I went to Montreal in 2004 and I thought it was an wonderful place.

First, I was fascinated with the snow all around, because I had never seen that before. I lived in São Paulo during all my life, so I really didn’t know what I could see there.

Montreal, in 2004, was classified as the 9th city most liveable in the world (Melbourne being the first). The criterias were: climate, housing, crime rate, transport, education, focus on the environement, culture and events, diversity, connections with the rest of the world, health services and recreational activities.

I think that one of the reasons that made Canada be placed in this position is the fact that Montreal is an extremely cold city during winters. And normally that’s a negative point.

I remember that, one day, the temperature was -41ºC! But it was a new expreience for me so I was fond of it.

Even though, I think Montreal has two important positive points. The first one, is about transport. Here in São Paulo, buses may take more than 30 minutes to arrive while in Montreal, they take only 5 minutes.

The other point is about education. Actually, in Montreal, there are 248 000 students enrolled in post-secundary education, which is one of the highest numbers in the world. What is also nice, is that there are two “types” of schools: for those whose first language is French, and for those who first language is English. But at the end, people learn two languages, which is wonderful!

Melbourne is a city in Australia, state capital of Victoria. It is considerated like the Australia’s “sporting and cultural capital”. This city is also a kind of mix of diferent cultures.

In 1865, Melbourne was Australia’s most important city but later on, this position was tooken by Sydney.

Even though, Melbourne was classified as a top city in 2004. The criterias were climate, housing, crime rate, transport, eductaion, focus on the environement, culture and events, diversity, connection with the rest of the world, health services and recreational activities.

Melbourne won from the others Australian cities because of its weather, rated best. And also the fact that the city received perfect for all the criterias.

This makes Melbourne the most liveable city in the world.

I really would like to see and to live a bit of all this perfection of this wonderful city.

An other person I would like to invite is Kito Aya. She was a girl who lived in Japan and suffered from a disease called Spinocerebellar Ataxia when she was fifteen. She died when she was only twenty-five but, even if she passed by very difficult days, she was brave. I really admire her. She wrote a diary, which was published and called “1リットルの涙“  (1 rittoru no namida, which means, 1L of tears), and recently, in 2005, people did a TV Serie for it. If I could invite her from the past, I would ask her to show me how was her life, how was her city, and I think it would be interesting to talk to her, because I’m fond of her “life’s philoshophy”.

The third people I would invite would be Hitler, beause I really don’t understand his point of vue. So I would like to listen to what he was going to say to me and I would try to convince him that people are all the same, and that nobody is better than anybody. Then, if I could do that, I would make him apologise to all the people he made suffer.

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Future is something that scares me a lot. Every time, every day, humans do horrible things for the nature…

At school we are preparing ourselves to the “Fête des Sciences”, which is going to have place tomorrow at our shcool. My subject is deforestation.

We did some maps showing how many forests existed in the past, how many we have today and how many will have in the future, and you can imagine that there are a few.

Animals, plants, are disappearing and we will not have water in 50 years! We really can say that we are living some kind of Apocalypse =/ We spent a lot of time killing ourselves, we could make something now for saving the hole world.

We often go to places were there is a lot of japanese food, and unfortunately it is expensive, so we can’t eat it every week.

I also love cooking, that’s another reason which makes me want to do sushi ^^v They’re beautiful and you must feel proud and you can make something that looks good, and that is tasty =)

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I suggest this restaurant because it is not too much expensive and you have the possibility of trying many different flavours because the pieces are not extremely big. I also think it was tasty, one more reason for going.

The boys and girls who were working there were really nice to us, which, in my opinion, counts a lot. When I go somewhere, it can be a restaurant, a shop, or whatever, if the people who work are smiling, or showing that they want you there, and that they enjoy they’re work (even if they don’t), it motivates the client to buy, to eat, just to mention a few. I know it’s difficult to keep the good humour, but you don’t need to be rough.

There must be other places to eat lots of pizzas in São Paulo, but I enjoyed there, principally of the fact that it isn’t expensive and it is tasty.

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First we gave her our gift: “making” her feet and hands, and then we went to “Liberdade”, we ate there some pizza, and she brought a lot of sweets and candies.

And they were really good *-* (Putting a bit of “shuffle” on XD) She never saw us wearing decora style so we also this style (which we enjoy very much) just for her ^_^

Unfortunately, I just have to sleep, so I’m leaving ^^”" If I have some time during the week I’ll write more  \o/

See ya _^-^/

Soho festival” (Soho is one of those places you go to cut your hair), and they were cutting hairs only for 7 reais!!Then mom paid one for my sister, and she asked me if I wanted to cut my hair too.

Of course I wanted, I wanted to repair the “disaster”, but I was bit scared.Finally, I decided I will do it, and the girl did something I enjoyed very much *-* Now I need more photographs XD When I have it, I’ll put on flickr, then in the avatar too ^_^

Well, I think that’s it. Maybe my group will return to rehearse this month for the school’s ”festa junina“. I hope it… See you _^-^/

Well, starting with the picnic my friends, my sister and I made some weeks ago at the Ibirapuera Park. It was a bit strange, but it was very funny

First, everybody needed to be in front of the “Monumento às Bandeiras” (which is a very famous Monument, in front of the “Ibirapuera’s lake”, but outside the park), at 2h00 P.M., or 2h30 P.M., don’t remember, but in fact, some friends arrived at the other side of the park, others went to the obelisk, a real mess!

Then, we took a long time to be all together, and when we entered the park, there was a rain coming. So we ran, looking for somewhere inside the park, where we won’t be under the rain.

There is a place at the Ibirapuera Park where there is a ceiling, and we got there at time! And we looked for 2 friends who had already advertise us that they were not going to join us at same hour because they needed to go at the “Galeria do Rock” (it is a kind of mall, but not so big, where you can find rock CDs, clothes, shoes, and so on), fortunately, we found them, but they where “a bit” wet. 

So we couldn’t really do a picnic: it was raining, it was a bit cold, and the floor was also invaded by the water, so we couldn’t sit.

This picnic was also like a party, because I organized it to celebrate that my sister was accepted at the University in France, and we also celebrate one of our friends’ birthday.

I wrote in some papers things like “Congratulations K-ro (my sister) for being accepted at the University and Happy Birthday Hide (our friend)”.

So, everybody hold the papers and we made a surprise to Hide (my sister knew that the celebration was also for her, because we didn’t need to do a surprise for that XD)  \o/

And we stood up, and we ate like that ^_^ That’s why it was funny \o.o/ Because of the rain, we only came back home at night ^_^ So it was fantastic!

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Vacations… Well, the first week I just put some blue in my hair, and cut it a bit, but the girl who cut my hair, did it to small, then I’m a bit traumatized, but now I can do some nice things with it, so it’s ok ^_^

What made me happier is the fact that I wanted to paint my hair since 2005, I think ^_^ Then I think it’s amazing because I’m loving the color, which is better every morning =P

I didn’t do so many things during those vacations, and it was even difficult to rest ¬¬ So I think, unfortunately, I’m going back to school very tired, but that’s not a problem because, just stop going every day to school helped so much *-* Finally, I’m not going to be so tired ^^”"

Well, I think that’s it ^_^

Hope everyone enjoyed vacations ^_^

See ya _o.o/