Monday it was an uncommon day to Gabriel. Tragic things happened on this day. In the morning, he got up and went to bathroom, but the lock broke and he was trapped in the bathroom.
Fortunately, he had forgotten his cell phone in the dirty clothes hamper, so he called the locksmith. The locksmith arrived and opened the door of the bathroom. So he paid the locksmith, changed him clothes and came to University by bus. When he was arrived in the University, A manifestation was happening at the gate and the bus driver almost ran over a pedestrian. So the bus driver stopped to help the pedestrian. Fortunately, the pedestrian was not hurt.
Unfortunately, Gabriel arrived late in class and the teacher reprehended him, but fortunately, he arrived before the end of the class and he did not miss the test of Mechanics.
quinta-feira, 5 de novembro de 2009
My best friend - by Willian (P1)
My best friend is a co-worker in the same profession. We met at Institute of Chemistry of the University of São Paulo. He was my first colleague when I began the postgraduation in 2006. Since then, we began to go to parties and to work together. One year after, I moved in with him.
His name is Tiago. He is optimistic, he is talkative, he really likes to speak. He is funny, kind and spontaneous, but he is hasty and he is not persistent. Sometimes he is nervous, but he is never aggressive. He is systematic and orderly and sometimes boring.
He likes music, parties and much fun, mainly when there is beer. He is very womanizer, he likes to play the field. We daily work much and rarely we go for a walk in Butantã to amuse ourselves.
We have the same occupation, we are theoretical chemists. He finished the M. Sc. six months before me. Currently, we are doctorate candidate in chemistry, we study similar subjects, specifically, quantum mechanics applied in chemical systems. In the future, he intends to become chemical teacher in univertisy as well as me.
His name is Tiago. He is optimistic, he is talkative, he really likes to speak. He is funny, kind and spontaneous, but he is hasty and he is not persistent. Sometimes he is nervous, but he is never aggressive. He is systematic and orderly and sometimes boring.
He likes music, parties and much fun, mainly when there is beer. He is very womanizer, he likes to play the field. We daily work much and rarely we go for a walk in Butantã to amuse ourselves.
We have the same occupation, we are theoretical chemists. He finished the M. Sc. six months before me. Currently, we are doctorate candidate in chemistry, we study similar subjects, specifically, quantum mechanics applied in chemical systems. In the future, he intends to become chemical teacher in univertisy as well as me.
Dreams by Scarlat (U3)
I am a dreamer. My life is full of dream meaning. We have dreams that express our emotional needs or those that show us about what we are living sometimes. Nevertheless, I believe that God can speak to us through our dreams. Therefore, I look for the meaning of some elements of dreams. For example, if you see a house, it could be your interior; if you see your own car, it could mean your way of life. However, I want tell you an experience.
I guess I was seven or eight years old. I was in primary school and I used to do many activities. Since I was a child I used to study and read many books. I was very hardworking and my teacher used to require all exercises that she had assigned in class. Once, I just forgot to do my homework! So, when I went to bed I remembered it and I decided to wake up earlier to do it until 8 a.m.
I dreamt I was doing my homework and the worst of all: I got to read and think about the answers! For me, of course, it was so clear. The sensation was: “Oh, Gosh, a little bit more and I can sleep again. The exercise was almost done when, suddenly, I needed an erase, but I couldn’t find it. Where did I put my erase? I started to look for the erase with my hands.
Finally, I woke up holding an invisible pen and a notebook. How puzzled I was, because I saw that I had not done my obligation and I had to start all over again, now awoken! I’ve never forgot that day. I might remember all the details, like my desire to cry out because I couldn’t sleep anymore that night. I just sat down and without turning on the light, I tried to see through the moonlight, just not to wake my family. That dream was pretty realistic as much as to write and hold on the materials with my hands. Just an erase brought me back to a hard reality.
I guess I was seven or eight years old. I was in primary school and I used to do many activities. Since I was a child I used to study and read many books. I was very hardworking and my teacher used to require all exercises that she had assigned in class. Once, I just forgot to do my homework! So, when I went to bed I remembered it and I decided to wake up earlier to do it until 8 a.m.
I dreamt I was doing my homework and the worst of all: I got to read and think about the answers! For me, of course, it was so clear. The sensation was: “Oh, Gosh, a little bit more and I can sleep again. The exercise was almost done when, suddenly, I needed an erase, but I couldn’t find it. Where did I put my erase? I started to look for the erase with my hands.
Finally, I woke up holding an invisible pen and a notebook. How puzzled I was, because I saw that I had not done my obligation and I had to start all over again, now awoken! I’ve never forgot that day. I might remember all the details, like my desire to cry out because I couldn’t sleep anymore that night. I just sat down and without turning on the light, I tried to see through the moonlight, just not to wake my family. That dream was pretty realistic as much as to write and hold on the materials with my hands. Just an erase brought me back to a hard reality.
Jundiaí by Mariana C. (U3)
I grew up in Jundiaí, a city in the countryside of São Paulo and that, in my opinion is one of the best places to be raised. The name Jundiaí is a word from Tupi and comes from “jundiá”, that means catfish, and “y” that means river. From the twelfth century on the area was inhabited by indigenous peoples, and settled by the Europeans in 1615. Because of the cultivation of coffee, many immigrants came to the city, especially the Italians. Today the city has a strong Italian influence due to immigration. On 28 March 1865 Jundiaí was elevated to city.
With great force in the agricultural economy, Jundiaí stood out in cultivation of the grape, fact that today is responsible for the traditional Grape Festival. In addition, the city has a privileged geography with the “Serra do Japi”. Located southwest of the city, the mountain is a huge environmental reserve with one of the largest forest areas intact of São Paulo state. Besides, there is a beautiful new park called “ Parque da Cidade”, where we can run, do exercises, have a picnic, see the nature, the lake, and also the capybaras.
The alternatives to have fun in Jundiaí are not many compared to São Paulo. There are just one big mall, where you can find restaurants like Mc Donalds, Habbib’s, Burguer King, and other ones. Jundiaí has also just one cinema (with 9 rooms) and two theaters. There is, a main avenue where you find more places to eat, pubs, and places where you can dance too.
Nowadays Jundiaí has approximately 350,000 inhabitants and has one of the best HDI of all the state, taking the second place, after São Caetano. Because of the quality of life that the city offers, many paulistanos are moving here to have more security and for a much lower price of houses, food, rent, schools, and other things. One of the advantages is that Jundiaí is very well located between the cities of Campinas and Sao Paulo, being the perfect place to live for those working in these cities.
Knowing all these advantages, and to know much more about the city, you also should end up here sometime and see the beauties by yourself.
With great force in the agricultural economy, Jundiaí stood out in cultivation of the grape, fact that today is responsible for the traditional Grape Festival. In addition, the city has a privileged geography with the “Serra do Japi”. Located southwest of the city, the mountain is a huge environmental reserve with one of the largest forest areas intact of São Paulo state. Besides, there is a beautiful new park called “ Parque da Cidade”, where we can run, do exercises, have a picnic, see the nature, the lake, and also the capybaras.
The alternatives to have fun in Jundiaí are not many compared to São Paulo. There are just one big mall, where you can find restaurants like Mc Donalds, Habbib’s, Burguer King, and other ones. Jundiaí has also just one cinema (with 9 rooms) and two theaters. There is, a main avenue where you find more places to eat, pubs, and places where you can dance too.
Nowadays Jundiaí has approximately 350,000 inhabitants and has one of the best HDI of all the state, taking the second place, after São Caetano. Because of the quality of life that the city offers, many paulistanos are moving here to have more security and for a much lower price of houses, food, rent, schools, and other things. One of the advantages is that Jundiaí is very well located between the cities of Campinas and Sao Paulo, being the perfect place to live for those working in these cities.
Knowing all these advantages, and to know much more about the city, you also should end up here sometime and see the beauties by yourself.
quarta-feira, 28 de outubro de 2009
Goiânia, my hometown by Walter (U3)
My favourite place is my hometown, Goiânia. It's the capital and the largest city in the Brazilian state of Goiás, with a population of 1,250 million people in the city and 2,063 in its metropolitan area.
I like Goiânia, among other reasons, for it was planned to be a garden-city, privileging vegetation. It's considered the woodiest city (approximately 30%) of Brazil and the second of the world (the first is Edmonton, Canada). It is placed in the "Cerrado" landscape, vegetal space characterized by extensive savanna formations crossed by gallery forests and stream valleys. The Cerrado includes various types of vegetation: purple, yellow and pink "ipês" and flowered "flamboyants" are the most beautiful trees in my hometown. There are many urban parks within urban space, besides buildings and shopping malls, like Vaca Brava, Zoológico, Areião e Buritis, where people can enjoy the green landscape, walking and running around and going there with family and friends. The climate is semi humid tropical with an average temperature of 22°C. There's a wet season, from October to April, and a dry one, from May to September. This brings an enviable quality of life and a beautiful urban space to the its inhabitants and tourists.
Another impressing thing in my hometown is its architectonic and spacial design. Many of the first buildings were constructed in the "art deco" style, like Theatre Goiânia, and they give to the city a special "charm" to the city. It impresses also by the geometrical forms of streets and squares: for example, streets in the form of a spoke, with the Praça Cívica as the center, with the seats of the state and municipal government – the Palace of Esmeraldas and the Palace of Campinas. Praça Cívica makes the head of a triangle, with three avenues (Araguaia, Tocantins and Paranaiba, the most important of the state) as the sides of it – together the four elements resemble the mantle of Our Lady of the Apparition. The collection of buildings, monuments and the original center in the city is considered one of the most important in Brazil and they have been recognized by the National Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage.
Goiânia's history begins in the Colonial Period, when the first ideas of transferring the capital of Goiás came to light (before, the state capital was the town of City of Goiás, previously named Vila Boa). The impetus behind the efforts to move the state capital was the need to locate it in accordance with the economic interests of the state, for the old capital wasn't in any way a thriving agricultural site. Goiás, both the city and state, were born in the context of gold extraction in the Colonial Period. With the decadence of the golden period, agriculture has taken place as the main activity in the state. And the old capital didn't go along with the new economy.
Legislators kept the idea of a change alive for a long time, but only in the 1930's the idea of a change became a reality during the government of Pedro Ludovico, the new governor appointed by the Vargas Dictatorship. In 1933, a commission for the new capital decided on the present location and the foundation stone was laid, being the city founded on October 24, 1933 by then Governor Pedro Ludovico. In 1937 a decree was signed transferring the state capital from the City of Goiás to Goiânia. The official inauguration only occurred in 1942 with the presence of the president of the Republic, governors and ministers.
The name Goiânia came about in 1933 after a contest that was put on by a local newspaper of the new city. Readers from all over the state contributed, with some of the most voted names being Petrônia, Americana, Petrolândia, Goianópolis, Goiânia, Bartolomeu Bueno, Campanha, Eldorado, Anhanguera, Liberdade, Goianésia, and Pátria Nova, among others. In 1935 Pedro Ludovico used the name Goiânia for the first time signing a decree creating the municipality of Goiânia.
The economy of my hometown is today based on a variety of industries, nevertheless the local economy's roots are found in the agriculture around the city. The other main economical activities include the vehicle sales, service and textile industries, governmental sector (for being the capital of the state), organization of national events and congresses (due to its localization on the centre of the country) and private medical centers/clinics of all kinds.
Goiânia, however, is not the Garden of Eden (but Adam lived in my hometown before his expulsion from Paradise!). Though the center and downtown were planned and have an excellent urban structure, the growth without order of peripheral regions brought problems like an increasing traffic of vehicles in the center and lack of services and violence in some suburbs. I have to mention also a yet incipient space for diversified cultural activities and for development of careers out of main sectors in the local economy. But Goiânia is still a pleasant place to live in, with the economy of the great urban centers and the quality of life of the small towns.
I like Goiânia, among other reasons, for it was planned to be a garden-city, privileging vegetation. It's considered the woodiest city (approximately 30%) of Brazil and the second of the world (the first is Edmonton, Canada). It is placed in the "Cerrado" landscape, vegetal space characterized by extensive savanna formations crossed by gallery forests and stream valleys. The Cerrado includes various types of vegetation: purple, yellow and pink "ipês" and flowered "flamboyants" are the most beautiful trees in my hometown. There are many urban parks within urban space, besides buildings and shopping malls, like Vaca Brava, Zoológico, Areião e Buritis, where people can enjoy the green landscape, walking and running around and going there with family and friends. The climate is semi humid tropical with an average temperature of 22°C. There's a wet season, from October to April, and a dry one, from May to September. This brings an enviable quality of life and a beautiful urban space to the its inhabitants and tourists.
Another impressing thing in my hometown is its architectonic and spacial design. Many of the first buildings were constructed in the "art deco" style, like Theatre Goiânia, and they give to the city a special "charm" to the city. It impresses also by the geometrical forms of streets and squares: for example, streets in the form of a spoke, with the Praça Cívica as the center, with the seats of the state and municipal government – the Palace of Esmeraldas and the Palace of Campinas. Praça Cívica makes the head of a triangle, with three avenues (Araguaia, Tocantins and Paranaiba, the most important of the state) as the sides of it – together the four elements resemble the mantle of Our Lady of the Apparition. The collection of buildings, monuments and the original center in the city is considered one of the most important in Brazil and they have been recognized by the National Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage.
Goiânia's history begins in the Colonial Period, when the first ideas of transferring the capital of Goiás came to light (before, the state capital was the town of City of Goiás, previously named Vila Boa). The impetus behind the efforts to move the state capital was the need to locate it in accordance with the economic interests of the state, for the old capital wasn't in any way a thriving agricultural site. Goiás, both the city and state, were born in the context of gold extraction in the Colonial Period. With the decadence of the golden period, agriculture has taken place as the main activity in the state. And the old capital didn't go along with the new economy.
Legislators kept the idea of a change alive for a long time, but only in the 1930's the idea of a change became a reality during the government of Pedro Ludovico, the new governor appointed by the Vargas Dictatorship. In 1933, a commission for the new capital decided on the present location and the foundation stone was laid, being the city founded on October 24, 1933 by then Governor Pedro Ludovico. In 1937 a decree was signed transferring the state capital from the City of Goiás to Goiânia. The official inauguration only occurred in 1942 with the presence of the president of the Republic, governors and ministers.
The name Goiânia came about in 1933 after a contest that was put on by a local newspaper of the new city. Readers from all over the state contributed, with some of the most voted names being Petrônia, Americana, Petrolândia, Goianópolis, Goiânia, Bartolomeu Bueno, Campanha, Eldorado, Anhanguera, Liberdade, Goianésia, and Pátria Nova, among others. In 1935 Pedro Ludovico used the name Goiânia for the first time signing a decree creating the municipality of Goiânia.
The economy of my hometown is today based on a variety of industries, nevertheless the local economy's roots are found in the agriculture around the city. The other main economical activities include the vehicle sales, service and textile industries, governmental sector (for being the capital of the state), organization of national events and congresses (due to its localization on the centre of the country) and private medical centers/clinics of all kinds.
Goiânia, however, is not the Garden of Eden (but Adam lived in my hometown before his expulsion from Paradise!). Though the center and downtown were planned and have an excellent urban structure, the growth without order of peripheral regions brought problems like an increasing traffic of vehicles in the center and lack of services and violence in some suburbs. I have to mention also a yet incipient space for diversified cultural activities and for development of careers out of main sectors in the local economy. But Goiânia is still a pleasant place to live in, with the economy of the great urban centers and the quality of life of the small towns.
quarta-feira, 21 de outubro de 2009
São Paulo by Caio (U3)
I have been living in São Paulo since I was born, and despite all the problems, I love this city. I was born and grew up in the west part of São Paulo. I used to go to a square near my house with my mother every afternoon, and on Sundays my dad would take me to the Ibirapuera Park.
There was a lot of things to do at Ibirapuera park, like going to the planetarium every start of season, because it was when the show changed, riding a bicycle or playing with my brother.
As I was getting older, I gradually discovered new places in the city, fun places, sometimes creepy places too.
In my teenager days, I moved to a city near São Paulo, but I continued to come to São Paulo almost two or three times a week, because the city was very close to São Paulo. You can’t even distinguish between them. I would come by train on weekdays, or by car on the weekends with my friends. In spite of moving to another town, I continued to hang out in São Paulo, because my first college was near the center of the São Paulo. As I did Computer Sciences, all my friends and me were (and still are) technology enthusiasts and liked rock music, so we would go to “Galeria do Rock” or “Santa Efigênia” after classes, because those places were very close to the college. After I finished the college, I continued to go to São Paulo every day, because I worked there.
And I didn’t even talk about the cuisine or the nightlife! São Paulo is like NY, a city that never sleeps. What a pleasure it was to discover nice restaurants or cool places to go at night. Well, it’s still a pleasure, even though I have been living here for twenty-seven years, I still don’t know every place of the city. My friends and I look at magazines and websites to get a first impression of the places and then we go to see them by ourselves!
I don’t know if I could live in a city without all those things that make São Paulo so cool!
There was a lot of things to do at Ibirapuera park, like going to the planetarium every start of season, because it was when the show changed, riding a bicycle or playing with my brother.
As I was getting older, I gradually discovered new places in the city, fun places, sometimes creepy places too.
In my teenager days, I moved to a city near São Paulo, but I continued to come to São Paulo almost two or three times a week, because the city was very close to São Paulo. You can’t even distinguish between them. I would come by train on weekdays, or by car on the weekends with my friends. In spite of moving to another town, I continued to hang out in São Paulo, because my first college was near the center of the São Paulo. As I did Computer Sciences, all my friends and me were (and still are) technology enthusiasts and liked rock music, so we would go to “Galeria do Rock” or “Santa Efigênia” after classes, because those places were very close to the college. After I finished the college, I continued to go to São Paulo every day, because I worked there.
And I didn’t even talk about the cuisine or the nightlife! São Paulo is like NY, a city that never sleeps. What a pleasure it was to discover nice restaurants or cool places to go at night. Well, it’s still a pleasure, even though I have been living here for twenty-seven years, I still don’t know every place of the city. My friends and I look at magazines and websites to get a first impression of the places and then we go to see them by ourselves!
I don’t know if I could live in a city without all those things that make São Paulo so cool!
segunda-feira, 19 de outubro de 2009
A letter to a friend by Luis (P1)
Dear Renata,
How amazing to hear from you. How long since we last met? Over 8 years? Yes, I think so. What a wonderful surprise! By the way, how did you get my email address? Probably it was Thiago, because I ran into him at USP last month.
It’s great to hear your news. I’m happy that you and Marcelo are still together. Since that time I knew you would be together. Don't forget me in your wedding, ok? So, let me tell you something about my life, the things that happened after 2001 (some of them, sure).
Guess what! I’m studying at USP too! However, I went to the Engineering area, not the Law area as you at SanFran. I’ve been taking Petroleum Engineering at Poli since 2007. I'm going to help to pollute the planet but I'll be rich (lol). I’m kidding, of couse.
I spent 2 years in a course preparing myself for the Fuvest test while you came to USP directly from high school. I wasn’t the most intelligent of class but you are, I told you every time but you didn’t believe in me…
Some things have not changed. My parents still live in the same place in São José dos Campos (so me too when I go there some weekends and holidays). I’m still single (this is a little hard to change because no woman has deserved me lol) and I’m still slim (Can you believe it? God damn it! However I’ve been going to gym every day since…last week).
We need to meet, to go to a party or to a bar or to go out at night. We should find people from that time (as Thiago, Nathália, Luciana, Brian, Ferraz and the others – and Marcelo, of course) to do something special. I think that you do not remember that October 14th is my birthday. So let’s do something!
See you,
Luís
How amazing to hear from you. How long since we last met? Over 8 years? Yes, I think so. What a wonderful surprise! By the way, how did you get my email address? Probably it was Thiago, because I ran into him at USP last month.
It’s great to hear your news. I’m happy that you and Marcelo are still together. Since that time I knew you would be together. Don't forget me in your wedding, ok? So, let me tell you something about my life, the things that happened after 2001 (some of them, sure).
Guess what! I’m studying at USP too! However, I went to the Engineering area, not the Law area as you at SanFran. I’ve been taking Petroleum Engineering at Poli since 2007. I'm going to help to pollute the planet but I'll be rich (lol). I’m kidding, of couse.
I spent 2 years in a course preparing myself for the Fuvest test while you came to USP directly from high school. I wasn’t the most intelligent of class but you are, I told you every time but you didn’t believe in me…
Some things have not changed. My parents still live in the same place in São José dos Campos (so me too when I go there some weekends and holidays). I’m still single (this is a little hard to change because no woman has deserved me lol) and I’m still slim (Can you believe it? God damn it! However I’ve been going to gym every day since…last week).
We need to meet, to go to a party or to a bar or to go out at night. We should find people from that time (as Thiago, Nathália, Luciana, Brian, Ferraz and the others – and Marcelo, of course) to do something special. I think that you do not remember that October 14th is my birthday. So let’s do something!
See you,
Luís
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