Tourists Barcelona is a city that, during the summer, may very well have more tourists than inhabitants. Even though we are still in July, you can already listen to more foreign languages in the subway than to Catalan itself. Many of those tourists visit Sagrada Família during their stay in the city. And, as it is located between my house and my job, I pass in front of it every day. At first, when I moved here, I tried to stay out of photos and not to cross in the middle of those groups of “guided tours”. But I must admit I care no longer. The closer to August we get, the more impossible it becomes.

Minecraft is teaching robots If you are a teenager who is at least a little familiar with computer games, you quite probably know Minecraft. It is a very basic and rather ugly simulator of the real world. While the laws of physics that are simulated are quite interesting and not so simple, the graphics are based on huge and ugly cubes. However, this ugly game is now being used by Microsoft to reach an amazing goal: test how a robot with Artificial Intelligence learn from it self-experience. Basically, they prepare a program designed to learn how to interact with the environment and they can freely test it in any environment they want. They just have to put a new character commanded by this program in a scenario they can previously construct and prepare. Even though Minecraft is way too simple compared to the real life, the self-learning tactics and rules may be used someday in the real world by real robots. Based on: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35778288

Zootopia Zootopia is a movie recently launched by Disney in February. It is a kids Movie that tells us the story of a female rabbit who always dreamed in becoming a police officer. However, she finds many barriers and challenges in her way once only the biggest animals - such as elephants and rhinos - were accepted as cops in Zootopia, the biggest animal city. Nevertheless, even thought the plot may seem extremely childish, the main topic the movie brings on is extremely important. By paroding humans from different cultures and races as animals from different races and sizes, the movie leads our childrens to reflect about prejudice and how dangerous and destructive it can become. In a world as ours, where nationalism and prejudice has been conquering more and more space in political discussions, and where recent events shows us that unions as strong as the European Union may not be immune from these threats, a movie like zootopia comes like a rainbow after the rain. It brings the hope that perhaps in the future our children will be better at accepting the others as equal human beings than we've been so far.

Colder than ever The city of São Paulo uses to have a warm weather. Even during the winter, the temperature may reach near 23 degrees Celsius, while the real felling can get even higher as the sun warms the inhabitants. It is not like in Rio de Janeiro, where 20 degrees Celsius leads the population to get theirs snow-coats out of their wardrobe, but the city is mainly unused to cold. This year the winter hasn't even begun, but a polar air mass has made the temperature fall more than the usual. Yesterday it reached near 1 degree, forcing the municipal government to stay on alert. On other cities nearby, the water froze in the pipes causing disruption of the supply. The forecast for the next days is that the temperatures are going to remain low, but that the worst has already passed.

"The man sitting" or "the man sitted" Hello! I would like to know if it is wrong to say, for example 1. I didn't talk much to THE MAN SITTED next to me and, in case it is not wrong, if there's any substantial difference from 2. I didn't talk much to THE MAN SITTING next to me.

My day Today I woke up at 6am, as I do in any other regular day. I took my breakfast, brushed my teeth, and stared at the window. I had to decide whether to get to work by bicycle or by bus. Although there were some clouds in the sky, them seemed the type of clouds that behave themselves, so I took my chance and got my bicycle helmet. My first stop was my college, where a two-hour's class would be waiting for me. However, for some miracle, my teacher freed us after a single 30min presentation from other students, so I could get to my job earlier. What was a good news because, as a consequence, I would also leave earlier. Not counting my stop for lunch, my whole day was behind a desk looking for sheets and computer screens full of numbers. You could say that this was expected for someone who decided to study economics, but today was especially full of numbers. And the worst part was that many of them were totally wrong. After so many numbers, I decided to study English a little, as to rest one side of the brain and use the other one.

My trip to Barcelona Last week I didn't have class on my university, so I made a trip to my favorite city: Barcelona. I lived there last year from January to July and I felt in love with the city, so I had great expectations on this one-week trip. Going there only made me realize that there's something special between me and Barcelona. It's like if we had this excellent match. Whenever I walked on those streets it felt like if the city belong to me. I couldn't avoid the feelings of tears coming into my eyes every time I saw the places where I'd had so many great and funny experiences. Now, back to my home city, I can't help imagining myself living in Barcelona once again. I hope I'll be able to do so someday.

My weekend Last weekend was very relaxing. It begun on Friday after work, when I got home and decided to see one more episode of "Dexter" on Netflix. Of course I ended up watching nine of them and it took almost the entire time I had left on that day. But I made popcorn, so the time spent on my sofa was definitely worth it. Saturday started with my college class that was supposed to last four hours but was already over two hours after it begun, and with a presentation I had to do where everything went well despite I being nervous. That gave me enough time to go home and watch another episode of Dexter (I believe I may be getting addicted, but who isn't addicted to a series after them invented Netflix?). After it finished I went on to have lunch and then to get ready to visit my friend. She had just moved and invited me and some common friends to get to know her new apartment. It was a pretty apartment. Wasn't big, but was big enough for two young adults to start a new life together. I kind of envied them and wished I had my own place, but then I thought about cleaning it and I realized that perhaps I'm too lazy for doing that, at least so far.