Favorite number

I started to have a favorite number when I was 10 years old. With this age, I used to sum everything and see numbers in names, words, dates...When something happend with me, I related it with number. I am not sure but I think I started to sum my name and I liked it. If the number was not five or nine, I always thought that something was wrong. So my number favorite are five and nine. I believed that somethings, not everything, was related with numbers. That is why I sum the numbers ''to see'' what can happen. Surelly enough I keep until I was 16 years old. Moreover, I'd sooner mathematics than history. One more reason to sum everything. I read in the internet that nine is the number that brings more luck. Finally, five means independent and sociable.

Internet

The internet is the most important and interesting ''invention'', because it decrease the distance between the countries and people. Who has the internet can do almost all the things in the front of the computer. The celular with internet access is other way to talk, to chat, to send and to talk with someone that is in Japan, for instance. It is too much technology for something so small.
On the other hand, the internet increase the distance. Some people are addict in internet, they just can not live without the computer/internet. They read the news, play games, chat online, buy food and clothers. So they do not ''see the world''. Them life is summed up in the internet. Fortunately, majority is not like that. Anyway, the internet helps a lot and brings more good things than bad things.

Embarrassing situation

Previous year, me and my family were doing a barbecue to celebrate my mother's bithday. The party was very normal. My step father started a speech. He was saying things like how he and my mother met each other. When he ended the speech, we listenned a loud conversation coming from the neighboring house. As we are very curious, we were seeing what was happening. So we decided to stay behind the wall. The neighbor started to say: ''Please, do not do it, I will give you what you want'' with a voice of fear. Next a man said: ''Shut up or everybody will die''. At that time, my mother thought it was a robbery then decided to call the police. Minutes later, police came and raided the house of my neighbor. Surprisingly, when officers arrived the neighbor was staging a play. Me and my family were too ashamed. It was also quite embarrassing.

In the last 30 years the advances of tecnology has made global communication and trading much easier and faster than it used to be when people would send letters and travel by trains, ships and slow cars. However, they can also cause us trouble.

Let’s take the internet for instance. People can buy things, play games, talk to people in other countries, make new friendships, download many things, pay bills, watch videos, study, read books, listen to music and loads of other activities without leaving their houses (most of the times), just using the internet.

Nevertheless, a lot of people don’t have control over time and spend hours in front of the computer while they could be hanging out with their friends or doing something more active like going to the beach and doing some exercise. Moreover, some people use the internet to humiliate or cause trouble to other people’s life sometimes being prejudicial and aggressive.

Therefore, it’s extremely necessary that people control their use of the internet, otherwise it may increase the distance between people and cause them problems in the social and personal life.

Internet

Nowadays, things are much easier: we have mobile phones, cars… basically, technology. And there’s one special thing that make our lives easier: the internet. We can buy and sell things online, check our e-mails, pay bills, talk to friends who live far away from us without paying anything. We can do almost everything using just the internet!
With the internet, distance doesn’t mean anything anymore. It seems that the planet is shorter! People from different countries can talk to each other freely. They can even see each other with a webcam. However, the same thing that is making our planet shorter is making it longer too.
On the one hand people who live in different places can talk to each other and on the other hand people who are in the same apartment stop seeing each other and decide to talk only using the internet! Unfortunately, people stop seeing friends and talk to them just using the MSN. It makes people colder and, actually, creates a communication problem.
The internet brings lots of advantages, but we have to know how to use it. Otherwise, it’s better avoid it.

Internet equals short dinstance

Some people say that internet is the best invention of men, because you can know what is happening with all places in the world and you can get in touch with people of all countries. However, there are some other people that insist on saying that it is not true and people who use the internet are most likely to isolate temselves.

Both are true and it will depends on what people want to do on the internet. If they want just to play online and don't want to do anything else, they will probably isolate themselves from their family and their friends as well. But if they want not only to play online, but also to know other people and get informed about the world and still having a good relationship with their relatives and friends, internet will definitly short the distance between these kind of people and the world.

Visiting Niterói

Niterói is a good place to visit because of the beaches and the historical places. However you have to be aware that there are some places that you should not go, because of the bad things that can happen with you. For this reason we make a list of good places to go and paces to avoid going.

The first place that you should visit is the beach. Itacoatiara is a really nice beach and you can meet new people and make friends. This beach is also well-known because of the 'Pedra Costão', that is a big rock that you can walk to the top and get a wonderful view of the beach. Camboinhas is another beach as good as Itacoatiara but it is more peacefull. As the bus stop is quite far from the beach, people that don't have a car prefer to go to Itacoatiara than walk.

Apart from the beaches another good place to visit is Fortaleza de Santa Cruz that is a historical place and inside of it the military tell the tourists old histories of Niterói and Rio de Janeiro, and it is very interesting.

Although slums are locations where most people would advice you not to go, there are lots of good and kind citizens living there, but also there is a high level of violence, that's why people don't go there. However, if you intend to go to one of these slums, remember not to carry any valuable belongings with you.

And remember to enjoy yourself!

Marianna B., Gabriela, Guilherme C.

The keys!!!

Stop & Check 2


Part 1
1. ... Moreover, it is...
2. ..., although she knows...
Altought she knows..., she insists...
3. ..., while I don't...
While I don't agree..., I understand...
While I understand..., I don't agree...
4. ... However, they played...al
5. ... In addition, he has...


Part 2
1. It is a big house with a green door.
2. This is a 15th centurymosaic made by an unknown artist.
3. Each of my brothers has their own flat.
4. All/each of her books are thought-provoking.
5. I'd rather have a room overlooking Central Park.


Part 3
1. ... spaced out...
2. ... waste of space...
3. ... parking space...
4. ... takes up/space/make space for...
5. ... short space of time...

Part 4
1. ... no point did they the issue...
2. ... no account can you smoke...
3. ... did she know...
4. ... circumstances should you leave...
5. ... only was he late, but he also forgot...


Part 5
1. ... may/might have eaten...
2. ... ought to/should have phoned...
3. ... can't have noticed...
4. ... may/might not have left...
5. ... should not have worried...


Part 6
1. dome;
2. column;
3. balcony;
4. tower;
5. façade.

Good places to visit in your vacation at Rio de Janeiro

Who does not like passing a hole afternoon at a beach? I bet no one. So, what is better than Ipanema for that? Beautfull and famous peaple enjoing the sun with swim suits. Not just that, you can have varied dinks and owesome foods. Or you can see the view jumping of paragliding from Pedra Bonita.
At nigth, there is nothing better than dancing at Baronett. Great music and peaple.
For sleeping, Copacabana Palace is the best and famous place. Where all the well-know peaple stay.

How to know if you are ready for becoming a fther or a mather?

For knowing if you are ready or not for a kid, you should adopte a dog.
The firt sinal that you are not ready is never remembering to give food- it is alwais someone to do it or telling you to do it.
You have to nottes if you care to your dog. Like, if he/she is alone you want to go home to stay with he/she. Or if you always want to bring him with you.
An important toppic is patianc. You can ever hit a person, so you can not hit your dog.
You will have to clean all the messy that he does.
If you do all of this you are ready for a kid

What a dog

As usual, i was taking my dog for a walk in the sidewalk. When I took the elevator there was alread two peaples there: a men and a women. Because of that I was carring my dog in my arms. While the elevator was going down, my dog forted out loud. I got all red.
Thanks God it just happen once with me. But she did it too with mom and my sister.

Internet, shorting or making biger?

Internet- a sistem that was developed for shorting the distances and making life easyer and faster. But, does internet realy shots distances?
In cases that peaple live far away from each other, internet it is a good way to cenect them selves. And a long time ago peaple could not do that.
In the other hand, yong peaple in most of the time, is becoming more adept to speack with others using the internet while they could speack face-to-face. In this case is easily to see how far peaple is becoming far from each others because of the internet.
Seeing from the aut side, surelly the world is connect. Messengers, peaple, money... all of thous are connect around the globe. Now a days you can do everything through internet- you can buy anything,you can invest you money, you can see what is happening in a country realy far from yours...
For this things you can say, in the end, that internet has decreased the distances more than increased.

Safe and dangerous places...

There are many good and 'safe' places in Niterói, specially the most visited ones like Mac, that is the symbol of tourism in the city and can count with the police during all day, so I indicate this place as a good and safe one. In my opinion, Niterói beaches, as Camboinhas and Itacoatiara are safe too if you compare as Rio de janeiro ones where people are always victims of thiefs. In fact, the number of steals in the city are growing up each month, and there were many places considered safe in the past that isn't anymore, so I think the only place that left is in front of the police station (but don't move, stay in the policeman's view!). There are many slams in the city, but in my opinion the most dangerous is 'Morro do estado' in downtown because there's always reports about crimes there. Be careful!

Felipe,Letícia and Raquel

Internet equals short distance?

Nowadays, internet is the most easy and fast way to chat with people, even if they're in the other side of the world. If you think about making new friends, know about other culture and news places, this is the best invention in terms of communication already done. On the other hand, this easy way to chat at home isn't so good, because people are thinking individually, and sometimes we prefer to stay at home and chat with friends using msn, orkut to meet them 'face to face'. I have many friends that 'unlearned' how to talk alive to others, because they changed their meeting to online chatting. In my opinion, using internet can be good because you can talk to many people around the world, so in this case, it equals short distance, but if you think about the distance between us, it's increasing the distance!