Hello !!
I want to apologize for not having posted recently but I’m still unable to connect very often and I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what I’m going to do this year since I did not passa the college entrance exam. Yep. That’s awful but I think it would be worse if I had passed because I don’t believe would be able to afford me going to college out of town. Not that the situation is too bad but my father said that by May he’ll move out and he can’t afford two households, you know? But it’s OK. I mean, it could be worse, at least I think so.
Now I’m kind of working in my father’s office but I want to get another job, a real one. Did I mention that I started writing a screenplay? I’m still in the 42nd page but I think I’m doing pretty fine for a first one. I started reading a history book so I can do better in the next exam but there’s nothing I didn’t know already in the book, as I thought. I’m also reading Schindler’s List, in english, it’s a nice book, sad but nice. Since my father said he wouldn’t pay for any course for me, including any foreing language I MUST get a job even though it’s tough for someone my age with no experience but I’ll keep trying. =D
Carnaval was just last week, I didn’t do much I only went kind of partying on Ash Wednesday with some friends but I came back really early. I don’t like Carnaval that much, at least not yet maybe things will change when I have my own money and besides it rained all Carnaval long.
I found someone who I can pratice my English, it’s a new acquirement in my best friends list. He works at the International Airport here and he has spent some time in Great Britain, sometimes he gets the British accent, it’s so awesome! But I rarely see him since his job takes most of his time, but I’m glad I found him, we teach each other some lingo we learnt along the way and besides I learnt how to get to the airport by bus from my house. =D
I’ve been missing you. Really. On Valentine’s day I remembered a lunch Mrs. Lemons, Mrs. Smith, Ron and I had at Mrs. Lemons class. I remembered the Mickey chocolate I got from Ron, remeber that Mom? I’ve been missing the cold nights, the rides with Laura and Jessica and the times they took me out. I often think about the Thursdays dinners at the Vinsons when we had to get something to eat and take to Mom at her job we usually got it from Bojangle´s (is it speelled right?). It was so nice. But then I harshly reminded that lots of things have changed since them, including me. I wish I can see you some day in a near future. Truly.
Don’t pay attention to my English because I had to write it in a hurry. Please people send me an e-mail every now and then. It’s so nice when I check my mail box and there’s a message from one of you...
Love ya.
Monday, February 09, 2004
As you can see I've been working on my template, it's not done yet, I still have to get some better resoluted pictures to put on my background, which has some of my fave sights.
Tomorrow the final result is going to come out. Hope to be able to tell you a good result. Love ya.
Thursday, January 01, 2004
Hi!
I apologize for not posting anything for such a long time, maybe this will change, now my father brought my computer back for I don't know how long, I hope he'll leave it here. =D
I wish you guys a Merry Xmas (Better late than ever) and a Wonderful New Year, I hope your dreams come true and that you're all happy and healthy.
I'm doind OK. I did my first college entrance exam and I passed it so now I have two more steps to go, meaning I still have two more exams to do for this college. I think that for every college you apply you have at least three exams and it's pretty difficult because they have only a few vacancies for each course. I hope I'll do well, on the next exam it's gonna have english so I must do good on that one at least.
Hopefully this year I'll have lots of stuff to do, because if I pass I'll study from noon till after dawn and if I pass to the music school I'll study in the morning. I hope I'll have time to enter a French course.
Thank you guys who sent me greeting cards.
I hope you're all doing good.
Love - Leo
Saturday, November 08, 2003
Hello everyone!
You may be wondering why I haven't posted anything for the longest time so I came here to say something about it. I'm having a really hard time to access the web and now I don't have a computer to write my posts what gives me a really hard time with posting and everything, mostly I connect to check my mail box and talk to some friends.
I hope things get easier for me but you guys can always send me e-mails, I always read them and I mostly answer them as well. =D
Things are OK down here. My college entrance exam is coming soon and I still need to do some studying. I'm trying to find an interisting job because I do need money, but that's OK too.
I miss you guys a lot and think about ya'll regularly and I wish you're having a good time over there.
Send me an e-mail just to say you're alive OK?
Love y'all
Sunday, September 14, 2003
Hello!
As I mentioned on my last post, soon I’ll move my blog to another server since I can’t post pictures on this one. Not that I got some pictures of mine scanned but there are places and things that I’d like to show you...
I don’t have that much news, as usual. Last Friday I went to the movie marathon. It was really NIFTY. They brought these short movies international festival to Rio in this edition of the marathon that was a little short than the others. It started at 11pm and was over at 5:30 am, it usually ends up at 6am, which is a perfect time since it’s when the subway starts running. I was by myself because all the people I invited were not able to go.
Now it’s official. I’m going to make the college entrance exam for a college here. You can’t believe how I love it. It’s the ONE school that goes on riot annually for distinct reasons. It’s just DREADFUL, but if that’s what my parents think is best for me there’s nothing left but to move on and pass that exam. Willingly or not.
It still surprises me how different life seems here, even though nothing has really changed. Now I’m aware of what living in a big city is really about. And surprisingly enough I still love it. On the first day I got on the subway I realized that living in a big city is having a moments by yourself, at least for me, what gives me two options watch other people live (which is lovely if you want to understand something about human behavior), or read. Lately I’ve been reading, now that I’m the surfer of subways and don’t need to hold on to anything and to stand still, but I’ve spent few years watching other people live, the way people walk, stare, every detail that goes unnoticed when they’re speaking or with a group of friends. =D
Now, yesterday for the first time since I got back I went to the beach. Yes, I did as a good “carioca” (native from Rio) and went there with a friend of mine. I’m starting to believe on what they say about cariocas and photosynthesis. The sun goes out and it’s hot and we get all a little “tawdry” to absorb all the sunlight with our skin. And believe it or not, on a busy Wednesday there were LOTS of people doing the same as us and going to the beach. So we went to Copacabana beach and we noticed how many people skipped school just to enjoy the sun. So, after finding a less crowded spot, we start talking about how easily noticeable gringos are and how odd looking and dressed too. So when the sun suddenly is covered but a tempestuous cloud we start walking and end up on Ipanema beach, where we meet some common friends and talk for like hours on that chilly weather. It was just hilarious. I really enjoyed but I still think that it’s time to move on and out of this city. I miss not knowing places and all that jazz that being a foreigner involves.
Last week I found out that they’re going to bring Chicago to São Paulo (Brazil’s economic heart) and that they’re casting people really older than I expected. All caRIOcas hate that city; they’re like Yankees to the old South for them. But since I’ve never been there I don’t have an exact position about it all, I’m just envy in some way since they’re bringing so many Broadway shows and not here, what is DREADFUL in my opnion. But anyway, I’m planning to go there next year to visit a Brazilian exchange student I met there, we became really good friends and all and she’s supposed to come here too since she liked the city when she came, by then I hope I have my driver’s license so we don’t need to take buses or subways.
I still hope that you people will send me more e-mail and I’d like to thank Mrs. Stoyer, John and David that send me e-mail, even really short ones just to say they’re doing fine or something like it.
Miss y’all
Wish you the very best. =D
Thursday, August 28, 2003
I was going to post some pictures but I just found out I can do it from this server, so I think I'm goint to get another one but I'll keep posting here until I'm sure I can do it.
Saturday, August 23, 2003
Olá !
Now that I know that my parents don’t want even out of state I don’t have another option but do as they please, as usual. Hopefully one day I’ll get to do things the way I wish. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about trying this really tough test to a diplomat’s school, I don’t know much yet but being a diplomat could be a really nice thing, but I’ve heard the test is just one of the most competitive in the country, so I’ll have to study as hard as I never did in life to pass it. I think that you need to know two languages by the time you finish the course, something I would do willingly since my father doesn’t want to pay for another language course until I’m at college, he’s crazy by the way, he wants me to go to college, go to this course about cinema he found out and he would let me go to the language course, not that I’m complaining but that seems a lot for, nothing I couldn’t handle but it’s something that doesn’t look like my father at all, so there’s probably a lie involved in this issue because the only thing that troubles me is that each thing is a completely part of the city.
As many of you may know, last week the Pan American Olympiads finished in the Dominican Republic and now, on 2007 it will take place nowhere else than Rio de Janeiro, not the state, the city of Rio, which is really nifty! I just think it’s going to be one of the greatest things ever done for this city, the politicians are moving, they’re improving the city in all ways possible which is just a delight given the social issues we’re dealing with here, poverty, violence and all that junk. But the nicest part is that I’ll probably be here and will be able to see some of my favorite sports live, that’s going to be AWESOME, I can barely wait till 2007. Hopefully my family will be able to move to a better situated house by then. I don’t have many complaints about the neighborhood but I’ve just had enough, it’s far from everything, I wish I could live downtown, with those skyscrapers, museums and all that jazz, but there’s not good places there, all apartments are really tiny and after all I’d like to live in a house or in an apartment in front of the beach. =D
It’s just impressive how I can see things I never noticed before I left. One of the things that gets me mad is my father, there’s something about the Souza part of the family that is really AWFUL, they think they’re the greatest, completely flawless and that they can convince you of anything, for instance, my father and siblings mess up things every now and then, but since they think they’re never wrong they try to convince you that you were the reason for the mistake. My mom is going crazy with that, I really don’t know how she handles it. My siblings are JUST like my father in every meaning of the word, and all my uncles and aunts are just the same, it’s got to be something genetically transmitted. I’m creating a theory about it all... =D
Last Wednesday I went to the movies to see Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, or something like it. I adored it but since I’m well known fan of the game there’s not much credit in my words. The last good movies I saw were Charlotte Gray (I love spy movies and since this is during the Second War it’s just MARVELOUS, not to mention the fact that I do like Kate); and Midnight Express, it’s a really good and old movie, it’s okay it’s shocking as well but I liked it. It’s really deep and crazy. It’s a pity Brad Davis died.
I have to go now, I still have a lot of reading to do, still on GWTW. I’m just loving it, Scarlett O’Hara is just a great character.
I wish that these last days of summer are good for you because this winter is NO GOOD.
Miss y’all