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Hi! I’m from Campo Grande, capital of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, right in the midwest of Brazil. Some people say that our sunset is one of the best in the world. Maybe someday I'll travel around the globe to say the same. I’m an enthusiast of portuguese and english and I never tire of studying both languages. I’m a lawyer, a musician and a writer and I believe that the right words, put in the right places and in the right moments, make all the difference in our lives, in all their aspects.
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McKinzie
English
Apr 23, 2019
Great to see you again Fernando! Keep working on your writing and I hope you find a good language partner soon. See you!
McKinzie
English
Jun 28, 2018
Keep going with your daily English exercises, it really makes a difference. I hope everything turns out all right for Barney. And thanks for your enthusiasm!
McKinzie
English
Apr 7, 2018
Your English keeps improving! You were very fluid in your speaking and you seemed more confident in yourself. Keep up the good work, and thanks for helping me stay current with Brazilian politics and what your work entails. See you soon!
McKinzie
English
Feb 27, 2018
Excellent talking to you again. The piece that you translated was very impressive, keep up the good work! You are making real progress!
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    A Mochila Mágica

    Acabo de enfiar a mão dentro da minha mochila, e logo que os dedos tocaram o fundo, <s>fiquei</s> fui transportado <s>num</s> para outro lugar e outro tempo, especificamente, <s>o</s> para Algarve em Julho de 2018. <s>Porquê</s> Por quê? Ora bem, a resposta não tem nada a ver, sinceramente, com mágica. Senti pedrinhas de areia, e isto fez-me lembrar os dias de sol e lazer. Podia sacudir a mochila para <s>dispor</s> limpar/tirar <s>da</s> a areia, mas não quero perder aqueles momentinhos agridoces que surgem de vez em quando.
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    April 19, 2019
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    Bom dia a todos

    Comecei <s>de</s> a aprender o português brasileiro alguns meses atrás. Geralmente eu falo com <s>mi</s> meu amigo, mas eu nāo escrevo muito. Entāo, preciso praticar e <s>o quê</s> qual <s>é</s> seria um melhor lugar do que <s>aquí</s> aqui!? (or: "além daqui")

    Sobre mim, eu sou uma estudante na <s>unviversidade</s> universidade (It's more usual to say: "estudante universitária"). Gosto de ler, cantar, tocar piano e flauta, cozinhar<s>,</s> e fazer muitas outras coisas (por exemplo, aprender <s>as</s> línguas). Acho que cozinhar é uma boa pausa <s>de estudo </s>para os estudos.

    Agora, estou <s>visito</s> visitando a minha casa e estou <s>tāo</s> muito feliz de ver minha família e meus gatos. Além disso, eu posso tocar piano e cantar--<s>doas</s>, duas <s>actividades</s> atividades que eu não posso fazer <s>a</s> em meu apartamento, <s>por que</s> porque eu nāo quero incomodar os vizinhos. <s>O</s> No ano que vem, espero morar <s>no</s> em um <s>apartameno</s> apartamento com janelas, <s>por que</s> porque eu <s>posso</s> poderei <s>crescer</s> cultivar (or "criar") <s>algunas</s> algumas plantas. <s>O</s> No <s>momemento</s> momento, eu vivo <s>no</s> em um apartamento <s>de</s> no subsolo, então, nāo tem muita luz.
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    April 19, 2019
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    A good one and simple memory! One day I found an old album of photographs from my cavalry days, and dispite the many years that passed, a particular picture brought me many memories. I was leaning against a big rock, loaded with equipment and looking exhausted, after all, had spent four nights badly asleep. It was the last day of field training and I had just finished a rappelling down the waterfall a few minutes before nightfall. I posed for the photograph at issue and left forthwith to meet my companions. We were late and were overtaken by the complete darkness. We lost the trail that led to the camp and we walked aimlessly in a dense woods until we were rescued. As punishment, they took out our dinner and some precious hours of rest. Immediately, they ordered us to follow for a long march at dawn inside. Even as I walked, when I would close my eyes for a few seconds, I still dreamed and woke up in the trembling of my legs. But, we still had to crawl through an open field, in a furtive progression, to a hovel trimmed and watched in the middle of nowhere. Near sunrise, we recline down on a slope to watch a detonation. In the blink of an eye, a huge cloud of dust rose, even before the noise of the explosion reached our ears. Then, the trucks picked us up and took us to a quick breakfast, for we would still have to march until the regiment where our folks and friends were waiting for us. It was a surprise party celebrating the end of yet another achievement in our lives. It’s a simple memory, but it means a lot to me.
    April 18, 2019
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    As Lembranças e O Tempo. Quando eu era mais novo, costumava traçar uma linha temporal de minha vida, tentando recordar o máximo de lembranças que conseguisse resgatar, desde a mais remota de todas elas até a mais recente. Ainda assim, as perdi em sua maioria, como se por alguém apagadas, tal qual aconteceu a Joel em “Brilho Eterno de Uma Mente Sem Lembranças”. De qualquer forma, tudo o que restou esmaeceu ou se desmanchou ao longo do tempo. É estranho pensar que anos inteiros de minha vida, como 1989, por exemplo, já desapareceram por completo e sequer tenho fotos desta época em particular. Restaram apenas a real sensação de tê-los vivido e seus frutos, ou seja, a construção de meu ser. Quanto mais distantes as lembranças, mais tenho a impressão de vê-las pela perspectiva de uma janela de vidro em tempos de chuva; nada além de borrões e formas distorcidas; uma pintura em aquarela de situações memoráveis ou mesmo perniciosas. Foi então que decidi registrar os principais eventos de meu mundinho fenomênico em um diário, aproveitando o ensejo de estudar uma nova língua para redigir tudo em inglês. O mais engraçado é que, ao reler o meu despretensioso monólogo, finalmente entendi uma frase dita com muita frequência, em diferentes versões, a qual não sei ao certo quem falou primeiro: “aprender uma nova língua é adquirir uma nova alma”. Tudo o que havia escrito parecia ter sido obra de outra pessoa. Não reconheci a mim mesmo nos meus próprios textos, ainda que fossem minhas aquelas lembranças. Aliás, não faço ideia de qual das duas perspectivas prevalecerá. A despeito disso, se não as revisitar no futuro, é bem provável que caiam no meu esquecimento. Tenho pensado sobre isso de maneira constante, sem chegar a uma conclusão definitiva, muito embora acredite que, quando as recordações se forem ou esmaecerem, ao menos poderei me valer das mesmas palavras ditas pela raposa ao pequeno príncipe, aqui por mim parafraseadas: antes, os campos de trigo não me lembravam coisa alguma, mas agora, fazem-me amar o barulho do vento farfalhando os ramos; e algo me diz que provavelmente seja esta a moral da história: se acaso as lembranças nos deixarem um dia, ao menos permanecerão as transformações em nosso ser delas advinda.
    February 24, 2018
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    The Memories and The Time When I was younger, I used to trace a timeline of my life, trying to remember as many memories as I could rescue, from the most remote of them to the most recent. Even so, I still mostly lost them, as if by someone erased, such as happened with Joel in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. In any case, everything that remains was faded or dismantled themself over time. It's strange to think that entire years of my life as 1989, for exemple, have already disappeared completely and I do not even have photos on this particular time. Just remains the real feeling of having lived them, and your proceeds, that is, the construction of my being. The more distant the memories, the more I have the impression of seeing them from the perspective of a glass window in times of rain; nothing but blurs and distorted shapes; a aquarelle painting of memorable or even pernicious situations. It was then that I decided to record the main events of my phenomenon small world in a diary, seizing the occasion of being study a new language to redact everything in English. The funniest thing is that when I was re-read my unpretentious monologue, I finally understood a phrase often spoken in different versions, which I do not know for sure who spoke first: "to learn a new language is to acquire a new soul." Everything I had written seemed to have been the work of another person. I did not recognize myself in my own texts, even though those were my memories. In fact, I have no idea which of the two perspectives will prevail. In spite of this, if I do not to revisit them in the future, they are likely will fall into my oblivion. I have been thinking about this constantly, without reaching a definite conclusion, even though I believe that when the memories go away or they fade, at least I can use the same words spoken by the fox to the little prince, here by me paraphrased: before, the wheat fields did not remind me of anything, but now, they make me love the noise of the wind rustling the branches; and something tells me that this is probably the moral of the story: if by chance the memories leave us one day, at least the transformations accrued of them will remain in our being.
    February 24, 2018
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