A Gloomy Sunday At The Beach

In the afternoon we went to the beach just to look how things are going over there. It was a chilly day, winter is almost here, and we could see how the beach was suddenly so different from when in the summer. The ocean was not the same as in December, the waves were a lot closer than usual, but still was a great half rainy day.

I always get carsick, it is terrible, specially when I try to read. I was lucky to have brought my Van Gogh book, so I could admire the pictures without getting too sick. When we got there, my parents and I, we just went to see the ocean and talk for a while. The flowers are dying, but they're still pink, so I had to take some pictures of them.

Percy Jackson Lightning Thief was on Tv this evening, I love the books, but that movie just makes me cringe of how bad it is. I just wish that the movie was at least similar to the books.

Hope you all had a nice weekend,

Ana

Just Another Saturday

It is Saturday again, gosh the week goes by so fast, don't you think? Well, this is going to be a long weekend for me, because I am not going to have school on Monday and neither on Tuesday, so I'm probably going to write more, I hope so, this weekend instead of just writing two posts. 

Today I went to the mall with my mom and brother, I wore denim on denim. It is one of my favorite trends, just so simple and casual, and for the top I wore a grey turtleneck. And then, after, my dad and I went out to visit some museums with his motocrycle, but the museums were all closed, kind of strange. It wasn't a very productive saturday, but tomorrow I am going to the beach, so be ready for some pictures when I come back.

I have a song for this weekend, it is "Thinking Out Loud" by Ed Sheeran. Everyone has probably heard this song, but it is a very calm song and perfect for saturdays.

Favorite Movies | April

1. The Children's Hour

I love watching old movies, specially black and whites ones. This movie was my first favorite of the month because it stars Audrey Hepburn, and I love her movies so much. But there was one thing that intrigued me the most, the show of the subject homosexuality in the 1960s. I have never seen an old movie show such a controversial topic that it was at the time in a feature film, but I was very happy it did. But in the other hand it made me feel pretty sad seeing that almost 70 years later, society doesn't fully accept the topic. Although it is an old movie, it is very current and contemporary. I highly recommend watching this movie.

      2. Unbreakble Kimmy Schmidt

I am in love with this show, it is just hilarious. I recommended it to all my friends and relatives already, and I am ashamed to say that I finished the first season in 2 days, I know I am addicted. You can find this show on Netflix, in fact it is a show created by it. 

This show has such a unique plot, I've never seen nothing like this before, and the main character is so funny, I just loved it so much. 

      3. Little Birds

I discovered this movie on Netflix, at first I didn't give it much attention, but then I saw the movie poster and I thought it was really pretty and I watched it. It is not a bad or horrible movie, I liked it, it was just different. It has a independent movie feel, I don't know if it is, but it looks like one. I really recommend checking it out if you are in the mood for drama or just want to watch something new.

     4. The Audrey Hepburn Story

This movie is a nice way of learning about Audrey Hepburn's life, what she been through, how she became an actress and other adventures she had. Jennifer Love Hewiit played Audrey and I think she made a marvelous job on representing Hepburn's personality on screen. There was so much I didn't know about Audrey and the struggles she had been through, it made me admire her a lot more as an actress and as a person.

     5.  Girl, Interrupted

This movie is so great, a classic I think. The beauty of it is that it can be interpreted in so many different ways in which makes the movie different for everybody. I just really enjoyed it, it is a little  bit crazy I have to say, but really intriguing.


   6. The Impossible

I finish watching this movie yesterday, but I had to include it in my movie favorites. It is such an emotional movie, I cried in a lot of the scenes. This movie is about the 2004 tsunami that happend at Thailand, and it focuses on a family. The most fenomenal part of all of this is that it is a true story, I not about the tsunami part (because that definitely happend), I'm talking about the family's story. They been through all of that tragedy and survived, it is a beautiful story and makes you reevaluate life. I highly recommend it.




Hope you guys are having a great weekend, and thank you so much for 100 followers on Bloglovin.


Ana 

"I don't know anything with certainly, but seeing the stars makes me dream" - Vincent Van Gogh

Today was a great day ( 7 p.m in Brazil right now), I have already told you guys a million times how much I love Saturdays, but I have to say it again, Saturdays are the best day of the week. Today I went out with my dad and we went to a book fair that my city is going to have for a week. I love going to this book fair, I go to it every single year and never get bored, every year they have something different, like a band playing or a play, it is just so fun.

I found this Van Gogh book, I was so happy because I was looking for this edition for months now. This book is part of a 25 book series about artists and their work, but I could never find the Van Gogh one and I had the luck of finding it today and I only paid 10 bucks for it. Such a great deal!

I got to spend time with my dad today, because we both are so busy during the week that we don't have time even to talk. One thing we both like to do is go out with his motorcycle, he is a huge fan of Harley Davidson since he was a kid and he just got one for himself, and I kind of learned to love bikes too specially HD. I love feeling the wind on my face and it blowing my hair, it just feels like you are flying, like you are free.

Well that was my day, hope you guys had a great Saturday too.

Ana

Liebster Award

As you can read from the title, today I am going to respond to the Liebster Award and I was nominated by Nabila from the blog Nabila's Blog The Journey of My Life. This tag is a great way to dicover new blogs, and it was created specially for blogs that have less than 200 followers. 

Before we start I just want to thank Nabila for nominating me, and make sure you check out her lovely blog. 

Ok. Let's first start with the rules of this tag, shall we?

1. Thank & link the person who nominated you.
2. Answer the nominator’s 11 questions.
3. Nominate 11 small blogs who have less than 200 followers. You should believe that they deserve this award, and include their links in your post.
4. Create 11 new questions for your nominees to answer. Notify these nominees via social media/blogs.

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Here are the questions that Nabila gave me and my answers:

1. What is you current favorite song?   

I am already going to start kind of with a cheat, because I couldn't the choose between two songs. This week I discovered two new songs and let me tell you, I am loving them. The first one is Rules by Nat and Alex Wolff, you know the boys from The Naked Brothers Band? Trust me I was suprised too. But well check the song and the band out, they are awesome I promise you. 

And the second song is  C.O.P.S Came by Em Harriss, I don't know much about the singer because the song was suggested by spotify, but it is such an awesome song, I really recommend it.

     2. Best compliment  you have ever received?

This is a tricky question to answer without sounding superficial, but I do have a compliment that I received by my creative writing teacher that made my day. It wasn't the best compliment in the whole entire world, but it was a nice compliment and I really appreciated. He just said that my writing style was really great and that my essay was very interesting to read.

    3. Ugly and live forever OR pretty and die in a year?

I'm a true believer that there is no such thing as ugly, I think every person is beautiful and it is not society's duty to determine who is pretty or who isn't. You become pretty in the moment you love and accept yourself the way you are. My answer would be than to be "ugly" and live forever, because living forever sounds awesome, imagine living in all generations and compare the world now and then.

   4. What question you hate answering?

This one is easy I think, probably negative questions about my transition to natural hair. People always ask " Your hair was so great straight, why would you go back to curly?" or  "Your hair is so frizzy, why don't you just straighten or relax your hair again?". I don't mind answering about my curly hair, but comments and questions that have a negative tone I won't be so willing to answer.

  

 5. What cheers you up?

A cup of coffee and a piece of cake on Saturday mornings. I know, very specific, but it is 100% the truth. I love waking up early on Saturdays and having breakfast with my family,

6. If you could only have one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Breakfast obviously. I love everything about breakfast.

7.  What age you wish you could be?

Sometimes I wished I was older or I wished that I could go back to when I was 10 or 12, but life is life and well we get older every year, natural. I think I wouldn't never truly wish that I could be older or younger. 

8. The scariest thing you have ever experience?

I don't know how to answer this question, cause I don't remember experiencing something really scary, or half scary or just scarry at all. Well looking at the bright side, that is good right? 

9. What do you do for fun?

Well my fun probably is not everyone's type of fun. I like to go to the movies and bookstores, I read, watch netflix, blog, write, do ballet, bake, watch old movies, go out with friends and there is probably more but i can't remember.

10. Are you an introvert or extrovert?

I like to think of myself as both, but sometimes the introvert inside speaks louder, I like to stay home sometimes by myself with my own thoughts, I really don't enjoy going out partying or going somewhere that is really crowded. I belive that people become extrovert when they talk about things that they really are passionate about, like when I talk about books.

11. What are some of your favorite websites?

Netflix, Bloglovin, Tumblr, Youtube, Barnes&Noble and College Board.

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Well that's all the questions I had to answer, and now it is my time to give the questions and nominate the blogs. Ok, the blogs I nominate are these lovely ones:

• Fi's Little Blog
• Muddy Boots Parallax
• Unauthorized Behavior
• Arts&Graces
• StarInGirl
• Sincerely, Dj
• Golden Afternoon
• Gemlivia 
• The Day In The Life Of...
• Cal On The Move

And here are the questions:

1. Favorite childhood Tv show or cartoon?
2. What's the last book you read?
3. What's your dream job?
4. Where is the last place you traveled to?
5. Why did you start blogging?
6. Do you have a fashion inspiration? If yes, who?
7. What language do you wish you could speak?
8. What is your biggest pet peeve?
9. What's your favorite season?And why?
10. Going to a fancy party and being underdressed OR going to a very casual party and being overdressed?
11. If you could go back in time would you change anything?

If you answer these questions please let me know, I would love to see your answers. Hope you all have a great weekend,

Ana

My Tumblr

I really enjoy tumblr, it is just such an interesting way to share beautiful pictures and really show your personality with a blog. Probably every human being in the world knows what tumblr is and this post is kind of useless, but I just wanted to share my tumblr, not for self promotion or anything like that, but just for fun. I am really liking how my tumblr is looking right now, very simple, light, polish and I love the mint color. I love reblogging art, like Monet and Van Gogh, movies like Clueless and Tv Shows like Friends and Gossip Girl, and of course Audrey Hepburn pictures.


My Tumblr ✿

Hope you are having a awesome weekend, and that you enjoyed this little and simple post. Feel free to follow me on Tumblr and comment your tumblr link down bellow,

Ana

How To Learn a New Language and Improve It | Tips + Apps

                                                   Picture by Kerri Lee Smith | Flickr






 I am not a professional in languages or anything like that, I'm just a teen girl who wants to share her own experiences with foreign languages. I don't remember telling my story in a post before, but if I did I'm just going tell it again. I moved to Brazil when I was just 7 years old, I didn't speak portuguese very well and I had a hard time learning it, actually until this day I get really confused in translating english to portuguese, it's like the words escape from my mind, but it is not a huge problem. I never considered portuguese my second language, I always told myself that both languages were my first language, because I learned them both at the same time and I have the same level of knowledge in both of them. 

 When I was 10 years old, my parents were afraid that I was going to forget english and they enrolld me in a english course, in fact I finished it last year and got my diploma. And this year I decided that I wanted to learn a new language, I thought a lot about which one I should choose and I chose French. I don't think it is a hard language to learn, because of it's similaraty to Portuguese, but of course it is challenging, because I never learned a totally new language before, like without having knowledge of the basics.

I decided today to share some tips on how to start learning a language and improving it, taking as a basis my experience on this topic. These are basic tips that I use and that can become part of your lifestyle and I am sure that it can improve your skills in short time.

1. Practice Everyday

A very simple tip, but very efficient. I study french and english everyday and I can asure you that it makes a big difference. Take a little time to review or learn some new vocab words and grammar everyday and you will master the language in no time. I set myself a goal of 10 vocab words every week, it is the perfect amount to learn, memorize and put it in to use.

2.  Read & Write

I can't tell you enough how reading helped me improve my english and portuguese. I prefer reading books in english by the way. If you are more advanced in your chosen language I say pick up a more complex book, with the classic and formal speaking of the language, that helps a lot on improving vocabulary. 

Writing is very important way to practice your grammar, creating this blog was for me a way to practice my english writing skills and not forgeting it. I really recommend having a journal or just writing essays to exercise your writing and improving it, it really helps.

3. Communicate & Listen

Speaking and listening to other people makes the process of learning a new language so much easier and fun, apart of improving your accent it can make you fluent a lot quicker. Two years ago when I was studying in the U.S, I noticed that my english was a lot better than when I didn't have interaction with others that spoke the language.

Watching movies and listening to music are all fun ways to improve a language. You can learn new words and pay attention to how the language is spoken and much more other benefits. For me what help a lot was youtube videos, I started watching them 4 years ago and it helped me so so much.

4. Travel

 A very efficient way to learn any language, I can asure you. You connect with people, put the language in practice and even learn about the culture of the country you are visiting. Of course if you want to train the language you are studying, you have to go to a language speaking country, like spanish, there is lots of different options like Spain, Honduras, Ecuador, Peru and many others.
There is even the option to study abroad and stay in family houses to learn and experiencie a life in another country.


5. Courses

If you need a little help in learning a language I would  recommend you to enroll in a course. It helps a lot if are not the type of person that likes to teach yourself. Look for a good quality and well known school, look for recommendations and for teachers experiencie, ask if any teachers were born or lived in a country that speaks the language, I think it is very important. A good course is the one which can offer language and culture.


6. Apps

So helpful, especially when there is no time or in a hurry. My favorite app is Duolinguo, it is just so fun to use and you can choose as many language as you want, in my app I have french and italian It is kind of a game, but you are learning with it.

Hope you enjoy this post and that you are having a great Easter Weekend.

Ana