Barb G-english

It was my first experience with English in fau, if I’m honest, and I’m very glad I took the step to start participating in this last semester. I would say that I really enjoyed all the posts we’ve done trough the semester. It’s been a while since I could talk about myself; I have always lived my life to pass unnoticed to people, so it’s normal for me to think that nobody is actually interested in what I do. And don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I would have liked to have more interactions (I was actually surprised to have any to be honest haha) it was the fact that I could talk about anything that matters to me in the weekly posts that was kind of a path to self knowledge and actually made me realize I do things and I matter. Although I feel the same as Simon (our professor) because I enjoyed reading and writing all of the posts, I have to say that the topic of “A city you would like to visit” was my favorite because I was able to talk about architecture and remember why I also w

One of the cities I certainly want to get to know is Moscow. Even when I’m highly eager to get to travel to Japan and live there for a couple months, I’m not interested to live in Russia, so if would go, I'll just go to know the places and the architecture. One thing that I learned after my scholarship abroad in Spain was to get lost in the city and prove all the meals you can, because, if you’re not gonna return soon to the city, or you’re planning to visit the city just once in your life, you have to live all the experiences you can while you’re there; that’s why most of the trips are really exhausting, but at the same time fulfilling to the soul. Of course, that means I have to earn a lot of money to get there and prove/taste all the things I can haha. But also, I like to draw some special scenarios I see. I’m practicing my watercolors skills to improve and actually it could take less time than I can right now to do a drawing of a building, an open space, a sunset that it

When I turned 15, my grandmother decided to make a surprise celebration and invite my school friends and neighborhood friends to celebrate. I was taken by two of my neighbors, with whom I used to play a lot at their house, to take a walk and buy an ice cream. My family “stayed home”, but actually went after me to the local to place everything in order for the moment I arrive. My neighbors were really nervous because, when we were turning around the street, we almost met with my mother and grandmother, but gladly for them I was so distracted that I didn’t notice they were in front of us; but sure I noticed something was weird with my friends. So, when we arrive to the local, my neighbors leaded me to a dark room where all my friends and family where there. Before I entered the room I hear loud laughs from familiar voices, but of course knowing that my friends lived in other city and probably were not able to travel, I never expected or take seriously the possibility that they actual

To talk about lasting friendship at our age is kind of hard to think for me right now. We are young, and most of my life I’ve lived far away from my friend’s houses, so it was hard to spend meaningful time with them out of high school. Now that I moved to the capital, it’s the inverse; I spend more time with friends, but less time with family. Ah, a never ending dilemma. So, if I’m going to talk about a friend I would like to talk about Vania. We’ve known each other since we were 14 years old (that’s about 8 years of friendship) and we have stayed in each other houses in different situations. For me, someone whose house has always been in other location, having someone who went to visit me and my family was very touching. We became friends, if I’m not wrong, because we used to take the bus together and we sit next to each other the first day of school, and she was new in the classroom.  Our tastes vary a lot from back then, but we’ve managed to spend time watching each other