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My reasons to THANK 2020
This year is almost gone, and I have seen many people glad for it, having considered this year awful in many ways. However, some are looking for the good and being grateful for the lessons and opportunities that came out from the crises. To some extent, we are all hopeful for the next year to be a better one. 2020 came to shake and destabilize our bases. We understood that we do not have much control over our plans or how things will happen. Everyone was impacted differently through this pandemic, but we all had to review many things in our lives. For me, it would already be a different…
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The day I could not stop crying in Ireland
Living abroad involves peculiar and remarkable situations. This article is rather a short report written 2 years ago when as I couldn’t restrain tears from washing my face, I described for the first time what it had meant to me living so far away from home. This article is republished in the hope you, by reading it, can have a taste of what means to get out of the comfort zone to face the unknown, even if this ‘unknown’ has been already part of our reality.
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Teach your language in France: application is open
Have been waiting for an opportunity to live in France? So, this is your great chance. The French Government accepts now applications from students wiling to become a Foreign language assistant in France. To participate, you need to: Be a native speaker of the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, German, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish) Be enrolled in higher education in your home country Age between 20 and 30 years (35 years for some states) Proof level B1 of French, on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages The eligibility criteria vary according to each country, so it is fundamental to check the rules that apply in or case.…
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Time Capsule – capturing 2020 challenge the Covid19
Presenting the Time capsule Time is relative. What we feel and experience today, no matter how good or how difficult it is, might not have the same importance for us tomorrow. Especially the pain and the fear may seem unbearable now when we live and feel them, but when it comes to pass, the distance gives us the chance to see the big picture and a more clear and realistic perspective on the situation. This year is marked with a couple of global challenges and calls for a need for change and adaptation. One of the most discussed topics is the Coronavirus that has spread worldwide causing panic, chaos, quarantine,…
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La voilà : rapport d’une brésilienne en France !
Je suis arrivée en Rennes début septembre 2019. J’avais hâte de commencer un nouveau départ en découvrant une nouvelle culture et un nouveau style de vie. Je me disais que les français ne font que boire du vin et manger du pain avec du fromage tous les jours, en profitant en permanence de la ‘belle vie’. Cette idée/image, même stéréotypée, est réductrice (inspirée par les films hollywoodiens). Elle a servi quand même pour me convaincre de quitter l’Irlande, à la recherche d’une vie plus tranquille et amusante. Je n’ai jamais été déçue. Depuis mon arrivée, en tant qu’étudiante, j’en ai bien profité pour étudier, apprendre la langue française et m’amuser…
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Like old sailors: I chose to face my fears!
If three years ago someone had told me that in April 2020, we will be living on a situation of enclosure, I would have never believed. Living confined with no human contacts sounds even now unreal. On the bright side, this current situation has given me enough time to travel back in time to record a moment when I had a chance to travel around Europe during an entire month all alone, enjoying a time of freedom that now more than ever I reckon it priceless. So, today be my guest in this trip in old and crazy memories. Having lived in Dublin for more than a year working as…
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Coronavirus: an opportunity to change our lives
For many people being at home with no prediction of when they will have their social life back again is terrifying. In some cases, is even worse than the Coronavirus (Covid-19) itself. Many people cannot face their own diseases. As a Journalist and now a student living abroad, I am facing myself this isolation in my bedroom. I am Brazilian and I came to Ireland in order to improve my English. I want to do a Master’s in Cinema and start a new career as a filmmaker. For this reason, last year, I decided to change my life. It is a long story for another article. I arrived in…
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Coronavirus: What is in the air?
Regardless what is going on ‘almost’ everywhere in the world, we are all striving to keep on going. Every day, I woke up, brush my teeth, put on clothes, some days make-up, some days, even before combing my hair I move to my office, just beside by bed, to start my online classes. I have lost track of how many cups of coffees and tea I have been taking per day, and how crazy I must look like when singing “All by myself, don`t want to be. All by myself, anymore”. Notice it has been only 3 weeks so far. All this conversation going on made me have a dream…
