quarta-feira, 21 de dezembro de 2011

Cliffs of Moher, Dublin, Bristol and finally London

Hi guys!
I was feeling bad for a couple of days but now I'm back to business!
So last back in time a few days, when I was in Dublin. I went with Vini (my friend from Brazil) to the Cliffs of Moher. The cliffs are located in the west coast of Ireland and offer a great view from the top of its 250 meters. Awesome!!
So we went to a walk on the cliffs. Unfortunately, we misunderstood the time that the bus driver arranged to meet us and we took a longer time in the walk. When we were coming back, following a narrow track just next tho the cliffs (scary!), we saw a helicopter with the colours of the emergency watching the cliffs so we concluded that something must happened!
We ran back to the bus and for our surprise we found everyone waiting for us there!! And to be worst, they had sent the helicopter to try to find us!! Hahahahaha ohh my god!! We entered the bus with our heads down trying not to laugh about the shit that we had just made!

In Dublin, I met some brazilians in the Tesco and they invited us for a party. They said that their Irish neighbour was going to make a party in their apartment and it would be nice if we just pop in.
So we did it. We met a lot of nice people there! And we had a great night. In the end, we invited one busker that was performing just in front of their house to play for us inside the party!
But do you think that this ended up well?? Haha of course not! The guy started to sip some cachaça (Brazilian spirit). I'm saying some to not say too many! Hahaha At the end, he was so drunk that we had to put him out of the flat and we discovered that he slept on the streets and broke his guitar! Ohh shit again! Hahaha

So after this crazy days, I came back to Bristol. But it isn't the same now. What made it like that was that I had there a big group of crazy friends and this time I was missing them there.
I met Mohamed for a couple of drinks but my stomach was killing me, and I had to come back home.
It was strange to leave Bristol, but on the other hand, I wanted to move on. I have a long journey in front of me, and stating there even for a couple of days more, would make me live in the memories of those amazing moments that we had there.

So here I'm now in London for my goodbye to England (or better, just a see you soon?). I'm taking my flight tomorrow at 9 pm and I'll arrive in Brazil around 6 am! So Brazil, wait for me! I'm looking forward to see my brother, my parents and my friends. I really miss them!

Tonight is pub crawl night! I'll enjoy this night as if it was the last (but actually it is the last)!
So let's party hard! Haha
Cheers!

domingo, 18 de dezembro de 2011

Food Poisoning

Yeah... food poisoning.
In Dublin, I went to a Chinese takeaway and order something to eat. The food was strange. And since then my stomach is hurting everyday.
I'm feeling bad.

I have a lot of things to write about the trip to Dublin but I'm not in the mood to do it right now.
Today is my last day in Bristol and I'm packing my luggages to let everything ready to go to London tomorrow.
I'm staying in a hostel in Russel Square which is located close to the Underground station, and finally which is in the main line that takes to Heatrow Airport.

Brazil, here I go!

quarta-feira, 14 de dezembro de 2011

Dublin, Guinness and Animals

Hi everyone!
I've been in Dublin for 4 days. And I'm really enjoying this lovely city.
Yesterday when I was having lunch with Lucas started to snow!! I was so excited! I asked the waitress if what I was seeing was snow or not. She almost laughed at me! Then she said that the forecast for Tuesday and Thursday was light snow. I just couldn't stop looking outside! But sadly, it snowed for a few minutes and stopped. I heard some news that they had the same in Bristol yesterday. Sooooo cool!
Yesterday we tried oysters with Guinness, a traditional combination here in Ireland. Well, it's not what I was expecting. It tastes like sea water (daerrr!) hahaha.
On Sunday we made the tour in the Guinness Storehouse. HUGE! The Guinness in Ireland is not only a brand or a stout, it's a empire! To realise this just take a look in how many people inside a pub are drinking it comparing with another beer.
In the end of the tour we had the opportunity to pour our own pint!! There is a special technique used to correctly pour it. And after that, of course, you can have a drink and enjoy the view of the bar on the top of the Storehouse.
When we were sit there, we met a woman from Australia. And believe it or not, she said that her job was to speak with animals. You probably can imagine that I had to make a real effort to keep a straight face!! Hahaha
She explained that she could speak with them by asking questions (detail: in English!) and they would answer (detail: in English) or with a image that would pop in her mind. But when I asked if she could speak with the animal that doesn't live in an English speaker country, she said that she have never tried before.
Then Young asked her something that she wanted to know about her dog but what no one were expecting was that the woman asked the name of her dog and to see a picture if it. Afterwards, she closed her eyes and made contact with the Young's dog that was in Korea!! Hahahahaha this was the climax! She answered Young as if she had made contact with her dog! So annoying! Hahaha
In the picture you can see my certificate that I poured the perfect pint! Fuck yeah!
Today I'm leaving the hostel and I'm going to meet a friend from my university in Brazil.
Take care everybody!

sábado, 10 de dezembro de 2011

CAE, Last Week and Dublin

I can't deny. This was the most strange week ever in Bristol. A mix of feelings that it's impossible to describe to you guys.
Firstly I had the CAE On Wednesday. Was quite difficult, specially the listening, but I hope I managed to pass.
After the exam, was just celebration. Parties everywhere, pubs, pints and clubs.
We had the last school party on Thursday. I went dressed up as Father Christmas and it was so funny! Everyone was there, from students to teachers.
Well, after that I think that I don't have to say that the sadness was living with us in those last hours in Bristol. Every goodbye was full of tears and promises that might never became true, but this doesn't mean that they were lies.
I must say that I keep with me, small pieces of everyone that I have known since I arrived in Bristol. Moments that I will never forget! So the only thing that I could say is: thank you! For everything, for nothing, just thank you!
Well, today I caught a flight to Dublin. And here I'm. Dublin is such an amazing city! It has a great atmosphere.
After making the check in, we went to Temple Bar, which is the most famous pub here. What a great place! Live music, really warm compared with the 1 Celsius degree outside and really friendly people there. I wasn't expecting that the Irish were so nice! But was a good surprise.
Now I'm laying in my bed at the hostel. Take care everyone!
Cheers mate!

sexta-feira, 2 de dezembro de 2011

Blue Glass, Feelings, BULATS and 3000 visitors

Hi guys! How are you?
Today is the last day of Stella in British lands. I wish to her a great journey back home and see you soon truta!

Yesterday we went to the Bristol Blue Glass factory for a tour as a social programme of the school. It was surprisingly to see the techniques which they used to mold the glass in so many different forms, varying from angels to penguins.
The blower was a guy from Poland who had a great ability to mold the glass into different shapes and sizes. It remembered me of the time that I was working in the Wheaton Brazil, a company which produces glass recipients for a huge variety of applications. But what amazed me was the price of the pieces. To bring one angel home, you would have to pay around £40!! Crazy, right??

When I was in the bus coming back from the factory, I realised that the city was all decorated with blue lights and Christmas trees everywhere. And I don't know why, but the thought that I have just only one more week of classes popped into my mind and made me feel sad. Bristol is a lovely city, with beautiful green areas, places to enjoy a sunny day and to have great fun in the night. But like happened with Gabi and Stella, my time is coming too. In exactly 20 days, I'll be taking my flight back to Brazil. Yeahhh buddy, I remember like it was yesterday when I arrived here in Bristol and I thought "Oh my god, I have 24 weeks to stay in these place and visit as many places as I would like!". But now it is the end of this long journey which changed my life. But like I said to Gabi, the dream is over and it's time to wake up and come back to our lives, but never forget that other nights will come and with them new dreams.

Changing totally the way, I did the BULATS exam on Thursday and I'm really happy to announce that I got the highest mark possible: C2! The C2 is like the the proficiency level in Business English and I hope that this certificate will help me to find a good job in the future!

In addition, I would like to announce that the blog reached 3000 views!! A month has passed since the 2000 views as achieved. Again, thanks for all of you who contributed with this!

Take care everyone!

quarta-feira, 30 de novembro de 2011

The Cambridge Speaking Exam

Hi guys, how are you?
Well, today was my speaking exam! In my point of view, it was quite nice!
I was a little bit nervous but I hope this hadn't influenced in the result.
For those who don't know the exam I'll explain it here.
In the room, there is two examiners. One in the back who doesn't ask anything to you and just write somethings  down and the other which is the one who interacts with you. Doing the exam with you, will be another student, who in my case was a Korean girl, whose name is Yonji.
In the first part, she asks you about your daily life and about what you do in your country and other things to know something more about you. In this part you don't speak with your partner.
In the second part, she will ask you separately to discuss about 3 pictures, comparing and contrasting them, and answer two questions about it. Like in the first part, you don't interact with your partner.
After you have answered your questions, the examiner will ask your partner a question about the three pictures that you had. And the opposite way is the same.
In the third part, you'll have to discuss with your partner about a group of pictures and answer two questions about them. This is the part that you have to interact with your partner and usually when you have to find an agreement about one of the answers (what could be a little bit difficult).
After that, they will start to ask you questions about the main subject of the exam (mine was professions). So they asked if it's important to being updated with the latest news, and another questions that I can't remember at the moment.
After that you're free!
It's like a heavy weight that was removed from my back. But I now that the real problem will come next week in the writing / reading / listening / use of English (this is the hell!!) exams.
I hope I'll managed to do my best on those!

Tomorrow I'll take another exam: BULATS. This is an exam focused on Business vocabulary. But in these case, I receive the results just after I have finished it. So wish me good luck!

terça-feira, 29 de novembro de 2011

Good Luck!

Hey guys!
I just came to wish good luck for all my friends that are taking any exam!
I hope we all are going to pass it!
Cheers!

sexta-feira, 25 de novembro de 2011

6 Months

Today is making exactly 6 months that I left Brazil. Six months that I left my family and everyone that I knew there. However, in less than a month I will be back there. And will be the time to leave everybody that I know here in Bristol and come back. In Brazil, I have some goals I need to achieve like graduate from my University.

Today is Gabi's last night. We are going to meet for stay with her this last night. I would like to write some things about it but it won't be possible now. But for sure, later I'll!

See you guys later!

quinta-feira, 24 de novembro de 2011

Dragon's Den

Today's business class was one of the most exciting!
There's a programme in the BBC called Dragon's Den. The main point of the programme is that there are five entrepreneurs who are looking for good ideas to invest. So the candidates come to the programme and present their ideas for the Dragons and hopefully receive an offer for a part of the shares of the company.
Today we watched one of the episodes which a guy called Levi Roots was trying to get some investments for a mass production of a sauce, which he named as "Reagge Reaggue Sauce".

If you want to watch it, take a look in this link:

Resuming, he received an offer from one of the Dragons and went back home happy. However we knew that, we didn't know if the company was really successful in its journey of producing the sauce.

Than the teacher Jeff, took us to the class and asked whether the company was successful or not for the us (the students). I had a hunch that it wasn't that good at all but I waited to see.

Suddenly the teacher showed us this:

Hahahahahahaha "Ohh shit!" was the first comments of the class after he had shown the bottle. Jeff gave us some Cheddar cheese to try the sauce, which is really tasty!

Well, his company now worth £8m! Now the company is selling its sauce for the whole Sainsbury empire (for the Brazilians is like a Carrefour, it's possible to find everywhere!) and with Dominos Pizza for big deals for a "Reagge-Reagge Pizza"! hahaha

Where can an idea take us? What will answer this question is your entrepreneurial vision of the business and the possibilities to do it!

 If you want to take a look at the company's website http://www.reggae-reggae.co.uk.

See you later!

quarta-feira, 23 de novembro de 2011

Bad Chef!

Well, today it isn't my day!
I wanted to eat a pizza tonight so instead of going to Dominos where the pizza is really nice I decided to buy one in Sainsbury.
So I bought two frozen pizzas and came back home.
I put one in the oven and waited. After maybe 15 min I went to take a look and the pizza was ALL BLACK! hahahaha
I took it off the oven and let it out. But suddenly, the fire alarm went off!
As a security procedure, we had to go outside but I knew that the problem was my burnt pizza. So I went outside and met like 20 people complaining about who was the guilty one! hahahahahaha
I just apologized for them and waited until we were allowed to enter again the building.
Yeah.... I know... sorry guys! hahaha

Brazilian Joke

Today I have to show a very funny video that my friend Stella made with her Japanese friend. Probably if you aren't Brazilian you'll not understand it.



Hahahahahaha
Now a English joke: Do you know the difference between the Snowman and the Snowoman?
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The Snowballs!
See you guys later!

segunda-feira, 21 de novembro de 2011

Fixed pairs and Speaking Exam

Today's post will be different. Yesterday I was taking a look in my files, gathering some expressions for my mock exam that happened today. And I found a really nice list with some expressions called "fixed pairs".
These expressions are made of two words that go with an "&" in the middle. These words might not have any meaning alone, but together they do.

I've selected some of them to put up in the blog so you can take a look and learn some of them.
Bits & Bobs - small things that you usually find lost in a drawer (general things).
Movers & Shakers - the powerful people, usually Presidents, Prime Ministers, etc...
Short & Sweet - much quicker, easier and nicer than you expected.
On & Off - When something happens during a period of time but not continuously.
Ins & Outs - the details of something.
Sick & Tired - fed up with something.

Well, I think the list is this. I have some more expressions but for now, this will work. In the next posts I will try to put them in the text so you can understand the context that they are used.

As I said, I had the mock speaking exam today. Was really well. Sometimes was a little bit to speak because we (me and Won Ho) had already had that picture before but now the questions were different.
On the whole it was short and sweet. Although we had 3 minutes to speak about some pictures, there was a time that we had already finished it and we were trying to find something to say. Unfortunately, this is what I have to avoid in the exam because it's when you say stupid things.
After the exam, the teacher said that both of us would have passed the exam without problem.

Take care everyone!
It's my cleaning day and the kitchen awaits me!

domingo, 20 de novembro de 2011

What a week!

This week was so full of everything! A lot of happy moments and some sad ones.

It was my friend (Claudia) birthday. We had dinner in a restaurant and afterwards we went to drink in a park. We had a lot of fun that night! 

This week I received two really bad news. One here in England and one from Brazil. Those news have something in common: both of them are related to the health of a member of the family of a good friend.
I'm not going to say their names in respect of them, but what I'm going to do is to declare here my support for them. You'll know if you're one of them.

On Thursday in this following week, I'm going to have my mock speaking exam. I will make a group with Wonho (a guy who is from Korea and is in my class), and we'll be examined by a teacher that I never heard about it. The whole speaking exam must not take more than 20 minutes. So I have half of this, expecting that me and Wonho are going to share the twenty minutes, to convince the interviewer that I deserve an A! hahahahaha Really hard job actually!

This weekend was Gabi's last one in Bristol! She is going back to Brazil on Saturday. So me, Gabi and Stella went to the Browns to have the last English Afternoon Tea and scones. In fact, we just had the scones and decided to not drink the tea. We spoke about a lot of things, about how we changed since we arrived here in Bristol. After the Afternoon Tea, we went to the same park that I've been with my friends in the picture above. We stayed there for a couple of minutes and headed back home.
Gabi, I wish you all the best! I'll miss you here truta!

See you later guys!

Editing: Scone is like a mini cake that you open it and put cream and strawberry jam! It's very nice and typical English one.


domingo, 13 de novembro de 2011

Autumn Walk

Welcome back guys!
Yesterday, my ex host-sister, Holly, invited me to go for an Autumn Walk around Bristol. She arranged with Ash (one of the her sisters) and some friends of them. So we met at the Suspension Bridge around midday and went to the Ashton Court which is a private park but open to the public.
The view was awesome! In the Autumn, the leaves fall and change colors from green to yellow. It's so different because the ground is covered with leaves and its colors contrasts with the colors of the leaves which haven't fallen yet. I'm putting up some pictures as you can see what I'm talking about.
We were really lucky because this day the weather was so good! We stayed around 3 hours in the park enjoying an unusual sunny time in this part of the year. In the park, there are some wild deer living.
It's so strange because they are free in the park and the hart have really big antlers. I was thinking if anytime happened that one of them attacked a person but Ash told me that they are really shy and run when you approach.
After all, it was a really nice Autumn Walk around the park. After staying here for 6 months, it was the first time that I was there!
See you later guys!

sexta-feira, 11 de novembro de 2011

Viewers

I was just checking my audience with the blog and for my surprise, the second country that most visits my blog is: Russia! Editing: Just to make it clear, I have more viewers from Russia than viewers from the UK! It's fascinating how far I can reach with this blog and how many people I have met because of it. So, just for curiosity, if you are a frequent reader (or just felt in this blog by accident), could you post a comment telling what do you think about the blog and where you from? Any suggestion will be nice too! Thanks!

International Food Party, Brazilian Situation and Smiles

Today I have time so I will make a big post with a lot of things that I have to update. Yesterday was so F***ING funny! Maybe, it was the funniest White Harte ever! For those that don't know, The White Harte is the famous pub that we go every Thursday because they have 1 pound 1 beer! So half liter for just one pound! It's a big deal! Continuing, we stayed in a table maybe with 15 people all of them were from the ELC. Everybody was so drunk and laughing because we had been playing that drinking games for hours! It was the day that the main programme of the night was in White Harte. Lets speak about the International Food Party that happened on Wednesday. Can you imagine like 25 nationalities, being represented by 100 different dishes? Yeah, the Party was like this! I ate all different types of food and from different countries as well. Korea, Switzerland, Qatar, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, China, Brazilian (of course) and there you go... So around 200 students inside a big room with their dishes displayed in long tables just waiting for the bell to ring so that they can start to eat everything that is in front of them. Here is a picture just before the ringing of the bell.
If you have really good eyes, you can see me just next to the shoulder of the guy wearing a dark red jacket in the center of the picture. I was quite surprised with the taste of some dishes. Actually because some of them, didn't look very good but were really nice! After the Food Party we went to the same pub that I have salsa classes but this time just for a drink with my friends and we finished the night in MBargo. Well, I have promised that I would say about the Brazilian situation and I will do it now. After staying this 6 months in England, I realised how different it's from Brazil. Here I can walk in the streets without worrying about anything. I take a bus and keep listening to music without being afraid of anyone. And this is something that I will miss in Brazil. My brother told me that he was robbed by a guy carrying a knife. He was really lucky because the guy didn't hurt him and he just robbed the money. The point is that São Paulo is that extreme and not every city in Brazil. But the sad is that it continues to happen. And sometimes I get very upset with this and I'm sorry about that. When I said that I don't want to come back to Brazil is that I don't want to start to live with worries again. I don't want to be afraid of being robbed or something like that, but I know that the place that I will live in Brazil until I finish my university it's like that so I just have to know how I'm going to cope with it. This is it! Lets talk about something happy. These week there was 3 smiles that make me feel really good. So I'll describe each of them now. On Wednesday, we had the International Food Party and there I meet the Andrea's daughter who I nicknamed as "baixinha". Andrea is the social assistance in the school. She is Brazilian but has been living in England for more than five years. Her daughter is 8 years old and really shy. She can speaks Portuguese with a weak accent. We played the whole night and I taught her to say "truta"! It was a really nice and fun night. When Andrea and baixinha were leaving the party, she looked at me, smiled and said: "Vai embora comigo pra gente poder brincar mais?" and this was the first smile that made my week. On Sunday I had dinner with my ex-host family and the daughter, Sophie, cooked some cupcakes for us. I was so pleased because she only cooked them because of me and it was so nice, it really was! So I thought to thank her in another way: I asked her if she was accepting orders and ordered 14 cupcakes to take it to my class on Friday. She said that she would make it for 50p each of them and this was how we made the deal. On Thursday I came back to take my order. Sophie was so happy that she was earning some money (what I called a "fortune" for her) with her cooking abilities!! She just couldn't stop smiling. Her happiness made me feel really good and this is why I put her as the second smile. Well, the third one is a very complicated history. On Wednesday after the Party, we went to a pub with the people from school. There I found a jacket with a mobile, a gloss, some keys and a card of the pub. I thought it was from any of the students because the jacket was in the sofas that we were sitting at the moment, so I took it with me to the MBargo. I realised that it wasn't from any of the students when nobody said nothing about had forgotten a jacket in the pub. So when I arrived at home, I took a look at the mobile and I guessed it was from an English girl because of the contacts and the texts that was in the mobile. The mobile was a HTC, really nice with touch screen. So I texted some numbers of her contact list and waited for an answer. Yesterday, a girl answered me asked me to contact her in another number. Today, she called me and we arranged to meet in the Sainsbury so I could give her jacket/mobile/gloss/keys. So we met in the Sainsbury. It was really short. I just gave her stuff and in this moment her eyes were flooded in tears. She smiled back and gave me a big huge. She offered to pay me a drink in another day and I accepted. She said that she will call me another day so that we can arrange it. I chose these smile because it was really pure like the other two. I felt really good about doing the right thing and I was happy to be rewarded with that smile. Made my day. Tomorrow I'm going to meet Holly and Ash (two of the daughters of my ex-host family) and we're going for what they called a Autumn walk. Pip told me that is like a walk in a park when the leaves are changing colors. Actually, there are a lot of them in the streets now. It's really beautiful! That landscape between gray and yellow is so nice! So I'm looking forward to the Autumn walk tomorrow! I'll take some pictures and put them up here later! I'm feeling really sleepy now, so bye bye fellows!

quarta-feira, 9 de novembro de 2011

Internation Food Party!

Today we have the International Food Party! We made "brigadeiros"! IIIIhulll! I'm a little bit afraid that I'm late. So I have to go! See you later!

segunda-feira, 7 de novembro de 2011

Sick

Hello everybody! I'm not feeling very well today. I woke up with sore throat and fever and against all the odds I went to the class. But now, I'm almost falling asleep. Today, will be no salsa class, which is really sad for just being in one day of the week and I really enjoy it. I will take a good rest and hope that tomorrow I will be better!

sábado, 5 de novembro de 2011

Yeah, I wanna be!

Revolting situation

I'm really upset about some news that I heard today.
And to resume what I'm feeling now, is that I don't want to come back to Brazil.
I don't want to live worried about violence again! I'm tired of it!

Edited: Later I'll write a full and better post related to this.
Not everyplace in Brazil is like that, but I have to assume that São Paulo is.
And I'm in my right to be sad about it. I know that my position makes the people feel sad, but this is my opinion. Taking risks in your life, it's just a question of choice. You choose to do it by accept living in a dangerous place or doing something.
But life is like this! You have to take risks!
See you

sexta-feira, 4 de novembro de 2011

In:Motion

I will start this post with a very famous sentence here in Bristol: "Tonight is the night!".
And I'm expecting a lot from this night. I'm going with some friends from ELC to a party called Bristol In:Motion. The In:Motion is part of the underground scene in Bristol and the season starts in the end of the summer. The parties happens at a skater park just by side of the Avon river.
So, let the night starts!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9yGcKlYAiw

Attention, Zombies ahead!

Here is a fact that I forgot to tell you guys.
On Friday afternoon, I went to the city centre with Mohamed. By the time we were there, a lot of zombies started to appear in the streets. But it wasn't like a group of ten zombies walking, there was a lot of them wandering around.
We stayed approximately 50 minutes just watching the whole group, that we think it was around 500 people, scaring the people in the streets.
I will upload some pictures then you can have a look!























So it was like this that I felt in the middle of a zombie infestation (left4dead).
I know that some of my friends will think this when they see this pictures! hahaha
Take care everyone!

quinta-feira, 3 de novembro de 2011

2000!

No, I'm not talking about the year! It's because this blog reached 2000 views!
I have only published 36 posts which give for each post an average of 55 views! Actually I know that this number does not represent it, even more knowing that there was a time that I stopped with the posts and some people was still accessing the site to check if I had published any post.
I'm pretty sure about who helped this blog to reach this number, and I just want to say "Muito obrigado!".
Today I went to a barber shop to have my hair cut. And this time, the barber was a guy from the South Africa (with a really strange hair, what make me feel quite nervous about the hair cut).
Ok, hair cuts a part, we start to chat about it and we discovered how similar South Africa is to Brazil. He said many things that I could easily connect with another in Brazil. Like the unbalanced society, the poverty and the criminality.
Now your probably thinking that we only talked about bad things right? Wrong! And after a while discussing these problems we reached a point that we could agree to each other without doubt: despite all these problems, Brazilians and South Africans are a really happy people, what contrasts directly from the European ones.
We could be in the worst situation ever, but we have strength to turn it over.
It's really amazing how some people say something or do something that makes you think about it. It has been happening quite a lot here in England, and maybe this is one of the things that in the end will make the difference between the "old" Rapha and the "new" one.
Cheers!

quarta-feira, 2 de novembro de 2011

Strange night!

Hey fellows! How is everything?
This night was a really strange night. I don't know if it was because of the Indian food or because the beers, or the mix of the beer and the food.
I woke up at 1am and couldn't come back to sleep again. When i could sleep again I started to dream with a lot of crazy things.
I dreamed about a car accident which I broke my arm (what a irony!) but this time it was the right arm. It was so real that I had to check if it was really broken or not when I woke up.
I dreamed that I was in Brazil, driving a car through Sorocaba's streets with my classmates inside the car. I drove the car on some nails in the ground (I know, very stupid) and I lost control of the car. We crossed a traffic lights that was in the red and hit a wall. After that I remember that my arm was broken and we went to the hospital. Afterwards I woke up to check if it really happened or not.
Well, apart the dreams, we made a tour in the BBC Bristol today! And it was absolutely amazing!
In the final part of the tour, we recorded a novel in the radio. So funny! I have it recorded in my iPod and I will se if I can upload it in the blog!
Tonight is salsa night with the school!
So, see you later!!!

terça-feira, 1 de novembro de 2011

Music

Daerrrrrrrr
I forgot to put the music that I was talking about!!
Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLK4oaXUuLg
The name of the song is "Undercover Martyn" of Two Door Cinema Club.
Very typical inside the clubs here in England!
xx

Tired

Hello everyone! How is everything?
Well, I've been really tired these days. Maybe because I went to bad quite late, maybe because last weekend was too many parties or maybe because I'm getting older (I don't believe in this one hahaha).
The Halloween was so much fun! On Saturday the streets was so full of people dressed up and the clubs were already denying people to enter. Besides of all, we had a great good time!
I've been looking to a blog from a guy that is travelling for 5 years now. And do you know how he can pay for everything?? With a blog and some books that he writes!!!
It's so amazing! He could travel all over the world and sharing this experience with other people he could make money enough to keep travelling!!
A few days ago we had lunch with some friends in a restaurant. When we were there, I heard a really nice music playing in the radio, but nobody knew the name of the song. I had already heard that song in some clubs that I've been but never cared about asking someone about it. So I decided that I would search for it until I find it. And it was what I did. I think I stayed like an hour searching in different places, trying to guess some parts of the music and then I finally found it.
For my surprise, the band that plays it, was one of the bands I've watched in the Oxygen, the festival that I went on Dublin. And to make it worse, one of the few pictures that I took in the festival, was in the front of they show, which in that time was a band that I didn't know. It's so funny how the things happens sometimes, isn't it?
Today we had dinner with my classmates in a Indian restaurant. I love it! The food is sooooooo nice! The mixture of flavors, like spicy with vegetables was so good! And we drank a Indian beer, which had nothing special. Afterwards, we went to my friends house where was happening a prohibited party. We, students that live in students house, are not allowed to make parties in our houses, but sometimes it happens. Once I have already put in 12 people in my room and it was really fun! So we stayed there for a couple of hours and was really nice until John (the principal of the School) called Johan (my friend) and asked him to put everybody out of the house. I'm pretty sure that tomorrow John will call Johan for a chat in his office, what is pretty bad.
Well, I think it's my time to go now. This week will be really busy!
Tomorrow I have a tour around the BBC Bristol and afterwards the school will take us to a Salsa! And I could not be tired for that, right?
Take care everyone!
xx

quinta-feira, 27 de outubro de 2011

Halloween

Hey guys, how are you?
It's Halloween time in Europe! There's a lot of Halloween parties happening for all over Bristol and tonight will be the school one.
I know that sounds very stupid but I will dressed up like a... super hero! hahahaha
Like the other time, I will go with another friend dressed as a super hero too, but this time is Mohamed. He will go as Robin and I as Sr. Incrível.
Tomorrow will take place in Bristol an attempt to break the World Record of the most number of people dressed up as skeletons drinking in a pub! hahaha I will buy my skeleton costume and help this attempt to be successful! hahaha
Take care everyone!

sexta-feira, 21 de outubro de 2011

Around the World in 80 Trades

Oh my god! Bristol is freezing theses days!!
Last weekend my camera broke. When I turned it on, the lens got stuck in the middle of the way and there they are until now. I can't push it back or even pull it out. I tried many times but it's not working.
It's sad because I'm planning to visit some places before going back to Brazil and I'll not be able to take pictures unless I use the iPod.
The last morning I went to the salsa class again and I'm really liking it! I'm looking forward to it during the whole week! I'm not sure yet but I think there's classes on Wednesday in another pub. So lets check it out!
This week I saw a programme in an internet site called 4oD that is about a guy travelling around several countries in different continents and his objective is to make trades cutting the middle man in the old fashion way: buying the products himself from the source and transporting it to another place and try to sell there.
It could sounds very strange at the beginning, however if you watch the programme you'll realise that the way they have shown the difference between the negotiations in these countries it's very interesting.
They guy started his journey with £25,000 in his bank account that came from the selling of his flat in London and he's trying to make some profits trading all over the world.
The name of the programme is Around the World in 80 Trades and the link to it is here: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/around-the-world-in-80-trades/4od. I know that it's available to watch on the internet but I'm not sure if it'll be for residents outside UK. But you can try if you fancy to! I strongly recommend it!
Well, I have to go now. I'm going to meet some friends in the pub.
Take care everyone!

sexta-feira, 14 de outubro de 2011

Salsa, Rugby, Scottish Dance

Hi guys! How is everything?
This week was really nice. On Monday I had some salsa classes. It's so funny to see the English people dancing. It could look very strange but they're quite bad dancers. Of course that there is always an exception!
On Wednesday, I went to watch a Rugby match. It was Bristol Rugby against Mosley (never heard about it). The match was pretty rubbish, on the other hand, was good for me to understand the Rugby rules.
Yesterday we had the Scottish Country Dancing. In my point of view, it's the best social programme that the school offers. And it was really fun like I was expecting!
Today the sun is shinning in Bristol! Ihulllll!
So after the class we went to the Suspension Bridge. The best part about it, was that in the Suspension Bridge park, there is an Observatory that has a room which is called camera obscura. In this pitch-dark room there is a 360º projection in a table of the view outside. Actually, it's not 360º, but there you can use a handle to move the projection apparatus to the direction that you want. It's so funny because it looks like a movie, but it's what is happening now instead.
After the camera obscura, we visited another place in the park. It's a path through the ground that leads to a small cave where was located a church but it's abandoned today. The cave is located in the middle of a cliff, which is located in the gorge of the Avon River. From the cave you have a nice view of the bridge we stayed there for a while and came back home.
By the way, I have booked my flight back to Brazil to 22th of December. So in 23th of December I will arrive in Brazil!
Take care everyone! See you soon!

sábado, 8 de outubro de 2011

The Party and Stella's Brithday

Hey guys! Welcome back!
The School Party was quite fun. Everybody was so surprise with my costume of William Wallace.
A lot of people in the streets came to me and screamed "Freeeedoooooomm!" like he did in the Brave heart movie.
A Scottish girl thanked me for represent the Scotland so well. So was so pleased to see someone that is not from her country dressed up like one of their national heroes.
Below you can see a picture taken of my friend Mohamed from South Arabia, me and my kilt and Robbert dressed as a little girl.
It's been very cold and windy in Bristol these days, so you probably noticed that I had had some problems with my legs that day. Nothing that a couple of pints of beer wouldn't have helped.

Yesterday I went with some friends to a pub called Brass Pigs in the Clifton Triangle. But this time with no costumes! We stayed there for an hour maybe two and then headed to a small club called Agora. Agora is free-entrance club where everyone go for a cheap night, usually after some drinks like we did.
But this time was different!
We met the owner of Agora, who is Turkish and the name I don't remember, and he started to give us champagne for free! Maybe (for sure!) the reason why was because Gabi and Stella were with me and he was trying to please them and another reason could be because today is Stellinha's birthday and when turned midnight yesterday everyone was giving her happy birthday and the guy could had given the bottles as presents, but I don't believe in that possibility.
Today we had lunch in the Roo Bar and came back to my house to make a cake. We bought these ready mixtures for cakes that you can find easily in the supermarket. And I must say that: the cake was amazing!
Stella had a surprise with a video that was made by her friends in Brazil to give her happy birthday. It was so nice!
Now here I'm! Writing to you to tell about these days in Bristol.
Like the poet would say: Tonight is the night!
See ya!

quinta-feira, 6 de outubro de 2011

Snow and School Karaoke

Hello again my friends! Is everything ok in Brazil?
Today during my class I received a message from my friend Gabi saying that little flakes of snow were falling from the sky.
I have to describe the feeling at that time. I couldn't stop looking outside for this flakes.
But the problem was that sometimes it was supposed to me to have received this message in the last night.
But at the time I didn't know if this happened or not, so I kept looking outside searching for the snow!
I felt something very funny at the moment. Like a child waiting for the Santa Claus in the Christmas or waiting for the Easter Eggs in the morning in Easter.
Is like a hope of something that is about to start. Do you know?
I just wanted to write about it here.
The weather is not that cold yet, so maybe this is the main reason why it didn't start. But doesn't matter.
Today we have a school party and its purpose is to sing in a karaoke. But like all the school parties, this is just an excuse to party hard! hahaha
I had promised that in all of the school parties I must go dressed up!
So... the tonight's costume is... William Wallace! hahahaha
I have already the kilt that I bought in Scotland and I bought a plastic sword and the blue face paint that he uses in the movie.
Later I could post here the picture of me ready for the party! Ihull!
Cheers!

quarta-feira, 5 de outubro de 2011

English, English and English

Today one of my teachers asked my: "Why don't you restart to write in your blog, but now in English?". And it really makes me think about it.
I know that writing is one of my weakness and this could be reason for failing in the exam, so I would ask to myself: "Why?".
And the answer is: "I don't know the fucking why!" hahahaha
Actually this blog was made as a link between me and everyone that I left in Brazil but its magic was lost in the way and sadly for many weeks I thought that this blog had no reason to be written again.
I didn't feel like writing whether I stayed at home or whether I had made something amazing so I stopped a few months ago.
But now, I'll make this as my writing practice. Doesn't matter who like it or not!
I'm sorry Dad. I'm sorry Mom. But now I have to sprint otherwise I will lose the race!
It's good for me (I'll practice my writing) and will be good for you (will be reading all these ball-shits that I usually write).
Do you want to collaborate? Why don't you comment in English?
Wow! I just saw that Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder, died today. That isn't a good news for those who likes technology, is it?
After that I have to go. (it's almost half past one, so it's time to go to bed!)
Take care!

quarta-feira, 15 de junho de 2011

Welcome Drinks and Portishead

Hello everyone!
Retomando as postagens!
Essa semana chegaram uma penca de novos alunos. É bem fácil de perceber pois é só reparar nas caras. Normalmente quando se chega num lugar novo ficamos olhando para todos os lados para ver se encontramos algo em que possamos interagir. Então você as pessoas olhando pra tudo e logo descobre que elas são novas ali. Outra coisa é quando você fala com as pessoas e elas ficam olhando pra sua cara meio sem saber o que fazer, com vergonha de falar alguma coisa errada, o que normalmente você perde depois de algum tempo aqui e bota a cara pra bater mesmo.
Como tinha essa penca de novos estudantes, a escola organizou um Welcome Drinks num pub que fica do lado de um Hotel aqui. Foi super legal e o Hotel tem uma vista linda da Suspensio Bridge.
Depois a galera foi em comboio para uma baladinha aqui.
Eu to meio sem tempo para colocar mais detalhes mas depois completo esse post, ok?
Dai ponho o link para o albúm das fotos tbm!
Fui!

domingo, 12 de junho de 2011

Um post especial

Bom hoje aqui na Inglaterra é um dia normal, como todo domingo. Bem cinzento, uma chuva fraquinha e uma provável friaca do lado de fora. Mas não é por esse motivo que hoje não é um dia especial pra mim.
Eu digo isso pois tudo o que eu estou vivendo aqui é consequência de algo muito maior. Ou melhor, alguém. Então esse post vai ser exclusivo pra você Lu, que apesar de estarmos separados por 10 mil Km, continuamos lutando para fazer com que esse relacionamento vença as barreiras da distância e da saudade e possa assim se tornar mais sólido.
Feliz dia dos namorados, minha linda!
Que esse dia e todos os outros (afinal dia dos namorados é todo dia né) tragam muitos sorrisos, risadas, beijos, abraços, colos e muito amor. Infelizmente só vou poder cobrar os beijos, abraços e colos quando eu estiver de volta, então se prepara pois meus juros são altos!! hahaha
Eu te amo!!
E muito obrigado, por todo o apoio, companheirismo, compreensão e amor!
É engraçado como as situações aparecem para nos mostrar na vida o que realmente é importante para nós e o que as vezes simplesmente não faz diferença. E desde o dia que eu cheguei aqui, eu gostaria de coração de poder ter você aqui comigo vivendo essa experiência maluca. Estou morrendo de saudades!
Estou agora aqui esperando você entrar  e assim falar tudo isso que escrevi aqui e mais um pouco.
Se cuide e feliz dia dos namorados!
Beijão S2

sexta-feira, 10 de junho de 2011

O blog

Quando eu criei este blog, tinha apenas um grande objetivo: transmitir um pouco da minha vivência na Inglaterra aos meus conhecidos que ficaram no Brasil. O que eu não esperava é que isso poderia me dar a oportunidade de conhecer pessoas que por algum motivo ou outro, irão cruzar o meu caminho nessa jornada para esse Velho Mundo.
Não sei se já comentei sobre como conheci a Gabi. Mas ai vai. Ela me mandou comentário no meu blog e disse que estava indo para Bristol também e passaria 6 meses estudando na mesma escola que eu. E hoje somos super amigos por aqui.
Acontece que a Gabi tem uma amiga que conhece uma menina, Stella, que está para vir para Bristol também para passar 6 meses. Agora, adivinhem...
Ela também caiu no meu blog de paraquedas e a Gabi me disse que ela está acompanhando as coisas por aqui.
É muito bom sabe que as coisas que eu escrevo por aqui realmente afetam pessoas que estão a muitos kms de distância de mim.
A minha cunhada (ae Cú!!!) disse que as vezes nem parece que estou tão longe do Brasil por causa das coisas que coloco por aqui e isso me faz me sentir bem.
Outra coisa que está me deixando feliz é que as pessoas vieram me elogiar pelo blog. A Lu sempre comenta, meus pais vieram dizer que estavam surpresos pelas coisas que eu escrevo (tudo bem que namorada e pais não contam né haha) e agora por essas pessoas que tanto quanto a Gabi ou a Stella estão ai lendo o meu blog e se interessaram por ele.
Se gostam, passem adiante!
Isso me motiva ainda mais a querer fazer do EuroTrip um blog mais completo.

Como eu disse no post anterior, hoje meu dia foi de cama. Só sai pra ir pra aula e dar uma volta no centro. Então vou mandar uma música que ta fazendo sucesso por aqui e acho que pelo Brasil também e traduz bem o que eu to senti para o dia de hoje.
É isso! Fui!

Aow!

Boa noite a todos!
Bom antes de tudo eu ando meio longe daqui pois não tenho parado direito para escrever.
Essa semana fui na polícia, andei no centro, fui num show de jazz num pub e outras milhares de coisas...
Hoje é aniversário da Pip (my hostmom). Então acho que vai ter alguma coisa aqui de noite.
Então nem vou ficar direito por aqui para poder postar. Quem sabe depois, eu volte aqui para acertarmos isso pois hoje eu estou morto. Ontem fomos para uma festa da escola numa balada. Foi muito firmeza, mas ir dormir as 5h pra acordar as 7:30h não rola. O que aconteceu? Fui acordado 9:30h por uma amiga da minha sala me ligando hahahaha
A professora da primeira aula marcou para gente ir tomar café da manhã num café aqui em Bristol. E haviamos marcado as 9:30h. Foi a sorte que essa minha amiga não sabia o local de encontro e me ligou pra perguntar.
Bom o café aqui é como se fosse um almoço. O breakfast que eu pedi vinha pão, ovo, salmão e tomates. Vocês devem pensar "Só isso??" mas se vocês vissem a quantidade que vem no prato iam se assustar!
Bom depois fomos dar uma volta no centro e no shopping.
Agora estou aqui em casa. Vou tomar um banho e descer pra a festinha de aniversário!

Antes de ir, quero aproveitar e postar as fotos da festa da ELC que ocorreu ontem: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.168705509860209.46341.100001622834785&l=1dcb75ab48
Fui!

quarta-feira, 8 de junho de 2011

Curiosidades

Como eu havia dito anteriormente este é o post sobre as curiosidades que eu notei aqui na Inglaterra. 
Vamos lá:
- nos banheiros daqui existem duas torneiras: uma para água quente e outra para fria. Se você quer uma água morninha, é melhor tampar a pia e encher fazendo uma mistura das duas. 
- em Bristol, é possível ver raposas caminhando na rua. Parece ser algo tão comum que um dia desses eu vi uma dormindo na frente da igreja que eu passo quando vou à escola. 
- a água da Inglaterra é muito diferente da do Brasil. Ouvi algumas pessoas dizerem que possui muito sal e acho que é isso mesmo, pois é possível ver dentro das privadas que se forma uma crosta muito tensa e quando se esta tomando banho você consegue sentir o gosto. É uma sensação muito estranha pois a água parece que gruda em você, parece que você ta suado hahaha mas ok. 
- aqui a Chevrolet possui outro nome: Vauxhall. E o carro que chamamos de Vectra GT é chamado aqui de Astra. 
- de sábado, não ache estranho se você ver um monte de gente fantasiada a noite na rua, pois isso é bem normal por aqui. Existem baladas que deixam a entrada gratuita para pessoas fantasiadas. Na balada que eu fui, tinha uma mulher bem gorda vestida de batgirl hahahaha TENSO
- o desodorante Rexona que a gente conhece, aqui se chama Sure para as mulheres e Suremen para os homens. 
- a primeira vez que dei uma cagada fiquei assustado pois não tinha lixo dentro do banheiro. Depois que eu fui saber que aqui se joga o papel dentro da privada mesmo. Mas fiquei pensando se não é comum as privadas entupirem por aqui. 
- as casas aqui não tem garagem. Portanto na calada da noite, é possível ver Porches, Audis, Mini Coopers aos montes parados nas ruas. E não se estranhe, pois aqui eles são tão comuns que nem palios, celtas e unos no Brasil. Que comparação não?
- os carros trafegam na rua na direção oposta a nossa (essa deve ser a mais conhecida) mas ingleses dizem que os outros (leia: o mundo) são os que andam na direção errada. 
- a pontualidade britânica é algo bem complicado para nós brasileiros. Uma história engraçada é que estava jogando Ping pong com a Sophie e a mãe dela disse que ela só poderia jogar mais 1 minuto. Um minuto depois, a mãe veio e falou para ela parar. Se fosse no Brasil, esse um minuto iria virar dez e quem sabe ate meia hora. 
Aqui estou usando tanto meu relógio que ontem, quando fui tomar banho, nem senti mais que estava usando e simplesmente tomei banho com ele hahaha. Me toquei quando fui lavar o braço. 
- nos supermercados, existem caixas de auto atendimento. Ou seja, você pegas nas prateleiras o que quer comprar e passa você mesmo na máquina. Sinceramente, a idéia é genial pois eu mesmo testei. É muito fácil e rápido. Só que imagine isso no Brasil. Se algumas pessoas já escondem algumas coisas com atendente imagina sem!
- aqui em Bristol existe um pub de aproximadamente 400 anos. É um lugar aonde os piratas se reuniam na época das grandes navegações. Se você parar pra pensar, o pub é quase da idade do Brasil! 
- na rua existem diversos avisos que se você deixar a merda do seu cachorro na rua, você pode ser multado em £100. Isso da entorno de 300 reais. E aqui nao tem historinha pra enrolar o guarda. 
Bom pessoal acho que é isso. 
Se eu lembrar de mais alguma coisa coloco pra vocês! 

domingo, 5 de junho de 2011

Dominguera

O domingo foi um dia de descanso. Só sai para comer algo e já voltei novamente para casa.
Vou assistir algum filme antes de dormir e que recomece a semana!
Fui!

Brighton e um balanço da primeira semana

Bom dia a todos!
Ontem fomos para Brighton que é uma cidade litorânea ao sul de Londres.
A cidade é muito bonita e chegou a me lembrar um pouco daquelas cidades litorâneas que vemos nos filmes dos EUA. O dia estava super bom, com um sol (que para os europeus estava de matar) gostosinho e quase sem nuvens no céu.
Saímos por volta das 8 horas da manhã de Bristol e chegamos em Brighton por perto de umas 11h30.
Assim que chegamos um professor nosso que estava de guia foi nos levar para conhecer alguns pontos turísticos da cidade. Passamos por um palácio, que é uma arquitetura totalmente diferente da britânica, que é super bonito e acaba se destacando no meio da cidade, fomos conhecer as lojinhas que ficam em ruas super apertadas que chega até difícil andar por lá sem esbarrar em alguém e finalmente (e acho que o mais legal) fomos a praia de Brighton.
Bom, o que falar da praia de Brighton?
A praia é realmente muito bonita de se ver, mas para nós brasileiros não é do tipo que gostaríamos de ter no Brasil. Ela não é composta de areia e sim de pedras. A água do mar é GELADA PRA CARAMBA pra não dizer coisa pior.e me parece que é do estilo praia de tombo, pois as pessoas que entravam na água pouco caminhavam e já estava na altura do peito. Senti como se Brighton fosse a Santos de São Paulo, pois na ida, assim que chegamos em Brighton, era notável o grande volume de carros que estavam chegando, somando isso pela proximidade da cidade a Londres, dai vocês já imaginam.
As pessoas tomam sol de cueca/calcinha e sutiã. Simplesmente chegam, tiram a calça e a blusa, e se jogam nas pedras como se tivessem bebido todas no dia anterior. Chega até ser engraçado pois algumas pessoas parecem que morreram deitadas ali, e por ali ficaram.
Chega até ser perigoso comer alguma coisa na praia porque para onde se olha pode-se ver gaivotas. Elas estão para todos os lados e atacam tudo que vêem pela frente. Falo isso por presenciamos um ataque de uma gaivota ao lanche de uma mulher na nossa frente. Enquanto andávamos pelo pier, uma mulher estava andando com um lanche na mão, toda destraída e uma gaivota saiu voando de cima de uma loja e roubou o lanche que estava na mão da mulher. O tenso é que o animal não era pequeno então demorou um pouco para gente entender que o animal estava atrás do lanche e não realmente atacando a mulher. Mas enfim, quando todo mundo percebeu o porque do ataque, o pessoal caiu na risada. A mulher vai ter uma ótima história para contar quando voltar para casa.
Bom ficamos na praia, demos uma volta pelo centrinho de novo e pegamos o busuca de volta para Bristol.
Saímos as 18h e pouco e chegamos em Bristol por volta das 21h40.
O pessoal que foi conosco marcou de ir para uma baladinha aqui em Bristol que dizem que é bem legal. Então marcamos as 23h na frente da escola para dividir um taxi.
A balada era muito legal. Bem diferente das que eu conheço no Brasil. Você paga 1 pound para entrar (3 reais) seco. O som é muito firmeza e toca de tudo. Desde aquelas músicas que a gente ouvia nos anos 2000 até as mais novas que estão tocando agora no rádio.
Depois pegamos um taxi de volta para a escola e tive minha costumeira caminhada de 15 min no caminho de volta para casa.
Eu estou juntando algumas coisas que estão me chamando atenção aqui na Inglaterra para escrever um post de curiosidades. Vou ver se já começo a escrever agora que estou com tempo.
Bom, a minha primeira semana foi bem intensa (como a Lu fala que eu gosto de viver as coisas). Saí quase todos os dias, nem que fosse para tomar uma cervejinha e ir na ponte suspensa. Conheci gente de todo o mundo e fiz bons amigos.
É estranho pensar nisso pois muitos dos amigos que vieram para cá estão só para ficar no máximo 3 meses. Então já é esperado que viverei muitas despedidas por aqui até que chegue a minha vez de voltar para casa. Mas ao mesmo tempo, como eu, todos estão vivendo essa experiência de corpo e alma, e por isso a amizade vêm de uma maneira muito legal, sendo uma relação totalmente diferente se nós nos conhecessemos ou em Sorocaba ou em Santo André.
E mesmo apesar de ser tudo novo, as pessoas, os lugares, as situações, as vezes eu sinto aquele aperto do peito de saber que não posso compartilhar com todos vocês tudo o que essa experiência está me proporcionando. Como se eu quisesse que cada um estivesse comigo vivendo isso, experimentando esse Velho Mundo. E eu acho que é esse o grande objetivo desse blog. É passar para todos que estão lendo um pouquinho da experiência e da vida aqui na Inglaterra!
Assim que eu colocar as fotos no facebook, eu venho aqui e posto o link do albúm.
ATUALIZADO: O albúm está aqui: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.167433116654115.45701.100001622834785&l=19953c0e0a
Um ótimo domingo a todos!

sexta-feira, 3 de junho de 2011

Quinta e sexta

Na quinta fui para a aula mas não pude ficar ate o final da aula pois tinha que me dirigir a uma unidade da policia de Bristol para poder registrar meu passaporte. 
Era por volta de meio dia e meio quando estava saindo da escola e a policia só abria as 2h então decidi por ir andando. 
Enfim, passei um perrengue do caralho!
Me perdi para encontrar a merda da delegacia e quando cheguei, adivinhem: a delegacia estava fechada para registro de passaporte e só abre no dia 7 de junho!
Fiquei puto né! Pois tive que matar a aula da tarde (o registro do passaporte ocorre no mesmo horário da aula, parecem que fazer de sacanagem!) que ia ser a minha primeira aula de inglês para business. Agora um policial me disse que tenho que retornar no dia 7 para poder fazer esse registro. 
Então quer dizer que estou ilegal? Pois na Inglaterra, na imigração eles pedem para você registrar em ate 7 dias depois da sua chegada e eles estão sendo completados hoje!
Fodeu!
Eu pensei a mesma coisa ate que a escola me informou que nao é bem assim. Esse prazo é dado mas eu preciso mesmo registrar ate o primeiro mês. Então vou aproveitar dia 7 para matar isso logo. 
Bom depois voltei e fiquei de boa em casa ate que havíamos combinado com o pessoal da escola de ir para um pub aqui bem famoso as quintas. Eles vende o pint de breja a £1 cada. O que é muito barato por aqui então é lotado de estudantes. 
Ficamos por lá com um pessoas da escola ate que o pessoal decidiu novamente ir para a ponte suspensa de tanto que nós falamos que ela é bonita a noite. 
Dessa vez demos uma pequena volta pela ponte e fomos ver um lugar que eles chamam de observatório. 
É como se fosse um lugar que você tem uma vista previlegiada da ponte, podendo ver ela por inteiro. 
E é um lugar bem escuro de noite então você consegue ver o céu muito bem e estava um dia super bom, com o céu super limpo. 
Então vocês podem imaginar que tenha sido ótimo. 
Depois disso, voltei para casa e capotei!
Na sexta (vulgo hoje), fui normalmente para escola mas hoje é um dia especial: nossas aulas acabam as 12:30h então temos a tarde toda livre!
Compramos uma pizza e uma galera da escola foi fazer um picnic no parque. 
O dia tava muito quente! Ate mesmo para nós brasileiros. 
Depois de comer, ficamos sentados pela grama (é muito estranho, mas em dias de sol, os ingleses se sentam no parque para tomar uma breja, conversar, namorar, tomar sol e essas coisas) sem fazer nada ate que alguém teve a brilhante idéia de levar uma bola de futebol. Dai você já viu né, tive que mostrar minha habilidade futebolística para os estrangeiros. 
Resumindo: brasileiro é como se fosse o super trunfo do futebol aqui. Quando ta dividindo os times, você é referencia, quando seu time marca, o outro time reclama porque o seu tem brasileiro. Enfim, os caras jogam muito mal e to achando que vou ter boas tarde jogam futebol com a galera da escola. 
Enfim, me acabei no futebas. 
Quando cheguei em casa o David eatava com vontade de fazer um churras maroto (leia: churras estranho). Então como eu era brasileiro nao podia deixar isso nas mãos da pessoa errada. Me ofereci para ajudar (leia: fazer todo o churras). 
Bom para começar foi uma luta conseguir acender o fogo, mas como um bom engenheiro, usamos uma ferramenta tipo uma furadeira mas que no lugar da broca tem uma vazão de ar realmente quente, para acender o maldito carvão. 
Depois, ele me trouxe uns bifes do tipo de hambúrguer, colocaram pimentão, milho (MILHO DOCE! O milho aqui é doce e não igual ao nosso) e uns legumes que a vizinha disse que eu iria notar eles quando fosse cagar (confirmado!). 
Bom churras feito! Ninguém passou fome e a carne estava uma delicia. 
Só um comentário a fazer: a vizinha toda vez que eu virava a carne ia lá e metia o bedelho no meu churrasco e desvirava a maldita da carne. Até que uma hora fiquei puto e deixei a carne tostando pra ver se ela ia se incomodar hahahaha mas ok. Everything is fine!
Bom vou dormir que amanha vou com a escola para um passeio em Brighton que é uma cidade litorânea aqui. Então vamos dar uma checada como que as praias são por aqui. 
Aguardem por fotos! Assim que puder, passo elas pro pc e ponho no face. Dai eu publico o álbum aqui pra vocês. 
Pumtchacauaua! (nao me diga o que é, aprendi com as garotas da Suíça)
Fui!

quinta-feira, 2 de junho de 2011

Primeiro dia de aula

Atualizando: na Terça foi meu primeiro dia de aula mas nao tivemos aula. Chegamos na escola e tivemos uma pequena conversa com John, que é o dono, e já fomos logo fazendo um teste para verificar o nosso nível de inglês.y 
Foi simplesmente umas quatro folhas de teste de múltipla escolha, uma redação sobre você mesmo e uma pequena conversa com uma das professoras. Nao foi dos mais complicados. 
É legal falar que muita gente da escola sabe do acidente do meu braço. Eles são super atenciosos e gravam o seu nome com uma facilidade. 
Bom, enfim, eu consegui um nível upper intermediate o que achei bem legal. 
Depois dos testes saímos para dar uma volta pela cidade com uma professora guiando. Foi bem legal pois o tempo estava bom e acabamos conhecendo os lugares em que havíamos nos perdido anteriormente. 
Quando o tour acabou resolvemos ir para um pub. Acabamos indo no Roo Bar, que é um tipo de pub com temática australiana. Ficamos um pouco por lá mas já estava próximo das 6 da tarde e ninguém estava com vontade de pagar para jantar, assim decidimos cada um voltar para suas casas, jantar com as suas respectivas famílias e depois voltarmos para o pub. 
Nesse dia tomei minha primeira Ale, que é a maneira que as pessoas chamam as cervejas britânicas. Eles normalmente dizem que essas são as verdadeiras cervejas e que as outras são apenas outras bebidas. 
Assim que saímos do pub era por volta de umas 22h (você deve estar imaginando que é cedo, mas aqui as coisas acontecem ate por volta de meia noite, 2h da manha) e então decidimos ir conhecer a famosa ponte suspensa de Bristol. Eu devo ter colocado alguma foto dela em algum post ai atrás. 
Saímos seguindo então rumo a tal da ponte. Seguindo placas, perguntando para as pessoas na rua e no fim descobri que a ponte é muito perto da casa que estou ficando. 
Mas a ponte estava muito bonita. Ela é toda enfeitada com luzes e quando anoitece, eles acendem-as deixando ela brilhar no meio de escuridão. 
Ficamos um pouco por lá e depois voltei para casa dormir. 
Ontem acordei e fui ter meu primeiro dia de aula (dessa vez aula mesmo). 
Tive três aulas no dia com duração de 1h30 cada. A primeira e a ultima foram com uma professora chamada Sarah e a do meio com um cara chamado Jeff. 
Na minha classe tem pessoas de todo o mundo. Itália, Japão, Korea, Espanha, Republica Tcheca, Turquia e mais um brasileiro alem de o senhorio que vos fala. 
A classe esta num nível bem legal para mim, mas este curso já esta para acabar daqui 2 semanas. Dai mudarão todas as salas e as pessoas que estiverem com bons níveis sobem para o avançado. 
Eu fiquei muito feliz de ter feito essas aulas particulares antes de viajar pois ajudou muito a desenferrujar o meu inglês e soltar minha conversação. Pode ter certeza que isso me ajudou muito hoje. 
Ontem a escola ia fazer um evento num pub que é tipo um quiz. Eu já tinha pago e dito para todo mundo que ia quando recebi um email da minha familia aqui me convidando para ir jantar fora. Não pude recusar o convite e fui cancelar minha inscrição. 
Assim que saída aula fui para casa me arrumar para nao me atrasar e mostrar a pontualidade brasileira a eles (existe?). 
A noite fomos a um restaurante italiano muito legal. As paredes são todas graffitadas e o restaurante possui umas arvores do lado de dentro e tal. Dai chegou uma banda de Jazz que uma das minhas "irmãs" conhecia o pessoal. 
Eles tocaram de tudo e digo, foi ate emocionante ouvir garota de Ipanema tocando com um cara na guitarra, outro no violoncelo e um no sax. A cantora (que no dia não tava cantando) ficou super animada para que eu pudesse ensina-la a versão em português, pois ela disse que normalmente canta mas em inglês mesmo. 
Um coisa engraçada desse restaurante foi que eu descobri que tem algum certo dia que se você for cantar com a banda o seu prato principal sai de graça! O restaurante paga o seu prato principal mesmo se você for um cantor de merda! hahaha já viram que esse vai ser um programa que eu vou fazer por aqui ainda!
Depois do restaurante, passamos num pub para encontrar uma outra das irmãs (nao me perguntem, porque eu fiquei sabendo ontem também que existia uma outra irmã) e depois iriam para casa. Acabei decidindo por ir junto. 
O pub era a mesma coisa que os outros que eu já tinha ido. Mas assim que chegamos tinha uma banda tocando, que por sinal era muito firmeza!
Eram 3 caras, dois no banjo (BANJO!) e um no violão. Eles vieram da Bélgica e estavam em uma turnê. Gostei tanto que acabei comprando o cd. 
Depois viemos para casa e capotei como sempre. 
Sobre hoje eu posto amanha como sempre faço. 
See you around!

terça-feira, 31 de maio de 2011

First class day...but...

Meu fomos para um pub hoje. Eu, Roaland, Gabi e Pavel. Mas bebi pra caramba.
Demos um rolê pela cidade e fomos visitar a ponte suspensa que existe em Bristol. Só falo uma coisa: muito foda!
A ponte a noite é toda iluminada. Quando se atinge o meio dela, pode-se ter uma ótima vista de Bristol.
Sobre a escola e mais detalhes eu falo amanhã. Preciso ir dormir!
See you tomorrow!

segunda-feira, 30 de maio de 2011

SS Great Britain and the city

Bom, bom, bom, primeira impressão de Bristol? MUITO FIRMEZA!
A cidade é cheia de pub's pra todos os lados e todos os gostos. Cheguei na escola pela primeira vez e estava um aglomerado de pessoas lá de todos os lugares do mundo.
Brasileiro que é brasileiro tá bem em qualquer lugar certo? Então já fui puxando papo com todo mundo e tal.
Conheci uma menina da Turquia que não me lembro o nome pois é meio diferente (estranho), conheci um cara da Espanha que já desafiei para uma partida de sinuca e uma suiça que acabei ficando amigo e uma coreana que está morando junto com a Gabi, a Jamie.
Então o pelotão saiu da escola com destino ao cais de Bristol. Fomos conversando eu, a Gabi e a Fabienne (que por acaso fala muito bem inglês) e a Jamie.
Estava uma manhã chuvosa, mas aquela chuva fina e constante e um frio do caramba! Uns 20 min de caminhada pelos morros de Bristol e estávamos lá.
O navio foi usado para fazer travessias pelo oceano Atlântico. Demorava por volta de 14 dias para ir da Inglaterra até New York. Mas ele foi colocado em uma doca especial, onde possui todo um sistema de secagem do ar para evitar que as peças se deteriorem e evitar a ferrugem. Dentro do navio existiam alguns bonecos que pela primeira vez você imaginava que eram pessoas de verdade, pois haviam pessoas vestidas com roupas de época, mas então você se decepcionava. As vezes, entre os bonecos tinham alguns lugares livres e as pessoas sentavam lá, quando você olhava pela primeira vez, ficava um tempo esperando para ver se era uma pessoa mesmo ou não.
É um passeio de graça (pelo menos não pagamos nada, nem para a escola) e foi muito legal.
Bom assim que saímos do passeio estavamos morrendo de fome, então seguimos para o centro da cidade para comer alguma coisa.
Paramos em um pub e pedimos pelo famoso fish and chips com uma bela pint (aqui se vc pedir por uma cerveja o cara vai perguntar se vc quer a garrafa, um copo ou meio copo, então pint é o copo BEM GENEROSO). O engraçado foi que ao chegarmos, escolhemos no cardápio e ficamos esperando na mesa uma garçonete vir atender, mas e ai, quem disse que alguém veio? Por aqui, você deve se levantar e ir fazer o pedido e ainda a moça olhou com cara torta pra gente hahaha
Bom, comemos até sair fish and chips pelo ouvido. E depois ficamos conversando com a moça que na verdade pareceu ser muito educada e gente boa. Pedimos pela informação para onde seguir e fomos embora.
E quem disse que conseguimos acertar???? hahaha
No meio do caminho, vimos um ponte muito bonita com uma praça mais bonita ainda virando a rua. Ahh não deu outra, viramos a rua e fomos tirar umas fotos na praça. A praça era muito grande e tira um globo gigantesco de alguma coisa refletora. Vocês podem ver algumas fotos no link que passei abaixo.
Então continuamos seguindo pela praça, passamos por uma igreja bem diferente e do Bristol City Council, uma construção bem grande com várias bandeiras de países europeus.
Dai nos perdemos de vez. Não sabíamos se era para direita, esquerda, para frente ou se já havíamos passado. Só queríamos ir para o centro de Bristol. Dois brasileiros e uma suiça perdidos.
Bom, no fim, descobrimos que demos um rolê ABSURDO pela cidade e finalmente conseguimos chegar em casa.
Chegando aqui, após o jantar, desafiei Princess Sophie (tem foto dela no albúm) para uma disputada partida de ping-pong na mesa de jantar e agora aqui estou postando no blog enquanto falo com a Lu no skype.
Bom já vou indo que amanhã é meu primeiro dia de aula!
Um grande abraço!
SS Great Britain e a cidade:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.166110300119730.45150.100001622834785&l=94ac6bbbec
Casa da família:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.166124400118320.45157.100001622834785&l=1453ba7936

Bristol

E ai pessoal!
Cheguei ontem ao final da tarde aqui na casa da familia Nash.
Sai da casa do meu amigo por volta de meio dia. E ate chegar no aeroporto tive que dar um rolê de busão porque a parte do metro que eu ia pegar não estava funcionando. Cheguei lá por volta de umas 14:30h e já fui retirar minha mala que deixei guardada. Ai encontrei a Gabi (uma outra brasileira que conheci pela net que também estava indo para Bristol) e pegamos um busão no aeroporto com destino a Bristol.
A viagem foi bem tranqüila. E pelo que parece a Inglaterra é um país com muitas planícies e poucas montanhas, mas mesmo assim não deixa de ser bonito.
Bom, Bristol não é um cidade como Londres, mas parece que foi uma ótima escolha a se fazer.
Pip, David e Sophie me receberam de braços abertos. Eles moram numa casa de uns 5 andares mais ou menos. O único problema foi conseguir subir esses 5 andares com a mala gigantesca!
O meu quarto fica no andar mais alto da casa. É um quarto bem aconchegante, com um tipo de closet para guardar as roupas e uma escrivaninha. Possui uma vista muita bonita da cidade.
Hoje a escola nos levará para um passeio pela cidade e será bom para conhecermos o pessoal da escola. Ah, hoje é feriado na Inglaterra. Por isso nao teremos aula! Então vou aproveitar o dia livre para conhecer a cidade.
Bom é isso pessoal. Quando me tiver um tempo, volto aqui para falar como que foi!