passport
thanks brexit um so uh yeah so i'm in no immediate need i can do that over the summer once i leave
mexico which will be around probably around june who knows um i have talked about going back to
serbia i still have every intention of going to serbia but my preference at the moment is to
find a home in poland once i'm in poland or in the eu i can go to serbia anytime it's on my doorstep
mexico and brazil aren't so what what do i want to do with moving so i want to get a flat i want to
get a cat and i want to be able to travel around europe and maybe even do something different
with my life hallelujah and not be a full-time traveler slash digital nomad anymore because i've
had enough i'm done with it six years is enough so hallelujah i can't wait to have a normal life
again what is my plan so i've said before about not necessarily wanting to move to poland despite
being a polish citizen however it seems like that is the best option because accommodation
particularly in places like warsaw are very much within my budget a lot of those flats in terms of
long-term rentals are pet friendly so i can get a beautiful fluffy angel without any problems with
landlords and thirdly the fact that i'm a citizen of poland i still can't get my head around that
in effect it's the same as if i were to move back to the uk i can just live there you know i don't
have to worry about things like residency which i would still need to do if i was moving to another
eu country such as latvia or croatia which were two other possible options you have to do that
after 90 days but with poland i wouldn't need to and also warsaw you know it's a very much central
capital city a bit of a transport hub in that part of europe so in terms of travel elsewhere i can
do that obviously in the future i won't be traveling as i am now and like i said you
know it's very clear i don't want to be life is going to be different and that's what i want i
can't wait you know and i'm not obviously going to be doing big long trips to mexico and brazil for
six months because i'll have a cat i'll have a baby i'll have a fur baby an extra commitment you
know and that's uh that's not a problem because that's exactly what i want to do with my life
what i'm gonna do with this channel i don't know do i stop making videos completely maybe
that might be an option honestly i do want to do something different with my life um
or it might be continued as i've said before in terms of little trips here and there or maybe even
life post full-time travel or something like that let me know down below if you want me to do
a full video about polish citizenship let me know down in the comments say yes poland or something
and um i can do that but that i've questioned doing that because obviously everyone's situation
is different so i don't really want to do one that's going into like ridiculous detail about
my situation when it's not relevant to you so i'd have to plan it properly so that's that
on to the last point so um the first thing is about comments so um it was great to have some
awesome comments in the first video neil piper who left one about you know how he enjoyed that video
he really gave me motivation to actually edit the next one if you know what i mean so thanks
neil secondly anderson who gave me an amazing recommendation about going to Curitiba which
coincidentally is more than likely my next base for my second month he told me all this stuff
about that area that was awesome and it's very much up my street in terms of what i want to
film videos about and thirdly natalie i know i'm pronouncing that wrong i'm doing the english one
but natalie sent me amazing emails with all this useful information about travel in brazil places
to go to things to watch out for watching out for sharks in the north things like that and the fact
that she took that time to write those emails and sent her a random stranger she's never met before
is appreciated very much thank you also of course there are shitty comments as well that happens all
the time obviously with when you when you come to a new country and start filming videos you
get recommended to new viewers and they've never seen you before they don't know what your channel
is about which is completely understandable you know but um you know there was there was
one person with like making silly childish remarks about my hair or you know that usual classic line
that people use when they can't think of anything intelligent to say which is you just do it for
the likes um i'm 40 in two months as i said in that video you know do you really think that
comments about my hair or thinking that i need validation from strangers on youtube
are gonna affect me no they're not so um keep doing it huns because i quite enjoy responding
to you [ __ ] but not the nice ones because um you know you're not class you're nice people
um so that's that um and also about uh videos you know uh there always is this expectation
or belief that like oh you've come to a city but you've only seen 10 of the city
as i put at the beginning in the intro it's very clear i filmed future videos
that's why i do those intros so that people don't think that i just turned up and left
and only went to the the crappy areas you know um so there are future videos i am well ahead with
my filming schedule and on the point of the crappy areas you know there are always comments
from some people who are honestly i think get a little bit butt hurt that a foreigner would
come to their country and not only highlight the positive things that that thing about
travel youtubers coming to a country and pretending everything is perfect and amazing
is like 2017 like outdated you know when those travelers used to go along and like hold the
hand and take a photo of that you know what i mean um like get with the times you know no one wants
to see that positive [ __ ] anymore um i think it does a great disservice to to viewers who
might want to come to sao paulo and think oh yeah it's all amazing because everything looks perfect
but then they then they go out and they go to the cathedral and they put their bag down and realize
that human excrement is next to it yeah it happens you know and no person who lives here would say
that doesn't happen you know why wouldn't i show it because it's the reality and it it prepares
people for what they expect imagine someone getting here and going to that cathedral and
thinking that it's great and then they get robbed by someone you know these things happen i'm not
going to show a fake rose-tinted life it's it's reality and if sometimes that is [ __ ] that's
tough you know you'll have to deal with it i'm sorry the same in mexico i'm not just gonna
walk waltz around saying how wonderful everything is when it's not know and that's a lot on my a lot
what my channel is about and you'll see that in future videos particularly the one in the favela
if you're one of those people you're gonna hate that video um i can't wait for the
comments on that one it's gonna be a classic so um that's that um yeah more videos to come
i'm boiling stripping the sweat um i'll see you next time from interlagos which
is the Senna video it's a tearjerker which i've got to edit now cool catch you later