My diary : Call me Jeremy or blinkman ! ;)

Languages, identities, intercultural competences:

2006-04-07T09:12:00.000-03:00

I’m Jeremy and I will be 18 in September this year. When I was one month old, I moved to Saudi Arabia , where my father worked as a math teacher. I stayed there 6 years. In this country, I spoke French at home, because both of my parents are French, but at school and outside, I had to learn a new language to be able to communicate with the Arabians: English.
I had to learn English, because Arabic is quite difficult and in Arabiamost people speak both languages. I do not remember any conflicts then or if I felt a different person at home and at school I just can tell you that learning two different languages was more of a good experience than a problem.

At the age of 7 , I moved back to France, my native country. I had never lived there before and although I had been there from time to time on short holidays, this was for me a new experience, because the French and the Arabians have not much in common. In Arabia, I had visited deserts, and some lovely towns. In France, there are no such landscapes. Another change was the way of getting dressed: in Arabia, as you know, women wear big long black “abayas” and men long white “djellabas”, while in France, women wear skirts, and men were trousers and jeans. All these differences made me feel different, of course, but there was also one particularly that reinforced this and made me feel alone, maybe a little rejected. When I arrived in France, I had to go to a new school, and my first day was sad. I remember that all of the kids had already their own friends. I was there, lonely, looking at them. I had left all my friends in Arabia, and it took me a long time to make new ones. This made me feel more Arabian than French for a while, because in Arabia I was a normal kid, who had a lot of friends, and in France, I was considered a foreigner coming from a different country. I felt like a stranger in my own country.

I only stayed 3 years in France because at the age of eleven, I moved to Brazil. At that time, I didn’t have any idea about this country : I didn’t know what language was spoken there, I didn’t know what the people looked like, well I didn’t know almost anything, except one thing : “Brazil is a poor country”. I remember my French teacher saying this to me, before I left France. So, being a kid, I remember that I was afraid of not having enough food in Brazil. So this is why I tried to bring some food from France to Brazil, but this was a very long time ago.
When I arrived in Brazil, I adapted myself very quickly, because Brazilians are very nice and gentle with foreigners. The only problem that I had to face was the language. Portuguese was so different from French! But I have to admit that some months later; I quickly turned into a little Brazilian: the language was really easy to learn.

Although I’ve been living a long time in different countries I consider myself French. I’ve been living in Brazilfor 8 years now and I really love this country, and I will never forget it because I spent all my teenage years here, and the real friends I have made is in Brazil.However, this doesn’t mean that I turned into a Brazilian! For example, the World Cup will be played this year and all my soul is for France, and not for Brazil (after all they have already won 5 times and other countries deserve an opportunity)

Friendship from a distance

2006-02-20T15:44:00.000-03:00

Hello everybody, this is my first comment on 2006, so I hope you will enjoy it. I will talk about a very important subject : "friendship from a distance".
I saw a comment here from Leyla, and I "ca ma donner envie de" talk about it...
Friends is the most important in the world : how can we live without friends ? I'll answer you , it's impossible. Friends are like oxygen ; you need them aroud you.
Good friends will always be there for you, and you will always be there for them.
So this is why it's very important keep friendsship from a distance. No matter where your friends will go, you will always have a place for them in you heart, so you can not just left them as if they were nothing...
They change your life, you change theirs,so I say : keep in touche guys.

43places.com

2005-11-07T15:41:00.000-02:00

I have been there and I have comment on my favourite city, São Paulo, so if you want to see what I like doing in this city, and what I hate, you just have to click here !
Well, there are so many places that I want to go in the world... But my favourite is the united states. I would like to known chicago ,los angeles, new york...
Can you tell me the best things of the united states ? Here are my questions!
Thanks for aswer it !!!

The referendum :

2005-10-24T15:11:00.000-02:00

On October 23rd 2005, all eligible citizens will be required to vote, responding to the question YES or NO to the question, "Should the sale of all types of firearms and ammunition be prohibited in Brazil?"
The many arguments for this referendum are :

- The people are sick and tired of guns, they see them and hear them every day. They will made up their mind and they will vote to ban them.
- There are more gun deaths in Brazil than in any other country, and since the early 1990s the annual number of fatalities has risen grimly.
- People use guns so often, for any reason.They don't know how and in what circunstance do you use a gun, so the sale of firearms andammunition had to be ban.( 39,000 people in Brazil are killed by guns each year, or about four an hour...)
- The number of deaths from firearms was cut in half over five years in Australia when they bans the sale of guns.
- Yes, because the real interest behind the gun campaign is that the United States wants to sell more weapons, destroy Brazil's gun industry and take over the Amazon. This is why we must vote for the prohibition of saling guns.

The many arguments against this referendum are :

- The population in Brazil is unprotected, left at the mercy of armed thugs, while the government is not investing in security.
- This vote doesn't disarm the criminals.
- Banning guns won't stop violence.
- The pro-gun lobby insists the referendum is a violation of citizens' rights.
- The decision will have very little impact on reducing violence or crime.
- If the referendum passes, not everyone will be disarmed. It won't apply for example : the police, the armed forces, private security agents, gun collectors, sportsmen, hunters and anyone who can show he has a gun because his life is in danger...
- If the referendum passes. A lot of persons who sell guns will close their stores.
- The approval of the new law meant a big defeat for the firearms and ammunition lobby in Brazil. The country has the second biggest arms industry in the Americas and the sixth largest in the world.

More than 100 million Brazilians voted this referendum , and the government calls the world's biggest. Brazilians as young as 16 can vote, and voting is compulsory for citizens from 18 to 70. Well... I know the result of this referendum, and I'm very desapointed, because I 'think tha thte arguments for this referendum were better. There is enought violence in this country, and this is had to change. If the sale of guns are prohibited, I'm sure that the indice of death will slump. But Brazil had a lot of problems to resolve, like poverty... And I'm sure that this referendum will not change anything, but well, as I always said : Let's wait and see...

THE swimming pool...

2005-10-16T15:07:00.000-02:00

THE swimming pool...
Originally uploaded by jeremy182.

The France will participate of the world cup in 2006!!! They won Chypre 4- 0, and it's fantastic!!! The first goal was made by Zidane, the next was made by Wiltord, then Giuly, and the last one I forgot his name...
But well I am so happy!!! Because I was sure that they will not won these game, because they had to make 4 goals to win. And their qualifications for the world cup was depending of another game too, is a little bit complicate. But now, this nightmare is over, and France will play in 2006!!!
This is great, but there is another terrible thing that I did not mention... Today is my last day of vacation, and I spend a very good time with my friends and with my family. This time is almost over...This vacation I went in São Pedro, is a little village. We went there because my parents have friends who leave there, and these friends had a gigantesque and fabulous “fazenda”, with a beautiful swimming pool, horses, a billiard, well... It was super, really.
But tomorrow, I will go back at school, god... This is not fear!!! But what can I do! Nothing I guess...
I hope all of you spend nice holidays, because mine were unforgivable. See you tomorrow guys…at school… Ah!!!!!

My English experience.

2005-10-03T15:47:00.000-03:00

My English experience

This year is almost finished.
Although I enjoyed having an hour per week to use the Internet and write in my blog I did not like to use it at home. Because at home, although we have some time, we don't want to post articles as we have other better things to do. When I am at home, I surf on the Internet but I don not feel like posting on a blog. I prefer listening to music and talking to my friends on msn!!! I know that these are not inteligent activities, but what I can do?
At home, I would prefer written homework, like questions or reading from our English book. Because I get too easily distracted and in this way I can focus better.

What I enjoyed in class was that almost every week, we had to answer some questions or we had to give our opinion on the blog. This was great, because we had different subjects. Sometimes it was about the punks, another time it was about commenting on beautiful photos. However, sometimes we did not have much time to finish or to ask questions because the hour went too fast, there were many students asking questions and some students did not understand very well what they had to do. I had the impression that the teacher gave more attention to some students than to others. I remember last class I was completely lost, and I received no help, because you were working with other students. So when the class was over, I hadn't done anything. However, in spite of this, it was a great experience.

I think that we worked a lot in class maybe too much!!! (I'm joking). Seriously, English classes are nice. There is a good atmosphere between the teacher and the students. But I think that we don't use the book very often, and we don't analyze a lot of documents. For example, I think that It would be nice if we analyzed other documents, like the one we did with "George and the dragon" or with "Molly Pitcher". This is a work that needs reflection, and it makes us think about the painter, the colors, the technique he used, etc...

All in all, this year was fun. There were things better than others of course, but I can't and I won't say that this year was not a good experience, because we did a lot of different things, both in class and in the computer room, and I hope next year will be as good or better than this one :).

Work !

2005-08-21T19:39:00.000-03:00

Work !
Originally uploaded by jeremy182.

So, I have received a lot of questions concerning my conception of "word". Well, I'm going to do my best to answer you. So , here are your questions, with my answers :

1)What do you mean by saying ~bad/good~?Do you really think that work is related with pleasures?
When you do what you want to do. Is a good work, because you work, but in the same time , is the pleasure because wou do what you wanted to do ! I think that people have good work when they are fourty, and their lives are "stable". When you are twenty, thirty, you exerce a lot of littl jobs, and for me, these are bad works, because you don't really whant to do them, you need them.It's different. So this is why I mean with good and bad work.

2) Why do you put "manipulation"?
Good question ! :) I think that depending the status you have in a "entreprise", you can manipulate the persons. If for example you are the boss of a big factory in a poor city, and you are looking for some "femmes de ménages " to work, you will pay them with a very little "salaire". There are persons who needs to work to feed their kids , their family. These kind of persons accept to work of a miserable salary. Well, they are manipulated. This is why I mean with Manipulate.

Would you associate work with process or results?
Well, I will associate work with process . When you are a kid, you wotk a lot. Then you become an adolescent, and you work a lot too. Then you are twenty, and you still working to get a job. The job that you get is a result of a lot of work that you did pastly. Well, it's a very long process, isn't it ? This is why I'm associating work with process.

Words connected to work

2005-08-15T15:20:00.000-03:00

Here are the most important words for me connected to works :
Engagement, hard, difficult, troubble, pleasure, industry, product, article, report, make, manipulation, process , win , performance, manufacture, responsibility, specialization, stress, inteligent, bad-good.

An enormous banana !!!!

2005-08-08T15:47:00.000-03:00

An enormous banana !!!!
Originally uploaded by jeremy182.

Hello everybody !How are you guys ? My comments alway began with "Hello " "then How are you guys", is trange, I know but I can not do anything, I'm like that !
So i take this photo, because I think that this is an incredible banana. My father went to the market, and he bought a lot of bananas. When he arrived home, he showed me this banana. It is so big, you have no idea. I call it : Miss banana. She is the biggest banana that I have ever seen , so this is why I'm posting on her.
And you, what do you think ?She is a Guiness book banana , am I right ?

London and the terrorism...

2005-08-02T17:39:00.000-03:00

LONDRE
Originally uploaded by jeremy182.

Hey guys !Did you know what happened in London this vacation ? It's horrible. Three Bombs explode in the underground and one in a bus.This was the worst terrorist attack that London have ever known. A lot of people died, others were very hurt.. The humans are being more and more crazy with the time, It's incredible that today, thigs like that can still happened. I don't and I will never understand this attacks...And you, what do you think about this ? We must do something, right ?Human is the worst animal in the world, I am right ?Well, life is not like I was expected when I was born...

The Punks !!!

2005-06-13T15:55:00.000-03:00

The punks shoked the British in the late 70s and early 80s, because they were very diferent. In deed, they wore diferent clothes. Their clothes was very colourfull, they strike the attention.
Whilst torn fabrics, frayed edges and defaced prints are now considered normal in the 1970s it shocked many people, because it had never been seen before.
The leather, spikes, dyed hair, and just fashion in general made a bold impact on the public. The Sex Pistols actually scared the British. "You only have to read the papers, or note the terror the Sex Pistols have struck in some British hearts, to understand how closed those possibilities are today”.The reason the progression of punk scared people, was because of the monotonous lives they all lived. "British society is traditionally very conservative .Anything out of the norm frightened many people to death, they thought the end of the world was upon them. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, was even deemed the Antichrist by many of the British and world communities.

I think that the punks were rebelling about the norms of the society. They "expressed their frustration through their music, fashion, and through their attitudes. They wanted to be listened to, they wanted to be heard by the government. I think that in their musics, they want to show that the society is not fair. To show this hate that they had against the norm of the society, they do anything to shocked the people…They "expressed their frustration through their music, fashion and through their attitudes.

The punk today are not satisfied with a lot of diferent things, like : the violence, the war, the education, the money…And I think that the young people show their rebelion being insolent, insuportable with their parents and the world.
I think the young punk people today do anything right to show that they are rebelling against the society. For example, I think that a 15 years old punk today will not do anything at school, and he will be very intolerant against his teachers.
I think that “rebels” and “punks” are the same words…

Travis Barker: The sexiest man in the world ! :)

2005-06-07T17:22:00.000-03:00

Travis Barker: The sexiest man in the world ! :)
Originally uploaded by jeremy182.

The Rebels

2005-06-07T16:48:00.000-03:00

A rebel for me is someone who opposes or fights against people in authority. I think is someone who refuses to do things in the normal way, or in the way that other people want them to.
I think that there are a lot of rebels in this world, and most of tem are "punks".
Because the punk rocker is someone who likes punk's music of course, and wears things that are typical of it, such as torn clothes, metal chains, and coloured hair.
But of course, all the punks are not rebel, but most of them are. This is why I'm putting a photo of my favourite punk, Travis Barker.
The best drummer in the world, the drummer of Blink 182. He was born punk, and in some way he is a rebel, because in his music, he critics the governemnt.
Well, I dedicate this photo to katheline, because She thinks that this man is the sexiest man in the world : Travis Barker.

My little vacations

2005-05-30T15:43:00.000-03:00

Hey everybody!!!
I just want to say that this "feriado" was great ! I spend all the days with my best friends Romain. It was great, because his parents were not at home, so we spend our time in front the television and on the computer. At the end, we were just finished ! Because , all the days, we woke up at 8, 8:30 am. Then, we took our breakfast, our shower,and we went out, to the shopping, or in a lan House, play our favourites games : Ragnarok, an RPG games, and Counter Strike, a violent game where you have to kill the other persons.
As this parents were not at home , I was the cook ! In deed, I make diferent kinds of spaguetti, with tomate, bacon, well, It was good, because I'm not a spaguetti's specialist.
When I cook, I do almost all of the time salad, or deserts. I surprise myself !!! But well, then, I had to do the washing up, and this is very boring. I think that doing the washing up is very degusting...
Well, this is what I have done during this short holidays. This were one of the best "feriado" that I have ever had. I enjoy it a lot, and I hope vacations like this-one will happen again.
And you, what have you done on this feriado ? Have you travelled ? Where ?

Floods in São Paulo !!!

2005-05-30T15:20:00.000-03:00

Hello everybody !
I'm going to reflect about the flloods in the Brazilian metropolis, São Paulo. If you want to read a post on this subject , click here ! But if you want to read a complete article, who had a lot of informations about the floods in Sao Paulo, click here !
So, this article surprise me. I have never heard about floods in Brazil, this is why I'm posting on this article. Now I'm very curious , I want to know all the things about the floods in São Paulo, because it concerns me and my family, and all the citadins of the town.
I think that the government must take some resolutions, because this is a very serious problem !
I think that floods are the results from pollution, urbanization, well... We have to take care, because this is not only concern Sao Paulo, it concerns all the wold. And if we ignore this problem, our child will pay for it later...
So now, the government must take some providences , for example : people can't use car on saturday, or things like that, because this will limit the pollution, and so , the problems.
Let's work together to evite new floods in Brazil !!! Because it'ss the poor people that pay for us, those ones who had no money, and who had a misary life...

The portrait of a special artist : Henry moore

2005-05-09T15:45:00.000-03:00

moore
Originally uploaded by jeremy182.

Henry Moore is best known for his abstract monumental bronzes which can be seen in many places around the world as public works of art. The subjects are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically mother-and-child or reclining figures.

A Henry Moore sculpture

2005-05-09T15:38:00.000-03:00

A henry Moore sculpture
Originally uploaded by jeremy182.

Another Henry Moore's strange sculpture...

2005-05-09T15:37:00.000-03:00

Another strange sculpture
Originally uploaded by jeremy182.

Henry Moore

2005-05-09T15:27:00.000-03:00

Henry Moore was born in july 1898 in Castleford . He was the most celebrated sculptor of his time, and the second part of his career demonstrated that Modernist sculpture was surprisingly adaptable to official needs. Henry Moore was the contemporary equivalent of the great Neo Classical sculptors such as Canova and Thorwaldsen.

Despite an early desire to become a sculptor, Moore began his career as a teacher in Castleford. After military service in World War I he attended Leeds School of Art on an ex-serviceman’s grant. In 1921 he won a Royal Exhibition Scholarship to study sculpture at the Royal Academy of Art in London. Moore became interested in the Mexican, Egyptian, and African sculpture he saw at the British Museum. He was appointed Instructor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy in 1924, a post he held for the next seven years. A Royal Academy traveling scholarship allowed Moore to visit Italy in 1925; there he saw the frescoes of Giotto and Masaccio and the late sculpture of Michelangelo. Moore’s first solo show of sculpture was held at the Warren Gallery, London, in 1928.

In the 1930s Moore was a member of Unit One, a group of advanced artists organized by Paul Nash, and was a close friend of Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, and the critic Herbert Read. From 1932 to 1939 he taught at the Chelsea School of Art. He was an important force in the English Surrealist movement, although he was not entirely committed to its doctrines; Moore participated in the International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, London, in 1936. In 1940 Moore was appointed an official war artist and was commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee to execute drawings of life in underground bomb shelters.

From 1940 to 1943 the artist concentrated almost entirely on drawing. His first retrospective took place at Temple Newsam, Leeds, in 1941. In 1943 he received a commission from the Church of St. Matthew, Northampton, to carve a Madonna and Child; this sculpture was the first in an important series of family-group sculptures.

Moore was given his first major retrospective abroad by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1946. He won the International Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale of 1948.
Moore executed several important public commissions in the 1950s, among them Reclining Figure, 1956–58, for the UNESCO Building in Paris. In 1963 the artist was awarded the British Order of Merit. In 1978 an exhibition of his work organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain was held at the Serpentine in London, at which time he gave many of his sculptures to the Tate Gallery, London.
He died in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, on August 31, 1986.

Hello !!!

2005-04-27T09:07:00.000-03:00

Hi guys, how are you ?
We are in vacations now, is great ! Also is we have a lot of work to do... We were very tired, so now we can sleep all days ! It is not great ? Yes it is !
Well, Today, I have just came back from Rio de Janeiro. I went there with my father, my brother and his friend called Renaud, as the french singer.
In rio, we saw the corcovado, the copacabana beach, and of course, the sugar bread. I took a lot of pictures and I will put them in my blog soon. It was great, because the days were sunny, and we spent good time together. Almost all days we eat in Churrascaria. I am very keen on churrascaria, because there I can eat a lot !!!
Tday , I'm going to eat a feijoada, and saturday, we are going in a pizzaria called Pizz, Sapore. So I think at coming back to school I will be very fat !!!

Molly Pitcher, a heroine of the American war of Independence:

2005-04-11T15:54:00.000-03:00

This painting represents a battle of the American war of independence; It was painted by Dennis Malone Carter, in 1854. This is a detail from the painting, so we don't have all the information that we need, to comment on the painting.
In this painting, we see the heroine, Molly Pitcher, together with her husband,and a lot of brave soldiers, who are fighting for their country.
Molly seems to be a very brave and courageous woman, just as like her husband. Both of them are concentrated on the enemies, and I think that they are not afraid of dying as they are fighting for a good cause. This is why Molly Pitcher is a heroine, because she helped the U.S armies, and she is a woman.
We can see that she is the only woman in this painting. So, she strikes my attention, but also that she is the only person who is dressed in red.
If we pay more attention, we will see that all the soldiers are dressed with blue and dirty uniforms, with the exception of her husband who has tainted and is lying on the ground.
The colors used by Dennis Malone Carter are very dark. It's difficult to see the expression on the faces of the soldiers. The predominant color is the black and grey color, wich intensified the impression of violence of this painting.
Molly Pitcher is the only person in the painting that seems to be illuminated , and , if we compared her to the other soldiers, she is the only person who give us an impression of life, or something good, because she is there, screaming, helping men, and she doesn't seems to be tired, or suffering.
This is why, all the persons who see this painting are struck by this woman:
-She is dressed in red.
-She is the only woman in this painting.
-She is so courageous, and I know that she will fight until her death.
-She is clean, and almost all the persons in this painting are dirty.
As I say, this is just a detail of a painting. I think that on the left side there are a lot of enemies dying, and on the right side, I think there are a lot of generals on their horses that screaming: "We are almost there WE ARE ALMOST THERE!!!"
I think that this is a horrible painting, as George and the dragon, because death is present in all the painting. In fact, there are a lot of soldiers dying, and the impression that I have from this painting is: The death, the violence, a miserable life.

burnejones12

2005-04-04T18:22:00.000-03:00

burnejones12
Originally uploaded by jeremy182.

Hi everybody !!!

2005-04-04T17:24:00.000-03:00

Have you heard about the legend of George and the dragon ???
Once upon a time.... A dragon terrified a village .It demanded the sacrifice of sheep to quench its hunger , however, when all the sheep had been killed , it started to feed on young girls, Until there was only the King's daughter remaining.
Now, If the king didn't find a knight who could slay the dragon, his daughter would be sacrified the next day. But, If the knight killed the dragon, he would have the king's daughter as a reward...

Today, I studied the painting : "George and the Dragon", by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, who was an English painter, designer, and ilustrator born in Birmingham in 1833 , and educated at the University of Oxford.
He was trained by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his paintings are inspired by medieval , biblical, and classical themes.
He died in 1898.

This painting represents George, a knight who will deliver the princess, and who is fighting a horrible dragon...
He is in the middle ground, and he takes most of the painting, because he is the hero.
He is wearing a shining armour, a red cloak,humanity and the world. from the evil forces.

In front of him, in the foreground, there is the dragon. It has black and hard scales, and he it is almost dying, because George has trespassed it with a spear and is now finishing it off slaying . The dragon is wriggling like a worm...it's disgusting !!!
The monster represents the evil underground forces and its Black colour is associated with the devil...

In the background, there is the king's daughter. She seems to iluminate the prince with her white and shinning dress .
The white colour represents the virginity and the purity which the knight is trying to save.

Finally, behind the princess, there is the village, and the landscape wich represented by bluish colours , wich give us a feeling of sadness.

My impression : I hate this painting !!! Because, the colours are too dark, and this is a very classical paiting, I prefer modern paintings , that are calmer...
And you, what do you think about it ???

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii !!!

2005-03-31T10:33:00.000-03:00

Hey guys !!!
Today is the best day since I've came back to school, because, I have three hours without having class.So, I can study, or listen to music, or chat with my friends.
Well, I can do a lot of thing. Now, I am at the library, and I am watching the last videoclip of Greenday , called : "Boulevard of broken dreams".
If you want to see your artists favourite videoclips , clik here !!!
This is a my favourite site because there is a lot of music and videoclips, by artists that I love :), for example : Green day, My chemical Romance, Sum 41,and Good Charlotte. The only problem in this site, is that they don't have a blink 182 and a new found glory video !!!
Until they have the clip "always" from blink 182 and "all downling from here" from New found glory, this website will not be perfect, althought if there are many artists there, in deed...
well, byeeeeeeee !!! See u later !!!

I am a heroooooo !!!

2005-03-28T17:38:00.000-03:00

Hi everybody !!!

Last class, our teacher gave us the last writing test that we did. I only got 5, 8 !!! Well, I thought that I would have 7 !!! So at the moment, I was very surprised...
At the end of the classe, she said that we would have a big test on Wednesday , using comparatives, and link-words, like althought, unless , yet, etc....
I think that this test will be very difficult, and I have to study a lot, but on the same day, I will have a mathematic test !!! So, Wednesday will be an apocalyptic day !!!
Well , today It was a great class, we talked about Heroes. We concluded that there are diferent kinds of heroes.
Those who have super powers for example , Superman or Spiderman.
And the common hero, that all of us see every day, and these one are not famous at all. For example, Firemen, or policemen, etc...
I said that there are some kind of celebrities who are were heroes, because they spend their money on different kind of associations, for example, an association for children who are very sick.
My teacher agreed, but she said that there were a lot of celebrities that were not heroes, and a lot of heroes that were not celebrities, and of course, she is right.
Then, we saw the different qualities of a hero. It was very interesting, because all the students have a different conception of a hero. The girls , in general want a hero to be courageous, loyal, and galant.
But the boys, in general, want a hero to be perseverant, determined, and brave.
Well, this is all for today, now I must study for my French test tomorrow, about the book "Voyage au bout de la nuit". I can say that the narrator of this book is not a hero, because he is very rude, and he cares only about money...
Goodbye !!!

Hi !!!

2005-03-22T20:49:00.000-03:00

Hey!!!
Yesterday we went to the computer room, and we worked on countable and uncountable nouns.
We saw that some words like a few, few, are only used for countable nouns, while the words like a little, little, and most, for example, are only used with uncountable nouns.
But, we saw that some words are can be both used for the countable and uncountable nouns, for example: Some and more. We can say some sugar and some oranges, and more orange and more sugar, Right?

Then, we moved to the site, the English department, and we made a lot of exercises about countable and uncountable nouns.
Seriously, it’s very hard to have 100 % of the sentences right, It’s very hard not to make a mistake...
We have to practice a lot to be ‘ countable and uncountable noun’ profesional I guess!
Now, I’m writting my English blog, but I’m also doing some exercises… I swear! I think we will have a test soon, so I’m studying.
Today I had an economy test: It was easy. In deed, we also had to answer three questions. This kind of test shows the teacher if the student has been studying at home, so it is very important. It's easy, so it’s great, but we will have a lot of them, and this is really bad news…
Well, I have to leave you, because I have to read a French book called: “Voyage au bout de la nuit”, and on Monday, I have a reading test… God!!!
Bye!!! See you later!!!

A terrible week...

2005-03-16T16:40:00.000-03:00

Tomorrow and after tomorrow will be terrible days. I will have : A History test, a Spanish test, and a Science test. Oh my God !
But it's okay, because next week I don't have any tests, so I am happy.
Last class we worked on stereotypes, it was funny seing my friends saying that the french are dirty, smart, cute. This is a bunch of stereotypes of course, because the French are not dirty at all !At least I don't think so....
Then , I had a reading and a listening test. Yukkkk ! I think that I will have six or seven in the listenning test, but only five or six in the reading test, because it was very, but very difficult. I only can tell you that it was about a man , reflecting about the expression :"Being a man". He said that he doesn't like at all being a man, then he gives some reasons, but the only one that I can remenber, is that he prefers women company to men company.
As I tell you, the text and the questions were very difficult !
Now, I have to study my history test for tomorrow, I want to have a good mark. It's about the urbanisation in the twentieth century.
See ya !!!

Hey !

2005-03-01T17:16:00.001-03:00

Hey everibody !
How are you guys , what are you telling me ?
I'have got a lot of things to talk about ... First of all, today, I have learnt that next week, we will go to a swimming pool. For some people it's terrible, I don't know why... But for me, it is not good, or bad news. Of course, I prefer football or basketball to swimming but well.. I can not do anything about it.
The other news, is that Blink is not over !!! : ) They will make a lot of cds , and I'm sure of this... If you are interested, as am I , click here !
Well, today has been a very good day, because I played football for three hours with my friends and of course, it was great. Tuesday is my favourite day because we have gym class, and I hate thursday, because I have two History hours, and two Economy hours... Wow !We don't deserve it, we don't deserve it at all...
I'm going to leave you with an old song, from the smashing pumkins, and it's great, enjoy ...
Byeeeeeeeee !
Tonight tonight

Time is never time at all
You can never ever leave
without leaving a piece of youth
And our lives are forever changed
We will never be the same
The more you change the less you feel

Believe, believe in me, believe
Believe that life can change
That you’re not stuck in vain
We’re not the same, we’re different tonight
Tonight, so bright
Tonight

And you know you’re never sure
But you’re sure you could be right
If you held yourself up to the light
And the embers never fade in your city by the lake
The place where you were born

Believe, believe in me, believe
Believe in the resolute urgency of now
And if you believe there’s not a chance tonight
Tonight, so bright
Tonight

We’ll crucify the insincere tonight
We’ll make things right, we’ll feel it all tonight
We’ll find a way to offer up the night tonight
The indescribable moments of your life tonight
The impossible is possible tonight
Believe in me as I believe in you, tonight...

Blink 182

2005-02-28T15:28:00.000-03:00

Hey...Maybe...the best group in the world...(I"m talking about blink 182 of course...)is over. They decided to stop making cds, because they have their pastimes their kids, theire family.
Travis , the drummer says :"With no plans to work together".
Well, I'm very desapointed... But what can I do ???
If they decided to stop, I can not do anything... Life is so unfair...
Don't you think so?

Back to school...

2005-02-22T20:03:00.001-03:00

So, hello everybody !
The vacation is over, and now, The class has already begun. I have seen all my friends and my teachers again. This is great, because this vacation was a little boring... I stayed at my brother's apartment alone, because he was working, so I did'nt do a lot of things... I stayed in front the television almost all the time, and sometimes I played footbal.
Well... But now, all of this is over ! I saw my main teacher; Mme Boucherez. She explained to us that this year we will work a lot, because at the end of this year, we will have an exam ; The bac, and we willl have a project too, called TPE . TPE is a big project work that we will have to do in groups, and at the end of the year, present it to diferent teachers. Of course, we will have a mark...
Well, for me, this year means : work, work a lot, spend my time working.... ohhhhhhhh my God !!!
Well, two more years , then , it's over... I will go back to France, and I will have my own apartment. So I am in a hurry !!!

A very particular english class...

2004-11-26T13:32:00.000-02:00

Hello guys!!!

Now, it almost the end of the year... More two short weeks and the year is over...Yes!!! Then, I go to France , and I will spend my vacation there with my family.
Well, today I have had a very different English class, I went to the computer room, but I have done something that I have never done before. In fact, I spoke with people from Denmark and Taiwan!!!
It was great. All the students had a microphone and a headphone. Then, we went to the site http://www.alado.net/webheads, and we entered the chat. There were 2 teachers ; one from Taiwan, and the other from Denmark. One of them was called Vinny, and he was very curious. Indeed, he wanted to know everything about our lives .Unfortunately, there weren't any students there, but it was cool. We introduced ourselves to the teacher, and they asked questions about our activities, our future, things like that.
This was an incredible experience, and I will never forget it.
I think we are going to interact with them next week, and I hope so.

Saint Paul's school.... Yuuuuuuuuk !!!!

2004-10-31T17:56:00.000-03:00

DHey guys!
Last week, students from an other school, called: Saint Paul’s, came in my lycee three days, to visit it. At the moment, two of these guys are staying in my class. The first one is Korean, and his name is Jay, the second one, seems to be very smart and his name is Bruce.
Jay came in Brazil last year, but Bruce is living in Brazil since 1999. Jay has ever been in many countries: Spain, Mexico, Korea and now Brazil. He travels a lot , because his father is a consul…
They tell me a lot of things about their School, that are very diferent from my school, because, in the Saint Paul’s school, you have to respected a lot of rules that does not exist in my lycee:
1) Boys can’t have long hair and two short hairs either.
2) The girls can’t die their Hair, with any obvious colour.
3) You can not wear any Things, only a relogious.
4) You can have a tattoo.
5) You can eat any shewingum there.
6) Cell phones can’t be used in the school, It’s forbidden.
7) Their t-shirts have to be tichted in their pants. Ukkkkkkk!!!8) You can’t have a girlfriend at school… What kind of school is this!?! Ouauh ! This school is very diferent from my school at all !
Now, I think that I fall in love with my lycee.

My training session

2004-10-01T18:55:00.000-03:00

Hey !
Have just come back from my training session, it was great, even super!!!
You will say: What is a training session? All right…
A training session it’s a school work. You have to stay and work of course, one week in a industry of your choice. When your training session is over, you have to make an rapport, and then you have an Oral test, that is the more difficult etape… But well, I’m optimist!
I have been worked in the Laurent restaurant, a very elegant restaurant, because, I bought a uniform to stay there one week. I must use a uniform in the kitchen.
There, I have been cooking, watching Laurent cooking, and I have took a lot of photos. I was very keen on my training session; it was, as I say, super.
Now, I’m sure that I want to be a cook, thanks Laurent!
So I’m very happy!

Tests...

2004-08-29T09:08:00.000-03:00

Tests...

I Hate test more anything else!

This week was strange…I had 4 tests:- 2 English and surprised tests: an oral and a written test.
- an oral French test
- And a science test.

Te two tests that I had in English was surprised tests.
The written test was easier that the oral test, because if you pay attention in the text, you have a good mark.
On the contrary to the oral test that you don’t understand anything at all, because the persons witch speak in the tape , speak all the languages you want , but not English! So, is difficult to have a good mark.
They speak two quickly; I think that is very hard to understand something in this kind of test.

Well, I have to support these tests, because I will have then until the end of my career, so is very important to study, and have good marks.
PS: I leave you with the lyrics of the new single from Blink182, called: ‘DoWn’ is a great track, as all we known. Do you know why? Because is a track of BLINK 182! And blink 182 is just the greatest band in the world, of course.

Down :

The drops of rain they fall all over
This awkward silence makes me crazy
The glow inside burns light upon her
I'll try to kiss you if you let me(this can't be the end)
Tidal waves they rip right through me
Tears from eyes worn cold and sad
Pick me up now, I need you so bad

Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down

It gets me so

Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down

It gets me so

your vows of silence fall all over
The look in your eyes makes me crazy
I feel the darkness break upon her
I'll take you over if you let me(You did this)
Tidal waves they rip right through me
Tears from eyes worn cold and sad
Pick me up now, I need you so bad.

Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down

It gets me so

Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down
Down down down down

It gets me so

Ahhhhh!!!!

2004-08-19T18:06:00.000-03:00

Hy everybody!

I haven’t been writing for ages. This week was very hard, almost unbearable!!! Because I had a lot of tests, oral tests, in almost all the subjects.
Last week, I have presented my oral test about Clark gable, a famous American actor. It was better that I have expected, even if I forgot some dates... But it's all right; my teacher liked my presentation, so I'm happy.
On Tuesday, we had to send our comments to different blogs, and give opinions about friend’s restaurants. I think that I was really nice with my friends, I told them good things about their projects, but they destroyed mine !I don't understand at all. Why did they do this to me? :) ... But it's all right.. I forgive you guys...
Here is my restaurant, as I would like it to be:

Today, I have had my French presentation about a book, called ‘La Bête humaine’, by Emile Zola, I'm a little furious because I think that I have done a good work at home, but as I am a little nervous, I have forgotten a lot of things that I should not have forgotten !!! I was so stresses. Oh my god, Life is so hard...
And the worst is coming... Next week I will have a test in Economics, (and I never understand what the teacher says), a History test, A Mathematic homework, a biology test and a Portuguese oral test.
Ahhhhhhhhh !!!!

My restaurant

2004-08-05T15:21:00.000-03:00

Our group has chosen a popular restaurant, The main reason for deciding to open a popular restaurant is that in Brazil there are a lot of people who like eating the staple diet, composed of rice and beans.

Besides, we feel that people don't like spending too much money on food... Only by having a popular restaurant will we offer a good variety of healthy food for a reasonable price.It seems to us evident that our dishes have to be chezp and good. We hope that our restaurant will change the face of the world!

Only for oppening a popular restaurant we will can :
- attract people who go to the MacDonald and eat very fattening and junk food.
- show to the people that Brazilian food is not only feijoada with farofa.

The most important point seems to me that people feels like they are in their house.
So, you've got to take :
- The pleasant music
- The chimney
- All the nights there will be a live show.
- and the two floors, the first floor is for the no-smoking people, and the second one is for the smoking people, so the people on the first floor won't be disturbed by the cigarettes, into consideration.

It's important to remember that behind the restaurant there will be a boutique with the typical ingredient used in the restaurant, so if the people like the dishes they have eaten they will buy the products in the little shop and cook them at home.

Near the restaurant, there will be a little park,( The park is reserved to children under 12 years old) and near the park, there will be a very little zoo, with some farms animals,Like:
- pigs, cow, horses, chickens, etc... The people will can touch them but they can't feed them.

It's important to remember that a popular restaurant is very easily apreciate, because there is typical food.
On the one hand we will serve all kind of dishes, but on the other hand there will be only brazilian dishes.

So, what do you think about it ?

The copacabana restaurants :

2004-08-04T17:20:00.000-03:00

Copabacana restaurant:

International-popular restaurant:

Objectives: Have profiles and attract more clientele as possible.

Reasons: - They received all kind of clients, because is ‘a la carte ‘, and there is a kilo too.
- All the dishes are not necessary expensive, There is all type of dishes: Cheap and expensive.
- There is a good atmosphere, the people can eat, drink, and dance when they finished eating.
- There is a lot of variety.
- The Staff are reduces because there are a kilo.

Description: It’s an enormous place, with three floors: the first floor is to the no smokers people, and the second one is for the smokers.
The last floor will be a disco dance, with a little bar, near the sound track, to insist people to drink something.
There will be a room, with a lot of games, to the children, for they leave their parents in peace, near the restaurant.
Ant there will be a boutique two, with the souvenir of the restaurant (cups, knives, apron, plates etc...).

Evaluation of group: I think it’s a good idea to open an international-popular restaurant, because there are a lot of options. If you want to eat British food, you eat British food, if you want to eat Japanese food, you eat Japanese food, etc... And if you don’t want to spend a lot of money, there is a kilo, so is super. But I think they put too much things in their project; I think a restaurant can’t have, a kilo, a disco dance, a boutique, and a restaurant a la carte, as the same time. Their restaurant look more that a shopping, that a restaurant.

Popular restaurant (Our restaurant)

Objectives: Be the best popular restaurant in Brazil!!!

Reasons: - Received all kind of people.
- A good atmosphere
- Have all kind of prices.
- Make good, simple and cheap recipes, with regional products, that satisfy the clientele.
- It’s the only restaurant where we can sell our product. (Comfiture, meat, milk, sweets, etc….).

Description: It’s a 2 floored house. The first floor is for the no smoker’s people, and the second one is for the smokers.
There will be a chimney on the first floor, and it will always work in Christmas (or when it’s cold) to create a very good and sympathy atmosphere.
All the tables will be in wood, as the place sittings. So, the knife, the plate, the fork will be in wood too, to create a farm atmosphere.
There will be a little shop near the restaurant, where we will sold product from the fazenda. You can find there all the products that you have eaten. So if you liked the dishes you have eaten, you buy the products in the shop, and make them at home, buying the ‘Delicias da fazenda dishes’ book.
Around the shop, there will be a lot of animals: sheep, cows, pigs, chicken, and some horses. The people can touch them, but they can’t aliment them.

Evaluation of group: I think it’s a good idea to open a popular restaurant(of course , is our restaurant!!!), but as the same time, I think we won’t received any rich people, because these people like to have the place sittings in argent, with music. And I think that in our restaurant, there will be a lot of noise…So I don’t know if we will attract a lot of people, because people like a peaceful and quiet place. But well, we will see!

Ethnic cuisine: Japanese restaurant:

Objectives: Is to show to the people that Japanese food is not only sushi and sashimi … The restaurant is made to change the person’s opinion about Japanese food.

Reasons: - Received all kind of clientele.
- Have all kind of prices.
- Have a lot of variety, and healthy food. (Not only sushi and sashimi…).
- Have a good and quiet atmosphere.

Description: A big and quiet place, with red Japanese light on the ceiling. The restaurant is divided in 2 parts:
- The first part, it will be common table, with common chairs etc…
- The second part, it will be a Japanese atmosphere. The sittings are incrusted on the floor, and the table too. Is difficult to explain.
They will employ a sushi-man, and a ‘karate master’.

Evaluation of group: Their restaurant seems to be great, and the food seems to be very good. But I don’t think they will attract a lot of persons, because in Brazil there is too much Japanese food ( I am referring to a Japanese place in Sao Paulo: ’Liberdade’…).

International Cuisine (Kilo):
‘La boca Buena’

Objectives: Attract all kind of people from the entire world.

Reasons: - Eat what you want, and as much as you can for only one fixed price.
- A lot of food, from al kind of country: France, Japan, England etc…
- Good and calm atmosphere.

Description: The restaurant will be located on a club, so the people practice their favourite sports and then they, they can eat, and then, continue to practice their favorites sports. So they don’t need to go home.
It will be a round big restaurant, and on the walls, will be large windows. SO the restaurant won’t need lights, it will be enlightened by the daylight.
In the middle, there will be pillars, and around each one pillars, there will be different food, came from different country. So you can eat german food on one pillar, and on the other pillar, if your stomach are not empty you can also eat Brazilian food, also the Spanish food, etc….

Evaluation of group: It’s a good Idea, but they won’t receive all kind of cliental. Because only rich go often to a club, because is very expensive, and a lot of people don’t have enough money to pay the club, so they can’t eat in the restaurant.

Italy-Brazilian restaurant:

Reasons: - Cheap dishes.
- Received all kind of clientele.
- Cheap and good atmosphere

Description: A little house, with a big terrace. On the walls, will be a lot of pictures of the principally Brazilian and Italian monuments. The tables will be in wood, as the chairs.
The dishes will be a mixture from the Italian and Brazilian food.
There, you can have for example, a ‘feijoada pizza’,’pasta de feijão’etc…

Evaluation of group: I think is a too banal idea…There is a lot of Brazilian and Italian restaurant in Brazil…I think this project is not going to work, but maybe I’m wrong.
The group’s ideas were clear, they have made a great description of their restaurant, but as I say, there is too many Italian and Brazilian restaurants in brazil, so I don’t know if their restaurant will attract persons.

Disco Restaurant:

Reasons - Good atmosphere.

- Cheap prices.

Description: A three floored house, very colored. The first floor is for the smokers and the second floor is for the no smokers. It’s a very colored place. All the walls will be painted in a different color, so it will be a very colored place. The table will be round, bass, and in glass. There won’t be any chairs there; all of them will be replaced by puffs, each puff with a different color.
The prices are not height; there you only eat healthy fast food, like: salad, a cheese sandwich, etc...
The last floor will be a discothèque. So the people eat on the two first floors, and then, they dance.

Evaluation of group: It’s a very good idea to open a restaurant with a discotheque incorporated on it so the people can passed an agreeable night, dancing, and having fun.
But I think that the noise will disturbed the two first floors, principally the second one.
And I think that the old people won’t com in their restaurants, because they don’t like noises. It’s more a place for young people…

Ouf ! I'm freeeee !!!!

2004-07-01T15:44:00.000-03:00

Hey everybody!
How are you guys? I'm fine, because, do you know what???
in exactly...seven minutes I am in holydays, Yes ! ON HOLIDAYSSSS!!!!
I'm so happy, no more tests, no more questions, no more homework's, all of this is over ... Yes !!!
Oh yes... The only boring thing, is that I'm not going to to traveled with my parents...I would like to go To France, but now, it's impossible... Maybe in decemder, who knows...
But that's all, at the moment I'm very happy because this is my last class, only more 4 minute, and I'm free.
Tonight, to celebrate this day, we are gonna go to the cinema, and then eat pizzas in my favorite pizzeria!!!I'm going to eat a biggg vegetarian pizza, with coca and a petit gateau.. Yum yum!!! Sorry if you are angry, and if tonight you are gonna eat cabbages with your parents...
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
It's over!!! I'm freeeee!!!!Bye bye guys, I'm going to the cinema with my friends, so enjoy a lot your vacation!!!!
Byeeeeeee!!!

Yes !!!!

2004-06-22T17:25:00.000-03:00

I have received all my tests!
I had 4/10 in French... and 7, 2/10 in math!!! Yes!!! I'm very happy. I know that I had 4 in French, but I am not very fond of French- class, I prefer Mathematics class.
The Next week, I will have a new common test. This time, it will be an S V T test. Ahhhhhh!!!!
S V T!!! I don't understand!!! Because SVT is not as important like French or math or history... I think the teachers like to annoy the students.
And today, my French teacher was very stressed. So, She put a test the last day of class !!!
Ahhhhh!!!! I don't understand at all... But, well, soon I will be on vacation... Oh god, why is life so hard ?
See you soon !

Ahhhhh !!!

2004-06-01T20:32:00.000-03:00

Oh my god !
After tomorrow, I have a Mathematic, and French test!
It's horrible!
I am very nervous, because I have not understood all of my mathematic class’s’ .I have to practice a lot about the functions affine.
I hope the tests will be easy.
My French test begins at 9am and will finish at 12am, and my mathematic test begins at 1pm and will finish at 3pm.
5 hours doing tests. :S

In English we are learning the Passive form.
Is very complicated. I think I will have a test very soon, so I'm practicing with my mum.
I will tell you soon the Passive form at :
- The present
- The past
And the Future.
You will see...Is more difficult that you think...

Hello everybody !

2004-05-20T15:34:00.000-03:00

Hello everybody !!!
Now we are in the computer room, filling a grid, that we have done last week.
I have already finished it, and now, I don't know what to do, so, I'm doing my blog.
Today is an important day.
In fifteen minuts, the soccer game , France- Brazil will begin.I'm very excited!!!I hope that France will win. If the france loose, all my friends will laught of me and is not very agreable...
Well , I'm so excited !!!It's an amical-game but the France MUST win.
Lets gooooooo FRANCE !!!!

I Love FooD !

2004-05-14T17:19:00.000-03:00

Hello everybody!!!
Well, all this week we have been working about food.
But today, it was a special day. It was the best class I have ever had. We worked in group, and it was a little game about our knowledge on food...
We have had to find a country, and the nationality, people, typical food, and typical drink of all the kind of countries.
Examples: Brazil, Brazilian, the Brazilians, feijoada, caipirinha.
Spain, Spanish, the Spanish, Paella, Wine.
Etc…etc….
It was funny to see my friend's culture about food. They knew a lot of things! I was very surprise. Some people known more then 16 typical food and typical drink!
Well…This class was great; I think that all the students enjoyed a lot this class, because the most part of them was very excited, happy, and smiling.

My tests !

2004-05-06T17:06:00.000-03:00

Hey!!!!
I have just received my grades!!
The ‘true test’ and the listening test .I’m happy because I got two good marks: 6, 7 and 7, 5!
It is great!
I hope I will go on this way…
Well Bye Bye!
I will have a Portuguese test and a Science test tomorrow …
Sorry!( no time for chatting ).

Hey guys !

2004-05-06T16:56:00.000-03:00

Hey guys, how are you?
Well, I’m fine. My English tests were very easy. I think. But maybe I got a bad mark, who knows? But I don't think so.
I had 3 English tests in 2 days! I think my teacher is crazy! (I’m joking teacher :) ).
I had a listening test, a reading test, and ‘the test’, about compound adjectives, sounds: Z, IZ and S etc...
I think I will get 3 good marks.
Maybe my teacher will devolve them tomorrow. I hope so.
The day after tomorrow I will have a science test about ADN, and it is very boring! I have to practice a lot.
Today, I had to have 2 ‘permanence’ classes, but I did not have anything, I was very angry with all the teachers!
I can not explain what happened because you will not understand quite anything, it is a very complicated story...But I planed to study my science test in these 2 hours! And I did not study because I had class. AHHHHHH!!!
Well...It's life. The life is made of a lot good surprises and a lot of bad surprises, unhappily…
Well, Bye bye, I'm going to study my ADN test...

My first english class

2004-04-28T14:55:00.000-03:00

Well, now, the vacation is over...How time flew !
I saw two old friends at school. I was very happy to meet them again because we were really good friends and I had not seen them for ages. It was super.
In English, we are going to make a project, about food! It’s great because I loooove food, and later I would like to be a cook, but you already know that...
The name of the project is: ''the Copabacana restaurant'' .I don't know very well what we are going to do. because in class, I was very tired :) and I don't remember exactly what are we supposed to do. At the end of the class...The teacher told us about our next English test on Friday....Friday.... :( is in 2 days! I 'm going to study hard because I want to get a good mark, and avoid silly mistakes I made in the other test. There are a lot of things to learn, like:
- Compound adjectives
- Word formation
- Order of adjectives
- Location (describing picture)
- sound ( t/d/id )
I think it will be easy, but I have to start to study now! So I’m leaving you!
See you soon
Ps: On Friday I will tell you how my English test was: easier or more difficult than I thought...

It was super !

2004-04-21T15:02:00.000-03:00

Hi!
I have just come back from Rio de Janeiro, it was great! My mother took a lot of photos of the favelas and the building in the background, to show the contrast between the rich, and the poor.
We visited the biggest museum of Pietropolis: ‘the Dom Pedro 2 museum ’.We stayed there three hours because there were a lot of precious and beautiful objects who owned to Dom Pedro 2.
We visited a little Indian museum in Rio. The museum was very little, and very simple but It was great and very interesting. There were a lot of pictures about the Indians’ occupations, the Indians’ tattoos, and a lot of texts about their life and their integration in the society.
In Pietropolis, we saw the Santos Dumont’s house. It was very strange, there were no kitchen be , only a tiny bathroom and a room used as an office and a room to. In fact, he slept on his desk.
During this trip, we ate a lot. We have found a lot of wonderful restaurant, like a kilo mineiro. It was very cheap and very good .It was 4, 50 RS per person and there were more then sixty different courses!!! It was…delicious. It was the best kilo where I have ever been.
Well...6 days passed by, and now, I’m in my living-room doing my blog. We came back from Pietropolis Yesterday so we are very tired (as ever!).
It’s very late, so I’m going to go to bed.
Good night!

Vacation

2004-04-21T15:01:00.000-03:00

Hello!
I’m on vacation at the moment! I’m very happy! We have 2 weeks of vacation, it’super. My parents have planed to travel to Rio de Janeiro today, with a Brazilian friend and then, to come back to our city, Sao Paulo.
I have already done my homework, so, I can enjoy my vacations without thinking about school.
Oops!!! Sorry but I have to go!!! My father is shouting!!!He is calling me !we have to go !We are going to Rio right now and it takes 6 hours by car so we have to leave our apartment the more quickly as fast as we can.
Bye bye and enjoy working!
PS: I will remember you on the Copacabana beach with a lot of beautiful girls around. ;)

The Oral TesT

2004-03-31T19:08:00.000-03:00

I had to describe the poems seen in class ,pages 36-37 ,’Things I’d do if I weren't for my mum ,and Things I'd do if I weren't for my son.
Well, I got 7.
I thought that I read too much and I forgot a sentence! Because I was a little nervous.
Here is my text:

Both texts are poems written by the same person Tony Mitton, and next to the both poems we can see drawings illustrating the title.
The illustration is organized in two parts .The biggest part is colored and the second part is grey. The colored part represented the dream and the other part the reality.
We notice that the titles are very similar: The only word that is change is the last word: Mom and Son.
The first poem talks about a boy’s ideal life without his mother, and the second one speaks about mother dreams far away from her son.
On the one hand the boy enjoys eating snack, fattening foods, and drink soft drinks, and on the other hand, the mother would like to loose weight and have tea but both of them want to get rid of their pet.
Relating to their pass-times, they are very different each other:
The boy is fond off napping in front the TV, listening to loud music, where as his mother likes peace and quiet.
The boy wishes his room painted red and black with a snake on his desk. He’d like his room to be messy.
Contrary to his son, the mother would like to paint her walls in white and she‘d like to keep the kitchen clean and tidy.
The boy would like to be free and do what he wants.
For example, change his hair cut. And the mother would like to be herself too.

I hope you enjoyed it! And I hope I would get a better mark next time.
Well ,today ,we learnt a lot of vocabulary !I have learnt a lot of words ,a lot of expressions ,I have to read them again because in class I was very tired ( as ever :) ) and I have forgot a lot of words.
The only word that I remember is :
slushy stuff ,because when my teacher tried to imitate a sentimental person( she is indeed a very bad actress ;-) ),it was very funny !!! She made a lot of funny faces and a lot of funny noises.
Slushy stuff, this expression, comes from the alternative text, page 38 and 39 in the book, nice boy or bad lad?
We read all the questions, and the girls told their opinion about how would be their prefect boy, and so did the boys.
It was interesting because the opinions were very different from one another, and it was very interesting to hear the boys’ reactions about the perfect boyfriend...

I got it !

2004-03-21T17:45:00.000-03:00

I received my English test !
I had 7.4 ! It's a good mark ,but I'am angry with myself because I made a lot of terrible mistakes that I should have avoided.
I could get 8,5....
Well...My last English class was very interesting .I learnt a lot of things !
We learned a lot of expressions used to make comparisons :
- both, both of them
- like
- as....as
- unlike
- Even thought etc...
We read two poems written by 'Tony Mitton' at the page 36 - 37 ,and we compare them using expressions learned in class.
There was a lot of new vocabulary :
- to belch
- swear
- laserland
- thrill
- to dismathe etc...
We finished the English class studying the order of adjectives :
Opinion ,height ,Weight ,size ,temperature ,origin ,shape ,colour ,material ,personality ,and the purpose use.
We had to find 2 or 3 different adjectives ,and describe how our favourite house ,car ,pet ,etc...will be .
And then ...the bell rang !

My first English test !!!

2004-03-18T16:33:00.000-03:00

I had an English test last Friday and it was great ! I think I will get a good mark ( better than 6 ,I hope so ! ).I will know my grade tomorrow morning... at the moment ,I'm praying !!!
It was about all we did at the begining of the year .There were 4 exercices about the :
- Present perfect
- Simple past
- present perfect continous.
There were 15 sentences in French and we had to translate them into English .It was more dificult than the other exercices.
And ,the last exercise was about an ad ,we had to identify the different elements of this ad :
- copy
- cath phrase
- slogan etc...
I found this test easy ,I hope will have a good mark .
Now I'm listening to this music ,I 'll give you the lyrics ,I think wou gonna love this song .

Easy Target

All her signals are getting lost in the ether (that's what she wanted)
she's a landslide with a city beneath her (that's what she wanted)
so take a good look, so you'll never forget it (that's what she wanted)
take a deep breath, I know I'm gonna regret it (that's what she wanted)

Holly's looking dry looking for an easy target
let her slit my throat give her ammo if she'll use it
caution on the road lies lies and hidden danger
southern California's breeding mommy's little monster

She's got a mission, and I'm collateral damage (that's what she wanted)
she's the flower that you place on my casket (that's what she wanted)
savor the moment cause the memory's fleeting
take a photograph, as the last train is leaving

Holly's looking dry looking for an easy target
let her slit my throat give her ammo if she'll use it
caution on the road lies lies and hidden danger
southern California's breeding mommy's little monster

Better run run run run run (Holly let me out)
better run run run run run (Holly let me out)
better run run run run run (Holly let me out)
better run run run run run run run run (Holly let me out)

the Irish Food

2004-03-11T15:22:00.000-03:00

I have choose this subject because I love eating !And I'am very interested about all the different food in the world :
I only know the French ,the Chinese ,the Japanese and the Brazilian food .I would like to know how to cook Irish recipe's ,because when I grow up ,I would like to be a cook ,and I would like to know how do you made a lot of different food ,principally Irish food .Now ,I have learnt how do you made a :
- Traditional Irish breakfast.
- mushroom pie.
- Angels on horseback
The other plates are very difficult ,I have to practice a lot to turn me into a very good Irish cook !
If you want to learn how do you made a delicious Irish recipe's ,here the source ,click here !

The PoP Festival.

2004-03-07T13:03:00.000-03:00

Hello everybody ! how are you ?
Last Friday ,we had 2 English classes.During the first English class ,We studied an extrait from the book ''some lie and some die'' ,by Ruth Rendell , a famous English writer who specialises in detective fiction .
The title '' the pop festival ''and the text showed us that the scene took place at a pop festival.
The text is divided in three parts and the main characters appear in the introduction :
Chief inspector Wexford and detective inspector Burden.
I learnt a new word :
A housing state. A housing state is a lot of houses built by the government and that look all the same.
We studied the picture near the text too. It was a picture representing the pop festival.
There was a lot of people shouting and dancing ,and we noticed that almost all of them were wearing jeans and t-shirts.
Well ,that was all for my first English class.
In my second English class ,we went to the computer room ,and we did a little search about Ireland.
We went to site www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/ and all the students have had to do a little search for Friday about anything about Ireland (food ,mythology ,litterature etc...)
I have already begun my search about Ireland.I'm gonna write about the Irish Food because I love to eat ! And ,when I grow up ,I would to be a cook ,so ,I chose the subject : ''The Irish food''.
I' m gonna leave you ,so enjoy this picture ,and I hope you have already eaten ,and you are not hungry !

2004-02-28T14:08:00.000-03:00

Hello!!!
Do you know anything about Ireland ?
I ‘m going to tell you something about Ireland that I have learnt during my last English class.
Ireland is a very nice country to live in because there are not many buildings as in Sao Paulo.
Ireland is a country very fond of legends, myths, and superstitions. There is a legend very famous that you have to remember. The name of the legend is ‘the leprechaun’s’ .The leprechaun is a very but very little fairy shoemaker. When you find one, you have to keep your eyes on him and say:
Where is your pot of gold?
Don’t take your eyes off him because he will disappear .If he tells you where is his pot of gold ,you will be very rich .Well ,I have never found one but who knows… Maybe one day my wish comes true .Now ,I'm going to tell you about some Irish favorite sport.
The hurling is the Irish favorite sport .It is played with a small leather ball and a stick.This sport looks like hokey.
Ireland is a country that has the best horses in the world, so the horse-races are very famous there.
I'm sure that you want to know something about the Irish music.
There are famous Irish bands known by everybody, like: U2, The Corrs and The Cranberries .The Irish rock is very famous.
In The republic of Ireland, you will find a lot of pubs. Pub is like a bar, but there is more privacy in a pub than in a bar. Do you understand ?
The bar is open to everybody, but not the Pub.
In a Pub You can drink beer, dance, smoke, and I think that everybody get drunk there!
So if your life is a little boring, go into an Irish pub!

If you want to know everything about this wonderful country, visit these following sites:

http://www.allin1-travel.com/aboutireland7.htm
http://www.irishcultureguide.com/folkmyth.html

2004-02-26T16:24:00.000-03:00

Well ,today has been a so boring day !!! :) Don't you think that every day of the week is boring for me ?
Well ,today we have not done anything especial. We have revised the structure of an Ad ,and we talked about the realism and the sobrenatural ,because in the Ad there was a pink elefant ,and a car with big winds .
We have began a new lesson about the Irish communauty .But we have not done anything at all ,we have just said that the irish flag was green ,white and orange.
And ,my teacher asked me to answer some questions about the carnival About its origine ,its meaning etc...You will see ! I 'm leaving you ,enjoy my work !!!
Questions:
1) What is carnival?
2) Where did it originate?
3) How did it start in Brazil?
4) Are they different way of celebration it?
5) Have you ever participated in Carnival? When| How | what you did?
6) How have you participated this year?
7) What you have done?
Answers:
1) It is an annual celebration of life found in many countries of the world. And in fact, by learning more about carnival we can learn more about ourselves and a lot about accepting and understanding other cultures.

2) Hundred And hundreds of years ago, the followers of the Catholic religion in Italy started the tradition of holding a wild costume festival right before the first day of Lent. Because Catholics are not supposed to eat meat during Lent, they called their festival, carnevale — which means “to put away the meat.” As time passed, carnivals in Italy became quite famous; and in fact the practice spread to France, Spain, and all the Catholic countries in Europe. Then as the French, Spanish, and Portuguese began to take control of the Americas and other parts of the world, they brought with them their tradition of celebrating carnival.

3) Carnival has started in Brazil in 1723, with the migration coming from the Portuguese islands of Madeira, Açores and Cabo Verde. The carnival commemorations, called Entrudo (word of Latin origin meaning "entrance"), were similar to the ones which happened in Portugal.

4) At present, most Carnival traditions are similar, but each part of the world may have its own particular differences, and often enough the holidays are held at different times of the year.
They are different way of celebration it .For example, In Cuba, it is celebrated in July to commemorate the revolution of the late 1950s. The rest of the Caribbean generally has Carnivals spaced out in such a way that they won’t overlap with anything else, allowing people to visit and enjoy the various slightly different celebrations on different islands. In Europe and the US, it is still celebrated right before Lent.

5) Yes, I have already participated at the carnival when I was 5 years old . The subject of the carnival was ‘the Africa ‘and I was dressed up as an African warrior .With my school friends and my school teacher we had a great fun in deed. We danced in the school yard, and all the parents were there taking photos and cheering us .I will never forget it.

6) This year, I went to the Sao Paulo carnival with my dad. We saw the main samba schools:
Gavioes da fiel, X – 9, Aguias de ouro, Vai-Vai etc…My father took a lot of pictures, because the Sao Paulo carnival is a beautiful show. The terraces were full, and all the people were dancing and crying, despite of the cold weather.

7) Well, I did not do anything special. I took photos, I ate, and I drank a lot of coca. I did not dance because I’m not interesting of samba, and I am a very bad dancer. I preferred to dance listening to Punk-Rock music, is very easy, you only have to jump .Samba is so complicated as a starter like me!!!

2004-02-20T01:06:00.000-03:00

I'm so exhausted... I have just come back from the S.P carnival ... It was a big show ,it was really beautiful but it was very tiring and at the end ,a little boring... I left my appartment at 4h15 pm .We arrived there at 5 pm ,and there were a little file to go into the sambodrome.
We went there at 5 pm because the gates were supposed to be opened at five pm ,and because we would like to have the better places to take photo .We are very smart ,aren't we ? ;) .But they only opened the gates at 6h15 pm... :(
All the Brazilian people behind me were hungry ,they said that they did not want to be taken for fools .
When we went into the sambodrome ,there were just a few people sitting on the terraces ,ready to attend the show.
But ,the show started at 22h30. We waited during 5 hours in the terraces .At the end ,My bottom hurt because the terraces are not very comfortable, you see....When the first school of samba appeared ,all the Brazylians stoop up and began to dance the Samba ,even the little granny who was at my side .It was very funny to see her and to hear her because as soon as she saw a float ,she started to shout:' ouhouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ! 'You have not idea !
We saw only 5 schools of samba ,and the we left ,beause I was ready to drope out .We saw : Gavioes da fiel ,x - 9 ,aguias de ouro and....I don't remember !
I prefered gavioes da fiel ,despite the little accident that happened to the float at the end of the procession ,a technical problem I supposed.
Many fans burst into tears because they thought that they favourite school were going to loose the title of '' best school of samba '' ...
We will see ,let's pray for gavioes da fiel ,because they deserve the first prize of the best school of samba .
Afther their procession ,It was 6h25 pm and there were more two samba school's !Almost all the people in the public were tired and sleepy .At the beginning of teh show ,they looked like monkeys waving arms and heads,and at the end ,they looked like turttles !Well ,Now....
I think I'm gonna say hello to my bed again and bye bye to the computer .
Good bye everybody and enjoy your carnival !

2004-02-19T17:07:00.000-03:00

Hello !
It's raining cats and dogs !
It's incredible !I'm soaked !I have never seen such a heavy rain !It began about 3h40 ,and stopped at 5h15 ,happily.
My English teacher jumped because she was terrified ,and ,she closed her ears because she couldn't stand the horrible noise.It was so funny !She looked like a rabbit ! ;)
Today we analysed the letter from Fergal that we read yesterday .
We noticed that it was not a letter to his friends ,but to his fans.
I learnt a new word :
take-shape.
A very useful word indeed for someone like me who loves music (mainly Punk-Rock ...Blink 1822222)
Ten minutes before the end of the class ,we started to do Grammar exercises .It was not complicated because I have already studied the past simple before.
Well ,today I got a wonderfull grade to my French test ! I was so happy !Because I'm not a ''Victor Hugo'' in French ... I hope you will enjoy my joke .
Goodbye !
Have a nice carnaval !

2004-02-17T19:34:00.000-03:00

Hi...I'm so tired ...This day was very tiring ...I began the day with Physics ,History ,French and Mathematics... All these topics are very boring ,mainly Mathematics and Physics.
We talked about the gravitation and the attraction forces.Well ,I have not understood anything !I thought this is the most difficult class we have ever had .
This morning makes me very hungry .When I went to the cantine I was very happy because I loved everything.
They were potatoes ,strogonoff and 'brigadeiros' .It was delicious .Then came my English class ,we have been studying documents about the Cranberries ,there were an auto-biography ,letters ,questions and a big photo where we can see distinctly this band .
We noticed that the sofa was green ,and the colour of the irish flag is green too,so the Cranberries are Irish ;) .
Well I have learnt a lot of new things about this band ,but the thing that I prefered In this group ,is not their biography ,their photos but their music .Download this one ,It's my favourite ! I think you are not gonna be desappointed...

Salvation

To all those people doing lines
don't do it, don't do it
Inject your soul with liberty
it's free, it's free

To all the kids with heroin eyes
don't do it, don't do it
Because it's not, not what it seems
No, no it's not, not what it seems

Salvation, salvation, salvation is free
Salvation, salvation, salvation is free

To all those parents with sleepless nights
(sleepless nights)
Tie your kids home to their beds
bleed their heads

To all the kids with heroin eyes
don't do it, don't do it
Because it's not, not what it seems
No, no it's not, not what it seems

Salvation, salvation, salvation is free
Salvation, salvation, salvation is free

Salvation, salvation, salvation is free
Salvation, salvation, salvation is free

2004-02-15T11:02:00.000-03:00

At first, I had mathematic .We learnt how to use our calculator .It was a little boring...Then I had My english Class .We studied a screenshot from a movie called ''Mars Attack'' .We identified the document ,the picture .
We discovered that the picture ( who was taken from the film ) was produced by Steven Spilberg ,a famous American film maker.
We talked a long time about this film and my teacher laught a lot because the students told her that the film was very stupid .But ,it was a great class .
Then I had my gym class .We played ping pong and badmington .I lost the badmington game but I won the ping pong game ;) .I was very happy because my adversary was very experimented one .He has played since he was 7 years old ,almost like me .Then ,I ate at the cafeteria because I was not very hungry.
I ate a little tuna sandwich .It was very small ,but excelent. Then I went to the ''foyer'' And I finished my day listening to a music intitulated ' i Miss You' ( Blink-182 ) ,Now ,is time to go ,I hope you will enjoy this music as I enjoy it .Have a nice day.

Hello there, the angel from my nightmare
The shadow in the background of the morgue
The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley
We can live like Jack and Sally if we want
Where you can always find me
We'll have Halloween on Christmas
And in the night we'll wish this never ends
We'll wish this never ends

(I miss you I miss you)
(I miss you I miss you)

Where are you and I'm so sorry
I cannot sleep I cannot dream tonight
I need somebody and always
This sick strange darkness
Comes creeping on so haunting every time
And as I stared I counted
Webs from all the spiders
Catching things and eating their insides
Like indecision to call you
and hear your voice of treason
Will you come home and stop this pain tonight
Stop this pain tonight

Don't waste your time on me you're already
The voice inside my head (miss you miss you)
Don't waste your time on me you're already
The voice inside my head (miss you miss you)

Don't waste your time on me you're already
The voice inside my head (I miss you miss you)
Don't waste your time on me you're already
The voice inside my head (I miss you miss you)

2004-02-13T15:24:00.000-02:00

Hi !!!
Today is thursday ,I have just come home .Now ,I'm doing my blog and I'm watching television ,a French film called 'the visitors' ,Its a funny film ,I have already seen him before and I like it.
Then I'm gonna have a big cold shower because I'm very tired .
Today ,I have had 2 French classes ,it was interesting ,we talked about a book ,titled Carmen ,and we fixed a test for Monday .It's so boring...Then we have had an history class ,and we have elected our school-representative .Now ,the two school-representative of my class are titi and luliss .I think they gonna do a great job :) .
Then I ate at the cantine ;
I atemeat balls ,with cauliflower and a frut salad .It was very good ,as always...And finally , I have my English class .We talked about A terror hystory ,called 'bus Stop' ,we talked about the text ,and we answered a lot of questions about the text and the picture.
then ,I came back home ,and now ,I'm listening to a music ,intitulated 'carousel' ,I like this music ,here are the lyrics ,(It's a blink 182 song ,of course) :

I talk to you every now and then
I never felt so alone again
I stop to think at a wishing well
My thoughts send me on a carousel

Here I am standing on my own
Not a motion from the telephone
I know not a reason why
Solitudes a reason to die

Just you wait and see
As school life is a
It is a woken dream
Aren't you feeling alone?

I guess its just another
I guess its just another
I guess its just another night alone

Now as I walk down the street
I need a job just to sleep in sheets
Buying food every once in a while
But not enough to purchase a smile

A tank of gas is a treasure to me
I know now that nothing is free
I talk to you every now and then
I never felt so alone again

Just you wait and see
As school life is a
It is a woken dream
Aren't you feeling alone?

I guess its just another
I guess its just another
I guess its just another night alone