First notebook entry: Introducing myself

Hi,
i would like to find some people to discuss et improve my english. I lived in Dublin for a few months, but i have to progress yet. It was a really rewarding experience and i kept the taste to exchange with foreigners and people from all over the world.

I'm waiting to speak with you,

Delphine.

Those quiet ten minutes in fear

I'd want like to tell a fact happened some years ago, while in one August, I was in Corsica for a short holiday with my wife and a couple of friends. One morning we decided to go for a trekking hike along the Restonica's Gorge, a very nice canyon near the town of Corte in the center of Corsica. It is a walk of about one hour and half that you can finish when you arrive to at Melò's lake at 1700 metres of altitude or you can continue until to you reach another lake, situated 200 metres higher more up, at 1900 metres, called Capitello's lake.

It was a lovely day: we halted to Melò's lake and there we made a swam. After the lunch, we decided to go back to the Hotel in Corte. While we were going down along the rocky wall, the weather began to change: all of a sudden it seemed that the weather was divided in two parts: while we were at sun the  (in sun ?), we saw an hail storm coming towards us and in short time we found us within of it, passing so from about 30°C to less than 20°C in a time of a few seconds. 

Paraphrasing an old movie, I can say that we had our quiet ten minutes in fear, because the storm was very strong and violent.
So as it was arrived, so it went away, and the sun returned to shine again.

I advice to visit Corsica because it is a beatiful island, but be carefull at  with the weather : it may be unpredictable

An episode of my past as teacher

In the past, after the graduation, I did several jobs, between  among them, as a teacher. I liked to do work as a teacher, but for several reasons I have done other choices. I want to tell a fact of that job, surely a bit cynic but funny. Some years ago, I got an assignment a job as a substitute teacher in a high school, and as such I had to teach all the different grades. That in italian high schools goes from first class until to fifth. One day I had to work with a third, that all my colleagues said about it was a very hard class. To confirm this when I went in the classroom, i found a lot of uproar, to such a point that it was impossible to hear my voice, because it was covered by others. I got back to have the control of the class screaming a little and clapping my hand on the desk. However there was a student who continued to make noise, to disturb and who prevented me to work.
After numerous and useless calls to order, I called that boy and told him to go out of the classroom but remained near the door. While he was going out, laughing, he told to another student that he would be gone in the bathroom. He was provoking me. So I gave him a piece of paper and told: "Hey guy, I was a student before you". now, take this, and keep it always in moviment, under the door, so that I can understand that you are there, behind the door". When I saw that the paper had stopped moving, I said : "It stopped, move it again". I constricted him to make this play, for about 15 minutes and this put him in ridicule towards the other students. When he went back in the class, he understood the lesson and i won my little battle.

Sentir-se estrangeiro

Quando se está morando num país estrangeiro, certamente você vai conhecer ter esta a sensação de não pertencer a este grupo, de não ser daqui. Se em algumas circûnstancias (ou às vezes, ou em alguns momentos) pode tornar-se um sofrimento, também há vantagens neste fenômeno. Algumas vezes você vai manter uma forma de distância um certo distanciamento entre você e o densenrolamento dos acontecimentos que acontece no país que podem ser mais dificeís a vivir para um autoctone, precisamente porque trata-se do país dele. Se você assiste aos acontecimentos revoltantes num país que não é o seu, mesmo se vai você se sentir mal, sempre sabe que não é a sua terra (c'est vrai!). Será mais fácil tornar relativa a situação, achar que ao final a escolha é deles, esta gente de cultura própria (?).
Ficará a lembrança de nosso país e o orgulho de ter nossa cultura, nossa identidade.

Futebol

Eu adoro futebol desde que foi pequeno. Meu time do coracao é o Lyon, o clube do Juninho Pernambucano, Edmilson, Sonny Anderson, Fred, NIlmar, Cris... e esqueço alguns, esses sao os mais famosos.
Estuvemos sete veces campiao de França Fomos campeão da França por sete vezes consecutivas. Eu sou tenho muito orgulho de ser um aficionado de torcer pra esse time isso equipo. Este ano, estara vai ser muito dificil ganhar o campeonato, mas guardamos temos a esperança.

E você, gosta do futebol ? Qual é seu equipo time favorito ?

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