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São Paulo
I lived about 9 years in São Paulo. Today while I was walking for its streets again, it was clear to me that I don't miss the city... I don't miss the traffic or the noise. I don't miss that huge amount of people at everywhere.
But I do miss my friends and my colleagues. I do miss the jokes, the discussions about nothing, the fights and the laughs.
I used to call São Paulo as gray city because, most of the time, the blue skies were hidden behind gray clouds of rain.
But I don't want to be unfair or to sound ungrateful. I did feel São Paulo was my home. At least, one of them. A little piece of me is there and I carry on my heart a little piece of that place.
To São Paulo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V9Z9aBYt4g&sns=em
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:-/ !
Today was a particulary boring day. Nothing interesting going on. Nothing to write about. I'm writing solely as an exercise :-(
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Brazil's major problem
Today my collegues and I had an interesting discussion. I can't remember how it started, but we end up talking about the issues in Brazil.
For me, is all about education. A better educational system could save us all. Unfortunaly improving it is not on our government plans and as citiziens, as brazilians, we don't fight for our rights.
Speaking of education, there is a TED talk that I love. It's an awsome presentation and it contains a sweet tail about a little girl. Here it is: http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity
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Tired
Today was a very long day but I decided to write a note anyway.
I'm trying to conciliate a bunch of different activities and it seems that I will fail miserably.
Well, let's keep trying.
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Portuguese for foreign people
To learn Portuguese can be a very daunting task (special thanks to Esha for adding a new word to my vocabulary).
In a talk with my English teacher about the Portuguese language, we conclude than Portuguese seems to be a language made of exceptions of its own rules :-) Of course, I'm joking, but there is little bit of truth in my joke :-P
So, for helping those that are studying Portuguese, I looked for some videos speaked in Portuguese and with subtitles also available in Portuguese. Watching the videos with subtitles enabled allows you to associate the written form of the words with the spoken form.
Here are some of those videos: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tedx+brasil&filters=cc&lclk=cc. Subtitles can be activated through a button at the control bar.
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The desk
There are plenty of stuff on our desk at work. I called it "our" because is a single long desk shared by four people.
I see a bottle of water (my bottle of water to be fair), some coffe cups, a rubik's pyramid, USB cables, post-its and a lot of IT "things".
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Translating a poem
Thanks to my lack of imagination, I'll translate some pieces of a poem and add my random thoughts to them.
This is a big challenge (for me) because some constructions in Portuguese don't seem to make any sense in English. And it will be hard not destroying the poem.
Forgive me, José Régio.
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Random thoughts 1
I really miss my Tai Chi Chuan classes. There was something about taking those classes that I can't fully explain. Each class was a mix of meditation, martial art, relaxation, fisiotherapy. They make me feel well both phisically and spiritually.
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The "hello world" entry
I want to improve my English skills, so I will write as many notes as I can.
Fell free to correct me when I'm wrong or to suggest better ways of constructing sentences and phrases in English.
Thanks!
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