Brazilian Folk Story

Saci Perere is a black child and one of the most famous characters from Brazilian folk stories. The Saci Perere legend was originated among the indigenous tribes in the south region of Brazil.
Saci Perere is considered to be playful but in some parts of my country he is seen as an evil being. He has one leg, smokes pipe and wears on his head a red hood that gives him magical powers like disappear and appear anywhere. Also, he turns into a bird called Mati-Tapere. This bird song echo goes in all directions making that way impossible to find its location. Saci loves to do tricks like hiding toys, pour salt on the kitten, making noises, frightens travelers and so on.
According to the legend Saci is in a swirling wind and can be caught by throughing a sieve over the swirls. After getting him one must remove his hood in order to have his obedience and keep him in a bottle. There are others saying about this legend such as the place where Sacis are born. They say they born in Bambus and live there for seven years. After this time they live seventy seven years more to annoy the humans and animals life. When they die they become mushroom.
Despite Saci’s jokes he does not practice in order to harm someone. As the myth says he is also an important knowledgeable of herbs from the forest. He controls and keeps all his knowledge. If someone enter in the forests in search of those herbs they should ask Saci’s permission, otherwise the person would became a victim of Saci’s plays.

My Ideal Vacation

The ideal vacation for me would be a trip which I am prepared for it. It is important to have a well planned shedule as have everything that could be useful there. That way I would not waste my time looking for something else. I also would like to go with one or more friends who could enjoy and be with me all the time. It is better to have someone who we can talk and explorer together. To finalize, it would be perfect to go in place that is hot with many beaches. I love swimming and going on adventures activities such as hiking riding jet ski and so on.

Barra do Una Beach

Barra do Una Beach is located 147 km from Sao Paulo city. It is one of the most beautiful beaches on the north coast with crystal waters and white sands.
There you can do many things such as bout tours in the Montao de Trigo, Couves or Alcatrazes islands. It has great place for snorkeling and hiking too. It is a quite village good for walking and riding a bicycle. Another advantage of being at this small place is the easy access to the stores and supermarkets. There is no need to waste money with public transportation. Also, you can enjoy delicious and fresh sea food. Barra do Una offers direct contact with the nature. I grew up there and I loved. Everytime I go to Brazil I stay there with my family and friends.

My friend Fraud Experience

My friend Hozana had a bad experience with a nanny application on the internet. She applied to a family who lived in London. After, she started contact by email with Mr.Simon. He was a con man. First, he told her a story that his wife had died in a car accident recently, so since then he had been taking care of his two kids by himself. As a consequence, having a nanny as soon as possible, with all the experices that Hozana had while working as a baby sitter for along time would be great. Simon impressed her with this story. In addtion he promissed her free time to study and a good salary. She was so excited. When he got back with his account number, she sent him the money for the application and after that she couldn't contatc him anymore. Both number and email were not valid anymore. She felt angry because he had stolen her money and she decide to do not aplied in the internet anymore.

Best Friends

Unlike our relatives, we choose our friends. I choose them carefully because I know that a relationship with a best friend can last forever. Sometimes we may grow up with a friend like I grew up with some of my best friends Estela and Ana Claudia and others times we can disvover them later in life as I did with others best friends Talita and Tatiane. It is so good to have someone that tou can trusth and that will be there always for you. Either in sad or happy moments. I love them so much and for me they are more than best friends they are part of my family and I always says to them that " Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget".

2014 Fifa World Cup

Another big event coming up in Brazil is the Worl Cup 2014. Well know for its samba, carnaval, football is the first paission for the majority of the brazilians. We are so happy that such important event is going to happen in our country. It will happen between June 13 to July 13 tr. Between the cities to held the games are Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Brazilia, Cuiaba, Manaus, Fortaleza, Salvador, Recife and Natal. In consequence of all the preparation, constructions to the World Cup there are a big extimate of new jobs and economy grown in Brazil. If that really happens it is great!!

Rio 2016 Live Your Passion

You probaly have already noticed that I am always mentioning my country Brazil on my posts. That's because I love my country and I want to share and shows what Brazil has to offer to us. It is not all about violence. it is also about hard working people that even with difficults conditions knows how to be happy and keep a smile in their faces everyday.
So, I would like to invite everyone to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. It will be the first time the games will be held in South America and that means a lot for us. Everyone is rushing and very excited to complete and unforgetufull Olympic Games. We know that throug sports we learn some of the most important lessons of life. We learn that instead of competing we have to participate and develop our skills. Also that we must act as a member of team and that there are rules and consequences if we do not folow it. We do love football so we love sports!! I will be there how about you? Here is a link that can show you a litle of what Brazil looks like =D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z00jjc-WtZI

Superstition In Brazil

There are many superstition in my country Brazil. Some of them are part of daily life. Superstition is something which comes from grandparents to grandmother or between friends. A superstition person belives anything that people says. Some polupar superstiion in my country is "right foot"/. For example, we must either get in or out of some house with the "right foot" to brings luck. If you enter with the left one it means bad luck. Another superstition is "hot ear". If all of a sudden your ears get hot that would mean for us that someone has been talking about us. It doesn;t really has to be mean or good thinh. When that happens people usually starts telling some suspicious name until the ears stops getting hot. But one superstiion that I like is when your left hand scratching cause that means you are going to have an extra money. Those are some of many others superstitions we have in Brazil

Six Flags

Yesterday I and more two friends went to the theme park Six Flags in New Jersey. It was really nice and the weather was perfect. Six Flags is a really nice park and it also contains wild safari animal park and Hurricane Harbor water park. It was my third time there and I am not tired of going in all those cool rides. Six Flags its well known for its rollers coasters and thats why you can find more than fourteen differents rollers coasters. I liked almost all of them but I would like to mention three that I think you should go. They are: Kinda Ka, El Toro and Nitro. But remember, that does not aply for people who has heart problem haha just kidding. Those rides are really fast, but you should be fine!!

Yumy Brigadeiros

Have you ever heard about Brigadeiros? Well, I dont think so, unless you have some brazilian's friends. Brigadeiros is a desert served on birthday parties. It is as important as the birthday cake.. in birthparties. It is really easy to do it and it taste very good. You will need the following ingredients:

1 tea spoon of butter
1 sweetened condensed milk
3 tea spoon of chocolate powder

How to make it

You mix all the ingredients and cook in low heat. When the mix becomes thick you can turn off. Let it get cold and with the buttered hands, roll the mixture into a small, medium balls. Then, roll each ball in the chocolate sprinkles, and place in a paper


It is easy and I love it

Lady Gaga Concert

Last month I had the chance to go to the Lady Gaga concert at Nassau Collisium in Long Island. I wasn't expecting anything like that for the weekedend since I handn'd planned anything. Actually I even didn't know about her concert. It was at noon on Saturday 23th when a girlfriend texted me saying that a friend of hers had an extra ticket for Gaga concert and that she was going to sell it for $80. Well, i didn't think twice. I definately got a great deal for who wasn't going anywhere that saturday night. She sang the best musics such as born this way, alerrandro, bad romance and so on. I did like so much!!

The So Dreamed Age in the US

One of biggest drama about teenagers living in the US is to turn 21.  Reasons are many things you can do after  this age such as  buy cars, buy home and the most important being able to legally drink alcohol.  Teenagens get so exiceted because they know they can get to any club and drink watever they want. Theire is no more need to ask someone to get it for you and miss having fun with their older friends.  I experience this situation of being unable to hang out at clubs when I moved here because I was under 21. In contrast to my country where you are allowed to drink and go out with age of eighteen. 

Differences Between Brazil and the United States

Brazil and the United States have a number of differences and similiarities.  The culture in these two big countries is the main contrast between them.  People from both countries may like or dislike their own country or other, but is difficult to say which is better because it varies  from person to person.  However, it is difficulto to not realize the big differences in the culture of Brazil and the US. Life style for instance is an good example.  While in the United States people have good wage and salaries; in Brazil most of people pray to have a job that pays you well. Another contrast is conversation style.  In my country usually conversation is very dynamic and considered very noisy. It seems that everyone is talking at once while here there is a quitier way to talk and I belive they consider to be rude this noisy conversation. 

Rio The Movie

http://www.rio-themovie.com/

Rio is a 2011 3D computer animated film based on the city of Rio de Janeiro. It is directed by Carlos Saldanha.A misfit macaw named Blu  heads to Rio de Janeiro, embarks on a magnificent journey, and makes some loyal new friends in this animated adventure for the entire family. Domesticated from the time he was just a hatchling, Blu traded a life in the clouds for a contented existence in Moose Lake with his doting owner, Linda.They live under the impression that Blu is the last of his kind, but upon receiving word that a female macaw named Jewel  has been discovered in Rio de Janeiro, Linda and Blu set their sights on South America on a mission to replenish the species. Shortly after their arrival in the Brazilian capitol, however, the two rare birds fall victim to a gang of greedy animal smugglers intent on making a mint by selling Blu and Jewel to the highest bidder. But the headstrong Jewel isn't about to be locked in a cage and put on display, so when the opportunity arises she stages a daring escape with the help of some wisecracking local birds, and takes her new friend Blu along for the ride. With the bumbling birdnappers fast closing in, Blu realizes that his only hope for making a clean getaway and reuniting with Linda is to finally summon the courage he needs to take flight.

The movie opens Friday 15, March and its a great movie for family/kids do watch. I will be there =]

Family Sundays

" Family Sundays" is one of the things that i most miss from my country Brazil. It is a day when all the family would get together to talk about their week and projects, have fun, eat  and drink a good bear.. I miss this a lot because here I dont have any family member. I can remeber all the times that we spent together during those Sundays. I used to make everyone laugh and everyone used to give advice and help each other it they needed something. I miss this so much!!

The most popular food in Brazil

When people ask me about a typical  food in my country the first meal that comes to my mind is Feijoada. Hummm.. it is really good. Feijoada is prepared with black turtle beans and a variety of salted pork and beef products, such as pork ears, tail, feet, bacon, and some smoke sausage. This stew is best prepared over slow fire in a thick clay pot. It taste strong so I recommend to eat at lunch time.  It is traditionally served with white rice, and accompanied by chopped fried collard greens, and peeled and sliced orange.  Believe me it is really good =]

Facebook

Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004. As of January 2011, Facebook has more than 600 million active users.  Users may create a personal profile, add other users friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile.  Additionally, user may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college or other characteristics. Facebook allows anyone who declares themselves to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.  It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his collegue roomates and fellow computer scients students Eduardo Saverin who is from Brazil, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.  The website was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League and Stanford University.  It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students and finally to anyone with 13 year old and over.  Facebook does sounds good right? Well, I already have one how about you?

Earth Hour

Earth Hour is organized by WWF .  With almost 5 million supporters and a global network in over 100 countries/territories, it’s one of the world's largest and most respected independent conservation organizations. WWF’s mission is to stop the degradation of the Earth's natural environment and build a future where people live in harmony with nature.  This year Earh hour took place on Saturday 26 at 08:30( local time) Did you turn off the lights? If you don't do it. In addition, we can do litle things every day that can help the earth to fight against the climate changes problem. If everyone help we can create a better future for our planet. Lets do it!

Packing for Miami/Brazil

Today was very busy day for me.  In addition, to the everyday activies of cleaning and organizing the kids stuff I had to pack their  bags to go to Miami and Brazil.  It might seems easy to do it but packing those bags took me a lot of time.  I had to pack two bags for the boys and two for the girls.  They are going to spend two weeks out of the United States so I had to make sure that everything they need was there.  To make easier for me I wrote down everything that they need or would be usefull on their trip.  Now, they just to pack their handbag tomorrow and they will be all set for Friday when we live for Miami for a couple of days before going to Brazil.  I am so excited as usual and may bag is ready since Monday because I can't wait to get in my country and see my family and friends!
Wish a nice Spring Break for everyone!!!

My aim in the US

I have been living in the United States for almost two years and I have two important goals for my future.  One goal is to get a bachelors degree in hotel management.  I had some nice experience on this field while I was living in Brazil and  I decided to take it as my career choice.  To have an studying experience in a foreign country can open lots of doors in my country, especially when it is about studying.  By the time I graduate I will  be speaken fluenty English which is also an essential for today's job.  Another aim is to save money to buy an apartament in Santos, Brazil.  It is a big city at the beach which has lots of things to do and seems be having an increasing on jobs, and modernization.
For those and other reasons I am working hard so when I move back to my country my life can have a better life.

Aspen, Colorado

Currently I am riding from Snowmass village in Aspen, Colorado.  I have been here since February 16th and I am going home tomorrow.  Aspen is a tiny village located in Colorado.  We flew here on a private jet, which was very scary at the end of the flight.  I thought I was going to die during the landing because the plane was rocking back and forth really strong.  It was the scariest landing I have ever been on a plane.  Aspen is a beautiful place, there is awsome skiing as well as awesome concert.  There are four skii mountains.  Aspen Mountain, Highlands Mountain, Buttermilk Mountain and Snowmass Mountain.  Yestarday I skied Snowmass mountain all day.  I took a lesson in beginner level three.  I learned better skii posture and focused on making turns.  It was so much fun.  I meet some new people in my class they were Alexandra from Mexico and Jim from Bahamas.  My instructoes name was Ole and he is from Niagra Falls, Canada.  During the break I ate lunch at a restaurant near the Gondola with my new friend.  After lunch i did much better and I loved that afternoon.  This morning I went to the town of Aspen to get a souvenir and do a litle sightseeing.  I looked at many stores and everything was really :"F" expensive so I decided to get a cute green and white jacket and a purple hat.  After that I came home with my friend Gisele and we started to work.  Now, I have to prepare for the return home.  It was a really exiting trip.

The Best Birthday Ever!

Turning fiften is the most important birthday for girls in my country Brazil, so consequently it was a special date for me. I remember how excited I felt at that time.  It is like no longer been a girl and changing to a teenager.  I had a really big party as most of girls does.  It had about two hundred people among them there were family and friends.  It happened in my house in Barra do Una and I loved.  I and my parents worked very hard to make a beautiful party.  We decoreted the tables, there were lots of ballows and it colors were white and orange.  To eat there was many things such as cheese bread, coxinhas, chiken pie and lots more of delicious food.  Everyone enjoyed.   To drink there was batidas, caipirinha, soft drinks.  In addition to these things we had what in my opinon was the best party of the party.  Music hehe as I mentioned in my first poster I love music and we had so much fun dancing.  The Dj was so good and everyone had a wonderful time.  I also got nice presents from everyone but more important than those presents was to have a great time with my family and friends in such special moment in my life.  I wish that could could be forever.  Well this and other good moments will be alive in my heart forever. Good moments will never be forgotten.

From South America to the World

After november 2007 I started to travel aroung the world.  The first foreign country I went was Belgium.   I visited many places in Brussels such as Atomiun, Manneken Pis but the best one for me was the Grand Place, it is one of the most important tourist destination.  I liked because of the guildhalls and its arquicteure.  After that I went to the United Kindgom. OMG,I loved going to London.  There are many places to go and I had fun doing the sightseeing.  The most unforgetuful experience I had was going to the Buckhim Palace.  I felt really important because I  had the chance of going inside of such important residence in British Royality.  It was amazing the colors, decoration that they had long time ago.  I also spend a quick weekend in Scotland.  I didn't see that much but I remember that there was a lot of green area with many horses and caws.  It remind me of the South region of my country Brazil.  Other places that I visited in Europe were Paris and Portugal.  In Paris I most liked to go all the way on top of the Eifel Tower.  From there we have a lovely vison of the all city.  In Portugal I stayed in Algarve and going to the MarinaVila Moura was the best part of it because is full of restaurants, shoppingsand hotels.  Then, I went to North America.  First, I went to NYC . I loved the buildings, the yellow taxis,  the most famous stores and the several tourirsts points such Times Square and Statue of Liberty.  I also went to Aspen, Colorado where I skied for the first time. I mean I tried haha it was hard at the beginnig but I end up doing a gob job. My second time sking was in Utah also in the US.  In 2010 I visited Florida where I spend and I had the cutiest experience ever. I swamm with the dolphins. Oh they are so cute. Last year I went to Sydney, Australia.  I did several things there like snorkoling at the great barrier reef, lovey blue water with beautiful fishes and turtle.  Also, I flew over Blue Mountais and I even tried the Canguru meet. One of the symbols of Australia.  I also visited Nassau, Bahamas. Beautiful islands and good weather. I have been travelling around the world and I am very happy for that. By now I now more places out of my country than there but when i move back I would like to travel around there because i know there are beautiful places too.  I just want to thaks God for all those opportunities in my life.

My Passion for Music

I have passions for so many things but now I am going to write about one of them. It is the passion for listening to musics. I just love listening to music. It can be any genre of music such as forro or sertanejo from my country Brazil, or the bests black and pop musics from the United States which are my favorites ones . I dont  worry if is romantic or other rythm. I like to listen to everything. What is important for me is that is the words speaks to mee.  Sometimes I listen to relax, to think about my life and dreams. Other times i listen to music to feel happy and have fun.  I like to listen to music while I am working, having a shower and those are some reasons why i want to have music plugs all over my future house so I can listen to music anytime and anywhere at my home. The only thing that I always prefer is to listen with the loudest volume ever.  For some reasons it makes much better listenig to the music.  Althought I love to listen to music I woud not work in this profession. I am better listening than singing. I had wonderdul time in my life where I was listening to great musics so those are part of my memories too. It is so good to listen to music and I recommentd that if you do not listen to, starts doing so It will be fun!