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Holiday on the beaches

Hi Amy, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ team and friends,

“I’m writing this on the rocks in the middle of fishing. Oh! This is where I want to be! The sun has been so gentle and the breeze is so caring touching my skin. There is no place more romantic in the sunlight except for Guarapari city and its beaches.

Unlike most fishing lovers, I like bringing books and papers. I like studying while I am listening the sound of the waves on the sea.
Once my papers and some documents slipped by accident on the rocks so that they fell into the water in a dangerous place for swimming. The documents were important and I started screaming desperately. Can you picture this ridiculous scene? Luckily they were covered in a plastic folder and a surfer hero appeared to save my day.

Apart from this tragicomedy, I have always had a good time here. There are wonderful beaches in Guarapari. This one is called Setiba.

My friend has lent me his house in Setiba.

He and his friends all together have bought a land to build some small houses in a kind of condominium. So that you can have privacy when you want and there is an area to share with others.

You can have a barbie with them if you like, play ping-pong, snooker or “totó”. I don’t know the name of "totó" in english. It’s an interesting game using little puppets. The rules are almost the same of the football unless you are playing with my son. He doesn’t like losing so he put all the balls at the same time and it becomes a mess.

Eating “moqueca capixaba” and drinking beer while the samba is playing loud on the beach...this is how Capixabas like spending weekends and holidays.

Over there on the sea, there is a naughty guy jet-skiing. You can pay a small amount to go with him. I’m not crazy though. As anyone here can see, he likes playing tricks on the visitors, especially the women, letting them fall into the water just to listen them screaming.

Coming to ES and not visiting Guarapari is like going to Rome and not seeing the Pope. There is also one thing and one thing only you cannot miss. It's for sure the Capixaba moqueca.

You can find out a trusty restaurant which offers the best moqueca or go fishing and bring the fish to cook one. I promisse I’ll give you the recipe of moqueca and torta capixaba. Both are scrumptious, however to make a torta capixaba is like a ritual that begins a day before and it is usually eaten on Easter holiday.

There is also a place in Guarapari you should visit: Pedreira. Last week my brother gave me a clip of his triathlon competition in Pedreira in which he had participated a couple of years ago. He appears at the end of the clip. It was a competition associated to a rave party. You can watch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pw9VE9_DLY

This clip shows the wonderful place. It also shows how the rave is. I’ve had a look at the dictionary but I don’t think it’s the same rave here because as you can see at the video, people seem to be healthy and happy at the party. If there was anyone using drugs at these parties, he or she would probably miss the best of the party.
And what to say about the triathlon in itself? It's fantastic. I like watching them competing not with the others but with themselves”
This was written in Setiba.

Guess what...I’m back. I was trying to convince the family to return earlier because I wanted to share my writings with you and the photos I have taken during the small trip.






ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½work:

1- I should write:
I’m done writing or
I’ve finished writing or
I’ve got my blog done or
I’ve finished my today’s blog

2- Spelling test:
a) responsible- responsible- responsible- responsible- responsible- responsible- responsible- responsible- responsible-responsible;
b) extremely- extremely- extremely- extremely- extremely- extremely- extremely- extremely- extremely- extremely;
c) pepper- pepper- pepper- pepper- pepper- pepper- pepper- pepper- pepper- pepper;
d)maintenance- maintenance- maintenance- maintenance- maintenance- maintenance- maintenance- maintenance- maintenance- maintenance;
e) benefits- benefits- benefits- benefits- benefits- benefits- benefits- benefits- benefits- benefits;
f) brainstorming- brainstorming- brainstorming- brainstorming- brainstorming- brainstorming- brainstorming- brainstorming- brainstorming- brainstorming;
g) divide- divide- divide- divide- divide- divide- divide- divide- divide- divide;
h) coincidentally- coincidentally- coincidentally- coincidentally- coincidentally- coincidentally- coincidentally- coincidentally- coincidentally- coincidentally;
i) violence- violence- violence- violence- violence- violence- violence- violence- violence- violence;
j) occurrences- occurrences- occurrences- occurrences- occurrences- occurrences- occurrences- occurrences- occurrences- occurrences;
k) argued- argued- argued- argued- argued- argued- argued- argued- argued- argued;
l) terribly- terribly- terribly- terribly- terribly- terribly- terribly- terribly- terribly- terribly;
m) hang-gliding- hang-gliding- hang-gliding- hang-gliding- hang-gliding- hang-gliding- hang-gliding- hang-gliding- hang-gliding- hang-gliding;
n) paragliding- paragliding- paragliding- paragliding- paragliding- paragliding- paragliding- paragliding- paragliding- paragliding

3- Vocabulary:
a) preference: when the choice is yours and you choose the one you like most;
b) to bug someone: making fun of someone;
c) trusty: when you believe in someone or something due to the contact you have for long time;
d) once and for all: now and forever;
e) to employ: to use (in this context);
f) to work too much like a slave;
g) must run quickly to the kitchen;
h) not helping him, not working

Amy, thank you so much. Your lessons have been a pleasure for me. Keep on bugging me. I love your explanations. I hope you don’t mind that I have made a good use of the technology to do the 2nd homework in direct contradiction to the ( using your own words) old-fashioned method . :-D
I didn’t get what is Ta-ra. Anyway, speaking in a sing-song voice,

Namaste
Adriana

As promissed, here are my answers to the reader’s comments:

-Ernesto from Chile: Ha Ha. You’ve made me burst out laughing. My unique experience as actress was at school ages ago in a play competition. My group won in 7th place. Before you start giving me congratulations, I must say there were only 7 groups;

-Naheed from Pakistan: Hello Naheed: Not more interesting than yours I suppose. When I was taking the pictures of the decorated walls, your blogs came to mind;

-Dusan from Slovakia: Thank you. I hope one day I can also hear from you as a student blogger.

-Kitty from Thailand: Hello and welcome to the blog. It’s marvellous, fantastic, wonderful (and infinite number of adjectives) hearing from you all over the World;

-Antonio from Belgium: Hi Antonio! I can’t forget you and your comments from the Ana Paula’s blogs and the teacher Alex’s joke about the fudge and cheese dessert. I love your comments. Your english is perfect, not mine!;

-Pilar from Spain: Yes Pilar, I play football in a women’s team following work but not for competition. It’s just for fun and pleasure and for exercice. I’ll post about this and take some pictures;

-Ana Paula: Hi Ana Paula, I was sure there might were problems with the comment system because I was not seeing yours. Please, keep on writing. As a senior blogger, you give me confidence and as brazilian, I feel supported by you. I wished more brazilians could appear here to stay with me this month.

-Phuong Anh from Vietnam: No problem for me, Phuong, you can be my co-blogger. You can write on the comment box and I answer to you;

-Marfil: Eeeeeeeeeeei Marfil, my trusty old blogger friend from São Paulo. I’ve loved your new website, the new Spoiler. There is a reader here,from SP too, who is movie lover as you. Ana Paula, you should see his website. All I know about movies, I’ve learned with Marfil;

-Judit from Hungary: Hi Judit, you are very nice. Thank you. Of course Amy will find lots of errors here. Even I ,rereading my posts, can find a truck of them. I’m happy you have enjoyed yourself reading my nonsenses. Keep on writing, Judit, I’d like to know more about you and your country;

-Robert from Poland: Oh Robert, I’m so sorry about your bad dreams. War is a thing that shouldn’t exist neither in dreams nor in real life. Don’t you think so?

That's all! Good night and have a nice weekend. It's not over yet!
Byyyyyyye
Adri

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