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Muitas Cores e Flores nesta mesa de Carolyne Roehm Carolyne Roehm Elas nao precisam vir em grandes arranjos, prepare vasos com flores de diferentes tamanhos ao longo da mesa empecas charmosas e surpreenda seus convidados! Foto reproducao Na minha ultima viagem a LA, eu coloquei como meta realizar o meu sonho de chegar bem perto do letreiro de Hollywood. Para a realizacao desse sonho eu peguei um onibus na calcada da fama em direcao oposta a Beverly Hills. Em seguida peguei o onibus Dast que me levou para a BeachWood drive, bairro onde fica o letreiro.Tive a mesma sensacao de quando eu estava indo fazer a minha primeira visita ao Cristo Redentor no Rio de Janeiro. Comecei a subir a rua Beachwood drive, que dar acesso a trilha para o letreiro! Quando cheguei quase no topo da rua, super inclinada de muito dificil caminha, tinha uma barreira dizendo que a trilha estava fechada! Ou nao, esta de brincadeira neh?!?!?!? Nao!!! A trilha realmente estava fechada! Entao eu desci a Beachwood completamente. No inicio da Beachwood tem um pequeno mercado! Entrei no mercado e perguntei para uma funcionaria se havia uma forma de chegar perto do letreiro, ele me disse que sim. Ela falou para eu subir na Beachwood ate a Legdewood Rd e pegar a esquerda. Dai entao, subir pela Legdewood ate um estacionamento publico,se prepara porque e uma longa caminhada. Mas meu, quando cheguei, eu sabia que tinha chegado, porque o letreiro estava bem gigante na minha frente! Emocionanteeeee, lembrei dos tempos de Um Maluco no Pedaco! E um lugar perfeito para fotos com o letreiro bem grande atras de voce. Ja imaginou ficar 4 horas no sol de meio-dia do Arizona no verao?? Acima de 40oC, tudo de bom!Ha aproximadamente 30 minutos de Phoenix tem um rio chamado "Salt River", que significa Rio do Sal. Uma vez eu ouvir falar que o motivo para a Agua em Phoenix ser tao salgada, e exatamente pelo fato da agua da cidade vir do Salt River. Enfim, durante o verao calorento de Phoenix, muitas pessoas deslocam-se de suas casas para ter diversao em cima de uma boia pelo periodo de 4 quatro horas, descendo o Salt River. Nesse utimo sabado, 21, eu e alguns amigos topamos fazer essa aventura. Infelizmente o Rio e bem poluido, entretanto e um rio de agua corrente, com correnteza razoavelmente fraca em alguns pontos do rio, porem muito forte em outras partes, o que dar um ar de emocao.O preco e nao e tao caro, custa $17 dolares para alugar a boia e pegar o onibus que te leva do estacionamento ao ponto do rio onde o "tubing"( ato de descer o rio em uma boia) comeca.Durante o percurso do rio, voce nota muitas coisas engracadas e que so aconteceriam nos EUA. Como mulheres com esses trajes:Mas tudo bem, louco tem em qualquer lugar e todos so querem diversao. As pessoas podem levar bebidas em caixas termicas sem nenhum problema, a cada sete boias alugada, uma e dada de brinde para colocar a caixa termica. Entao, eu chutaria
por alto que 65% das pessoas que descem o Salt River na boia, termina o percurso embriagadas. Voce ve de tudo, pessoas com alto-falantes nas boias etc. Alguma vezes durante o percurso acontece guerra de alimentos entre os grupos nas boias, dentre os alimentos, os preferidos para arremesso sao uva e maximelo.O verao chegou aqui no Hemisferio Norte e como sempre foi e sera, verao e sinonimo de alegria. Vamos se divertir galera!
I don't know what to doLife drives me crazy and everything changes too muchMaybe tomorrow in the sunset what I feel today is gonna be differentAnd we really never knowWe just live and we make decisions that sometimes we even do not realize that we are making them, but it is a circle and we keep doing thatAnd we think we are living while we are notAnd time never stops, we just need one more dayand another day just come and we do thatDo what?Is it just a crazy feeling that I have today, and tomorrow it will be the same.Craziness, what I used to call it. Com coracao ja partido, sei que me e hora de partirEssa vida e muitas escolhas, foi o que pra eu escolhiDa primeira vez que daqui sai, foi alegria, foi emocaoEra um sorriso ao mundo que dava meu coracaoDa segunda vez foi diferente, o medo e as dificuldadesTudo que nos rodeia, ja influenciavam a minha menteAinda em casa tive que deixar a minha mae-irma e aliJa percebia que as coisas eram diferentesLagrimas faziam parte do meu rosto e o sorriso era impossivelDessa vez, eu ja nem mais sei quem sou euA minha alegria, paira sobre outros airesTenho emocao e medo, tudo misturadoChorar, isso virou rotina e ja venho fazendo a muito tempoMas a vida e assim, vivemos o que escolhemosMulheres da minha vida! In American Pie style?!?!? MAYBEMill Avenue: Students caveThe first time that I went to Tempe, ElisaMojica, World Explorers Member, guided me. We took the light rail on 44thstreet and Washington Rd. and it took us about 15 minutes to get to DowntownTempe, more specifically, to Mill Avenue.It was a Saturday afternoon and I was soexcited to see something different that day. The light rail stopped and it wasannounced on the speakers: Approaching station Mill Avenue, exit to right.When I got out of the train I saw the most beautiful light rail station inPhoenix. Green Vines growing on thefence and the tiles on the floor made by concrete led me to Mill Avenue, astreet which underwent some modifications in the past as in 1950s when itbecame a major arterial and its sidewalks were narrowed, its verandas removed toconform to Mill Avenue state highway standards. In 1987 it also had somemodifications in traffic patterns, Broad sidewalks were restored, verandas putback, and the street was landscaped with brick pavers, live oaks, andWashington-style light fixtures(Barnett 19). It was exactly what I found there. In thebeginning of the street there was a blue sign, in a brown structure, inEuropean style written in white letters Mill Ave. The stores in an oldformat, built with brick colonial, reminded me, Harvard University. During thatafternoon I walked under the shade of the trees and awning in the calmuniversity street. We saw a lot of bars and clubs, but because of the timealmost all of them were closed. Elisa told us that we should go back theresomeday Friday or Saturday night to see how Mill Avenue looks. Then I remembered that since 2007, when Istarted to study English in Brazil, I started to
have the will to come in theUS some day, and at that time I used to watch a lot of Americans movies,principally American comedies. I saw all kinds of comedies, but one of thesecomedies I never forgot: American Pie. This kind of movie is my favorite one,always the same story about young guys graduating from high school and going touniversities. And this was exactly what was happening with me at that time. Iwas almost graduating from my high school and going to the university.Watching American Pie, I created in mymind my own idea about the USA. Actually I thought the US was exactly the samething I used to watch in the movies. Students get in the universities, joinpaternities, party all nights, drink a lot of beers, hook up with a lot ofgirls and have a lot of easy money. So this US was the one that I dreamed of. Igot all those teenager dreams: have a lot of girls, go to parties everyday, andhave fun, have a lot of fun.Maybe in my firsts days in the US I gotfrustrated because all of these things that I had thought were not here. Icould not find them and I started to create excuses in my mind to pretend thatmaybe the problem was I was not studying in a University or maybe I had many Braziliansfriends here, so I did not make friends with American guys. But I was wrong.One week after visiting Mill ave. withElisa my Brazilians friends and I decided to go to a club on Mill Avenue duringthe night and there was my teenager dream. My American Pie Real Life was justbeginning and all of those things that I used to see on my comedies were allthere, that night, together in only one place, Mill Avenue. In thebeginning of the street, after the sign written Mil Ave. near the light railstation, there is a small piece of the street with no lights. In the middle ofthe darkness you can realize the forgotten touristic information point with itshundreds of flies. But if you walk more less than 100 meters you will start tofeel the emotion of being in the heart of Arizona State.I could say that Mill Avenue is thestreet of lights, the street of people, the street of songs, the street of illicitdrugs, etc. That night all of these things came into my mind. Mill Avenue wasreplete of people. It seemed to be a kind of celebrations of the nations,because all different kind of people was there: Black, white, small, tall,Americans, Europeans, Asians and Africans.Beautiful girls semi-naked in front ofsome nightclubs screamed: Happy hour or something that I could not understandvery well. Beautiful cars were modeling on the streets and what made MillAvenue more beautiful was the people. They looked like as they were going to afashionable prom party. Mill Ave. is a place that gives to people theimpression of being free. If you look at the peoples faces you will see that theyare all laughing, as though they had no problems in life. Thesmoke of peoples cigarettes was everywhere. And it
is unbelievable that MillAve. was not a dirty place, even though it receives a lot of people thereeveryday. The alcohol smell for those who are not drinking is totallyperceptive.Walkingdown the street, you can listen to the varied of songs in the clubs and bars.The mix of the songs with the strobe lights that go out the glasses of clubscontribute to the street club appearance. They play all kinds of songs in clubsand bars of Mil Avenue. And in the night the street is really noisy. The carscome and go, as though they were part of that place. Some of them stop to bringor to pick someone up. All seems to be like a movie on the TV. The lines of thenightclubs are in all corners. Some are big and others smalls, sometimes ifmake more difficult the traffic of the people on the sidewalks. Somecops showed up above horses to bring to people that go there some kind ofsecure feeling. They look at you in a way of asking All right? In the end ofnight, about 2-3 am, people start to get out of the clubs. It seems that theyare like blood molecules running through the veins of the Mill Ave. Street. Itjust takes little time and everybody is gone. The street takes a rest. Now, onlymen and women from the urban cleaning service remain there to give a new faceto the street which will receives its millions of viewers on the following day.The heart of Arizona will be ready again.Duringits history Mill Avenue has changed a lot, and each time more it has been beinga perfect place to invest money and create big profits. The number of thepopulations has varied too much and this number is just increasing. The energy of the MillAvenue District is also evident by the thousands of visitors, day and night,experiencing its boutique retail, dining, movie theaters and galleries. Thisall adds up to what we call walkable urbanity and an authentic sense of place(Losch23).Mill Avenue so far is myfavorite place in Tempe. There I can feel the energy of people, dance, have funwith my friends and live a little bit more my dream, that teenager dream that Idreamed when I was just a high-school student. Mil Ave. is just the best placefor party ever. Whatever happens this place will be there with its thousandsfans waiting for you. ReferencesBarnett, Jonathan. "Great Streets." Planning 74.11(2008): 16-19. Academic Search Premier. Web. 22 Oct. 2013.Losch, Ken. "Mill Avenue's Pieces Fit Vibrant UrbanPuzzle." Arizona Republic:23. Nov 30 2007. ProQuest. Web.22 Oct. 2013.
What do they mean by the name "School of Rock"?!?!?!?! They even didn't play Rock songs in the first (and last) time I went there. Weird, isn't it? Anyway, School of Rock was the first nightclub I went in the USA. I thought it would be amazing and I would go to a party such as American Pie movies parties, but not. I needed to pay $5 bucks to get inside the stinkier nightclub I've ever been to in my life. The place is kind of interesting inside, but the people that go to School of Rock are very ugly. The songs of the night were "bubble butt" and "ayy ladies".Price of drinks vary, I paid about $8 bucks each drink. It's nice to go there if you are underage, they will easily admit you. Another important information, at School of Rock was the only club in the USA someone tried to fight me. Depois de chegar de Kenting as 12:20 da manha de domingo fui para cama tirar um cochilo, porque as 5:40 me levantei para mais uma aventura, LITORAL NORTE, mais praias. Eu sei que nao estou de ferias, mas como nao tem praias em Brasilia, tenho que aproveitar, pego o trem e em uma hora estou na praia, vida boa. A atividade era a seguinte: praia com o pessoal da Igreja. Durante a manha culto, durante a tarde tempo livre. A saida de Taipei nao animou muito, chuva forte, mas de boas, vamos nessa. O culto foi muito maravilhoso, recebi a bencao dos pastores para a minha viagem para Londres e a minha volta para o Brasil. Almocei com os irmaos da Igreja e presenciei uma cena engracada, depois do almoco todos passaram protetor solar e trocaram suas roupas por roupas mais leves. O mais engracado era que do lado de fora estava fazendo maior frio e nao tinha sol, hahaha, pra que o protetor?!?!?, as respostas que eles me deram foi: protecao contra UV, (hao),ou seja, correto. Fomos entao para a Areia da Praia. Essa praia e a praia de ( fulong), para entrar na praia voce precisa pagar 80 NTD o que equivale a R$ 4,80. Praia rasa, porem vento muito forte e muitas ondas, o que dificulta o banho, mas e de boas. Exposicao de esculturas na areia chama atencao a distancia, muito bonito. Depois de algumas brincadeiras em grupo na areia, venho a parte mais engracada da tarde, pegar a galera e jogar dentro da agua, foi muito massa, galera jogou ate os pastores e o mais engracado e que eles nao se preocupam se voce vai se machucar ou nao, eles apenas te pegam e te jogam na agua. A tarde foi demais...E para a nossa alegria a agua nao estava fria mais uma vez!!! XD Wow, after more then 05 months is time to write my last words here, this adventure that I'm pretty sure that I will save the memories forever! If all my posts did not answer my questions in the beginning of this blog like: why Taiwan, where is Taiwan?
... Now I can say that I simply went to the best country in the world. My friend Martin asked me in the last day of my exchange, Weverton says in one word what was your best experience in TW?Unfortunately I did not answer him, because to me is almost impossible with one word says everything or the best thing that I lived there!!! My exchange was supernatural! The first friend that I met was Williman in Brasilia yet. We crossed together the world to live this adventure. In Taiwan I was born again. My parents there were Jim, Abby and York. These 3 people got pregnant of me when I was still in Brazil. They are amazing, they helped me in all things, really ALL THINGS and I know that if they were not there, my exchange never could be the same. Buddies, you were the people that helped me to do one of my main dream, you loved me as my parents and gave me courage to fight all the difficulties to live in other country. After my buddies came to my life Guilherme and Martin. I still can remember GUI totally lost because he did not know how to draw money in the ATM. My big brother now, that I tried to help and who helps me so much during my exchange, we are simply going together to take a trip in London. Martin I can still remember feb. 15 when we met. He was using blue pens, social t-shirt and a black coat. I could not believe that one of the shyest exchange student could become one of my best friends in Taiwan and how amazing was listen to him saying that I taught him how to smile! Williman gave me the opportunity to meet the cutest Taiwanese girl, Rimes. We had a lot of funny moments during the exchange. We went jogging together, aboriginal concert, Japanese restaurant, I did her wait me more than 2 hors into SOGO department store and also did her becomes the girl of 2 hours. GUI introduced me to Olesya sweetheart. My Russian friend who I learned a lot of things, We have a lot of good moments in the taiwanese nightclubs, I saw her using a high-hill running faster then me and also I learned a lot of things about Russia. Jim went to the small group with me and there I Met Sue, Amy, Clair, Nai Nai, Vankee and others many people. I will forever thank God to put these people in my life. They gave me the opportunity to continue living God's love, to pray and to be cool!! Sue and Clair were my Angels, sent by God to be close and pray, to share experience and to help in difficulty moments. And almost in my last week in TW I became close with Schaooo, he is a good boy, helps Williman so much and help me so much to did the trip to Taiwan's south, Schao I hope see you in Brazil.Well, is almost impossible to write here
all my friends and the goods moments, but I still can remember all my friends, all the people that crossed my life in Taiwan. FRIENDS, PLEASE, NEVER FORGET ME AND ALL OUR EXPERIENCE, BECAUSE TAIWAN WAS REALLY I DREAM WHICH NOW I NEED TO WAKE UP AND CONTINUE LIVING. I SWEAR I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU. FLYING ABOVE PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC, 1:51 a.m Taiwan, 6:51 p.m London jun. 28th. Regard for Martin.I LOVE YOU GUYS!!
For the first time in my life I have been experiencing a World Cup outside Brazil. I'm a Brazilian and as many people might know, one of the most important things for Brazilians is soccer. I never thought how could be the experience to watch the World Cup, which is happening in Brazil this year, through television. And I can tell for sure that I am very surprise how different it is.In Brazil, in times of World Cup, people will paint the street, paint the fences of houses and also hang some small flags on the top of electricity poles. To make all this work, people from the same neighborhood will get together and get the work done. I could say that World Cup is a peace time in Brazil, because everybody becomes friends to celebrate this huge event.For sure Brazil is the country of soccer, and the World Cup is very important for us. Now imagine a time when we are hosting the matches?? It will be a way more significant. I have been talking to my mother and she told me people are getting crazy over there. When is day of Brazilian National team game, people will dress their Brazilian jerseys, hats, shorts, t-shirts, shoes and whatever they have with the colors yellow, green and blue and go to the streets to watch the game together. Few people would watch it alone, because it is a time for celebration. If Brazil make a goal, dogs should run, because for sure, fireworks will be exploded!!!! People will scream, blow their whistles, hug and kiss other people etc. Everything is just crazy and nice.Beer and barbecue would be the nicest snacks eaten by Brazilians during a match. Bars, streets equipped with big television and party saloon will be reserved by fans to support the teams that are playing.In Brazil, the World Cup is just amazing. But what about times of the World Cup when you are in the USA? Totally different.Americans are not big fan of soccer, they prefer football. So in here, even when the USA team is playing a could not hear anyone screaming or making any noise when the USA made a goal against Portugal. People do not ornament streets and you do not see many advertisements about the Cup. It is very sad and the only will that I have is to be in Brazil to watch the games with my friends, because it is inexplicable the feeling and emotion to support Brazil or any other team during the World Cup when I am in Brazil.Conclusion, World cup in the USA sucks. First essay ENG101: "Two specific stories culled from your own life experience in order to explain some larger concept" ( Jolly 1).Listen to the wise could make thingseasierIn 2002, when I was 11 years old, mymom took me on a ship tour around Porto Seguros beaches. On that beautifulsunny day she took me on the tour to see one of the most beautiful things I hadever seen in my whole life, the bottom of the sea.
To see this perfect giftgiven from God the humanity, we needed to take a ship on the beach and travelto the middle of the ocean. Then we got to a sandbar calledCoroa Vermelha. Around Coroa Vermelha there is a cluster of coral, wheretourists can meet all beings that live on the seabed. To see all of the thingsis possible just because of the phenomenon that occurs twice every day on theocean: the rise and fall of the tide. When the tide falls, rocks that wereunder the water start to appear in the middle of the ocean and then we can seeall the coral. There are places where tide pools are formed where it ispossible to swim with fish, take some sea urchins in the hand and have a lotof fun.We spent about 2 hours in thatwonderful place. We took a lot of pictures together diving with a lot ofcolorful fish; we saw a clown fish and also took a lot of urchins in the hand.I was so surprised by a lot of things that live on the seafloor. That was the second time that my momwas in Coroa Vermelha, so she knew everything that was going to happen. Shetold me, son, about 4 oclock the tide will start to rise, so you take theboat and go back to the ship, because I will go back swimming. Then I replied:yes mom, but at 4, when I saw her leaving to the boat I just thought that Icould do the same and started to swim after her, because I had in my mind thatswimming in the ocean was the same as swimming in the swim pool, but I waswrong. I know how to swim very well in the swim pool, but in the ocean, thewater moves, it is alive and I did not know that I was not going to havesuccess in my way back to the ship. My mom got to the ship really fast, but I couldnot do the same.When the tide started to rise, waveswere formed going and coming in all directions. They were uncontrollable andthe ocean got really agitated. I was in the middle of all of those waves, so Igot really nervous. I tried to swim but there were many waves and they werecovering me. I drank a lot of seawater that day. Before I passed out from drinking alarge amount of water, I stretched my leg and realized that the place I was inwas still shallow water. So I got up and waited for the boat to come and pickme up. I was alive, safe and sound. At that time I was pale, shaking all overmy body and nervous. I really felt that I was going to die, that no one wouldsee me and that it was the end of my life.Fortunately that was not my last dayon this earth, but I think I did not learn very well to listen to my mom,because 10 years later I found myself in the same situation.The second time I found myself inthat situation happened in the summer vacation of 2012.