Your child routine

Hello! I'm doing a report for my college and I'm researching about children routine in another countries of America (USA, Canada, Latin America).

So, how was your childhood in your country? In which way it differs of the children routines nowadays? You can say cartoons you used to watch, foods that were your favorites (I don't mind if you say brands), how were the another kids from your school, which toys were the best for you, what you used to do on your vacations...feel free to tell me as much as you wish!

Please leave the decade of your childhood somewhere(for example, I was a 90's kid) and try to compare with kids today.  



 

Tales or myths of your country

I'm very curious to know more about the folklore in another countries. Here in Brazil we have tales about the Chupacabra, Cuca and Saci, for example. The Chupacabra is an animal which drinks sheep blood at night. He looks like a wild hound, I believe. Cuca is a witch with a shape body of an alligator and she eats little kids. Saci is the most unique, in my opinion. He is a dark skinned kid with just one leg and a pipe in his mouth. He's like a brazilian leprechaun. He hides things and plays tricks with animals and humans.
That's what I can say briefly about brazilian folklore. And what can you tell me about your people? =)

Feeling shy to talk in english

As the title says, I'm very shy to talk in english and everytime I try to speak alone with natives I can't finish sentences and things like that...So I was thinking that maybe this is a problem for more people and one solution might be talk together natives and students in a conversation group (maybe in skype). What do you think, guys? Please leave a comment so we can start talking through skype or any other way!

You shall not pass, said Gandalf Everyday I wake up early to work. And almost every breakfast I take a look at my emails and messages while I'm eating. This is how I prepare myself for the daily tasks, since my boss send them online. Anyway, today a secretary from my work messaged telling that the main gate of the office was broken. The last person who left yesterday locked it in a wrong way. There's a sign next to the gates to aware about this but it wasn't enough. I'm at home right now waiting for the lock to be fixed. I don't like it so much. I'm afraid my boss call us to work on this saturday or monday if they can't repare it until noon. Sorry if you were waiting something to do with Lord of the rings while reading it. This is the title 'cause I've heard this sentence in my mind when I read the secretary's message.

Expanding the bookshelf! That's my first entry here. I'm usually afraid of writing or speaking with people even in my first language but I'd be happy if someone correct this and help me to improve. I have a friend in my work that's going to live in Canada and she needs as much money as she can gather. She started selling her books last week and I bought three of them. They were really cheap and I thought for a moment that wouldn't be far with her. But she said it was ok since she can buy new ones in Canada for less than she sold me. I got the Animator's Survival Kit, Timing for Animation and another one called just Animation. They'll be useful during my final project at college. I'm intending to make a small animation sequence with more or less 3 minutes.