A mi me gustan muchos tipos de música. Uno de mis cantantes favoritos es el colombiano Andrés Cepeda. Severo cantante. Esta es una de mis canciones de el que a mi más me gusta. Have a look.

Un Ratito - André Cepeda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdPmgcnG5tg 

España!

Nosostros tuvimos el privilégio de tener una presentación de dos muchachas de España este més en nuestra universidad. Ellas se llaman Paola Rodrígues y Sonia Piqueras, son de Valencia y estudian Educación Social. Dos muchachas muy cheveres que nos enseñaron muchas cosas acerca de España, más precisamente de Valencia.

Nos hablaron de las estaciones que allá son diferentes que aqui.

• En Valencia:

Invierno: Diciembre - Marzo

Primavera: Marzo - Junio

Verano: Junio - Septiembre

Otono: Septiembre - Diciembre

• En Brasil

Invierno: Junio - Septiembre

Pimavera: Septiembre - Diciembre

Verano: Deciembre - Marzo

Otono: Marzo - Junio

Acerca de la ciudad:

Tiene una población de cerca de 800.469 habitantes, siendo la tercera ciudad más poblada de España, después de Madrid y Barcelona.

Monumentos Históricos:

Sus monumentos históricos como La catedral de Valencia, La Lonja, las Puertas de la muralla, la Plaza de Toros, Las artes y las Ciências, El puente de l'Assunt de L'or, etc. Lugares muuuy hermosos y interesantes de conocer.

La Catedral de Valencia

Plaza de los Toros

La Lonja

El puente de l'Assunt de L'or

Lenguas:

Las lenguas que hablan allá en Valencia son Castellano y Valenciano, estas dos lenguas son enseñadas en todas las escuelas de la ciudad, siendo que en algunas se enseña más el Castellano y en la otra el Valenciano, pero las dos lenguas son mucho habladas allá, son una mescla de Español y Italiano, y tienes sus particuliaridades. Muy chevere e interesante!

Fiestas:

Las fiestas allá, en general son casi como aqui en Brasil, pero nos hablaron más de una fiesta en particular, que es la más popular de España, que son las Fallas, doendo construyen monumentos hechos de carton, como grandes muñecos y desfilan en las calles, las mejores Fallas ganan premiaciones y todo! Esa fiesta siempre pasa en Marzo y tiene varios dias de duración, siendo que en cada días hacen algo diferente, las premiaciones, la mascleta, la ofrenda y la crema de las fallas, si al final de todo creman todas las fallas!! Qué raro! Y que miedo.. jajaja'

Gastronomía:

Las principales comidas de allá son la Paella, Arroz al horno, All i pebre, Agua de Valencia, buñuelos, Rochata y fartóns entre otras cosas. Hmmmmmm..

Buñuelos

Agua de Valencia

Paella

All i pebre

Americaaaa!

During our last English class we had a really interesting presentation by Michayla Chandler. She's an American girl, from Knoxville Tenesesee, but her current city is Elgin. In the mid-east of the USA. She's 17. She has been in Brazil for almost a year. She's living in Blumenau and she's studying at Santos Dumont . Michayla understands Portuguese but she says she  doesn't talk so well, I think she's a bit afraid of talking. She seems a bit shy, but she's really nice. 

Michayla explained us about her country, she talked about the most popular cities in the USA (Miami, Chicago, Washington DC, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Denver, Indianapolis, Baltimore). I asked her what places she has visited there, and she told me that she went to Miami, NY and another place that I unfortunately don't remember. And here in Brazil, she went to Rio Grande do Norte, Mato Grosso do Sul, and some other places, and she also visited Bolívia, with her hostfamily.

She told us that her hostfamily don't speak English so she has to speak ptg, it was a bit hard in  the begining but now she's a bit more used to that.

About the most important holidays there, she said that there are three. Thanksgiving, Xtmas and 4th July. 

I asked her what they, American,  think of us and I felt that she was a bit afraid of answering that question, but she answered anyway. 

Well, she talked about stereotypes : we wear small biquinis, Brazilian girls have big butts, she said that they don't use to shave their legs, but we always do that  and they have something called Brazilian wax there, she said that some people think that there is a jungle around here  and a friend asked her if she had a monkey as a pet  in Brazil! They say that Rio is really dangerous,if you go there and you are a tourist they  will kidnap you and they steal your kidneys and sell them, MY GOD!

 But she knows it is a lie because they exaggerate everything. She also said 10 words connected  to Brazilian people and also to  American people.

Brazilian People:

1. Welcoming

2. Friendly

3. Never on time (hahaha because of the traffic)

4. Family oriented 

5. Adventurous

6. Lay back (in a good way)

7. Put-together (we care more about our appearance, we try to look well, always)

8.  Talkative

9. Concerned

10. Indirect (we usually don't go straight to the point haha)

American People:

1. Monocromatic 

2. Usually on time

3. Opinionated

4. Home bodies (they prefer to stay at home)

5. Less family oriented ( She told us that there they don't spend so much time with their families, but here we do, and she felt a bit weird with that in  the begining because she wasn't used to that, there they spend more time with their friends)

6. More independent (They don't talk to their parents so much when they have a problem, for example, they try to solve it by themselves)

7. Patriotic (Oh yeah, they are really patriotic!)

8. More direct

9. Agressive (in a positive way)

10. Good competitors

I really liked talking to her, and know more about her country and know what she thinks about Brazil and how she feels here. I also really liked listening  to her accent, because English is her mother tongue  so she has a beautiful accent, it fascinates me! hahaha

I hope I can meet more American people and make more friends, and maybe catch  their accents

 haha

I love English 

Still talking about the enviroment, let's think what we could do in our homes do be more ecofriendly. I have some ideas.

Sustainable ideas to do at home

• Turn off the lights when you are not in the room;

• Keep  plastic bags to reuse them and collect trash, or put something into them  to take to another place, or you can simply  change those plastic bags to sustainable bags;

• You can wash your car using buckets of water instead of using lots of water with the hose turned on;

• Do not let the water run while you  soap in the shower;

• Reuse the water that you have used to wash clothes or  wash the porch;

• Plant flowers and trees;

• Separate  trash;

I found a really interesting site with green ideas to make your house greener , really nice tips! :D

http://www.sustainablebabysteps.com/going-green-at-home.html