If you feel like testing your knowledge on extreme weather conditions take this quizz:
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3/30/07
3/29/07
Home = old friends?
Returning to Lisbon from my bestfriend's wedding "When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood."
- Sam Ewing -
3/28/07
home (Creative Writing)
I, once used to know a girl who never knew the meaning of the word "home". She lived in a house near to me, but I never knew what her life was like.
Everyday I used to see Marie at school, and she wasn't someone that particularly stood out from the crowd. But, still, I sensed something missing about her, but I didn't quite know what. Then, when it came to Parents' Day, when everyone's parents came to talk to their teachers and find out how well (or in some cases bad) they were doing at school, Marie came alone. She didn't come with a Mum nor a Dad. It was then I realised that the missing part of Marie was her family. Maybe her parents didn't live with her or didn't care for her like mine did, but whatever the situation was, I knew I had to make her feel like she had a home.
The next week, I invited her to come and join my family to have dinner with us. She seemed to reluctantly agree, perhaps out of shock for someone showing a caring emotion towards her. Whatever the case, she did arrive that night and she did eat with us, and I did notice a difference in her - she appeared to be happy for the first time that I had known her. From that day on, she became a part of my family in the metaphorical sense, and she learnt what a home truly means.
TiagoMendes Nº19893
Everyday I used to see Marie at school, and she wasn't someone that particularly stood out from the crowd. But, still, I sensed something missing about her, but I didn't quite know what. Then, when it came to Parents' Day, when everyone's parents came to talk to their teachers and find out how well (or in some cases bad) they were doing at school, Marie came alone. She didn't come with a Mum nor a Dad. It was then I realised that the missing part of Marie was her family. Maybe her parents didn't live with her or didn't care for her like mine did, but whatever the situation was, I knew I had to make her feel like she had a home.
The next week, I invited her to come and join my family to have dinner with us. She seemed to reluctantly agree, perhaps out of shock for someone showing a caring emotion towards her. Whatever the case, she did arrive that night and she did eat with us, and I did notice a difference in her - she appeared to be happy for the first time that I had known her. From that day on, she became a part of my family in the metaphorical sense, and she learnt what a home truly means.
TiagoMendes Nº19893
3/27/07
home... our safe haven
“Home sweet home”… I think there isn’t a single man or woman in the whole world who hasn’t muttered or at least thought about these words when arriving somewhere at least once in their lives. By “Home” I am not referring exclusively to that material place built out of bricks and concrete where we sleep in, or store our personal belongings… In my opinion, “Home” can have a wide variety of meanings according to different situations, but in the end they all tend to mean one specific thing: “safety” and comfort. For example, for a group of immigrants working in a faraway country, “home” can be their native country or city, and not only the place where they sleep in. Different situations, like distance, can provoke on individuals a different feeling of what they consider home. When we are growing up, our home is the place where we live in, where our parents and friends are. But inside our house there is usually a special place: our bedroom, the ultimate sanctuary inside our home. Of course, the whole house is our home, but while we don’t have a house of our own, our bedroom is usually the “home” inside our home. It is where we keep our little secrets, the things we like the most and the place where we spend the majority of our time. Basically it is “us” reflected upon those walls. But things get a little different after we grow up and have our own home. The sanctuary that was once our room extends to the other divisions of the house, and every single one of them become as important as the other, mainly because it is something that belongs to us, that was “built” and decorated accordingly to our own personality and desire. But if “home is where our heart is”, that doesn’t mean that just because we move into a luxurious house that place will immediately become our “Home”. Some people would never trade their humble houses and belongings for a bigger and lavish house, just because it’s better, simply because the other place contains a handful of powerful memories. Yes, memories can also be our “home”. Everyone one has a little arc of memories where they keep their good, and sometimes times not so good moments. These moments are things that help us through bad times or help us growing up, so, it is really hard for someone to move out of a place where most of those memories are stored. For most of us, “home” is not only our house, city or country, just because we live in or were born in it, but mainly because it is the place where our treasured memories are stored in. So, the opinion I want to share with you all regarding the expression “home” is that no matter how many shapes that expression may acquire accordingly to different people, in the end the synonym of the expression “home” is haven, a place where we can be happy, sad, but mainly ourselves in peace.
hi!
Hi everyone I’m Tânia, I’m 21 years old and I’m in “Línguas,Literaturas e Culturas – Variante estudos Ingleses e Franceses”.
I’m from the Azores, from the island of Santa Maria. Yes, I’m “neighbour“ of Pauleta! :)
For 2 years I lived in New Caledonia, witch is an island in south Pacific near Australia. It’s a very beautiful island, actually, it’s not only beautiful, it’s a paradise! I hope, one day, you will have the opportunity to see what I saw. I was lucky to have this experience that allowed me to see our world in a different way.
I love to dance! In New Caledonia I had brazilian dance classes and I made part of my teacher’s group of brazilian dances. It was a great experience since I could learn how to dance and make some very good friends! Maybe one of these days we could go out to dance!
Well, I think it’s enough for know... Bye! see you all at 10!
I’m from the Azores, from the island of Santa Maria. Yes, I’m “neighbour“ of Pauleta! :)
For 2 years I lived in New Caledonia, witch is an island in south Pacific near Australia. It’s a very beautiful island, actually, it’s not only beautiful, it’s a paradise! I hope, one day, you will have the opportunity to see what I saw. I was lucky to have this experience that allowed me to see our world in a different way.
I love to dance! In New Caledonia I had brazilian dance classes and I made part of my teacher’s group of brazilian dances. It was a great experience since I could learn how to dance and make some very good friends! Maybe one of these days we could go out to dance!
Well, I think it’s enough for know... Bye! see you all at 10!
3/26/07
Classroom
The Monday class will be always in room 311, for the Wednesday class we meet outise my office in the 2nd floor as we don't have a classroom yet.
Atena Sosoi
Hello,everybody!My name is Atena Sosoi and I am an Erasmus student from Romania.I came here,in Lisbon in September to do the first semester,but I fell in love with this country and here I am again for the second one!What can I say about me?I am 22 years old,I'm studying English,Portuguise and Spanish.I like to think about myself as being a friendly and nice person,I enjoy spending time with my friends in Bairro Alto(hope to meet you there...)and I love movies!But I don't like to talk a lot about me,so I will finish now...Bye,everyone,see you in class!
3/25/07
Home
At home I’m never alone, even when I am.
At first we were four. We seated around a round table.
My mother, my father, my sister and I.
Later my sister got married and left home.
Around a small round table we keep being four.
My mother, my father, my sister that is at her house and I.
Later my mother passed away, but we kept being four around our small round table.
My dead mother, my father, my sister that was at her house and I.
Later my father also passed away, but even alone we kept being four around our small round table.
My dead mother, my dead father, my sister that was at her house and I.
We kept being four around our small round table at our home.
3/23/07
There's no place like home
When we are really young and all we know is the place where we live and the ones we get to meet when our parents take us on vacation, it's easy to believe that home is where our parents are. That's where we feel safe (or we should feel safe), that's were we belong, no doubts about that . Then the stories and the tv show us that the world is further more than the street where we live and Sesame Street looks a better place to be. The dreaming starts and after that, God knows where each person's home is.
We tend to call home to the place where we live. Maybe that's because that's where all our personal stuff is, our identity is connected to the material things we have. (I'm not talking about expensive things). All our memories, the things we work hard to get are there, in that place where we come back at night and say: "Home sweet home". I sure can do that. But I do not know where my home is.
When people talk about the idea of home I usually remember those who lost their homes in desastres like the huge fires in Portugal or Hurricane Katrina in USA. People had to run away and saw all the work of a lifetime got destroyed, still they feel the need to return, because despite all the damages, that's where they belong, that's where they belong in.
We tend to call home to the place where we live. Maybe that's because that's where all our personal stuff is, our identity is connected to the material things we have. (I'm not talking about expensive things). All our memories, the things we work hard to get are there, in that place where we come back at night and say: "Home sweet home". I sure can do that. But I do not know where my home is.
I'm from Lisbon, that's where I was born, Lisbon is the closest definition to home as a place that I can find. I love Saint Jorge's Castle and Tagus River, I love the chestnut sellers and the birds on the street.But eventhough it sometimes feels like home to me, I do know that's not really where I belong in. I often feel like an alien, due to not understanding this world. Can we can call home something we do not understand?
Maybe the concept of home to me means my individuality, my identity, who I am.
I do not have rubi shoes, I'm glad I have a place to live and call home, but I am a dreamer and a traveller-to-be. So I am still looking for my own concept of home, while I keep on searching for myself.
(From the Wizzard of Oz, rubi shoes - "There's no place like home" scene)
Profile
Hello, my name is Nadine but you can call me Nikki, that's what everybody does.
(I'm sorry I could only post my profile today, last semestre I posted a lot of stuff on the blog.
I don't really know what to tell you about me, probably it would be better for those who want to know more to find it for themselves. I guess it's easier to go for the usual introduction around here: )
I'm Portuguese, I was born in Lisbon but spent 4 years in a small town between Coimbra and Viseu where I got to see how life is in smaller places and discovered I really am a city girl. I enjoy horseback riding, picnics and a little bit of peace from time to time but I can't live without some things only a "big" city can offer.
Eventhough I love traveling, I do not know more than Portugal, a little bit of Spain and a little bit of Ireland. I'm looking forward for more.
I'm studying Linguas, Literaturas e Culturas, I don't know what I will do when I end up studying but I guess if I figure it out later it won't be too late. I always knew I would go to "Humanities" and this course was my first choice of six which included Modern Languages and Philosophy. I will probably get my Minor in Philosophy, I'm not sure yet.
I guess this will be enough for now. If not, feel free to ask.
Have a nice semestre,
Nikki
Home
What is home?
During my time as receptionist I get to know some nice people from the U.K. that were working here in Portugal for the week and at weekend’s they went back home, to their families.
They do it for months, so were it is really home for them? The hotels were they live 5 days a week or their houses back in the U.K. were they only stay the weekend?
Some of them, a few months after living like this started to look different to our country, and started to feel at HOME, I knew some that left the hotel because they bought their own house (home) here in Portugal and their families moved to Portugal as well, others bought houses here and started a new family with Portuguese people and a few went back to the U.K.
Home is were the heart is, is were you feel comfortable and welcome, were you can live in peace with love and feel good, really good in it!! It may be a house, a city or a country...doesn’t matter if you spend the whole week or only the weekend there. These people that I’ve got the chance to know they just follow their heart and settle down, or moved back home because…HOME IS WERE THE HEART IS!!!
Let me say that some of those that are living here in Portugal used to come back to the hotel to go to the bar, to do their laundry or to eat at the restaurant, I think that is because during the time that they spend there, they feel at home and it was like if us , the employees, were like family to them…that is just why I’m going to come back to work at the hotel, because there is this connection between the employees and the guest which is great!!
silvia d.
During my time as receptionist I get to know some nice people from the U.K. that were working here in Portugal for the week and at weekend’s they went back home, to their families.
They do it for months, so were it is really home for them? The hotels were they live 5 days a week or their houses back in the U.K. were they only stay the weekend?
Some of them, a few months after living like this started to look different to our country, and started to feel at HOME, I knew some that left the hotel because they bought their own house (home) here in Portugal and their families moved to Portugal as well, others bought houses here and started a new family with Portuguese people and a few went back to the U.K.
Home is were the heart is, is were you feel comfortable and welcome, were you can live in peace with love and feel good, really good in it!! It may be a house, a city or a country...doesn’t matter if you spend the whole week or only the weekend there. These people that I’ve got the chance to know they just follow their heart and settle down, or moved back home because…HOME IS WERE THE HEART IS!!!
Let me say that some of those that are living here in Portugal used to come back to the hotel to go to the bar, to do their laundry or to eat at the restaurant, I think that is because during the time that they spend there, they feel at home and it was like if us , the employees, were like family to them…that is just why I’m going to come back to work at the hotel, because there is this connection between the employees and the guest which is great!!
silvia d.
The Student Formerly Known As Diogo
How´s it going people. My name is Diogo Carvalho, and unless you live with your head in the clouds you know me. For those of you that didn´t have the pleasure of being my classmates last semester, allow me to provide a brief description of myself. I am 23 years old and was born here in Lisbon, Portugal. When i was eight, my family and I moved to the United States of America. In the U.S., I lived in the cities of Newark, Hillsborough, Kearny, Atlantic Beach and Miami. I studied there from grades 3 to 12, and received my high school diploma from the state of New Jersey. I came back to my country of birth in 2004 and have been here in Lisbon ever since. I enjoy playing video games, going out with friends, watching sitcoms and playing soccer(football in Europe). I am an insane fan of Sporting Clube de Portugal, and try to attend one home game a year. I´m looking foward to a great year and getting to know those of you I didn´t have classes with last semester.
P.S. don´t have any pics yet but I´ll upload one a.s.a.p.
P.S. don´t have any pics yet but I´ll upload one a.s.a.p.
3/21/07
Idioms with HOME
My second home
Home is where the heart is, where we feel safe, confident, where you grow up and where you fell welcome.
This is what I feel in my home and also in my second home. The place that I call “second home” is my team and all the organization and things that surround us. My second home is Fisica de Torres Vedras, a small but important basketball club of my town. I love the game of basketball and I play since I was twelve years old and I’ve always played for Fisica, training almost every day spending most of my afternoons and evenings with my teammates and also our great weekends when we play and when we watch the senior team play. My basketball team is a very special “place” for me, the trips to the games, the practices, the ups and downs; they are part of my life. There, was where I found one of my best friends, and great part of my friends are my teammates that are also my family.
Going every day to practice knowing that they are always there to help you no matter what is priceless, they are the ones that make me love this game so much and that make me want to keep going and playing even when things aren’t going so well, and they are also the ones that cheer me and celebrate with me when things are going well. I will only stop playing basketball when I really can’t play no more, but I will manage to be part of the club and part of my teammates heart forever.
I love this game! And I love “my family”.
This is what I feel in my home and also in my second home. The place that I call “second home” is my team and all the organization and things that surround us. My second home is Fisica de Torres Vedras, a small but important basketball club of my town. I love the game of basketball and I play since I was twelve years old and I’ve always played for Fisica, training almost every day spending most of my afternoons and evenings with my teammates and also our great weekends when we play and when we watch the senior team play. My basketball team is a very special “place” for me, the trips to the games, the practices, the ups and downs; they are part of my life. There, was where I found one of my best friends, and great part of my friends are my teammates that are also my family.
Going every day to practice knowing that they are always there to help you no matter what is priceless, they are the ones that make me love this game so much and that make me want to keep going and playing even when things aren’t going so well, and they are also the ones that cheer me and celebrate with me when things are going well. I will only stop playing basketball when I really can’t play no more, but I will manage to be part of the club and part of my teammates heart forever.
I love this game! And I love “my family”.
João Paio
Hello everyone!!
I’m sure that by now almost everyone of you in our class know me, but for those who haven’t the slightest idea of who I am, I will try to describe myself in a small profile. So, here it goes: My name is João Paio (Oh boy, you can’t even start to imagine how many people make fun of my last name...) I am twenty three years old and I have lived in Lisbon all my life, but hopefully, one day I will have enough money to buy a house in the country where I can live a peaceful life, surrounded by nature, and especially with a lot of dogs. As I already told you all in the first class, I am a huge “dog lover”! I simply love those animals. They are extremely friendly, and they seem to be always happy! I wish I could keep every dog I see abandoned in the streets, but unfortunately that’s not possible… Ups… I’m sorry, I started rambling (this usually happens to me when I start talking about things I love. Well, back to my profile: My hopes about this degree course are very, very high, especially because this is the second one I’m taking here at our University (the first one was in Anthropology). In other words I mean: this is my last chance to fulfil the dream of becoming a teacher. When I first started my anthropology degree course I thought I would be able to become a history teacher, but unfortunately, thanks to the changes that the “teaching laws” have gone through, by the time I finished my degree course I was no longer able to teach. So, since I always dreamed of becoming a teacher I decided to embark on this new adventure. “Yep”… I must be out of my mind!
Besides my family, friends and dogs (here I go again), my other favourite things in the whole world are what you can call a typical cliché: listen to music, watching movies (I love cinema so much that I almost went to a movie directing degree course), reading and playing videogames, being “Silent Hill”, “Resident Evil”, “Final Fantasy” and “Tomb Raider” my favourites.
Nowadays, I no longer live with my parents. I established a new home with the person I love, and we have been living together for a year now. We have been together for 5 years and met for 12 now. A year ago, with everybody’s support we took the decision of moving in together and things couldn’t be going on any better.
Well, I guess this all I remember to say, for now at least. I sure we will all get along just fine and that this will be an amazing semester.
See you all in class. J
I’m sure that by now almost everyone of you in our class know me, but for those who haven’t the slightest idea of who I am, I will try to describe myself in a small profile. So, here it goes: My name is João Paio (Oh boy, you can’t even start to imagine how many people make fun of my last name...) I am twenty three years old and I have lived in Lisbon all my life, but hopefully, one day I will have enough money to buy a house in the country where I can live a peaceful life, surrounded by nature, and especially with a lot of dogs. As I already told you all in the first class, I am a huge “dog lover”! I simply love those animals. They are extremely friendly, and they seem to be always happy! I wish I could keep every dog I see abandoned in the streets, but unfortunately that’s not possible… Ups… I’m sorry, I started rambling (this usually happens to me when I start talking about things I love. Well, back to my profile: My hopes about this degree course are very, very high, especially because this is the second one I’m taking here at our University (the first one was in Anthropology). In other words I mean: this is my last chance to fulfil the dream of becoming a teacher. When I first started my anthropology degree course I thought I would be able to become a history teacher, but unfortunately, thanks to the changes that the “teaching laws” have gone through, by the time I finished my degree course I was no longer able to teach. So, since I always dreamed of becoming a teacher I decided to embark on this new adventure. “Yep”… I must be out of my mind!
Besides my family, friends and dogs (here I go again), my other favourite things in the whole world are what you can call a typical cliché: listen to music, watching movies (I love cinema so much that I almost went to a movie directing degree course), reading and playing videogames, being “Silent Hill”, “Resident Evil”, “Final Fantasy” and “Tomb Raider” my favourites.
Nowadays, I no longer live with my parents. I established a new home with the person I love, and we have been living together for a year now. We have been together for 5 years and met for 12 now. A year ago, with everybody’s support we took the decision of moving in together and things couldn’t be going on any better.
Well, I guess this all I remember to say, for now at least. I sure we will all get along just fine and that this will be an amazing semester.
See you all in class. J
Home is where everything is!
My home is my sanctuary, my shelter from real world. The place where I live is the place where my true personality is and where it shall remain...ok this sounds silly but it's kinda true. Everyone says "ohh, I wanna leave home as soon as I can" or "I can't stand living with my parents" and try by any means to get out of there...leave "HOME"?? not me, when I feel like it I will do it, but the day I do that it will be when my mind is ready not when my head is ready. It's not like I'm leaving home when I'm 35, nothing like it, it's just that home is where I feel safe and confortable...and...it's where I feel home. It's not much of a neihbourhood...but it's home anyways.
my profile
hi there.
i'm Luis Eustaquio (it's my name)...well actually it's my middle name. MY last name is Pires but I prefer Eustaquio. It's catchy. As I said last semester, I am a big fan of skateboard and also skimboard (which is that thing kids do on the beach with the thin boards by the seashore) except I am not a kid and my board is not thin...that's pretty much the difference between skimboard and skimming. Well, after this short explanaition all I can say about myself is that I really like to just hang out and laugh all day if possible. I love music...all music (clichet) no really, I often consider myself not only a person who likes music but also the music itself: punk, alternative, rap, britpop...bla bla bla, yadah yadah yadah. Last but not least, there is another thing that I love: Superman...clark Kent...I just love the character, the concept...the clothes, the movies, the toys, everything!!!! I think i've said enough : c ya
i'm Luis Eustaquio (it's my name)...well actually it's my middle name. MY last name is Pires but I prefer Eustaquio. It's catchy. As I said last semester, I am a big fan of skateboard and also skimboard (which is that thing kids do on the beach with the thin boards by the seashore) except I am not a kid and my board is not thin...that's pretty much the difference between skimboard and skimming. Well, after this short explanaition all I can say about myself is that I really like to just hang out and laugh all day if possible. I love music...all music (clichet) no really, I often consider myself not only a person who likes music but also the music itself: punk, alternative, rap, britpop...bla bla bla, yadah yadah yadah. Last but not least, there is another thing that I love: Superman...clark Kent...I just love the character, the concept...the clothes, the movies, the toys, everything!!!! I think i've said enough : c ya
3/20/07
Home is where the family is
Home is a place we should look forward to after a hard days work.
It is almost considered a place of worship for our family and even friends when they are invited.
It keeps us warm from the harsh winter and cool in the hot summer.
Home is a part of our heart and whenever we are far away we can remember the home that has always made us happy.
It is almost considered a place of worship for our family and even friends when they are invited.
It keeps us warm from the harsh winter and cool in the hot summer.
Home is a part of our heart and whenever we are far away we can remember the home that has always made us happy.
Home or where the heart is...
Home,in my opinion is the place where we want to be.But where is in fact "home" for each one of us?We think we decide what "home" means to us,but is only partly true because it is a feeling that develops by itself...For some of us is the place where the protection and comfort is,for others is the place that has their belongings and memories.I think that "home" may not be a place,but a person or a memory.For example,for me,my home is not there in Romania but neither here in Lisbon,home is where my friends are.On the other hand,nothing compares with being at my grandfather's house,the place where I grew up.When I'm there I feel that all the bad things dissapear and that nothing wrong could happen.I simply adore that house!So,I could say that I had had always two houses.But I am just a lucky person...Atena
Posted by atena at 3/19/2007 01:23:00 PM
Home,in my opinion is the place where we want to be.But where is in fact "home" for each one of us?We think we decide what "home" means to us,but is only partly true because it is a feeling that develops by itself...For some of us is the place where the protection and comfort is,for others is the place that has their belongings and memories.I think that "home" may not be a place,but a person or a memory.For example,for me,my home is not there in Romania but neither here in Lisbon,home is where my friends are.On the other hand,nothing compares with being at my grandfather's house,the place where I grew up.When I'm there I feel that all the bad things dissapear and that nothing wrong could happen.I simply adore that house!So,I could say that I had had always two houses.But I am just a lucky person...Atena
Posted by atena at 3/19/2007 01:23:00 PM
3/19/07
hey!
i'm silvia, 23 years old...i guess that everyone already knows me but well...here it goes a little bit about me..
i just leave the school a few years ago and started work in a supermarket, then in an hotel as an "operator" (someone that only aswers the phone!!very boring!) then i moved to another hotel and was a recepcionist until the time that i apply college and started the studies again...i thought that was easy to get a part-time job but once i didn't got any luck i'm going to study and come back to the hotel were i was before college...it is going to be hard for me but in another way there i can practise my english and spanish and it is good to know people from all over the world and to see the SLB team every 15 days :P
the first semester was good for me and i'm enjoying the course..translation buy the way!!
i'm sorry for my english mistakes but for me it's a little moore easy to speak than to write because a big part of my english was improved in hotels,speaking with people...we can learn a lot, but people..they understand you eighter if you speak good or bad english..they always stay impressed with the portuguese people that knows how to speak english that they don't care if you speak it good or bad...
well...that's all for now!feel free to speak with me...if you'd like to.
cheers
silvia d.
i'm silvia, 23 years old...i guess that everyone already knows me but well...here it goes a little bit about me..
i just leave the school a few years ago and started work in a supermarket, then in an hotel as an "operator" (someone that only aswers the phone!!very boring!) then i moved to another hotel and was a recepcionist until the time that i apply college and started the studies again...i thought that was easy to get a part-time job but once i didn't got any luck i'm going to study and come back to the hotel were i was before college...it is going to be hard for me but in another way there i can practise my english and spanish and it is good to know people from all over the world and to see the SLB team every 15 days :P
the first semester was good for me and i'm enjoying the course..translation buy the way!!
i'm sorry for my english mistakes but for me it's a little moore easy to speak than to write because a big part of my english was improved in hotels,speaking with people...we can learn a lot, but people..they understand you eighter if you speak good or bad english..they always stay impressed with the portuguese people that knows how to speak english that they don't care if you speak it good or bad...
well...that's all for now!feel free to speak with me...if you'd like to.
cheers
silvia d.
My Profile
Hi class many already know me but some don´t so let meintroduce myself:
My name is Tiago Mendes I am in the first year of Universityand I am studying English and North American Studies.
I was born here in Portugal, more precisely in a smallisland in the Atlantic Ocean called Madeira.When I turned 4 years old my parents and I moved to SouthAfrica where we stayed for 11 years. South Africa is a verybeautiful country only marred by the wave of crime that hasbeen happening over the past decade.
These were one of the reasons why we had to leave thecountry in 2000, at first I was really sad that the countrywas in this situation, but 1 year ago I returned to thecountry on holiday and was very happy knowing that SouthAfrica´s crime rate has decreased which is very goodconsidering it´s going to host a very important footballtournament in 2010.
So this is my small profile not great but simple
See you at 10
Tiago Mendes
My name is Tiago Mendes I am in the first year of Universityand I am studying English and North American Studies.
I was born here in Portugal, more precisely in a smallisland in the Atlantic Ocean called Madeira.When I turned 4 years old my parents and I moved to SouthAfrica where we stayed for 11 years. South Africa is a verybeautiful country only marred by the wave of crime that hasbeen happening over the past decade.
These were one of the reasons why we had to leave thecountry in 2000, at first I was really sad that the countrywas in this situation, but 1 year ago I returned to thecountry on holiday and was very happy knowing that SouthAfrica´s crime rate has decreased which is very goodconsidering it´s going to host a very important footballtournament in 2010.
So this is my small profile not great but simple
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Tiago Mendes
3/18/07
Hi!
I am Pedro Mota
I think that most of you already know me but here it goes:
I am from Torres Vedras and I’m in translation, in the first year. I come and go every day which is very boring, but until now I’m managing to do all of my hobbies and things that I used to do. I’m still playing basketball in Fisica de Torres Vedras and this year we are going pretty well, we are in the finals of the Juniors A national cup!!! And the coach says that we are capable of winning the cup.
Besides playing basketball I also love computer games, cycling, workout, TV, football, internet and I’m a sports fan in general. And of course I love to be with my friends.
Until now I’m loving the faculty, except some organization problems. Last semester I was in the class of Professor David and I loved it. This semester I think that will also love the English classes, mostly because I already know my classmates and I’m more relaxed.
Well, I think that’s all.
Good luck to all of you.
I am Pedro Mota
I think that most of you already know me but here it goes:
I am from Torres Vedras and I’m in translation, in the first year. I come and go every day which is very boring, but until now I’m managing to do all of my hobbies and things that I used to do. I’m still playing basketball in Fisica de Torres Vedras and this year we are going pretty well, we are in the finals of the Juniors A national cup!!! And the coach says that we are capable of winning the cup.
Besides playing basketball I also love computer games, cycling, workout, TV, football, internet and I’m a sports fan in general. And of course I love to be with my friends.
Until now I’m loving the faculty, except some organization problems. Last semester I was in the class of Professor David and I loved it. This semester I think that will also love the English classes, mostly because I already know my classmates and I’m more relaxed.
Well, I think that’s all.
Good luck to all of you.
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First one posting..... :D
Ok.......what should i say.....almost everyone in the class already knows me!!
Let's get started......I'm stephane, I'm 19, i have in France in a small town called Clamart (it's kind a near Paris).
Things I like???? Well I like manga ( japanese comics), japanese culture, Judo, music ( metal, techno, trance, goth), I love to read, to draw and anging out with my friends. Don't know what else to say.....
see ya later....
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