Keeping a journal exercise

September 17th

This day I was pretty relaxed, because the day before i went out with my friends and i t was very nice. I still need to improve the verb tenses, for me it's a little dificult to know in a conversation when we use past perfect, or present perfect. In a writing it's easier because you have more time to think. And the new vocabulary that I have learned is blackmail that is when you know a secret of someone and ask favors in exchange for not telling the secret.

September 19th

This day I was not so good because of my rinithus, but i'm used to it already. My suggestions of study are the past perfect and present perfect, i think these are the most difficult topics in english. The new vocabulary that I've learned was eavesdropper that means a person who listen accidentaly a conversation.

September 24th

This day I was pretty happy, because was the day I discovered that I passed on the vestibular test. I don't have any suggestion of sites, instead, i have a suggestion of a software very good, it's name is Rosetta Stone, the only disadvantage is that its not free. The new vocabulary that I've learned is toddler, that means a child of 2 to 4 years old.

My last English Classes

September 17th

That day I was feeling a little lasy... I need to improve my speaking skills, because it seems that I never can remember the words I want to say... Is very difficult to think and to speak what you're thinking at the same time... And I learned a new word: overheard which means to hear accidentaly something that someone is telling to another person and not to you. It hapens sometimes.

September 19 th

I'm worried... My wife has a stomachache and we don't know why. she needs to visit a doctor, but she's afraid. My suggestion to study today is the verb tenses... It's very hard to know what verb tense to use... They are too seemed... I'm very confused. I learned a new word: acquaintance that is  a person that you know but which isn't a close friend.

A Famous Mangaká

Rumiko Takahashi is a famous and rich writer of Japan who started her career in 1978. She's 54 and is known by the successful mangás she wrote, because of that she is considered a mangaká. Two of the most famous are Rama 1/2 and Inuyasha.

I discovered Mrs.Takahashi by reading Inuyasha and now I have the colection of this mangás almost complete, it's composed by 112 volumes. No other mangaká has already wrote a story so long like this one.

Complaint about restriction areas.

Mr. Steve Jobs

CEO Apple and Pixar Animation.

Last month, I bought an iPad device. It´s amazing, I love the gadget and start to use it to do me things, surfing in the internet, read books, magazines and a lot of things that is really nice to do using this beautiful device.

But after some days, I discovered that for some things, my region (Brazil) is not able to do things, like download the movies or games. This thing really bothers me. I tried call to Aplle and talk about my problem, but they not hear-me and I was very upset.

I would like to know why the region is so important? Why the persons that live in Argentina could download the games and we here in Brazil cannot?

I am very disappointed with the Apple Store. They need to change the way of sell things and do not use more restrictions areas.

Anderson Rabelo

Curitiba, Brazil

Workaholic.

Michael is the most creative person that I know. He think very fast, and implement their ideas very fast also. When you not understand what he is saying, he stop and start explain with another point of view. You always understand what he say and what is the meaning of their thought.

At school, he does not a very applied student, their grades were normal, but when he likes some subject, until the professor he left behind. Michael works as an designer and his work is very ordered. He normally arrives late at work, and likes leave early, but if is necessary deliver some work, he spend the day and night working and goes home only after the product is ready.

Michael love computers and he likes to play games in front of the screen. He play many hours, and sometimes he lost the time to wake-up to start to work. If he could, probably he would work at home. Since I known him, he never request vacation, he is always ready to work. He is the most work-a-holic that I know.

Brave New World

Every single morning I surf the Internet looking for novelties about Modern Architecture. In fact, there are a lot of good websites and blogs showing new trends and different ways to see the worlds, throw the poetry of stones. I always ask myself how common people see the space around, and if they perceive cool buildings.

For me, the most interesting thing in Contemporary Architecture, in addition to esthetics, is the use of new technologies. Speccially here in Brazil, where we´re more accustomated to see them in other areas, as in automotive industry. Of course, our Economy doesn´t allow many "flying highs", but in an ethic point of view, the research in new technologies for architecture (for example in efficient kind of "skins"), can provide more sustanable buildings - and life - in the future, don´t you think?

Furthermore, considering that architecture is also a form of art, and not only building, when I started looking for some buildings in Europe this morning, I noticed people really enjoy interacting with them. Until the point they become real icons for their cities. And, as somebody said: "architecture is history told in stones", how kind of history about us will our grandchildren read in the future?

Examples of Contemporary Architecture with people´s interaction.

Paulo Coelho

"It says that we need a minute to notice a special person, an hour to appreciate it, a day to love it, but then a whole life to forget it" (Paulo Coelho). This is just one of many famous quotes written by this renowned writer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He attended a Jesuit School. As a teenager, Coelho wanted to become a writer but because his opposition to following a traditional path, his parents commiting him to a mental instituition from wich he escaped three times before being released at the age of 20. At his parents wishes, Coelho enrolled in a law school but one year later, he dropped out and life as a hippie, traveling through South America, North Africa, Europe, and becoming to Brazil Coelho worked as a songwriter, composing lyrics for Elis Regina, Rita Lee, and Brazilian icon Raul Seixas. He also worked as an actor, journalist and theatre director before pursuing his writing carreer. The diversity of people, places and emotions is also feature in Paulo Coelho's writing. He is the author of "The Alchemist", a book that record holder as the book with the highest number of translations in the world, and it was bestseller in many of this countries including Mandarin that reached number 1 among bestsellers in Dangdang, the largest on-line bookstore in China.

An interview with Paulo Coelho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2RvgpCie4