Please, correct my preposition phrases and find out more about Brazil 2 Around Rio de Janeiro, there is a village called Paraty that is very cute. It's around 3 hours by car. You can see a real royal road - or gold way - throughout of Paraty. It's better if you read something about before to go, or hire someone who offers touristic tours. In general, I prefer to search for informations about the history of the places before going somewhere. Otherwise, I have to pay for these explanations. However, there are many cheap tours in Rio de Janeiro by walking in the city center. The city of Rio de Janeiro hasn't only beaches, with respect to cultural unmissable attractions, there are the Parisian Theatre (Teatro Municipal) - for example - you can buy a ticket on Sunday morning for less than $1. Into Cinelândia (Teatro Municipal area), you can visit the first public and historical library in Brazil and the National Museum of Fine Arts, sometimes it's possible to see some restorations in progress. Since you are at Cinelândia, you should go to two places close to there: Colombo Bakery (Confeitaria Colombo) and a small and one of the most beautiful libraries that I've ever seen - Real Gabinete Português de Leitura. There are lots of gold inside this place beyond books. In spite of some places in Brazil being unsafe, it's important to know a native to give you some tips, so you can go there. For example, people don't use many jewels in Brazil because we have a large number of poor. It used to be better over 2000s, but with the crisis nowadays I believe the condition became like in the 80-90s again. In order to really find out a country, instead of being in resorts, look for a good hotel and explore the area. However, it's important to say that we don't have a great public transport system unfortunately. It's really crowd, so don't use it if you don't like to see the daily life of most of Brazilians. Other options concerning to that, it's always possible to walk - in most of neighborhoods -, or take a Uber or taxi. I know that many people don't think to go to Brazil due to their afraid because they listen to many terrible things about there. I should say with regard to it that it's not so terrible as people believe. I don't see many differences between Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo and San Francisco, Portland, London and Paris (big cities that I've been to) - for example. It's because there are dangerous area everywhere, but I don't know why people like to go to see the "favelas" or the poverty in Brazil, and of course it's dangerous.

Please, correct my preposition phrases and find out more about Brazil Despite the publicity about Brazil is very bad, it's a great and cheap place to go. If you have courage to look below when you are in the "bondinho do Pão de Açúcar", it's possible to see an incredible view. To go to poor places, like Brazil, it's to see the world off of my comfort zone. In central area at Rio de Janeiro, toward the National Library, you have many attractions. You have very warm beach water above Espírito Santo in Brazil. You can see many colorful fishes in some Northeast beaches in Brasil even not much beneath in the ocean. It's common to have a shower twice or three times per day for Brazilians, especially in the summer time. Even though pedestrians have priority to cross the street in Brazil, most of people in cars don't give it to them. Like in the US, many homeless people live under bridges in Brazil. It's not possible to find out Brazil across one city in Brazil because we have many differences among various places. There is a "favela" beside many rich neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro because the riches found out a beautiful view in the mountains, so they "thought" they deserve them. I'm from Brazil, but I've never been to Amazonia. It's not a common place to visit for most of Brazilians. The city of Rio de Janeiro doesn't have the best beaches to visit, you have to go onto Búzios, for example. The cheapest tour that I've ever done was in Rio de Janeiro where you can take a kind of old train to go to Santa Teresa. You pass underneath the famous "Arcos da Lapa" and when you arrive there you have a wonderful view and a street market. Besides the famous touristic places to find out in Brazil, I strongly recommend some small beaches in Northeast area because of the warm and crystalline water, and a safe place to put your staff and go to the sea. After going to not common places in Brazil, some of my foreigner friends want to go back there. If you plan to go to Northeast in Brazil between July and August, it's better to know that it's time for our showers. It's not a big deal because it lasts a few minutes in general. It's cheaper if you visit places out of high season, although Brazil isn't an expensive place to go. During the whole month of Carnival you can go to Pernambuco state to see a different kind of Carnival parade in Brazil. Near to November it's my favorite time to visit beaches in Brazil because it's not crowd, excepting if you go during a holiday (days 2 and 15 are holidays there).

Is your personality suited to your job? I have been teaching Portuguese for many years, but I remember my first classes weren't good at all. I always was very shy, that kind of person who freaks out if has to speak out loud. I had already faked that I couldn't do things in order to not be the centre of attention in two competitions during my middle school. Afterwards, I had just given up to be anything close to a outspoken person. These characteristics have persisted with me for as much as I can remember in my live - and even now that I had to live abroad when I have to speak English. As a consequence, when I started to teach that time I thought that I would have had to develop myself another self, more communicative and extroverted. Of course, it didn't happen. It took a year to me to accustomed to the stage. At least in Brazil, unfortunately, we have big classes and we have to teach from 25 to almost 300 students at the same class, it depends on the grade or course. So, I was adjusting my personality for something that I wasn't used to, but at the same time, it was me! Those students were looking for the same things I had been searching before I became a teacher - they were scary because it's so hard to get into a great public university in Brazil, and many of them - like me in my time - couldn't go to college if it wasn't free. In other words, I had to become aware that I was there because I had lived the same situation than them, and I was there to help them to achieve their goals. Therefore, it's so magical to be teacher and so hard because teachers in many places have the same problem than Brazil, they usually get a low salary and bad work conditions. Even though I haven't leave my shyness behind, I have won myself and taken my strong analytic way to see things in advanced for my profession, and I have made changes systematically in order to take advantages of my characteristics and personality to get my students. What does this whole story mean? I strongly believe we can rediscover ourselves if you really want to achieve a goal. Nobody needs to suit personality for this because we are in constant change, and it makes us alive.