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dear not brummie ones,

I am studying/living in Uk since late December, as you already all know, and I..ve already written 100 pages of thoughts about this experience.


Unfortunately, it`s all in Portuguese and I don`t have any intention of translate it so soon, I am afraid. But as I also feel particularly tempted to write a diary about my days here and share all my gaffes [ good word lol] so why not posting some stuff here?

I have to confess I feel a bit influenced by my AMAZING teacher Katherine. She is BY FAR the best English teacher [no redundance here] I have ever had
and the fact I am learning English with a british teacher makes TONS of difference for a foreign geeky learner like me.

I know it can sounds prety boring for you all but I really dont care.lol To me it is like a lottery prize. Naaaaan, better.Whatever...

Mrs Katherine is also very keen on our person improvement of the "language skills" so I feel totally prepared to use the present perfect tenses, conjuctions
and prepositions in the right place here. Geeky but true.

And yes, perhaps it`s going to be pretty boring of reading and I trully don`t care lol because I am learning so much that I feel like I need to spread the words. I am afraid.

It`s priceless!As Katharine is doing me a big favor "teaching me how to teach English" I feel I have to "make most of it" day by day.

But let`s talk about how I am dealing with the culture and differences of living here and to live in the Pele` s city.

Well, this is the first time I experienced the real winter in life. A challenge, by the way. The great thing about live in an "attic" room is that you don`t have windows, you have a roof window and you really can`t have idea of how the weather looks like and I can`t tell you it made me "first snow contact" so much more funny. Firstly, it was also my first day at school.


Anyone that knows me also understand that I could be completely lost in the streets of any city walking by myself. So imagine myself opening the front door of the lovely 17th century house I am living in facing the snow coming from all directions. Nice!That particularmoment I just didn..t find out I would be lost but also blind.

And yes,to find Broad Street was a nightmare but it was also the first contact I had to the kind brummie people even the talkative bloke who gave me the direction to find the school sent me straightaway to a pub of the same name of my school! Maybe it was the first contact with the british sense of humour. By the way its another topic to be mentioned here soon.

So, after face my first snow storm and realise that snow is water indeed because I was completely soaked after 10 minutes walking lol I have found my school and the pub of the same name on Broad Street but it was too early to drink...ish.


What else have I learnt that monday ? That I should by a hat as soon as possible. Those were the coldest days of my life. I ve been in London long time ago and I remember the -4 temperatures but there is nothing like snow blocking your vision while you try desperate to remember what side you should look at before crossing the streets in Britain. I didn..t want to be squashed by car or lorry [ oooooh, the use of british vocabulary!!! Sorry America, lorry is so much charming than truck lol ]in my first day at school. Shame on you Simone!

I..m immersing myself into the culture. Pretty much indeed, by the way. Even I am not able to understand the traffic yet or find the perfect balance between the cold and hotwater before washing up or taking a bath.Wasn..t easier to have a "warm water" option? Geez!The fact is, I..m getting used to the differences and it..s issue to another post here soon.

And yes, I slipped over in front of the house I live in the second day before going to school and another lovely brummie tried to help me lol She..s the neighbour that always say"are you okay?" when she spots me trying to walk in the slippery pave path every single morning lol In fact I..m probably also known in the neighbourhood as the one who doesn`t know how to switch off the house..s alarm bringing all edgbaston`s attention to lee crescent road some weeks ago. i know...


written in january