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