I'm Back Hello guys! It's been a long while since my last post over here. Well, lots of things happened in my life. But the way, I no longer look like this girl on my profile pic HaHa. Some good things happened and bad ones as well... and that's ok though, only part of life. But what I wanted to share with you guys is the great improvememt I made in English since I started to putt away all the fear and shame I had of speaking English in public. Omg I'm so exited with these conquer! When look back I remember how shy I used to be in at least thinking of speaking with a native, and now It's like so normal :) I really encourage you all to keep chasing your dreams and goals. It's all about how much you believe in yourself and putt all your efforts on what you want to achieve! Now I just need to practice more my writting skills.

First Words in Italian :S Ciao a tutti! Il mio nome è Francy, io sono brasiliana. Sto imparando l'italiano. Mi piace molto questa lingua ma ho iniziato da poco ed impararlo. Ho imparato molte parola ma non capisco molte cose. Potrebbe per piacere aiutarmi? Ho bisogno di praticarlo. Grazie :)

Thoughts and practice :) Hi there! This note is about reflecting on my achievements in English. In these past few days I've been thinking about how much I've progressed on my English learning. Obviously I need to improve more, especially my writting. Anyway, I was remembering when I first decided to learn this language and didn't understand anything, then I said to myself I would learn it and be able to speak with people from different places. Well, this is real now... I feel proud of myself because even though I'm not fluent yet most of the things I've learned were on my own, (Of course with the help of my friend - internet). Now I've decided to learn Italian, I'm just in love with this language. It's really beautiful :) I hope that I can make it. No! I will make it. And also hope you to correct my little note, please. Thanks in advance.

Let's practice English/Spanish on WhatsApp? Who's in?

Can You Please Correct this?! pleeeease :) The Amazonas opera house was built and inaugurated in the 19 century, on December, 1896 during the rubber cycle when the city of Manaus was undergoing a wealthy phase due to the extraction and commercialization of rubber, this period is also known as the “rubber boom”. Well, we were number one in the mondial rubber exportations, and that’s because we had the biggest natural reserves of the rubber trees. So, Manaus became one of the wealthiest cities in the world, it was the first Brazilian capital to receive electricity, also we already had trams and other modern resources. Summarizing, thank to the rubber fortune we had big changes around the city and began to construct many buildings, including this one, the most representative expression of wealthy generated at that time. We have some examples of the materials used in here. Many of them came from Europe, We have the roofing tiles that came from France; the ceramic tiles which compose the dome (also came from France). From Italy came Carrara marble for the stairs, the base columns and the Murano glasses as well. All the iron structures were ordered from England.

Can You Please Correct this?! INTRODUCTION Decoration of this room was in charge of Crispim do Amaral. At first we had exactly 701 places distributed in the cabins and parterre, but currently we didn’t. It’s only around 680. Its shape is from a lyre, very common characteristic of the opera houses. Actually, it also helps in the acoustic. You’ve may noticed many columns with masks around the room which are typical from the Greek theatre and also names that you probably know. All this names are from very important and famous international artists of the music and theatre area. Just the names in the columns of entrance are from Brazilian men. We have this cabin that is always reserved for the governor. It never can be used or sold to The curtain is a painting and never can be curved. It has 13 meters and its painting is a representation of the monarchy ending because we have the monarchy symbol and the painting of curtains closing on it, just like the end of a show. Above you can see the letters TA which means Teatro Amazonas. The year of the theatre inauguration and the name Eduardo Ribeiro. Very close to the stage we have cabins. At that time they were very especial and expensive cabins. It was mostly used by barons. They paid very expensive prices for these cabins because besides seeing the performance they also wanted to be seen. Interesting information: at that time as higher you were as higher you paid. Nowadays it’s completely the opposite, because people are more interested in get a great place to see the show than to be seen, so that these cabins costs much less than the parterre. But this happens only when you have to paid for the seats. Most of the exhibitions in here are completely free. On the ceiling you can see a beautiful painting which was not directly painted on it, it’s kind of stuck. We have dancing, music and drama scenes that are very well explored by the opera and compose it acting as homage to Carlos Gomes, an honored Brazilian composer, the author of “O guarani” an opera internationally known which was inspired in the romance written by another Brazilian, José de Alencar. Actually he was invited to open and make a presentation in the inauguration, but unfortunately he died months ago.

Mi dia cansado Hace algun tiempo que no escribo nada en español, pero hoy voy a practicar un poco. Tuve un dia bueno, pero muy cansado también. Estaba a resolver cosas acerca de mi contrato de trabajo. Me quedé a esperar casi por una hora a una señora con quien tenía que hablar para resolver pendencias. Me enoja esperar por mucho tiempo. Creo que es una falta de repecto si te dejan a esperar por tanto tiempo así. La buena parte es que conocí a un hombre de Perú que va a trabajar en el mismo sítio que yo. Él es un amable profesor de español y trabaja como traductor en algunas ocasiones. Mañana comenzo a trabajar por lá mañana, espero que todo ocurra bien. Desarollaré actividades de guia cultural en un teatro de mi ciudade que es maravilloso y lleno de historia. Voy a recibir tanto los turistas como la población local. Mal puedo esperar para que además de inglés también pueda hablar español :) P.s. Comprender y escribir correctamente los tiempos verbales en el pasado es demasiadamentecomplexo en español. Creo que he hecho muchos errores :p

I doubt you don't like that! If there’s something we all have in common with each other is the appreciation about music. Well, I’ve never met or heard about someone who doesn’t like music at all. We certainly have our own preferences about types, but I definitely can’t believe someone on this earth isn’t into this. I’m that kind who listens to music everyday and I admit: I can’t live without this. Fun fact about myself: every time I have to clean up things and do all that housework we need to do frequently I NEED TO be listening to some music. If I don’t, then everything looks like hard and boring. It's incredible how I rapidly get enthusiastic and more productive while listening to music. A little weird, huh?! I’m Christian so I love Christian songs. I’m always listening to my favorite Christian singers, and when I “find out” a new singer or band whom I enjoy it’s really cool because I keep listening to the tracks until learn lyrics by heart. Actually, it was one of the first and main resources I picked up to get used to the English. And as everybody knows… It helps a lot! Just putting our headphones then we are allowed to tune out the world with music or even go far way from where we are without moving. I bet you are a big fun of this, aren’t you? :)

Exciting News I'm really excited because I could reach one of the goals I had established for myself. I Got a part-time job as a guide in a fantastic, awesome and incredible place here in my city. I've always wanted to work there and, actually, I did two interviews, but just succeed in the last one. The place is a theater, a opera house which is the main touristic building from Manaus. Because I'll have the opportunity to speak with people in English I'm very glad, so that I'll improve my speaking. I don't have so many chances to get real conversations with native speakers, however, from now on I'll have. The feeling of reaching something you really wanted to is very, very good. I love challenges and believe that's a big challenge, for I already worked as a guide at a museum but It wasn't as crowded as the theater is. I'm all full of expectations so let's see what happen. :)