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Hello! I’m searching for a partner to practice French with! I’m extremely beginner but I learn better communicating day to day!
No attachment, just for fun, we can talk about anything, from academics to series!
Inbox me any time!
A lot of people will tell your English is not enough or that you need a certificate to prove your English proficiency… my people, there’s nothing more fulfilling than the day you say “fuck you” to all those people and makes that international call to a hotel or whatever at work and you gotta spell something just for the person on the other side of the line also have a non-English accent so thick you barely understand it yourself and still both of you make it work.
Guys, nothing is more satisfying than making a call to energy company to ask why your energy is out (knowing that the bills are all paid by you, thank you very much) and not ten minutes later the power is back on. Like- I fucking solved this adult problem on my own omg.
Life actually works???
The minute I installed M Teams on my phone I knew my childhood was over fr (god may help us all)
Look, I do benefit from studying inspo images but like- I’d like to be the one to go out first and say that I absolutely do not have a desk or an organized notebook and that currently (due to health issues) I am literally studying solely on my phone laying down on bed because I cannot sit for long periods of time.
Sometimes studying sucks, or maybe circumstances do, but you still gotta do it.
Quick update after two years: changed my major from law to international relations, started an associates this (2026) January and got a full-time job.
Long story short: I will need somewhere to freak out and have meltdowns. Alas, this blog is so back on!
No, because, why was I gone for like five days and I have 57 unread e-mails, most of them tagged as high priority?
Be a corporate girlie, they say, it’s gonna be fun, they say.
So… when did pulling an all-nighter to get stuff (work, study, etc.) done became so appealing? Why is it appealing? Maybe because at night we are free from office, school and society’s pressure and can do things in our own time. Oh, well, I will be here all night everyone 🥰✨
November 09, 2024.
Today’s to do list:
Economics paper based on the book reading “The Entrepreneurial State” by Marina Mazzucato;
Get my Criminal Law paper started (important!);
Check the exams dates with classmates;
Ask the Civil Law professor if they can accept my written research in “Judicial Expertise” for extra credit.
NOTE: Try and do those before the start of my 04 p.m. shift.
Trying to share the realistic routine of a person who works and studies so you don’t feel alone for not being able to study 12 hours straight everyday in an aesthetic environment 🥰🤝🏻
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Was only able to reach the middle of the book introduction (aka page 13) but that’s because I have been annotating the thoughts, important pets and the little bits and pieces I now am starting to match with things the professor has said in class.
I think I really like economics (it’s not just a fling anymore help).
Looking forward to keep going, but truly need to focus on other projects so maybe I will just… skip the book and read only the chapter 5 - aka the one required to the assignment paper.
Hope to see you all soon.
November 09, 2024.
Today’s to do list:
Economics paper based on the book reading “The Entrepreneurial State” by Marina Mazzucato;
Get my Criminal Law paper started (important!);
Check the exams dates with classmates;
Ask the Civil Law professor if they can accept my written research in “Judicial Expertise” for extra credit.
NOTE: Try and do those before the start of my 04 p.m. shift.
Trying to share the realistic routine of a person who works and studies so you don’t feel alone for not being able to study 12 hours straight everyday in an aesthetic environment 🥰🤝🏻
I already picked one out of 6/7 IGCSE subjects I promised to myself I’d commit to. Now I gotta pick the others.
I’m a mature student & already have graduated high school in my country but I want to apply to UK colleges, so here am I doing IGCSE’s. I’m applying to the Law with European Studies - so the one subject I have started is French! - so I’d love if you people helped me to chose which IGCSE subjects I should choose!
IGCSE (Cambridge) combo
Economics, History, Math, Psychology, Sociology and English Literature
Economics, Business, Enterprise, World Literature and History
Economics, History, Sociology, Info Tech, English Literature and Latin
Economics, History, Math, Psychology, Latin and English Literature
No English Literature
No Math
Other combo (please tell me, I really need help!)
Also, if anyone know good tutors or resources that would be great because it’s not like I can afford the UK professors or preparatory courses with Brazilian currency. So anything that’s on budget (or other currencies) would help me greatly!
when I finally start learning something I had been postponing and I suddenly rediscover my will to study and apply myself until I’m the best again
October 04, 2024
Studying constitucional law.
Back in February I had started this blog with the intentions of sharing my progress on the new and variated faculty subjects I was going to undertake in this new year. After all, I was finally at the higher education and things had to be different now, right? I wouldn't be barely passing subjects just like I did back in high school, would I?
Well, yes. The first semester was a fiasco of me barely passing and I had to retake most of my exams so I could score just enough not to have to take the subject again. It was disappointing but I didn't think much of it because in my heart and mind I had this hope and idea of doing things differently at the higher education system. I was going to make it right.
Then the new semester started and I was still not studying and sleeping on my free time, tired from working from 07am to 02pm and then going to classes from 07pm to 10pm. Still, I have a gap between 02pm and 07pm I could have been using and had planned various time to use it... only to end up sleeping the whole afternoon.
Please, do understand, I'm not the most health person in the world, much on the contrary, going to the GYM is a habit I have been postponing with the same excuse I had to studying "I have so little time and I am so exhausted", but I realized I had to start creating new habits if I wanted to become a healthy person.
May 8th, 2024
DISCLAIMER: This is not meant to offend anyone, this is only my complex and conflicting journey to connect myself to my culture.
Why am I ashamed?
What am I ashamed of?
Growing up my parents ultimate goal was to move to the USA, they told me "the green card makes your life easier". All they wanted was to make more money so they could afford a better education for me.
I went to private schools for as long as they could pay it for me and they still couldn't put Brazilian private schools on the same level of USA public schools.
They had me having English lessons for years. "English is the most spoken language in the world" my father said "you have to know English to be successful". And I was an impressionable child with corporate dreams to pursue, so I committed to the bit.
Soon enough I started writing in English.
Then, one of our acquaintances made it to the USA. He made the dream real, solid, reachable. We had hopes for a better life.
In one of our Skype calls he told me the weirdest - and most wonderful - part was the "dreaming in English", as he put it, when after a long day speaking the language you couldn't help but dream on it too.
In my mind, then, it clicked: the more English I consume the more native I become.
A though.
Everything always starts with a thought.
One damn thought.
It was what it took to put me on the road to self-hatred and to make me detach myself from my culture. All it took for me to segregate all the culture available to me- to categorize and "villainize" my culture as a whole. Music, poetry, movies, soap operas, everything was inferior if compared to the big nation.
April 30th, 2024
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TW: survivor, suicide attempts, cutting, depression mention and anxiety mention.
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." - Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades
I've been writing pretty much since I learned what words are. I can't barely remember a time where I didn't write thus I can't remember a time where I didn't express myself.
Sometimes quietly, pencil on the paper soothing the sharp edges of my soul.
Sometimes loudly, ripping apart pages when I couldn't rip my heart off.
Somehow... always alone.
In high school I had a brilliant friend with whom I could share my ideas with. We talked once a month despite being in the same homeroom* for the whole period of those long three years. Every time we talked it was like a explosion of new ideas and shared knowledge I believe I never had even with the "bestest" of my best friends.
We did also take the same bus back home. Once, after a particular day we spent attached at the hip, we entered the bus and we were talking about the medicines they had to take - because they had anxiety and depression - and somehow the conversation turned back to me.
I joked and said "I particularly have never been medicated nor diagnosed. So if I don't go looking for a problem then I won't have one." and that is a particular common phrase to here in my country, people often use to say they prefer to "avoid a possible headache" and obviously not meant to diminish mental health or anything of the sort.
They were telling me they took those medicines because they tried to kill themselves once, showing me the cuts and bruises in a proud manner as to say "I survived". In solidarity I decided to tell them I also had a problem with cuts back in middle school. That I used to cut myself and couldn't stop, sometimes it was more of an addiction then something to relief some kind of pain. I wanted them to see they could relate to me and I wouldn't judge them for their struggle.
I think their answer to knowing I stopped cutting myself on my own will forever be stuck in my mind, very deeply engraved in the cuts I recovered from.
"You do everything on your own, don't you?"
To be honest I was paralyzed for a moment. The sun filtered through the windows of the bus shining when it passed through their blond locks. The voices of the other kids were muffled all of the sudden and the grass of the field outside the bus windows were too green to be real. The sky too blue to be nice.
Somehow they were the only person I could read without trying from day one. How ironic is this that this ephemeral friendship would be able to read my soul right back to it's core? Just like I did to them.
Writing is what made me bound with them in the first place, so I think its only fair to address them in the same post as I address writing. They were poetry, one of the most brilliant mind I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. Yet they had little and huge flaws that made them so real that for moments I felt I could reach her.
I don't think I have ever written about them in such manner, maybe because I was afraid of doing so and discovering some deeply buried feeling in me.
Even if they never know, they are the one who convinced me to follow my dream of being on the navy. They are the one who brought back my imagination in a time I thought I'd never be creative again.
And for that I'm grateful.
Because I don't know what I would be without writing.
Without expressing the deepest wishes of my heart.
Or darkest thoughts of my mind.
Writing might keep me alive but they saved me.
And I don't think they will ever know.
April 28th, 2024
A quick recap from my Sunday, which was fairly monotonous if not for my best friend's visit. I didn't see her for almost five months and it was absolutely lovely to catch up with her and getting to know "wassup" in her daily life!
My birthday was on January but the present she bought me (the pocket watch on the picture above) only arrived one month later, right after both of our routines changed and we stopped seeing each other frequently, even living on the same city, then things got chaotic and work started to require a lot more of me then I initially foresaw making me reschedule and postpone every time we agreed on meeting.
I invited her over to lunch since the weather was nice, which gave me the perfect excuse for me to cook since lately I haven't been having the time and cooking is absolutely soothing to me! It also gave her an excuse to eat something cooked by me which - and I quote - in her opinion is "the awesome cooking". I just think her opinion is not that reliable, you know? Eight years of friendship and I think she knows the right thing to say to me - oh, so romantic.
Over lunch we talked about some recurring problems of ours searching each other's aid or advice leading my friend to say a word I hadn't heard in ages: colhão.
Colhão simple translation would be testicles. However, it is an expression - ex.: "you gotta have colhão" - that means you that you have to have courage and stand up for yourself. Be brave. And I'm sure it is related to the old perception that only the man is courageous while the woman is delicate but I'm not going down this path... this time.
I let it pass by, we kept going with our conversation but something told me that wasn't something I should let go this easily. Although not very religious I do keep some costumes and beliefs with me that act like a compass to me most of the time. When me senses tell me to pay attention to something I obey - most of the times.
One day later I would be hearing the word again while talking about the same issue with other friends. Mina 0 | Mina's senses 1.
I didn't study much because I had her over for the afternoon and ended up not having anything else that is relevant to mention to do.
For more sunny, not warm not cold, breeze weathers like this last Sunday.
April 27th, 2024
Do you remember when OG "it girl" François de La Rochefoucauld went "perfect valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world" and it changed planet Earth's very core for generations to come? Me too.
Lately I have been trying to up my game on the company I work. Currently I have temporary contract but it does have a promise of promotion depending on my performance and, as most people would, I thrive on this promise. Which is why I'm so far away from my comfort zone - that would be law books, hiiiii law! - researching for books such as "How to Become a Successful and Valuable Executive for Companies" in the administration hub.
Although I think I look a little ridiculous reading those books - because they honestly look fake or one of those authors who just throws shitty advices on a book to earn an extra with the publication - I'm honestly giving those a chance. Maybe they can teach me something! I'm all for learning more so if it's learning something you shouldn't be doing! What if the book is just shitty in essence? Then I will have backhand experience to identify a shitty book when I first star reading it and see it's essence is similar to the last "bad" book I read.
I like to think that everything we do is constructive. "For better or for worse" is something I apply but with motivational undertones so i can channel it into something positive!
I'll soon complete three months working at this company and it's a "big girl job" per say. It's an international company that has a gamma of possibilities for growth and literally can take me to unexpected places if I manage a promotion, which, for someone like me who dreams of seeing the world would be a nice bonus not to mention a dream come true.
However, my dreams aren't merely limited to company growth but if I manage it will be something that will make me feel good and what are we on this Earth for if not to appreciate little pleasures in life?
Since I can remember I have this will to work on an office and be part of something bigger than me. This company aligning with my principles, such as it being environmental conscious and caring for it's workers - I work at HR so I have first hand experience - is the most awesome part of going to work everyday.
In my life plan - which I believe haven't changed much since I was a teen - all of it's goals are constructive, long term and take time to complement each other. When I say I intend to do five years of law only to enroll on temporary (eight years) navy service people tend to say I want very different extremes and I simply can't see it this way.
Corporative life is part of my life but I don't necessarily want it to be all my life! I believe new experiences and a change of scenario can always do good. Also that people make decisions based on the options they have at hand at the time they are picking. Sometimes what you want is not on the table thus why you have to come up with a plan to make it an option. That can take years. That's when we start outlining long and short term goals for ourselves.
I, for an example, had a dream of coming out of high school and doing medicine, with a specialization in psychiatrics later on in mind. The human mind always fascinated me! But as all of us know it isn't that easy to get into law and because of a ton of life-changing problems I had in high school I couldn't really focus on passing the exams to get into public universities. So I applied for law which was my second option and am rolling with it since then. It doesn't mean I gave up medicine. Of course it doesn't!
Carefully I analyzed my options and build a plan from there, always taking into consideration the areas which I have more affinity and seeing how and why they could complement each other. That's the conclusion of months of research and pondering: I would finish law so I could apply to the temporary navy service (TNS) as an Official rather than the lower rank, which will give me a bigger monetary return, allowing me to live with easy and simultaneously saving a good amount so when I finish the TNS I can enroll on an international medicine university and sustain myself while living there.
Of course those are the main goals connecting with each other and people often fail to see the process. What I mean is that in the five years it takes me to graduate I will be studying and training to pass on the military exam and while I'm at navy I will be studying Spanish so I can enroll on my dream med university.
Once, upon telling a colleague about my plans, she said, and I quote, "it is okay for you to want to be the Barbie: a thousand and one jobs" but she also added "you just gotta make sure to have your goals set on stone so when difficult comes you can keep yourself on your toes and focused on the goal" and that's the best advice I have gotten so far.
When people tell for you to work in silence they mean it most sincerely because most of those around you won't understand your plans and, even unknowingly, will demotivate you. Sometimes it seems crazy and most of times it really is but its not impossible and it's exclusively on you how far you will go to achieve your dreams by transforming them in plans and following through and through.
"Work in silence" isn't supposed to be bitter or trendy but is simply stating people don't have the same world view as you, so you won't make sense to them most of times and - good news - you don't need to! They aren't bad for not understanding though. They just have a different color pallet of lens to see the world and it's fine.
Don't give up on something because it doesn't makes sense. Make sense out of your nonsense if it's the true call of your heart.