GNR

Hi to all

if you remenber ( fellows from my class) I've told that we have a great show in Lisbon every third sunday of each month wich is performed by GNR.

On this day they show a cerimony that represents the change of the Republican Guard in Belém Palace.

The best part hapens when the cavalary starts to play on horse.

They are the only cavalary regiment that do taht in thr world.
Febreury 17 they will perform in front Belém Palace at 11h00 do not lose it.

if you want you can check on www.gnr.pt

I´m impressed!

I´m really impressed and quite pleased as well. It seems that "blog fever" is catching on.

I can´t emphasize enough how useful this is. Just the fact of doing something a little extra is of great benefit to all, including myself.

Plus I get the added benefit of getting a glimpse of your beautiful children :)

So, you´ve seen my daughter, please meet Dário, my 13 year old son.

A colleague of ours already talked about the great movie "finding Forrester" and now i would like to talk about another movie called "The pursuit of happyness"

It´s a movie inspired in the true story of Chris Gardner, once a poor man and now a rich one.
It´s a typicall and fine american movie with, at the same time, lots of dispare and hope.

The role of Chris Gradner is performed by Will Smith that performs the role of his life.
He portraids the hope in the "amercian dream" and although the reality is very different and much harder is good to know that, somewhere out there, someone can really accomplish his dream.

The movie is very sad and most of the movie i felt bad. Describe the struggle of a poor family with lot´s of anguish and hard work too.

Nevertheless, for me, the best thing of the movie is not that but the father and son (an amaising and cute boy, son of Will Smith in real life) relationship and that is incredible.
The best part ever is when the father tells his son: “Don’t ever let someone tell you you can’t do something. Not even me. You’ve got a dream; you’ve got to protect it. You want something, you go get it. Period.” And i´ll not telling any more. You must see it to appreciate or not.

I really liked this movie. But don’t forget the hankerchiefs.

Hello

Hello Anna!
Your children are very pretty and grown up.
I´m a recent mother so i´ll have to wait several years to see my son so big. Nevertheless, I know that time past very fast so, the best thing to do, is to apreciatte each moment.
Now, my son is a cute little boy almost with 7 months and i´m a very happy and pround mummy!!!

Finding Forester

Finding Forester is a Great movie.

This is one of the movies that I classifie as an emotional action movie.

There are some movies that transmit us a great sensation of internal action, they do not need to have fights or fantastic special effects, but they leave our head or our feelings turned on a big emotions tornado.

Finding Forester to me is one of them, the rising of a young writer wich discover with the help of an experient old writer how to develop is skills and how to liberate is imagination and put in words what is in is mind and heart it's realy fantastic.

Also it is a great lesson about freindship, respect, belive, courage and human relations, between diferent generations and inside generations, something that we can allways try to aplly on our lifes, with our colegues, sons, friends, family, and to all the people that we met during our life.

A lesson, not allways understand and lived is:

Do not judge the others
Belive in people
Treat all the people as equals and with all the respect.

Bye Bye

Great work

Hi to all

As you maybe all know GLS has made is 2008 management Event on the last weekend.

On friday were presented all the presentations related with new projects, either implemented either became to implement.

As DIP Director I was encharge to present " Carregado 2 ".

Part of my presentation as a film about the construction of Carregado 2.

The film was a sucess and, it was made by Vera Noll, who has made a terrific and fantastic work, witch can be compare in my opinion with some films that we can see made by professional people.

I want to leave my congratulations to Vera for is great work.

Some of you have already see the film however others have not take the chance so if you want to see it please ask me amd i will try to show you.

I' ve tried to put it in the blog, but it is to heavy and after some minutes I quit to try it.

Once again congratulations Vera, and also I would like to thank you the hudge and hard work to do it

Hi

To our colleagues who don't know my son and my daughter.......

Emotion

Hi, Ana ,
So many emotions behind this mistake!!! It was indeed a beautiful and happy day for you!!!!
It is not easy for us parents to see that we are getting oldier and our little babies are growing up .....
Congratulations for you and your daughter Gabriella......

Kisses

Teachers make mistakes too :(

Please note birthday is in fact spelled with an "h". Sorry, as you can see, teachers make mistakes too.

Hello, this is my daughter, she's 5, her name is Inês and she's the shine of my eyes. She is very funny and she's happy but she's an "electric-child", her battery is always charged. Sometimes i'm tired. When i'm studing english, she wants study to, because she thinks is nice and cool!
It's good to see that many people are writing in this blog, and thanks to Luis. I hope other colleagues went to this blog and write about they life, they hobbys and what ever.... since they writing!!
By!

Sporting......... Such a perfect Day!!!

I have just arrived from Alvalade Stadium, here the great Sporting beat FCP by 2-0.

This beautiful evening started about 17h when we arrived to the roullotes (How do we say this in English???) to drink some beers and eat some hamburgers....

After we saw the marvellous players from Sporting thrashing Porto and made the night perfect....

It reminds me of a song from Lou Reed....

Oh such a perfect day!!!
I'm so glad that I spend it with you....

Watch this version with the great Luciano Pavorotti

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXgbN81zNG8&feature=related

My daughter´s 17th birtday today :)

Ok, so if Luis is adding pictures, I´ll do the same of my daughter Gabriela who turned 17 today!

(next time I´ll send one of my son)

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

First of all, thanks Edite for adding to our blog.
We miss you and hope to see you soon.

For those of you who are not in Edite´s group, they also watched a movie this week,
different from yours, called Finding Forrester. Today after class as I was waiting for the next group to arrive, I heard a song playing at the end of the film. It reminded me of a fabulous scene from the series ER (Emergency Room) which showed here in Portugal. One of the main characters has cancer, and being a doctor, knows he´s going to die and wants to be with his wife and children. So they rent a house in Hawaii for his final days. It was very sad and playing in the background was this song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". The song was actually first heard
in the film The Wizard of Oz, but honestly, I love this version. It´s so simple and sweet.
Here´s the link, see if you like it.
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=2A2Jt4WOxN8

Hi......

I am so happy because my friend Luis ....«Cute Man» , as you know, give us the oportunity (with that great idea)to express some opinions and feelings with GLS TEAM.
First of all , I want to thanks our Teacher Ana ...she is so open-minded and funny . I think we are very lucky , because learning english with her is a great experience.
Luis had the idea and work for that....so let use it in order to share some interesting things like opinions and why not some little details conercerning our life.
Kisses.....

Hello!

This is a great ideia, I agree with you Clara, but... I only put in doubt one think: did this idea really come from a Sporting men?!?! Lol!
I have just arrived from making my sport, and I remmenber that I haven't written in this blog... so here I am.
Luís continue with this great ideia, but try to use another colour.... like RED! Ok!

So, I´m a horse?

After filling in the profile for the blog, I discovered I am the chinese astrological sign of the horse.
Because I´m naturally curious I searched to see what this says about me and if I agree. Well, I must confess, a lot of it is true, or close.
Let me share some if it with you....
Exciting and extroverted, vivid and animated, the Horse is the life of any party he attends. He is bursting with energy, always looking for the next place to kick up his heels and hang loose. He entertains friends and strangers alike with his humor and appeal.
Horse people are extemporaneous and quick-witted. They are quite intelligent and use their practicality to their advantage in their business and personal lives. Their sharpness makes them quick to pick up new skills and are able to handle many tasks at one time. However, this ambition can be harmful because Horse people often don’t finish what they start for fear of missing out on the next big challenge.
Horses are trustworthy, friendly and open-minded. They are good friends to have and will always be honest with you. Although they are good confidants, Horse people do enjoy their alone time and are usually independent people. They can struggle with obstinance and self-centeredness, which can lead to a flare of the temper if they don’t get their way. Usually, after an episode or temper-tantrum a Horse can feel remorse, yet not all people will be able to forgive their reaction.
Oh, and look what it says about careers...
HORSES MAKE EXCELLENT:
Language teachers :)
Translators
Journalists
Publicists
Bartenders
Pilots
Performers
Librarians
Tour operators
Sales representatives
Information technologists
FYI (ForYourInformation) I got this information from www.usbridalguide.com/special/chinesehoroscopes/Horse.htm

Green is the colour

Hi,
as you can see, on Ana's post, she's already caught by LS virus...
Green is LS colour... Green is Sporting colour... and Green is the colour of hope (and I hope you don't notice my mistakes...)
Only a Sporting supporter, has Luís, could have think of such an interesting idea as this one... thank you Luís!

This is too funny

Hi!! I think this is too funny, because i thought that i will never could learn or have (?) time to learn english, again, but i would like it very much. Our teacher is the best one and she's sooooooo Funny!! She's a realy american women, when she starts speak, her expressions are very caractheristics of the american people...I laugh a lot...! Ana, thank to be her teacher.
Luis, thank you for your blog and i believe that all of us gone write very much, and funny things .
By

Don't be shy

Dear collegues

Don't be shy. Write.

Tell us about your life, your job, your holidays, your family.

Show us some photos...

We're is a photo of my kids... Beautiful and funny like their father....

We can do it

Hi

Today and after our classe I went to Oporto to have a meeting with our colegues ( tripeiros)I do not know how to translate this.

Filipa as came with me and during the trip we face that we need to talk a little bit more in English, so I am going to propose to my team, that we must declare a weeckly english day.

On that day we will only speack in English one to anothers.

Are you with me Filipa, Vera, André??

Let's do it.

Thanks

First of all, I´d like to thank Luis for starting this blog.
How great it will be if people actually get into the habit of contributing in writing.
I know, it´s not easy. Sometimes expressing our ideas in our own language can be difficult enough much less in a foreign language, but I urge you to make an effort to do so. In my opinion, and this may not be politically correct on my part as a teacher to say, but f*** the mistakes and express your ideas as best you can.
I´d also like to say how much I´m enjoying the classes at Luis Simões. As I have mentioned to some of the groups, being at this company has been like a breath of fresh air. The other companies I had been with in the recent past had a kind of depressing atmosphere. All of the students were great and I got along really well with them, but the morale was so low that sometimes I felt more like a psychologist than an English teacher. I really enjoy what I do and am lucky to meet a lot of great people. Each so different and with so much to teach me as well.
So let me end this entry by again asking all of you to make an effort to contribute. Trust me, it won´t hurt a bit! :)

Yellow to you all

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