tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99650102011-04-22T00:32:08.467-03:00The importance of being earnestI intend to use this blog to talk and share knowledge with people from all over the world. My main interests are, international affairs, international cultures, languages and travel...Rafaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00545853937200930257noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9965010.post-1105454452975294192005-01-11T13:37:00.000-02:002005-01-11T12:40:52.976-02:00Honduras and IranSix years ago it was scenes from Honduras that filled television newscasts and newspaper pages. Then as now, there was a public outpouring of sympathy and support. Then as now, heads of state pledged huge amounts of aid. International relief agencies committed themselves to "build back better," promising to stay for the long term and provide the tools needed to overcome the social and economic Rafaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00545853937200930257noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9965010.post-1105109937101522932005-01-07T13:38:00.000-02:002005-01-07T12:58:57.103-02:00ChineseYesterday I got back to my Chinese clases, it was a bit tiring but the best part was when my chinese teacher started to talk about his life in China. He's a chinese guy who has been leaving in Brazil for six years, and he speakes portuguese fairly well. He lives with his family, they are from China too, but none of them speak portuguese, weel his brither just says some words in portuguese.
Rafaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00545853937200930257noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9965010.post-1104950961116793562005-01-05T16:46:00.000-02:002005-01-05T16:49:21.116-02:00some poetryLike burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed
Gaunt cypress-trees stand round the sun-bleached stone;
Here doth the little night-owl make her throne,
And the slight lizard show his jewelled head.
And, where the chaliced poppies flame to red,
In the still chamber of yon pyramidSurely some Old-World Sphinx lurks darkly hid,
Grim warder of this pleasaunce of the dead.
Ah! sweet indeed to rest within Rafaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00545853937200930257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9965010.post-1104931286307339892005-01-05T11:14:00.000-02:002005-01-05T16:53:50.193-02:00Lewis Carroll...If you want to read something really good, try any work of Lewis Carroll. His known especially for his work, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but he wrote other things which are as good as this one.
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