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so on monday and wednesday, i had one of my classes do a listening exercise to music where they listen and try to fill in some blanks. it was generally pretty easy for them--which was good for me because i could really see their listening comprehension and some vocabulary limitations ( Read more... )

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Maybe you haven´t heard, but the PCC (the Primeiro Comando da Capital, or First Command of the Capital) is back on the attack. During their first uprising in May, it was major international news. During the rash of events in July, we were smaller international news although it is notable that the violence came rather close to my world on that ( Read more... )

spring must be coming...
...everyone is absurdly beautiful.

for those living in the u.s.a. (which is all four people who read my lj), you have surely heard anti-immigrant sentiments from immigrants. these people are ordinarily legal immigrants who came to the u.s.a. through much personal sacrifice and luck and often left some family members--children, parents, brothers, sisters--in their home countries. ( Read more... )

isn´t it nice to sleep in, even when you didn´t actually sleep in ( Read more... )

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