This is the end of a very long assignment. In the begging I thought it would really be hard have to write every day, but as time was passing and I was getting used to this daily writing, I started to enjoy it very much, of course I had those days that I really wanted to stop and don’t write again, but I know it was party of this English course and I needed to had it completed. I really enjoyed this assignment, I didn’t know I could write like that, I mean, sometimes I could really pick up a topic and write about it with no problems, and the days I could not find a topic I would just do some free writing about my day and some thoughts. Writing everyday got me going and on the next day I was ready to write again. The only think that I really didn’t like was that sometimes I was just so tired and if I tried to write, it wasn’t a good writing. If I have changed as a writer? Well, I didn’t consider myself a write before and I don’t consider myself a writer now, but if I need to write about something I am sure I can do a pretty good work using the tools I learned during this course. I am very glad I did complete this 56 days of writing, I feel like with a mission accomplished.

What another lazy day. I think it is just okay be lazy once awhile, but I am pretty much lazy every weekend. Today I got up kind of early for a Saturday and started doing all my homework; I wanted to have a free day just to be lazy on my bed, watching some movies on the TV and chat with friends online. One thing that I really like doing is see the different versions of a song. I think it so fun to go surf on YouTube and find different versions in different languages of songs. Some singers sing in different languages, of course with some very strong accent in some languages, but still I think that very nice of them to try get closer to their fans by singing in their language. Some songs are sang by others singer, the pop star of their country just decide to get this well known song and make a version, sometimes their version sucks, but I must admit that I already heard some very good versions, even better than the original. Besides listening to all those versions on YouTube, I had to go shopping for food and then spent some more time on my bed. I was almost falling asleep and then a friend called and invited me to go out for dinner, I said, well, I have spent the whole day inside so I think it will be good. Then we went out for dinner, I had some fish and chips and we chatted a little and it was just a good time being out for awhile. Back home I just had to write my journal and tomorrow is my last entry. I think I will miss writing on here but I will be very happy that I did complete this assignment.

I have forty minutes until my next class and I think I will take this time to write one of my last week journal entries. The weather could not be better this week. We are having some beautiful nice warm days and I am really enjoying going for a walk every evening at the park. I am trying to come up with some ideas to write about but nothing really good comes to my mind, so I decided to read other’s students journal and find something to write about. Then my topic today is: What I would do if I became a millionaire overnight. I believe that is the whole world population dreams, don’t have to worry about money, ever. It is hard to think about what you would do just after you get the money, but one of the first things that come to my mind is that I would travel allot. Travel and think about what I would do next. But of course I would buy a very nice house for my parents, would give the gift of my brother and sister dream. But spend some time visiting some different places for sure would be one of the very first things I would do. Sometimes I just spend a few hours dreaming about that before go to bed. What my life would be if I was a millionaire. But you also have to do some work, or at least hire somebody to take care of your money, make the right investments, so your money only grows. I think have lots of money is really great, but also give you some responsibilities, etc. I am sure you would have lots of new family members trying to get a little bit of your money.

I really never thought I would live with roommates before. Never thought would be a good idea share a place with stranger people, but it now, almost end of the semester, seems that is just alright do that. I know here in the United States it is a big thing, not much like this is in Brazil. When I found this place to live and knew I would have two roommates all I wanted to be sure was that they were nice people, you know, don’t do drugs, not much drinking, no smoking and mostly no much drama. My roommates are good people. We don’t really have much contact, because everybody is busy with school and work, etc. But the times we get to talk or do a little party, we have a good time. But not always it is okay live with them. Sometimes one of the roommates go party and return late in the night making lots of noise and then start cooking around three in the morning, or sometimes on the weekends he gets up really early and start playing his rock music out loud. This one spend basically all this time when he is here in this bedroom playing video game, sometimes I can heard him at one in the morning still playing. The other one is more calm and has a job and go to school, so he is almost never here. Usually on Sunday night he cooks for his whole week, which I think it is good because he used to cook everyday and never do the dishes, so now he just finish cooking and does the dishes. Today he used the blender and took it to his bedroom to keep drinking his milkshake and forgot to take it back to the kitchen, I got pissed because I wanted to use it and could not. So, I enjoyed this experience of living with roommates, but since I used to live alone for awhile, I really prefer have a place for only me.

What nice day outside, warm and just great to start get health and go for a walk, always with my iPod. I just love music, and it is amazing how I get connect with some songs. Being a Portuguese speaker and because Portuguese is so much alike Spanish and Italian I am able to listen some songs in Italian and Spanish and get connected. If you get my iPod you will see different kind of music such as rock, pop, rap, etc. I have Italian songs, Mexican songs, French songs, of course many American songs and Brazilian, just to keep connected with my home country. I like this Italian singer, her name is Laura Pausini, she is kind of the Italy Celine Dion. I just like her as much as I like Celine Dion. Just find out she is starting a World Tour this May, hope she will be in California, so I get to see her. My great grandfather was Italian; I think that is where come from my taste for Italian music and my love for pasta. In Brazil we have some soap operas that tell stories about Italian people that migrate to Brazil and it is so cool, because they mix Italian with Portuguese, so you learn a bit of Italian language. I remember once watching this soap opera and this Italian girl used to make homemade pasta. It looked so good and yummy that I ended up learning how to make the same pasta, it is a little of work, but honestly, it worth all the work once it is done and in your mouth. I still haven’t been to Italy, but I am pretty sure I will go there someday, and hope soon, so I can taste some real Italian food and enjoy a little the country my great grandfather came from.

Last week for the journal and I am feeling like completing a mission. It has been almost two months and it will be really good complete it. I have been reading some other journals, and I need to keep track of my comments. All extra point I can get I will get. I really want to have a GPA 4.0 and I am almost there. My really only doubt is if I will finish this English course with a grade of A. The others courses I am taking I will get A. I will transfer to San Diego and I believe having a good GPA will help me allot. Pretty good day today, not cold and not hot, just almost perfect and I am so glad I am not having too much homework this week. I haven’t done much lately, just studying, working on get my documents for my transfer and watching some TV. Also have been talking with some friends in Brazil, it is holiday so lots of my friends are online. Sometimes I miss them, not all them but a few ones, specially my cousins. I really used to have a very good time with some of them. They keep asking me when I will go back to Brazil, but all I can tell them now is that I will go probably in May 2010. It is just a long way to go for just a weekend and since this summer I will be moving to California not much time for any International trip. But I told them that when I go I will spend at least three months, so we will have enough time to catch up. They were all happy.

It is Monday and lunch time, I just finished revising my English essay, and I think I did a good job. I am not hungry but I am sleepy. I had a test this morning and I think that made me not have a good night last night. I didn’t sleep until three in the morning kind of worried about the test, but the good news is that out of 75 points I just missed one. I am proud of myself. Then after the test I came to the lab and started revising my essay. I sent it to a few friends to get some feedback and I guess I did a pretty good work. But who will grade it is my professor so I hope she thinks I did a good work. It is the begging of a new week and I am almost sure this is the last week of the journal. I must confess that I will be glad to have this work done. It has been almost two months and it is a hard work to keep the journal update. There are days that you are not feeling like doing anything but still have the journal to write. I know most of my entries were nonsense and free writing, but my load of work is so much that I can’t really focus and write something very nice. Tomorrow is another holiday in Brazil and most of people don’t go to work today either. I think that is one of the things that I most like in Brazil, when the holiday is Thursday, we usually don’t work Thursday and Friday, when the holiday is Tuesday we usually don’t work Monday and Tuesday, so perfect to 4 days vacations. Of course if you have money, because something that I don’t get about Brazil, is that why it is more expensive travel inside the country than abroad sometimes.

Just got this from my aunt and it is really cool. At least for Portuguese language spoken. It is an essay wrote only with "P" words. Really cool. Now I used the Google translator and have it in English just to you guys know more or less what the essay is about. The Portuguese version is after the English one. Enjoy!

English Version:

Pedro Paulo Pereira Pinto, small Portuguese painter, painting doors, walls, portals. However, asked to stop because preferred paint brochures. Starting in Piracicaba, painted shelves to progress.
Subsequently, left for Pirapora. Overnight, continued to Paranavaí therefore wanted to do paintings for poor people. However, little practiced, because Father asked Paul to paint pots, but later painted dishes promises to pay. Pale, but custom, chose to leave for Portugal for permission to ask Dad to remain practicing paintings, preferring therefore Paris. Leaving for Paris, spent the Pyrenees, it wanted to paint them. Seemed quiet, but sorry, realized stony cliffs, preferring to paint them in part because it seemed dangerous hail stones, especially at peak because shepherds passed by to ask minced flat, probably causing small perforations therefore by step run, permanently , powerful filly. Stepping Paris, asked permission to paint pompous palaces, seeking picturesque points therefore to paint poverty, need to go dangerous points, pestilent, pernicious, preferring Pedro Paulo prevent it. Pedro Paulo went deep deprivation. I think I can continue painting, but by thinking black forecasts moved, leading pesares deep, mainly because you want to delay from Portugal. Thoughtful people! Pedro Paulo thought ... - I go to Portugal because they ask for honored patricians, painting main Portuguese ports. Paris! Paris! Pedro Paulo delivered.
- Parto, but I always paint over it because I want to progress. Stepping Portugal, Pedro Paulo sought by parents, but for from Dad Procópio Province.
Claims provisions, started promptly, because Dad needed to ask permission to continue practicing Procópio paintings. Deep shade, perfez path traveled by the father. Asking permission, entered the main gate.
But Dad Procópio pulling him by the neck made - asked permission to practice painting, however, practicing, spots worse. Primo Pinduca perfectly painted press Petunia.
Why geeks stuff? - Dad, - gave Pedro Paulo - painting because it allows, but rather, can look very professional to prove perseverance, because I want to stay in Portugal. Pedro Paulo taking the pulse, penetrated by step, looking for belongings, left promptly because Pedro wanted to bring Paul to practice profession.
Perfect: Quarry! Passing the bridge needed to be able to continue moving fish. First, small fish caught, but just passing time, got pacus, piaus, piabas, piaparas, pirarucus. They bite the next, wanted to stay as close to looking Péricles first cousin. Pointed by stepping stones, Dad tried Procópio Péricles, close cousin, mason work perfect. Gave brief, but promised to pay small portion Péricles professionalize Pedro Paulo.
First Pedro Paulo took stones, however, Pericles asked him to paint buildings, as needed to pay painters practical. Pedro Paulo particularly preferred painting buildings. Painting buildings to Pericles died, because it is precipitated by walls painted.
Poor Pedro Paulo perished painting ...
Let me therefore ask forgiveness for patience because
want to stop to think ... Need to stop thinking.
I thought. So ready: stop!


Portuguese Version, all with P:

Pedro Paulo Pereira Pinto, pequeno pintor Português, pintava portas, paredes, portais. Porém, pediu para parar porque preferiu pintar Panfletos. Partindo para Piracicaba, pintou prateleiras para poder progredir.
Posteriormente, partiu para Pirapora. Pernoitando, prosseguiu para Paranavaí, pois pretendia praticar pinturas para pessoas pobres. Porém, pouco praticou, porque Padre Paulo pediu para pintar panelas, porém posteriormente pintou pratos para poder pagar promessas. Pálido, porém personalizado, preferiu partir para Portugal para pedir permissão para papai para permanecer praticando pinturas, preferindo, portanto, Paris. Partindo para Paris, passou pelos Pirineus, pois pretendia pintá-los. Pareciam plácidos, porém, pesaroso, percebeu penhascos pedregosos, preferindo pintá-los parcialmente, pois perigosas pedras pareciam precipitar-se, principalmente pelo Pico, porque pastores passavam pelas picadas para pedirem pousada, provocando provavelmente pequenas perfurações, pois, pelo passo percorriam, permanentemente, possantes potrancas. Pisando Paris, pediu permissão para pintar palácios pomposos, procurando pontos pitorescos, pois, para pintar pobreza, precisaria percorrer pontos perigosos, pestilentos, perniciosos, preferindo Pedro Paulo precaver-se. Profunda privação passou Pedro Paulo. Pensava poder prosseguir pintando, porém, pretas previsões passavam pelo pensamento, provocando profundos pesares, principalmente por pretender partir prontamente para Portugal. Povo previdente! Pensava Pedro Paulo... - Preciso partir para Portugal porque pedem para prestigiar patrícios, pintando principais portos portugueses. Paris! Paris! Proferiu Pedro Paulo.
- Parto, porém penso pintá-la permanentemente, pois pretendo progredir. Pisando Portugal, Pedro Paulo procurou pelos pais, porém Papai Procópio partira para Província.
Pedindo provisões, partiu prontamente, pois precisava pedir permissão para Papai Procópio para prosseguir praticando pinturas. Profundamente pálido, perfez percurso percorrido pelo pai. Pedindo permissão, penetrou pelo portão principal.
Porém, Papai Procópio puxando-o pelo pescoço proferiu: - Pediste permissão para praticar pintura, porém, praticando, pintas pior. Primo Pinduca pintou perfeitamente prima Petúnia.
Porque pintas porcarias? - Papai, - proferiu Pedro Paulo - pinto porque permitistes, porém, preferindo, poderei procurar profissão própria para poder provar perseverança, pois pretendo permanecer por Portugal. Pegando Pedro Paulo pelo pulso, penetrou pelo patamar, procurando pelos pertences, partiu prontamente, pois pretendia pôr Pedro Paulo para praticar profissão.
Perfeito: Pedreiro! Passando pela ponte precisaram pescar para poderem prosseguir peregrinando. Primeiro, pegaram peixes pequenos, porém, passando pouco prazo, pegaram pacus, piaus, piabas, piaparas, pirarucus. Partiram pela picada próxima, pois pretendiam pernoitar pertinho, para procurar primo Péricles primeiro. Pisando por pedras pontudas, Papai Procópio procurou Péricles, primo próximo, pedreiro profissional perfeito. Poucas palavras proferiram, porém prometeu pagar pequena parcela para Péricles profissionalizar Pedro Paulo.
Primeiramente Pedro Paulo pegava pedras, porém, Péricles pediu-lhe para pintar prédios, pois precisava pagar pintores práticos. Particularmente Pedro Paulo preferia pintar prédios. Pereceu pintando prédios para Péricles, pois precipitou-se pelas paredes pintadas.
Pobre Pedro Paulo pereceu pintando...
Permita -me, pois, pedir perdão pela paciência, pois
pretendo parar para pensar... Para parar preciso pensar.
Pensei. Portanto, pronto: Pararei!·

After spending my whole morning working on my “What is a place” essay, I just decided to take a break and do something fun outside the house. After a little thinking, I just took a shower and headed to the movies. For awhile I have been wanting to what this movie called “Knowing”, but really wasn’t finding some free time for that. Anyway, I like the movie; it is about a group of students that is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler. But it is Caleb's father, professor John Koestler, who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. The part that I liked the most was the two disaster effects, really nice. I just like this kind of catastrophes movies, makes me think what I would do if those things really happened. But I am not sure how I would act in those situations; I would probably just freak out and run to my Mom’s arms. I was glad I just left the house and walked downtown to the movies, I really need a break and was missing walk, since the weather was warm enough I enjoyed it so much. I just finished my essay and now I will have to revised it and make some corrections and hope I will get a good grade for this one.

Another very early post here, it is finally Friday and I do want to finish all my homework by the end of my last class so I have the whole weekend to work on my essay about the “what is a place”. I haven’t start writing it, but I already had thought about many and many places. I don’t think I really got what the essay is about. I did the prewriting a few days ago, but that didn’t open my mind about what I want to write about. I have many special places and some things that happened in some places I don’t think I want to share to everybody. Just a little of privacy is good. I think I will write about San Diego, I visited the city for like 20 days but I feel in love. And there is this particularly place, a park, a monument about the Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the guy that first found San Diego and he was Portuguese what give me a good connection about Brazil and San Diego. Also in that park there are so many things, lots of history to explore and the view for the city of San Diego with the mountains on the background is just one of the most beautiful view I have see. So I might focus my writing about that, hope I can make another good essay and keep up my A. I think having good grades will help me in the future if I decide to start a career here in the United States.

I am going crazy this week with all the homework I have. I decide to not go home today after my last class and stay here in the college to try at least finish some of my homework. I know that is I go home I will look at my bed and it will look back at me and I will end up sleeping for a few hours. It is not that I only think about sleeping, but I am so tired lately that if I see my bed and end up taking a nap. I just had one class today, it was business math, and guess what? Eight pages of homework, plus the English essay I need to start and finish for Monday and some database that I have to create. I really don’t know how I am managing my time. Actually it is just simple, I don’t go out, I don’t cook and I don’t nap. That way I find some extra time to work on all the homework. I just remember that I have a big test on Monday. It is over three chapters and I really need to do well on this one. So that’s mean that I won’t have weekend at all. I just think about when I start working also, work and school that will mean no time for anything else. Actually I might just look for some help and try to manage my time so I get to at least be able to go to the movies once awhile and have some fun. I need to finish some more homework. Hope I will finish my English essay for Monday.

It seems that I am lazy about my journal but that is not actually true. The thing is that I am having too much homework and have to study for tests and start working on my transfer to California that I am not really finding a moment of inspiration to come and write the journal entry. My days have been just the same: school, homework, study, sleep, school, homework, study, sleep. I am not even finding time to cook something good, so I am just eating bread and cheese. I know, not health and my Mom just keep telling me to eat more health. Just a few more weeks and I’m done with school, for this semester. I am really looking forward my moving to California. San Diego is a great city and with so much to do. The thing is that I might not have time to explore when the classes start for fall semester. But I will have the whole summer to enjoy the city before classes. I really can’t focus on anything when I am hungry, and I am hungry right now. One part of my mind keeps thinking about things to eat and the other part keeps pushing me to do my homework. My belly still didn’t show signal of hungry. I don’t think it will any soon with all the chocolate I have been eating. I got some nice Easter basket with lots of candy. I gotta go back to some more homework. That is all for today.

I have had many good times and stories in this place I wrote before, Joao Pessoa city in Brazil. But one of the nicest story happened on my birthday last year. I used to go play inline hockey with this guys, since my birthday is on February and it is still summer in Brazil at this time, I have this idea to invite everybody to go to my condo and we would have a pool party with barbecue and later at night we would go to the beach, to continue the party, but now a full moon party on the beach.
The follow couple days I would be talking about the party with some people and collecting money, that is how we do parties in Brazil, we collect money from the people that want to go the party to buy the food and the beverage. Then on the party day, it was a Saturday, a couple friends show up early in the morning, so we could go get the things. We then went shopping and returned back to the condo around midday. We just gave all the food we had shopped to this friend that was going to cook the barbecue and he just prepared it while me and other friend was trying to put some music on.
People started to arrive for the party and the day was really nice for a pool party, sunny, around 90 degree. Everybody drinking and eating, swimming in the pool, dancing, it was really a nice party. When it started get dark, we transferred the party to the beach. Was a nice night, the full moon was just gorgeous. We have these couple friends playing the guitar, we had some fruit drinks and some snacks to eat.

I think one thing that I am passionate right now is my friend’s baby Preston. I love kids and he is one of the cutest little boys that I ever met. Preston is two years old and very active. I just met him four months ago but we already are good buddies. All the time I get together to my friend and Preston is around it is a good time. He is funny, cute, lovely and a very smart kid. One of his favorite toys is trains. That boy love trains, and it is so cute watch him play with the trains and do the choo choo sound. I just like spending time with him, but the little boy can make you tired easy. When something is cool for him and he likes it, he will keep saying: Do it again! Do it again! That is cute.

Today was my first Easter in the United States. I really love experience the holidays here and see how the culture around it is. Easter was a really nice experience and I could see a few differences between here and Brazil. I started the Sunday going to the church with some friends, Darlene and Skip, lovely people. Was my first experience in a catholic church here in the United States, but it is exactly the same as it is in Brazil. After the church we went to Darlene’s house, she cooked Easter dinner for her family and invited me. It was just a very nice time. I watched Darlene cooking and I offered some help, but she said she was just used to cook these whole dinners, so she was fine. She is a really good cooker and her house was just so nice. First difference I saw between here and Brazil, we don’t decorate our house for Easter like they do here, and Darlene’s house was full of bunnies and Easter eggs. Here the Easter goes around the bunny and in Brazil it goes around the Easter Eggs, we have much bigger Easter eggs and that is our thing for Easter. The lunch was delicious, I ate allot and liked it very much. Had cupcake for desert and a lemon cake, those were very good. I felt like eating that all the time. I spent the whole day there, playing with the kids, talking with everybody. I just know that I will miss them all when I go to California, but I hope they will go visit me. I have lots of chocolate to eat now, but I promise I will be a good boy and not eat all of it at once.

Does your family have a special place it goes for picnics or reunions?
Used to be at Grandmother’s house, but since we moved, there isn’t a place anymore.
Is there a place where you had an important conversation with a friend?
Many places. I used to have lots of important conversations with lots of friends in many different places.
Is there a place where something traumatic happened to you?
No, I don’t think I have any trauma.
Do you know where, exactly, your parents got married or got engaged?
I know the city, but not the exactly place.
Do you know where the first members of your family to come to this town slept the first night they got here?
No. Not a clue.
Is there a special place you go with friends to be happy together?
Many places.
Or maybe a place where something happened that changed your town or state or nation:
I could make a research about this, would be about the place where they decided divide the state.
Are there places nearby where something of historical significance to the state or nation happened?
No sure.
Are there places that are the subjects of debates today about what is going to happen to them?
Sure. China, Cuba, North Korea.
Are there places that have cultural significance to groups who live in your community?
I am not sure about this.

You know, I kind of like writing my journal during the day when I have some free time at the college. Feels good not get home and later at night still have that feeling that I need to write before go to bed. So, as long as I have some free time during classes, I will try and write my journal during the day. Today is Friday, Good Friday for the Christian people. In Brazil it is a federal holiday, here no, so that means I have a full day of classes. I got up today and called Mom just to say a quick hi and check out what she made for lunch. I know that for Good Catholic today you are not supposed to eat meat. Mom said it is all fine there, her aunt is visiting and that’s make Mom very happy. She always complains that her relatives never visit her. Last night was kind of intense, at least for me. I was trying to watch some of my TV shows but all the showed on the TV was the weather and the storms. Lots of tornado warning around Springfield area and seems like at least two tornadoes touched down the ground. This entire severe weather thing is new for me. In result of the storms last night, today is a rainy day. Since I have to ride my bike to the school, I got here all wet and what I am really hoping is that I don’t get a cold. I have so much homework to do this weekend, and I already checked out the English assignment. Seems a big essay but I think I will do well. My biggest problem will pick up just one place. I have so many memories in so many places. But I will work hard on this assignment.

Today the post will be a little different. Do you know what the twitter is? Well, Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers). All this text I got from the Wikipedia. So, now that you know that the twitter is I am will do something different on my journal today. I will copy some of my tweets and that will be my journal entry. Most of the tweets will not make any sense, but that is what it is about. Enjoy!

Trying to come up with something for my journal...11:35 PM Mar 14th from web

Testing update via cell phone 11:44 PM Mar 14th from txt

Watching Kelly Clarkson on SNL... honestly, this is the 10th program I see her this week. My life would suck without her :P 1:11 AM Mar 15th from web

Going to cook some pasta... kind of hungry :S 6:42 PM Mar 15th from web

Going for ice cream... 8:56 PM Mar 15th from txt

¬¬ Chuck Bass knows that Sao Paulo is in Brazil... Cool... 2:16 PM Mar 17th from web

Electrograph's Display Technology Experience on March 24, 2009 at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive 9:39 PM Mar 18th from web

1:15am and I can’t sleep :( 3:18 AM Mar 20th from txt

50 more minutes until Spring Break \o/ 3:51 PM Mar 20th from web

At Silver Dollar City 4:41 PM Mar 26th from txt

weekend.. but have lots of homework to finish for Monday, not fun though. 10:45 PM Apr 3rd from web

Looking for free food on campus 2:46 PM Apr 8th from txt

Something different today, instead of write at night in front of the TV, I’m writing in the computer lab at the college and it is around noon. I just caught myself thinking what if I was in Brazil right now, what I would be doing. Then I thought, well, if it was five, six months ago I know exactly what I would be doing. I would just had had lunch, by the way, my Mom’s food is the best, I surely miss it, and would be sitting on the patio just chatting with my best friend until around 1pm and we would turn to each other and say: I guess it is nap time. I would just go and take a nap until around 3pm, and then I would go buy some fresh French bread and eat with butter. Around 5pm I would start get ready to go for my daily walk with my aunt and my sister. Sometimes sister was late and we had to wait she arrive from work. It was nice go to walk in the end of the afternoon. It wasn’t very hot and we would see the sunset, plus since we used to walk around the lake we could see all the animals. Yeah, I used to enjoy that. The only think that I didn’t enjoy about our walks was that sometimes the subjects we talked during the walk were boring, most of the time sister and aunt complained about something. Well, women! I think that is what I was subjected going for a jogging with two girls. Anyway, this is one of the tons of things that I miss about home. But I am loving studying abroad.

Starting the post a little disappointed with the result of the “Big Brother Brazil 2009”. I know this might not be the coolest post ever, but today I just want to write about that. I think most everybody knows what the Big Brother TV reality show is. I don’t watch is all season long, but I kind of keep myself updated with the news about it and I know each week who was voted off, etc. Tonight was its season finale and thanks the Internet and some of my knowledge I am able to watch live Brazilian TV for free, that’s the best part. So after three months, initially 16 participants in a house, today was the finale. One of the girls in the finale was from my parents city, so of course I wanted her to win, not only because that, but she really showed to be a very nice person and was herself all show long. The guy that won with a minimum difference of 0.24% was the player. Credits to him for manipulate the whole game and starting date this girl inside the house even though everybody believes he is gay. Anyway, I put all my homework on a hold to spend 2 hours of my night watching that and in the end my girl didn’t win. Yes, I am very disappointed but there is nothing else I can do. Actually there is: She will probably be on Playboy magazine, so I will probably ask my brother to buy it and scan for me, that way we help her reach the one million reais (Brazilian money) she didn’t win.

Posting my evaluation of the Navajo Nation web page. www.navajo.org.
The Navajo Nation Home Page is the official site for the Navajo Nation. Its domain is .org and the site is designed and maintained by the Navajo Nation's DIT, according to the information on the bottom of the index page, which give some credibility of the website.
The purpose of this site is to keep data, advertise events and display news about the Navajo people, it also have some links for public utility for the Navajo people, such as links for jobs search, for education, etc. Many others websites link to this page. Arizona Transportation , National Indian Health Board , is some of the pages that relate somehow to Navajo.org site.
The page just presents their point of view of the facts about the Navajo people. The news section is constantly updated and so is the upcoming events section. The page seems to be an authentic page with some good information about the Navajo way of life. Information that could be very useful as a research font in some sort of assignment or project. I could comfortable cite this page in some research paper I would write about the Navajo people

Another Sunday and today I don’t feel like writing at all. So the thing today will be some free writing, anything that comes up to my mind. I got up around 11am and was feeling like I didn’t sleep at all. I went to bed very late last night after my Internet hang out with my friends. Called my family in Brazil and just talked with my Mom and my Dad. Sister was having lunch at her boyfriend’s house and my brother was having lunch at his girlfriend’s house, so Mom and Dad were having a time alone. I was too lazy to cook. Saturday’s cooking was big for the whole week, I decide then just to have some frozen lasagna and it was good. I spend most of my afternoon trying to finish some homework and studying for a test that I will have tomorrow. Sometimes I just get so much homework that really almost drive me crazy, but well, that is what college is about. At least here in the United States. In the middle of the afternoon a couple friends called and invited me to go to a Casino with them. I am not the type of gambler guy, so I told them thank you for the invitation, but I still have so much homework to finish plus I really need to study for my test. Usually on Sundays I don’t like to do much. Just stay home and maybe go to the movies or out for lunch. I just realize that we have just more four weeks of class and then the final, the semester is almost done and that means that I am very close to transfer to San Diego. I really can’t wait.

The title of this post might sound a little crazy, but that is what I am doing today, Saturday night. Since I had so much homework over the weekend and I have a test Monday and a big one on Tuesday, I decided to stay home and just study. The weather wasn’t good at all to go out anyway. Around midnight I saw some severe storm warning on the TV. So, instead of going out, I just hang out with some friends online. With Internet it is so funny sometimes, and it also allows me to be closer to my friends that I left in Brazil. A hang out on the Internet is basically set up a private chat room, turn on the web cams, microphones, and grab something to drink and some snacks in case you are hungry. When setting up the private chat room, I also set up an online radio with music; electronic music was the theme of the night. Then we start chatting and it feels just like if we were hanging out in some bar or club. We have so much doing that. We share stories; we share the websites we are visiting. They even told me what I should write on my journal. Well, since it is an English language journal, they don’t understand what I write and the noticed that I am not updating my Portuguese language journal. But I am so busy right now that I don’t really have time to do both journals. Anyway, if sometime, specially Saturday night you are feeling a little lonely and won’t go out, try to do the Internet hang out with some friends, it is kind of fun and really make your lonely Saturday night better.

TV on, Windows Live Messengers online, Yahoo! Messenger online, Skype online, Microsoft word open and that is how I start writing. It might not be the best scenario to concentrate on writing, but it is how I’ve been writing since the first post. I know that most people need a quiet and comfortable space to concentrate and be able to write, but I kind of need some noise around me to have me working. I like to study listening to some music. I also like to write when I am listening some music. Sometimes a lyric can inspire me with some topic, or sometimes it can just remind me some good things that happened with me before that I could use and write about. People ask me what kind of music is my favorite or which artist I like the most, but I am more the kind of that I enjoy a song rather than a specific artist. I like songs that I somehow can feel connected with the words. But if I would have to pick up just one singer, I guess I would choose Celine Dion. Honestly when I listen to her I just get very emotional, that woman can sing and make you feel the feeling the song is suppose to make you feel. I never been to her concert but that is one of my goals. I heard she is going back to Las Vegas for another season there in 2010. So I am starting planning now for that. So, if feel connected somehow with a song that is my song of the moment, but honestly, I am always having a song of the moment. I am always finding songs that connect a moment of my life to the words. I just love that. Also song for me is memories, a song will play and I will remember something good or bad, like what I was doing in my life at that time.

Today was just a normal and quiet Thursday for me. I only have on class on Thursday and it is Math. I wasn’t feeling well and I got up late, so I thought about no go to that class. But then I remembered that it was the last class before the exam on next Tuesday and I think that would be a very important review class. I took a shower and got ready to class. I ride my bike to the college every day; it is not far, just about 10 minutes or 4 songs on my iPod. The weather wasn’t bad at all, just a chill wind but it was okay, didn’t bother my bike ride. I kind of like to feel the cold wind on my face. Finally in class, the professor just gave us a review sheet and the answers and then if we didn’t have any question we could leave the class. I don’t know if I was happy or mad at a first moment. I think I was mad because I decide to come to class and it was a really short class. But then I was kind of happy it was a very short class, so I could come back home and just rest. But the thing is that the test is Tuesday and I have so much to study for it. I am doing okay in the math class and I want to keep my A. So I better study hard this weekend. Off to bed now because tomorrow is still Friday.

April 1st. Also known as April fool’s day. This day is dedicated to the jokes and lies. From the Portuguese we say it is “Lie’s Day”. I never said a huge lie on this day, but I heard some really bad stories about this day. Some people use to call their parents and say they were hijacked. Others used to call and said they had a car accident, then when they parents arrive in the local, there is no accident at all. Sometimes what was supposed to be fun can become very dangerous. I have this vague memory from when I was very young and my uncle wanted to fool grandmother. I don’t remember what he said, but I know that granny had to go to the hospital because that. Today my April fool’s joke was that I posted on my facebook page that I was returning to Brazil tomorrow. I got ton of messages from my relatives and friends asking me what time my plane would land so they could go wait for me at the airport. I was a bad boy, I know I should not play with people’s feeling, but I could not thin anything else for my April fool’s day joke. But then a few hours later I just apologized everybody and said it was just a joke. Some websites also had some cool stuff today. YouTube for example had the videos displayed upside down. It was cool. Hope nobody got hurt today with some jokes and that everybody had a good April Fool’s day.