Brazilian learners of English

She found love      She is wearing her favorite dress. It’s a special occasion. She has been locked inside her own mind for too long. Wondering if she is good enough for too long. Judging herself for too long. Running away for too long. But not anymore. This is a special occasion, indeed. I can feel it in the air. What is it? Love? Yes, she is in love. Oh my God, she finally found love! She has been trying to find it for a really long time, did you know? I remember when she was just a little kid. All those Disney movies, princesses and princes. Queens and kings. Even the ugly frog found real love!       The girl is wearing no makeup. She is staring at her own reflection on the mirror. She used to hate it, but not anymore. Now she can finally smile at herself. She is not her enemy anymore. She looks at her dress. I can’t help being proud of her. She has avoided dresses since I know her. They make her feel uncomfortable, weird. But now she is smili...

      Sometimes it is hard to think about the future, especially when you are young and you feel a little bit lost in this big world. I have anxiety so it is complicated to make plans, because I get frustrated and overwhelmed if something does not work the way it should. There are days that I do not even want to think about my life. Those days I just want to follow my routine and I look forward to my bedtime.       Although it can be difficult to make plans and try to accomplish them, I am trying my best. Sometimes I fail, sometimes I do it right. Most of the time I am feeling too tired, but I keep holding on. Even when I am scared about the future, I know that I will have to get there eventually, so I make good plans. These plans keep me motivated.       For example: I will be dating by 25 years old. I probably overestimate romances, but I would really like to have a partner. Not just for cuddling and kissing, but also sharing good moment...

Chester Bennington Chester Bennington was born on March 20, 1976 in Phoenix, Arizona, the USA, he had three brothers. In 1983 he suffered for the first time in his life, a friend abused him sexually, he suffered a lot with bullying in high school because he was strange and very skinny for a teenager, but in high school he had his first singing class. His parents divorced in 1987, Chester suffered a lot, because he started living with his father.             Chester suffered with depression, and despite of this, he listened to music bands like Depeche Mode, Stone Temple Pilots … and wrote songs. In 1996, he worked in a fast food chain to pay his bills and he started his first band called Grey Daze, this band broke up in 1998. In 1999, he received a call from California, Los Angeles to do a test for a band called Xero, this band mixes Hip Hop and Metal Rock. When the members of Xiro listened to Chester’s voice for the fir...

The artist I chose to write about is Karla Camila Cabello-Estrabao, better known as Camila Cabello. Camila Cabello was born on March 3, 1997 in Havana, Cuba. She got the American citizenship in 2008. At first, she moved just with her mother to the USA, her father came later. It was really difficult, because her mother’s degree was not accepted in the new country. She attended Miami Palmetto High School but she left in the 2012–2013 school year, while she was in 9th grade, to pursue her singing career (she later earned her high school diploma). That’s when she auditioned for the X-Factor (first, as a solo singer) and later joined the girl group Fifth Harmony. Cabello and her band-mates released one EP and two studio albums. Her departure from the group was announced on December 18th, 2016.  In 2017, Cabello prepared the release of her debut solo album. Cabello received some nominations/awards and she became an official Guess girl and was the face of their 2017 Fall c...

Sunset in Santos Hello, I'm Caroline and I'm from Santos, São Paulo - Brazil. My city is famous for their great soccer players, like Neymar and Pelé, that started their careers in Santos Futebol Clube. Santos is also famous for its big Beach Garden. Santos' Beach Garden is registered in the Guinnes Book of Records as the biggest beach garden of the world! That's incredbile and beautiful. You need to visit it! Santos' Beach Santos' Beach Sidewalk My city has a lot of night clubs, some museums and theaters. There's a lot of bookstores and some public libriaries. In the beach garden there's a public library only for cartoon strips. It's amaaazing! Santos' Beach Garden In Santos, we have 3 big malls, and a lot of stores. There's an old Street Movie Theater and 3 more inside the malls. On the beach, there are Surf Schools and a great variety of monuments. I mean, there are monuments for everything! You need to visit the beautif...

Blumenau, located in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, also known as the beer capital or small Germany, has different activities for every taste and age. The famous Oktoberfest party takes place in October, and is one of the events that attracts more tourists to the city. With typical delicious dishes, the most famous one is the stuffed potato. But besides Oktoberfest, Blumenau has great places to enjoy the night and the weekends. During the day, Ramiro Ruediger Park is a perfect option on sunny days, with places for sports and fun, as well as a nice playground for children. My favorite night spot is called Factory , a relatively small club, but there are different events every weekend and great and very respectful people having fun.

Do you know Curitiba? Curitiba is the capital of Paraná, a state in the south of Brazil. It is a beautiful and very large city, with a population of over 1.750 million inhabitants. It is a region where there are many cultures: Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian, Polish... In Curitiba, there are many parks like Tanguá Park, Tingui Park, São Lourenço Park, and Blue side Park There are museums, many malls, and night clubs. In Curitiba there are beautiful places for everybody. If you visit Curitiba you can go to:  Flowers Street – an important touristic and commercial point located downtown. It is the first pedestrian only street opened in Brazil, inaugurated in 1972.  Botanical Garden - the major touristic attraction and landmark of the city and the state, and it houses part of campus III of the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR).  Japan Square - a homage to the Japanese immigrants who settled in Curitiba to work with agriculture. It is ...

Do you know São João Batista?                  São João Batista is a small city, located in the state of Santa Catarina, south of Brazil. A city that was funded by Italian immigrants, in the past and colonized by Azorean. The city is called Santa Catarina's capital of shoes.                  My city has   good weather, sunny days are too hot, so you can go to the Fernandes’ waterfall and take a delicious shower or you can cycle by the streets.   In the winter, you can stay home and get warm in our wood burning stove. Do you like parties? São João Batista is the right place for having fun. In July, we have São João’s party, there are three days of party, and you can eat traditional foods like cocada , a delicious pastry. At midnight of Saturday, there is the light of the fire, as shown in the picture. ...

Presidente Getúlio Available on: www.amigodeviagem.com.br/5-cidades-que-voce-precisa-conhecer-no-vale-europeu-em-santa-catarina/ Presidente Getúlio, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. They say that it is the best place to live in. Come here and check it out. In this city, you are going to find the peace of a small town, with only 17,000 inhabitants. If you are looking for a coffee, we have great bakeries, for example: Água na Boca , Gutes Essen , Dona Lena and Schoenfelder . But if you prefer a restaurant, you can go to X-chopperia or Baking . Our town is famous for the waterfalls, you must visit them. We have two hotels here. One of them is old and traditional and the other one is new and modern, you can choose. We have no malls here, but there are a lot of stores you can go to. And to enjoy your Friday night, there is a Pub called Pub Beer Rock, you will love it. Do you need a supermarket? There are three big ones and some small ones. If you come in the end of May/beginni...

A Day in Jaraguá do Sul, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil   There are many things you can see and do, come on! First, you need to know Madalena Restaurant, it is the most famous and delicious one in the city! There are Confraria do Churrasco and Típico General K ü ster restaurants, too. After, you can visit a museum, there are many good ones here. There are the WEG Museum, Peace Museum, Emilio da Silva Museum and Expedicionário Museum. If you like sports, there is Arena Jaraguá, where sport competitions happen. Another cool place is Malwee Park which, is a beautiful and large park for you to visit. In Jaraguá do Sul, there is Krause, a funny water park. Your family will certainly love it! After, you need to visit Jaraguá do Sul Shopping Park, a beautiful mall. Finally, you can get to know Morro Boa Vista , one of the most beautiful places in the city. There you can enjoy a wonderful landscape and can even paraglide. In Jaraguá do Sul there are many things to do. Come and ...

Apiúna is a little town located in Valley of Itajaí, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. It is a pleasant city and people here are very gentle. Apiúna is a calm city with a little more than ten thousand inhabitants and it is a great place to live. There are some good restaurants and hotels here. There are no malls, but there are so many stores. Apiúna is known by the “Dom Bosco Hill”, a place where people can walk through to have a beautiful view of the city, and there are a lot of waterfalls to visit, too. You can go rafting in the Itajaí-Açú River if you like the rush of an extreme sport. For families, there are tours by the traditional steam locomotive, known in Brazil as Maria Fumaça . In June, there is the Tangefest , known as the Tangerine Feast, where you can eat delicious tangerine pastry. What are you waiting for visiting Apiúna?

Blumenau is a beautiful city located in Valley of Itajaí, state of Santa Catarina, south of Brazil. It is a region where there are German traces, that influence architecture and gastronomy.  In Blumenau there are museums, malls, parks, good restaurants, night clubs and beautiful places. My favorite place is Vila Germânica Park, where there are delicious draft beers and stuffed potatoes. In Vila Germânica Park we celebrate Oktoberfest! Tourists from all over the world come to Blumenau. There is a train in front of the city hall where people like to take pictures!   If you don’t like German food, I would like to recommend Aikau Poke (Hawaiian food)  located on Curt Hering Street downtown. There are different foods there like pokes, sandwiches, desserts and drinks! And besides that, there is good music there as well as a surfboard table on the sidewalk to invite Blumenau to enjoy the look of what I consider one of the most charming streets in the...

Hello, my name is Tatyane Gubetti, I’m 21 years old.  I am a Letras student at college and I’m learning English, so I wanna make new friends who are also learning English. I live in Blumenau, Brazil, with my mother and my pets, I have three cats.  My father lives in Blumenau, too, but he doesn’t live with me. I sometimes visit him. I have a brother and a sister but they don’t live with me.  I wake up at about 5:30 am and I leave home at 6:10 am to go to work. At 5:50 pm I go to college. This is my week routine. On weekends I occasionally go to the café or parks with my friends and I never go to parties because I don’t like much. On Sunday mornings I go to church. I love reading many books and fanfictions in my free time. I love the South Korean Pop Culture and music, my favorite boy group is BTS. My favorite color is pink but I like black and blue, too. My biggest dream is travel the world and be able to communicate with many people. ☺

Hi, my name is Linara Mafessolli Xavier and I am seventeen years old. I am Brazilian and I live in São João Batista, Santa Catarina with my parents. I don’t work in this moment because I go to college at 4: 25 p.m and I return for my home at around 11:40 p.m. I study Letras- English and Portuguese in Furb, Blumenau. I love teaching so much and I want to be a teacher. On weekends I study and in my free time I go to my grandmother’s house, or I visit my friends, watch tv shows and eat fast food. I love music so much, mainly electronic music, but I like pop, jazz too, and my favorite tv show is Vikings. Please, e-mail me at linaramafessolli42@gmail.com.

Hello there! My name is Ana Caroline! I’m Brazilian and I speak Portuguese, Spanish and English! I am seventeen years old and I study Portuguese, English, and their respective literatures at FURB.  I live with my family in a small city of Santa Catarina called Rodeio. I really love where I live because it’s calm and all my family members live close to each other! In my house, we have three dogs, one parrot and fifteen cockatiels!  We love our pets! On weekdays, I work on my parent’s bakery and go to the university at night. On the weekend, I read books and watch movies on the internet. My favorite books are Harry Potter and the deathly hallows by J.K. Rowling, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Christine and The Shinning written by Stephen King, my favorite author! It’s nice to meet you! 

Hi, everyone. My name is Nicole Stein and I’m 20 years old. I live with my parents in Rio dos Cedros, Santa Catarina, Brazil. I work in a laboratory all day long and at night I go to the university. I want to be an English teacher. I have many friends and we like to go to the countryside on weekends. I have two dogs, their names are Scooby and Sandy. I love to listen to rock’n’roll, my favorite bands are: Avenged Sevenfold, Shinedown, Motörhead, Metallica, Amon Amarth, among others. I also like to watch TV shows like: Sons of Anarchy, The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, Game of Thrones. Please, e-mail me at nicole_c_stein@hotmail.com . 

My name is Cinara, I'm 18 years old and I'm Brazilian, from Blumenau, state of Santa Catarina. I am a Letras  student and work in the afternoon as a junior apprentice in a fashion design course. On weekends, I usually go out for parties with my friends, but I really like to eat something or stay in someone's house. I have a great interest in young adult literature and in the collection of images that bring good messages. Besides being completely in love with the sky at all times of the day, I have a dream since I was very young to travel, but I'm still deciding between Canada and Colorado in the US.

Hi! My name is Caroline Huntermann and I am 17 years old. I am Brazilian, from Rio do Sul, state of Santa Catarina (SC), but currently I live in Blumenau, SC. I am studying Letras at the university and I am loving it! It is a course about teaching Portuguese and English and I like studying languages, so now I started to practice German, which is very difficult, but it is awesome. In my free time, I like to read, listen to music, to dance and I am really addicted to series and movies. I like to spend my weekends with my family and friends, go to parties or just stay home with my parents watching something on TV and we like to travel a lot. I do not like practicing sports but I like to watch and I go to the gym some days during the week. My dream is to visit a lot of countries around the world and to know a lot of people, their culture and language, it is magical.

Hi there! I’m Luís Antônio, I’m Brazilian and I come from Santa Catarina. I go to college from Monday to Friday and I study English there. On Saturdays I like going out to drink, dance and have fun, and on Sundays I like to stay at home reading, watching a movie or even studying. I’m highly addicted to music, not an hour goes by without me listening to it. My routine is very simple, I wake up and after some time I get up, take a shower, jump breakfast and go straight to eating lunch, do some chores and leave the house to go to college.

I'm Caroline Cuzner and I'm 19 years old. I'm from Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, and I came to Santa Catarina to study. I live in Blumenau. I study and work at the university from Monday to Friday. On Tuesdays, I work as a Portuguese teacher. On weekends, I go out with friends and my boyfriend, but sometimes we stay home watching movies and series. In my free time, I like to study new languages, listen to music and play games.