It's good to be back!

By Camila Rodrigues - World Wise 1

I always missed the English classes I had as a teenager. Learning a new language makes me feel ready to travel the world and be able to understand the people. My job and the experiences that I had recently made me go back to school. 

The teacher is different, the students, the place... Everything looks different! But it seems that I never stopped! The jokes are the same, the fear of writing texts didn’t change. But the desire to learn and be better it's even bigger now. 

I hope that my plans for the future can be realized and all the new things that I'm learning might lead me to tread a beautiful journey to success. It's good to be back!

Profile

By Laís Souza - Interlink 1

Hello! My name’s Laís Souza. I’m 22 years old and I’m Brazilian, from Campina Grande. I live with my mother and brother in a small house, but I have a big family with eight uncles and two aunts. We don´t have a pet, but we usually feed the birds in our garden.

I’m a student in a Law University and I work in a Law Office too. On Saturdays, I study English at Cultura Inglesa. I’m learning a lot but I still don’t speak very well.

At the weekends, I usually go to the church or stay at home, reading and studying. I go out with my friends too. We go to the cinema, restaurant or just stay together watching a DVD. We always make popcorn!

I don’t smoke; I don’t like coffee and I HATE nightclubs. But I like films and especially books. Now, I’m reading “Eleanor and Park”, by Rainbow Rowell. It’s very good.

A Busy Man

By Laís Souza - Interlink 1

Every day, when I arrive at work, I find my boss sitting in his chair. He always gets up at 6:00 a.m. and goes jogging before breakfast. At 7:30 a.m, he leaves home and goes to his Law Office, where he has a lot of things to do. He is always working with different documents and sometimes has just a small lunch.

In the afternoon, he usually has a meeting with his clients and works reading and writing something new. He is ALWAYS with paper in his hands. At 3:30 p.m., he has a snack and talks about books, films and music. I love the stories about his trips. They´re very funny. His mobile phone rings all afternoon and he sometimes works late reading the cases and preparing new documents.

He gets home at 9:00 p.m. and has a shower but he doesn´t go to bed. He prefers to watch a good film on TV. At the weekends, he plays handball with his friends and travels to João Pessoa or Recife. He doesn´t usually stay in Campina Grande on Saturdays and Sundays because he likes the beach. He has a girlfriend and always spends time with his family, watching DVDs, talking about their lives and travelling to other countries. He speaks French and Spanish very well!

My boss is not a quiet man. He does a lot of things and he likes to live like this. He says that he loves to be a lawyer, meet new people and go to different places. He is a very busy man but he doesn´t want to change his life. 

The Trip

By Clara Fabiana - Action 3

Hi Esthefanny!

My school's plannig an excursion to Natal/RN on Thursday, March 20th. We're going to visit museums, theaters and parks. Will you come?

      

The trip costs R$100,00. A coach leaves from my school at 5:00am and arrives back in Campina Grande at 6:30pm. The directions to the school: go along rua Irineu Jofili and take the third left, the school is on the corner.

I think it's going to be pretty cool. Hope you come.

Curfew

By Ândrea Terrugui - Interlink 5

I personally believe that children should have a curfew until the parents feel like they can choose by themselves.

I think parents should help them not to take bad decisions until they are able to. When I was a teenager, I didn’t have a curfew or other kinds of rules and I can see today how many risks I was exposed to. Nothing serious happened to me them, but I suppose there was a litte luck involved in this equation - I mean, not only me doing good decisions by myself.

So when I have kids, I’ll be more active than my mother to prevent accidents and bad habits, and that includes curfew, although I know easier it is to be wonderful parents before being parents in fact.

My Bedroom

By Maria Clara Arruda - Action 2

My bedroom is small but it's confortable and tidy. My bed is next to the wardrobe and near the door. There are two desks in my bedroom. My shoes are next to the door. My guitar is on the desk. Opposite my bed, there is a whiteboard on the wall where I write important things. Behind my bed and next to the wardrobe there is a toy chest. Upon my bed, on the wall there is a shelf with many toys. The walls of my bedroom are light pink. I love my bedroom!!!