Have you ever gotten tired of yourself?

            Have you ever gotten tired of your looks, your favorite songs and even your favorite friends? Have you already gotten to that stage in your life when everything which once seemed to be so much fun seems to you utterly uninteresting and you can’t help but feel bored whenever you’re alone?

            I believe I’m in this stage of my life as you read this post. Most college classes don’t cheer me up any longer, many books don’t seem to interest  me much, music is okay but it’s nothing  that really touches me or makes me cry in the middle of the night, and even my favorite food has become somewhat tasteless and my looks have never looked plainer to me.

            I don’t know if you’re in the same situation as me, but in my case there isn’t much to be done, I suppose. The only way for me is “to pull the Madonna” and to reinvent myself.  From now on, I will buy different types of clothes ( and hopefully they’ll look good on me), I will go to different restaurants  and taste different flavors of ice-cream, I will even try taking different paths in my love life, all so I  can feel alive again. So I can feel my blood running through my veins and reminding me that I am not a lifeless corpse sitting on a couch.

             I guess you’re never too old for reinvention. Maybe this sheer boredom that every so often comes unto us is a sign that we can never settle to being something definite. How sad would the world be, should we only have to be one type of person from cradle to tomb? I don’t want to be this person who gets a college degree, worse yet, a high school degree and keeps that same old drab job from his graduation day until the day he retires from the same position he/she got 40 years ago.

             I want to be someone new with every year that comes by, with every book that I read, and most of all, I want to be someone who will always be able to surprise both myself and the people around me during every day of my life.

=)

Unrequitted love in post-modernity

(through Facebook, on my Ipod)

It’s hard to see’im online

And not send’im any hi

To see’im  go offline

And not to send him bye

Oh my oh my

So, I feel like callin’im

But I know he won’t pick up the phone

So I feel like textin’im

But I know that he is not alone

Oh my, I cry

Danilo Neves

I'm back, baby

Fasten up your seats cuz I'm back to this blog and I'll be posting some nice stuff that I think you guys would have like to read about! 


Danilo Neves

Thanks to my English 7 and 6 students, I've been able to learn some new words! 

1) Do you know what  Bedraggled means? ..... .think about this word..... try to recall it from the depths of your memory..... you don't know this one, do you? ..... well neither did I up until I saw it in Wuthering Heights. It means : " to be similar to something that was DRAGGED on mud".
That clearly doesn't mean clean (e.g. : "the beggar's bedraggled clothes", and "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"") ... actually, it means dirty!!

2) Now, what about the word scoundrel? Is it an easier one? This one I knew prior to Wuthering Heights, but I don't think I ever called anybody a scoundrel. Why is that? Because scoundrel means nothing less than a REALLY evil-doer! I don't know anybody like that! Anyway, I  hope you enjoyed the "difficult" words of the week! 

Expression of the day: Extration meaning "family background"

 As I was reading about the Gullah people I came across a very nice expression and I'll be writing a bit about it! The expression of the day is  "extraction"  and it means "descent"; this is something I found so interesting that I had to share! As an example, let me use this one : " That actress is of french extraction" I know it sounds silly ( the example)  but I found it a nice piece of vocab and worthy-sharing with my students. See y'all!

New words coming!!!!

                       Dear readers, I’m not sure if you've realized  it, but I’ve got this secret (or maybe not so secret) passion for learning different words and expressions in English and this obsession has led me to the study of big words that are (usually) only found in literary texts. This Thursday I was in my English 6 class and a friend of mine, Patricia, knowing about my little interest in more complex vocabulary, advised me to write a blog listing all the difficult words I came across as a learner of EFL. Because not only would it be productive for me but also to many people, namely my friends ( lol), I acquiesced to her opinion and started thinking about writing a section in my blog on rarely-used words in English.
                       As a homage to my friend, the first word to be presented is “wherewithal”. Patricia showed us this word this week and its definition is as it follows: “the necessary means, especially financial means to do something  (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/wherewithal)”. Therefore, I believe that every and single person has the wherewithal to access this blog since it’s free (unless you don’t have any internet connection or computer at home) and easy to be found. Anyway, this is it for this week! I don’t know which word I should talk about next. Maybe it will be “conundrum” since Patricia loves this word and this week’s section is entirely dedicated to her… Anyway, I still have a whole week to think about which word to share. See you next week!

Dia das crianças: uma reflexão

Galera, como o dia das crianças é algo que se festeja no Brasil acho que este post será melhor se for escrito em Português mesmo. Como já dito, hoje é o dia das crianças e isso me fez pensar, o que eu devo falar nesse dia tão especial para todos nós? Pensei em escrever algo contra a pedofilia, que infelizmente é algo que tem se tornado mais e mais comum, ou sobre o show do Justin Bieber no globo, mas acabei decidindo falar sobre algo que é bem íntimo: o que eu desejo para essas crianças de hoje. Semana passada, ao conversar com uma amiga religiosa minha, descobri que minha amiga acha que se o mundo todo fosse religioso teríamos um mundo melhor por que todos viveriam debaixo da vontade de “Deus” e não haveria mais guerras e o planeta seria um lugar melhor para se viver. Durante essa semana, foi a vez de sair com dois amigos meus que são ateus e que comentaram que os seus sonhos são ver um mundo todo racional e sem crença alguma em um “ser superior”. De fato, eu não acredito em religião alguma, portanto concordei com meus amigos ateus, mas ao ponderar com mais cuidados sobre a situação resolvi que acho que estava equivocado. Um mundo só de cristãos, mulçumanos ou só de ateus, além de utópico, é algo impossível de se tornar realidade. O bom mesmo é a diversidade. Querer um mundo cheio de pessoas iguais a nós mesmos é algo cruel se formos parar para pensar nisso. Os nazistas procuravam uma raça, os Puritanos em Massachusetts queriam que todos seguissem a sua religião e acabaram queimando várias pessoas acusadas (em vão) de bruxaria, os Portugueses impuseram a sua língua aos índios , enfim, todos procuravam trazer uma certa uniformidade a suas comunidades. Então meu recado é tentar criar um mundo uno não é nada mais nada menos que uma agressão. Tentar converter alguém a qualquer custo é uma agressão, tentar criar uma sociedade de casamentos heterossexuais apenas é uma agressão, desmoralizar alguém por causa das suas crenças religiosas é outra agressão. Portanto, espero que as crianças de hoje aprendam o valor da diversidade e do respeito ao próximo. É esse o meu desejo.