Sad to see people killing every single language we speak.
Exposed in every single newsstand in São Paulo we can see a new magazine to help you learn English that brings a motivational sentence on its cover: Start Learn.
And ressussitating the ones we don't speak anymore.
http://www.vatican.va/latin/latin_index.html
Sound track: Blitzkrieg Bop, The Ramones
P.S.: I'll try to post more often...
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12/05/2008
08/02/2008
Human stupidity
At the office. Telephone rings.
Me(answering): Ilá.
The girl on the other side: Who's speaking?
Me: Ahn... Ilá...?
The girl on the other side: Oh, it's you I want to talk to.
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Me(answering): Ilá.
The girl on the other side: Who's speaking?
Me: Ahn... Ilá...?
The girl on the other side: Oh, it's you I want to talk to.
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16/01/2008
Happy New Year
December, 31st, 1 p.m..
I was on the bus on the way to my friend's house, where our New Year's party took place. Then I saw a familiar face and I thought: "Oh, God.. Here comes an embarrassing situation..."
I've been teacher since 2000; I studied in a course where 820 people apply every year and few graduate; I've been going to different bars and meeting different people since I was 16. So the possibility of not remembering where I know the person from is extremely high... And that's what happens. Take a look at the dialog:
The girl: Heeeey!!! Hooooow aaaaare youuu!!!????
Me: hello...you? (trying to pretend that my surprised face was NOT a desperated one). How are you?
The girl: Fine, really fine! And you?
Me (thinking): She looks like a girl I'd met a month before and was going to Spain.
Me (speaking): How was your trip?
The girl: My trip?! How did.. Who do you...
Me(thinking): FUCK!!!
Me (speaking): Ohh, I'm sorry, I'm mistaking you by another friend of mine.. (genius... what a polite answer)
The girl: ...
Me: I'm sorry... You know.. at this time of the year, everyone's rushing... (oh, yeah... Perfect... Now she'll understand and forgive you)
The girl: ...
Me: So, what's new? (besides you being forgotten by a person that you enjoyed meeting out of the blue)
The girl: I've been to Italy. I came back last month. (incredible how a voice tone can change when a person is angry)
Me: Niiiiiice. See, you were traveling anyway (another genius one....) Did you go to study?
The girl: Well, here's my stop. Happy New Year...
I was on the bus on the way to my friend's house, where our New Year's party took place. Then I saw a familiar face and I thought: "Oh, God.. Here comes an embarrassing situation..."
I've been teacher since 2000; I studied in a course where 820 people apply every year and few graduate; I've been going to different bars and meeting different people since I was 16. So the possibility of not remembering where I know the person from is extremely high... And that's what happens. Take a look at the dialog:
The girl: Heeeey!!! Hooooow aaaaare youuu!!!????
Me: hello...you? (trying to pretend that my surprised face was NOT a desperated one). How are you?
The girl: Fine, really fine! And you?
Me (thinking): She looks like a girl I'd met a month before and was going to Spain.
Me (speaking): How was your trip?
The girl: My trip?! How did.. Who do you...
Me(thinking): FUCK!!!
Me (speaking): Ohh, I'm sorry, I'm mistaking you by another friend of mine.. (genius... what a polite answer)
The girl: ...
Me: I'm sorry... You know.. at this time of the year, everyone's rushing... (oh, yeah... Perfect... Now she'll understand and forgive you)
The girl: ...
Me: So, what's new? (besides you being forgotten by a person that you enjoyed meeting out of the blue)
The girl: I've been to Italy. I came back last month. (incredible how a voice tone can change when a person is angry)
Me: Niiiiiice. See, you were traveling anyway (another genius one....) Did you go to study?
The girl: Well, here's my stop. Happy New Year...
21/12/2007
24/10/2007
The more I hate people...
... the more they try to speak to me.
I have a strategy that involves having (actually, it was a blessed gift from my boyfriend) an MP3 player in order to isolate myself from the world only because unknown human beings annoy me enough to make me wish them to be extinct.
But it doesn't work... Why on Earth one tries to talk to a person with headphones on?
I try to ignore them, although it's hard to pretend your not feeling someone pinching your arm to comment about the rain.
Anyway, I'm in a get-away-from-me-because-I-don't-like-to-talk-to-people-I-don't-know phase (ok, I've been there since my teenage years, it's just got worse) in which I just want to be alone, quiet, unaware of things and people around me and whose symptoms are my headphones and my few-friends face.
Can't it be respected, specially in a rainy grumpy day, after waking up at 6?
Soundtrack:: psycho killer, Talking Heads
I have a strategy that involves having (actually, it was a blessed gift from my boyfriend) an MP3 player in order to isolate myself from the world only because unknown human beings annoy me enough to make me wish them to be extinct.
But it doesn't work... Why on Earth one tries to talk to a person with headphones on?
I try to ignore them, although it's hard to pretend your not feeling someone pinching your arm to comment about the rain.
Anyway, I'm in a get-away-from-me-because-I-don't-like-to-talk-to-people-I-don't-know phase (ok, I've been there since my teenage years, it's just got worse) in which I just want to be alone, quiet, unaware of things and people around me and whose symptoms are my headphones and my few-friends face.
Can't it be respected, specially in a rainy grumpy day, after waking up at 6?
Soundtrack:: psycho killer, Talking Heads
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