"MAUI" - My inspiration - surfworldtour.blogspot.com

 "MAUI" - My inspiration  -surfworldtour.blogspot.com

First I will comment about how I chose the name "Maui" to my e-mail, posts and everything that I do in the Internet.

After my dad passed away in December of 2005(almost 10 years ago), I got very upset and lost, so in 2006 I quitted the English classes at the High School , and went to Garopaba , Santa Catarina in the Summer to go away for while. It was very nice to enjoy a surftown, because surf is " the most beautiful sport", for me, since I was a Kid and watched TV programs about surf.

However, the year 2007 was so tense and sad for me, I had no much money, and I missed the English students at High School where I taught for 12 long years and I  was very lonely and had problems to sleep anyway, what they call "insomnia" .

At this time  there was a TV serie  on Rede Globo -Television network in Rio de Janeiro- in the dawn called  "North Shore"(see the version above)  shot in Hawaii, where they play sports and talked about "Maui".
 When I heard this word for the first time I enjoyed it very much, and I decided to use this name. Most people do not understand so much, so I explain that is an island in Hawaii. Since I bought my HP notebook in 2009 I set up Maui time zone, just to know what time is there.

I did not miss any program, so I had the idea to use this name "Maui"  in my work, mauienglish, because I taught private English classes and did translations and versions. The yahoo provided my first access to the Internet in 2009 with the site - geocities.com/mauienglish/sports, later on yahoo closed this service, but I will  use this name forever, and for sure, next year, 2016 I will visit this Hawaii island, that is really a "paradise".

I had already lived in San Francisco, California; Chicago, Illinois; and New York City, New York. I  traveled to South America ,Europe and visited 15 countries already but I never went to Hawaii. I already had three passports, and I will get my 4th passport now in Rio de Janeiro. Maybe the time to go to Hawaii is upcoming!

 Unfortunately I could not go to Billabong Pipe Masters this season ,because I did not  buy the ticket  in advance and US dollar rose up  in the last months in Brazil due  to political instability but as soon as possible I will buy the ticket to Honolulu and finally know my great inspiration M A U I !!!!

As I feel alone in the world, I am give the Honolulu ticket for myself for Christmas.

North Shore
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North Shore was an american soap opera broadcast by Fox all Mondays in the United States of America during seven months from 2004 to 2005. It is focused around the employees and customers of the fictional hotel Grand Waimea and Resort (in real life is called Turtle Bay Resort located next to Kahuku, Oahu) on the North shore of Hawaii. North Shore debuted on June of  2004, scheduled with 13 original episodes, the series ended in January of  2005 with 21 episodes.
Source - pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Shore

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