2014: let's plan!?!

Wow, it's been a long time since I've come here to write. So long that now it is 2014.

2014! A new year is just beginning... New expectations, new promises, new goals, renewed hope and energy. And I start this year with a very positive blog post because I am decided to challenge myself in order to see effective changes on me, during this year.

But life is not only about expectations and promises, it's important to evaluate the last year to find out good and bad things that happened with the purpose to correct and improve, or even neglect, some aspects of my life and my behavior towards life. So, let's see!

2013 was a very productive year for me, happened life changing  experiences. First of all, I went to the US as a Youth Ambassador (my first international trip). Then, I finally found an excellent Yoga teacher in May (the teacher is now friend of mine, we've traveled together to Yoga meetings and I can see my evolution at/in Yoga more and more.) Since August 12th, I am vegetarian, a great spiritual victory. What else? I started university ( Law ). And also, I lost 9 kilos!!!

Bad aspects of 2013? I wasn't exhilarated by my course. Maybe that's the reason for the fact that I decided to change: now I am a medicine student... Second, I could see how undisciplined I am to read a big amount of books... That's crucial to improve!

As could be expected, I also organized a 2014 to do list with long and short term goals and here it is:

>> I need to improve my reading speed.
>> I need to lose 2 kilos.
>> I have to be more organized and disciplined with my studies.
>> I have to do my best on my scientific project about democracy and human rights.
>> I have to start exercising.
>> I need to discover if Medicine is really my passion.
>> I have to develop myself spiritually.

Yeah, that's a lot of goals!

04/14/2014
That's why it is so good to write about myself, I can see my progress and and if i am achieveing my goals... I started writing this post in January, but only now (april) I could return in order to finish this text.

Until now I realized that I am much more disciplined because my reading speed had incredibly increased... I still couldn't manage to start exercising and i gained 1 kg since classes began :) And most important, I feel like I found my passion: Medicine, but that is a question for another post ;)

I'm really optimistic and hopeful that 2014, like a breaking down, will enlight my being and make me find my deepest potentials, besides the fact that I am empowering myself to act towards my life goals. \o/

See you!

Why "I won't give up on us"?

That's a good question! Why have I decided to entitle this blog as "I won't give up on us"?

First, I have to say that I'm not creative... Yes, I have always had a certain difficulty to choose titles. I always think: "well, there could be a better name for that", "this title doesn't sound good", "title, title, why are you always tricking me?".

Well, "I won't give up on us" is a well-known song written by Jason Mraz. Reading the lyrics, you'll find how beautiful and romantic is this song. It's almost a poetry.

Well, and the first time I heard it was just in the moment the plane, from USA to Brazil, was taking off. My feelings were confused: it was like I was missing a BIG love, because I loved all the particularities of the culture, people, diversity, language, places I've visited in the US. My everyday reality in Brazil was so close more and more and I haven't had time to review all the experiences I've been through. This music came as a healing and hopeful background to me in that moment. So, as can be seen, I was strongly marked by this song.

Then, I was able to see that music represented not only my love affair with USA, but also with English and other languages (such as German, French and Spanish) (and, in a near future, with other countries). And I hope that passion helps me to consolidate my knowledges and to have a good experience in trips around the world.

That's the reason for the title and that's enough for now! See you!

P.S.: Don't forget to take a look on the song.

Xoxo!

Brief greetings

Hello, readers of this burgeoning blog!

My name is Isabel Theresa, I'm eighteen and I have been studying Law since May (2013).

Well, I was born in Brazil, have lived most of my life in its northeast, in a city called Recife, where I studied till the end of my middle school, which was a military school.

As life changes a lot, sometimes we have to be open to changes. So, I decided to move to another state in order to finish my high school studies in the Brazil's best public federal school (Coluni). This school is located in a wee little city, called Vicosa, in the state of Minas Gerais, southeast of Brazil. I'm still living in Vicosa, but studying Law at university.

In January, this year, I went to the USA and spent twenty one days in Washington, D.C., and Seattle, WA, through a program sponsored by the US Department of State and American Embassy, called Youth Ambassadors Program. Its name speaks for itself... I went there in a diplomatic mission to present and represent my country.

Now, you may be thinking: why this brazilian girl is writing in English? Her mother language is Portuguese!

Well, here is the reason: I love English and all things related to it. My first contact with this marvelous, beautiful, fancy and fascinating language happened in 2005 when I was 10 and had started my studies at a military school. Here in Brazil, if you wish to learn a language you have to pay for a private course. By this period, I didn't have money to pay for an English course. So I developed a rigid method of self study.

The first time I entered in a regular English course, in 2010, I did a placement test and imagine what??? I was at the advanced level! Yes, I rock! Hahaha

Thenceforward, I am always trying to deal with this language as much as I can, in order not to forget things I learned and to evolve more and more.

I also started studying French and German this year. French, in my opinion, is quite easy! But German... It is not that monster to learn haha the difficulty is just the grammatical structure, once you understand, everything gets easy, logic, beautiful and fascinating!

You may have noticed that I love languages and, for me, the process of discovering a new world of meanings, cultural specificities, points of view and histories, not only the mechanical process of repeating words and grammar, makes me delighted.

That's why I decided to create this blog: to exercise my English, to share experiences and tips, to talk about places and traveling, ... to exercise my French and German skills asap, and also to write some of my mind's wanderings!

That's enough for now! Thanks for reading!

Om Shiva!