Could I be an English teacher? Hi there! Yesterday I had to see my dentist for a periodic check up. There's a friend of mine who works there. She's secretary. Then, she told me she's moving abroad next January. However, she can't speak English at all! As she knows I've spent some time abroad, she asked me to be her English teacher. Well, I'm not a fluent English speaker but I think I would be able to teach her basic English grammar and conversation. Besides, as I'm applying for the TOEFEL exam next year, it would be a great opportunity to improve my skills, so I agreed with her. Today she called me to tell she got a friend of her to join our "classes". Well, until yesterday I've never taught English to anyone and right now I have two students. Should I look for more students and start a new source of income? Teacher Vangelis... I like it! lol

Summing up the day with a new vocabulary. Hi there! This is the very first time writing about my work place. Well, that's a challenge because I've never used some of the words which I'll be using bellow. Let's try it! I work in a company which build machines to (for example) fill bottles with sauces, cleaning products, chemicals, etc. Other machines are built to take the filled bottles from somewhere and put it in a box. Other machines to stack up the boxes. I am in charge of programming those machines and make sure they're working properly. Today morning the safety technician was distributing safety equipment (like protection glass, gloves, helmet, etc) then I asked her for gloves because it was very cold, freezing to be honest. As I work using a computer, frequently I have to be typing and the gloves ended up making it a hard work due to be difficult to move the fingers. So how to make it? Well, i just toke a scissor and cut the gloves fingers! Great idea, isn't it?! My hands were warm and my fingers free to type. That's what I thought... When the technician saw the situation She came to me and started to complain about my action. According to her I'm not supposed to mess up the equipment given from the company. After a short talk we solved the situation and I promised I'd be buying gloves with no fingers So I wouldn't be cutting the safety equipment again. That's life!

Tasting Argentinian food. Hi! Today my girlfriend invited me to try (talking about food, should I use "try" or "taste"?) a different type of food of those We usually eat. So she picked me up and We went to a neighbor city, located 40 km from my town. Once there, We ended up finding an Argentinian restaurant, and the best: There was a great discount on some foods. We got a mix of salads and meat for 50% off. Afterwards, We asked for the bill and I got frozen when I saw the final price. It was much more than expected. Checking the bill, I realized that the waiter has included an expensive bottle of wine in our bill, but the bottle was supposed to be from a table beside our one. After explain it, the waiter brought me a new bill, fortunately much more cheap! That's all! Now I'm pretty full and trying to get some rest!

Starting to study for TOEFEL Hi there! Today is the first day of an intense period of study for me. Due to I am getting graduated next December and I want to apply for a post graduation scholarship in a foreign country, a couple days ago I've decided to register for the TOEFEL test. Due to it be known as a hard test, I got a blank calendar and I put it on my room wall. On it, there's a mixed studying schedule like writing a notebook on Italki each three days, listening English podcasts while driving to work, conversation meeting every Saturday, practicing listening on Lyrics training plus taking TOEFEL questions to practice among others. Well, looks like you all are going to have a lot of work to correct my texts here lol. Thanks in advance! See you soon! PS. Any tip is very very welcome!

Almost there! Hi there! Tonight the professors have finished the grades and I just figured out I'm 99,5% engineer! That's a great moment in my life! I've been spending most of the nights studying for the last 7 years. Now, I'm super anxious about finishing this curse to start another one, most probably a post graduation in artificial intelligence, computational vision or both of them. At this point, I want to apply for a scholarship abroad. Any technologically developed country would be great but I think German would be better. Does your country is technologically developed? I'm accepting tips! See you!

A short story about have fish as a pet. Since I was a kid, I've always loved fishes. But I have never had one, because it's quite expensive to buy fish, water correctives, etc. Well, some months ago I was looking for an aquarium to buy one. And I found one on a Facebook page. Then, I bought the aquarium, water correctives, plants, stones and colorful fishes. Ah, and obviously some food to them. If you have an aquarium, you know that is necessary to eliminate the chlorine from the water and make a test of PH level. I did it. Everything Ok! Time to put the fishes on the water. They were crazy! A large space and a excellent environment to live! ( I guess). Some days later, as I'm get used, I woke up and I went to feed them. But there was one dead. Well, I toke it off. On the next morning, another one! What hell is going on?! I thought.. Then, I've decided to research causes on the internet and I've figured out. I was given too much food to them. The fish food is very small, but when in contact with water, it swell up and kill the fish. Now, there were still four from six fishes. Living and learning haha!

First time writing here. This is my first time writing something to be corrected here. I would like to share a small story with you. I've been to busy with my studies at University and work. As I am finishing the course of engineering, I have too many things to study, like projects and conclusion course works. Then, I decided to get out of my job and I only will study this semester. In the end of the year, I'm gonna go to the United States to have a work experience on my University vacations. I'll stay there for 4 months working in a skiing mountain. In this period I'm gonna work as a rental, renting skiing equipment for the visitors. Meanwhile, I intend to improve my English skills. Then, I'll come back to Brazil to keep studying, because my classes will already started.