Category: Thoughts and Reflections
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Rotina / Routine
Continuo na luta de carregar o mundo nas costas. Sigo tentando encontrar qual o caminho devo seguir. Casa, família, filho, trabalhos, parcerias, voluntariado, tem tempo para mais? Não sobra tempo, o dia parece produtivos, mas ainda tem muito o que fazer e o que fazer? Chegara o momento, das férias…
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Happy Birthday to me
While working in China, I had the chance to follow some of the other English teacher’s classes. In high school, the class proposal was to write a text with wishes and plans for the next 365 days. The objective was to open the letter in one year and compare the…
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Reflexões e devaneios / Reflections and reveries
Tem dias em que eu me encontro protagonista da história. Com o universo tão extenso e tantas pessoas no planeta. Como eu posso ter um dia de azar tão grande? O trabalho que precisa ser refeito. O projeto que não deu tempo de continuar A informação muda e não é…
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Brazilian literature, shall we?
April 22 is the day of the “discovery” of Brazil. Nowadays, the national holiday is Tiradentes (revolutionary who fought against the Portuguese monarchy) and we ignore the discovery fallacy that was taught for many years in school. To me, sounds like the perfect excuse for today’s book review to be…
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A negative book review
I wrote the book review for the last book I read and it was a negative one. I see so much hate on the internet and people seem so easily able to list other people’s weaknesses that I thought it wouldn’t be difficult to compose the criticism, but I did…
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A trilogy of five
Anyone who knows me is aware of my obsession with the number 42. Here’s why… I first heard about The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams from an elementary school student. My students got an extra grade for every book they read during the term (any book would…
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Love hating a book
I love to read, but unlike many readers, I like the emotions that books provoke in me. The intensity of the narrative, the anticipation for the moment to continue reading, when the book takes part of my day to try to imagine what will happen in the book, my identification…
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Ramses – Son of Light
I was in high school and the public library was on the way between my house and school. All group work was done there, we stayed in the comic book section downstairs until everyone arrived to go to the library. I had a good understanding of the library system, and…
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Book review: “Spare” – Prince Harry
I was never interested in gossip shows. TMZ, although I know what it is would not exist if it depended on my audience. When someone shared the book “Spare”, a memoir written by Prince Harry, my curiosity aroused more for being in front of a launch than knowing the backstage…
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Back somewhere
November 2, 2022, was the day I landed in Brazil. There are days when it feels like I just arrived and I’m still trying to readapt, others it feels like I arrived so long ago that I start to question whether it’s time to look for another country to live…
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