Good Morning!! I finily finished one of the translations! uffff... My biggest fault is to do two things at the same time. I'm always doing it. Well, I'm translating about stars and I wish I couldn't finish it like Penelope's endless tapestry. I'm not beautiful like her, but I'm really slow in finishing it because I love this book so much. Am I selfish? I think so. I must work on it.

I also saw Thomas Kinkade paintings. They are amazing. Meanwhile I'm knitting a swetter to my dog because she is so cold. I will show you it when I have finished!

Have a beautiful week!

Sandra

To my American friends I wish you a great time!

Have fun! Our Independence Day in Brazil is due on September 7th. I like to watch the American celebrations on TV and on films. I have a Brazilian friend who is living in the USA working as a au-pair. If she take pictures, I will post some of them! 

Wish you a wonderful day around the world!

sandra

Hi Everybody! I almost deleted the blog because a person called me stupid due to the post on killing the seals. But I love to read your posts, to see your pictures, to learn about your countries. This is the second time I bother someone. Anyone, please, tell me how can I forbide anonymous from write here?

Okay, let's talk about happy stuff. Last week I watched a beautiful festival on Band TV. Never did I see such a beautiful festival! I'm so proud to have this festival in Brazil.

Parintins Festival takes place in Parintins, a city located in the state of Amazon, at the edge of the Amazon riber, Parintins is famous for the Bumba meu Boi party at the last weekend in June. There are two teams: The Guaranteed bull and the Capricious bull in which each team dances, sings and there are flamboyant dances, singing, and parade floats. They are so beautiful!

You can see it at 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpCHl00i2Uo&feature=related
 The video tell you much better than my words!

Sivinha Araújo, a Brazilian singer died last week from breast cancer. Can you believe that it kill women in our time? How to prevent it? Just read and spread this information reading at
http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/breast-cancer/overview.html
I watched a beautiful presentation of Silvinha Araújo and Zezé di Camargo singing 'How can I go on'. I watched it at Cátia Fonseca and Mamma Bruschetta at Mulheres on Gazeta TV!

Have a beautiful Week! How can I go on?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHruT5S6D-o

Hi bloggies! The weather is cold, the sky is grey! Who didn't play on the lion at the garden on the beach? 

Okay, see if you can figure out what these words have in commom:

1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Uneven
6. Revive
7. Assess

There are cats on the gardens!

Let's surf!                                                                  

Come back sun!!!!

Our neighbors on the channels! This is Channel 1.

The first 781 Japanese Immigrants arrived in Santos on June 18th, 1908 aboard the Kasatu Maru and this is a monument in honor of them! The trip from Kobe to the Santos port  lasted 52 days. Brazil welcomed Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito to Brazil yesterday.

They brought their costumes, their food, their traditions and we are happy to have them as our friends, neighbors.

Have a beautiful Thrusday!

Good Morning Bloggies!

I love the frog tale because there is a big power in words. Encouraging words can lift someone up and help him or her make it through the day. Negative words can destruct someone causing deep wounds in soul. So, this story is so beautiful and I would like to share with you.

Have a beautiful weekend and Be Deaf!

Sandra

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It turned out that the winning frog was DEAF!!!!

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Good Morning There! This is Fortaleza da Barra or Barra Fortress built in 1584 for protecting Santos from pirates and invasors. Now it is a museum and has old weapon areas that extends to an entrance called "Spanish Gate". From there we can see cargo and passenger ships.  Have a beautiful Tuesday!

Sandra

Picture: Sandra Tiriba

Picture: Sandra Tiriba

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Picture: Gilberto Tiriba

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Picture: João Paulo

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY   LINDA!

From Brazil!

Good Morning! The day is sunny, but cold  here in Santos! I was watching TV last Sunday when I saw this wonderful city in the state of Minas Gerais. Monte Verde, Mount Green, was founded by a Lithuanian  man called Werner Grinberg. Grin means green and berg means mount. There are mountains, animals such hummingbirds, herons, martins, hawks, sabiá, tico-tico, etc. There are rapids and lakes there. The place is really beautiful and peacefully. Mr. Grinberg loved the place because it looked like his own country.

Have a beautiful Tue!

http://www.friendsterstuff.com/happydog.php

Sandra

Hi Bloggies!

The weather is cloudy in Santos. This week the waves invaded the streets. It is a little cold. I will go to the mall in the afternoon. Just a deserved break after working hard, even in the bathroom fixing the grout.

Just around the river bend!

Below: Santos waves.

Peter Pan: my first book!      

Below: Gertrude  Chandler Warner's bedroom! I was wondering if she wrote a book which I'm translatin now in this bedroom! Great writer!

Below: Wladimir Kush work. Beautiful!

HNW!!!

Good Morning! After a long time I can put order here! I miss write here and read your posts veru much. How have you been doing? Here the weather is really hot and stuffy. We are in the fall. Last week was the birthday of my elder daughter. I will post some pictures named below:

Pictures from the Graduation Ceremony on March 4 of my elder daughter at UNISANTA in Santos, Brazil. Great moment!

Below: To finish, I would like to show you this beautiful work from Wladimir Kush. There are other ones! One more beautiful than the other!

Have a beautiful week!

Sandra

Finally I could post here. I miss you all very much. I couldn't wait to be here. We are in fall in Brazil. The leaves have changed their colors, the temperature has dropped, the wind is blowing faster. My students are cold and I enjoy so much teaching them. I'm translating too. I've learnt so much with this work. I was translating two work at the same time, which I will not repeat again. It drove me crazy. Besides translating about Marine Biology, I was translating "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans C. Andersen. My favorite book of his is The Emperor New Suit and The Nightingale. If you want to tell a tale to a kid, you can search at http://hca.gilead.org.il/
I love the birds flighting freely, not in cages. They bring us happiness and lessons of  life. My daughter watched The Nightingale for the first time as the emperor. The nightingale is Rouxinol in Portuguese.
 http://br.geocities.com/acalanto_home_page/a_lenda_do_rouxinol.htm
I also love the nightingale and the skylark by Shakespeare.

sandra

Good Morning everybody! I have been working hard on an endless translation. Meeloo is better! It has been pouring rain.

Have a beautiful Day!

sandra

Keep it Going Scrabble
If you received this, recognize that I consider you to be one of my 'brainy' friends!

CHANGE ONE LETTER OF THE BOTTOM WORD POSTED AND SEE WHO GETS STUCK AND CAN'T CONTINUE!

RULES:

YOU CANNOT ADD LETTERS
-YOU CANNOT USE FOREIGN LANGUAGES

-YOU CAN ONLY CHANGE ONE LETTER

STARTING WORD: MOON
Aimee-Moan
Michael -- mean
Shawn -- meat
sandra Brazil - meal

Good Morning!  Much work here, thanks God! Mental work I mean! But I love it!
It has been pouring rain in Santos for days in a row. Some streets are flood.
I took a picture of the sling I sew to my dog because she took the snitches of her microsurgery off four times.
I got a beautiful e-mail from a Russian friend with a song that I love so much that I want to share with you. Well, I said to her I tried to look for other songs, but the site is in Russian and Russian is Greek for me (This is Greek for me is a Brazilian saying when we don't understand something).

You can see it at:

Insight: God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest - Swedish Proverb.

Hi Everybody! How have you been doing? Here it has been raining dogs and cats. Yesterday the streets were flood, which is a disaster. In São Paulo it is worse. I had a tooth pulled last Wednesday. My dog had a wart removed last Saturday. I went to the vet almost everyday because she took off the snitches. I made myself  a sling to wear on her arm in order to not lick the wound. Meanwhile I'm translating [...] looking for ghost shrimps, callinassa, and so on.

I would like to know if the image here it is okay. I tried to fix it. I often don't know how to do so.

This movie of Stan and Oli reminds me about my toothache.

Have a beautiful weekend. I will try to catch up on the comments. Sorry for being late.

Hello everybody! The seals don't have voice to ask for their lives. They have the right to live. This is a choking picture that show us how the seals are killed. The images say all.

Further information:
http://www.hsus.org/protect_seals.html  
Picture from http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveward/118753866/ 

Yesterday I took Meeloo to the vet because she had a microsurgery last Saturday to take a warp from her skin. I didn't sleep the day before. I was so happy yesterday afternoon because the snitches were okay!

Have a beautiful Wed

Back to work!

Hi Folks! Well, I have a break to ask you what do you do today? Here in Brazil we love to tell jokes! Today I Gotcha my Sister, my hubby, my daughters.... oh no, it is endless because the day hasn't ended up yet! Well, I think the doctor is a good joker!

Have a funny Fool's day!

Sandra

Good Saturday Morning! Sorry for being late, but I'm very busy translating. All I see is seagrass, Callichirus, burroewer organisms, etc... hee hee
Well, the sea is my passion, so, another dream that has come true. Above  is my dog  with a special antenna that I got at my nephew's wedding. She is very cute! Well, there is so much to do! There are missing almost 25 pages. There is no deadline, but I want to finish it to get to normal life. I also have been teaching. Both teaching and translating are fascinating. We had a great time on Easter! I also watched good movies that I have never seen before such as Notting Hill and yesterday night I watched "The Nutty Professor".  I love Jerry Lewis very much. I'm a big fan of his. I love comedies! I love "Boing Boing" pretty much and the one he worked in a girl's boarding school. I guess the name is "The Ladies Man". I also love Debbie Reynolds (tammy, and so on) very much. I used to watch them when I was a child. I used to wathc black/white non talk films. I love black and white movies yet. David Niven is great!  I love all his movies and one of my favorites is "Bedtime Story from 1963"  I also think "The Pink Panther" is very funny. I also love Lucy Ball, Daniel Boone, [...] . I think it is an endless list. They made part of my childhood.

Sandra

Hi friends! Sorry for being late, I had been working on a translation for days. Next week I will start translation about marine biology. It is about 40 pages, but I will come here almost every day. I wish you all a beautiful  Easter! We had a beautiful lunch time, we all together. Families in Brazil are used to gather and have a lunch.

Wish you all a beautiful Eater!

Sandra

CLOSE BY ME
By Sandra Tiriba

I have been looking for you so long …
to talk about everything just for fun,
to answer my questions when I am lost,
to wipe my tears when I’m sad,
andto laugh with me when I’m happy.

We would understand each other
Just at a glance, a thought, or a smile,
It takes too long to find a true friendship,
As though you were in a garden waiting for
A flower from a seed you have just planted!

Sometimes I hurt you on foolish things
And afterwards I ask you to forget them!
I’ve been looking for a friend
To clear my mind when I’m blind
To tell me the truth no one has the courage to say to me

But I’ve been so occupied looking for a friend
That I haven’t realized one was by my side
Trying to make me smile and
Listening to my deepest secrets…
Sorry my friend if once more I hurt you!

Let us talk about it, please!

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BEAR RESCUE AT DONNER SUMMIT BRIDGE

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This bear is different from others. Instead of taking pic-a-nic baskets like his cousin Yogi Bear,  he prefers watching the landscape, seeing the flowers, etc. According to the Tahoe Daily Tribune ,  the 250-pound bear climbed over the bridge in order to avoid the cars. Then, he got stuck and decided to take a boo nap! Good decision! He hung overnight until being rescued around noon Sunday.

Photos courtesy Town of Truckee Animal Control, and special thanks to its Manager Dan Olsen.

Hi folks! I have never seen a blog that doesn't allow posts. I don't have enough  space to post. I cannot write what I meant. The only thing to do is to delete the previous posts. Why don't they change this policy of posting.

sandra

Select the files (photos, audio, video or other) you want to upload from you computer.

Attention: You only have 20 KB disc space left.
Click here to expand your disc space from 10 MB to 1000 MB (1 G.

Hello everybody! I'm late because I caught a cold, had a terrible fever due to some chilly wind I caught in São Paulo. I'm very sensitive! We had the graduation ceremony of my older daughter, which was very wonderful. I will post some pictures soon. My husband vacation will start next Monday. I cannot wait for it because we are going to walk on the beach every morning. I do love the sea! I collect shells, but only the empty ones. One day I took a shell and when I was on the sidewalk I looked at it and saw black paws from inside. There was a dweeler inside, so I took him to the sea again.
Hope your weekend to be beautiful!

Sandra

Hi everybody! I miss being here very much due to the warm reception from you all! Thanks a lot ! Yesterday my daughter and I went to São Paulo. This is a big city, very beautiful... wow... this a the business capital. Santos is a coastal city, much more smaller than São Paulo. I miss the hot weather...

Here it goes a piece of advice, just for fun: 

How to clean the house:
1. Open a new file in your computer.
2. Name it "Housework".
3. Sen it to the Recycle bin.
4. Empty the recycle bin.
5. You PC will ask you, "Are you sure you want to delete Housework permanently?"
6. Calmly answer "Yes" and press mouse button firmly...
7. Feel better?

Me too! always works for me!

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Good morning! I was reading  "The Independent"  when I read about a mass slaughter of birds in Malta.

Further reading :

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/conservationists-mobilise-to-halt-mass-slaughter-of-birds-in-malta-786763.html 

http://theanimalspot.blogspot.com/ 

How many animals are there?

Hi folks! I'm downloading a Paul McCartney album because I love Paul very very much. I love listening to music. If you ask me what is my favorite song, I would say "all". Do me a favor? No more lonely nights! Let's light up pipe peace to stand all togerther because when I'm 64 years old, I'll have a big party!The orange stripe is called "ciclovia" or bike-path, which is used by workers, ciclists, children,etc. There are traffic lights there too. Cirque du Soleil is in São Paulo. I wish I could go there because I love the clowns very much. I have some pictures of a circus that are very fun. I will post them soon. I don't like horror movie either!

The Oscar goes to

Have a beautiful Moonday!!!

Good Morning Folks! I'm very happy to get your lovely replies! Thank you very much for the warm reception! I have been a little busy because my elder daughter graduation ceremony is due March 4th.If I take pictures, I will post them here. She was majoring in Physical Education. My younger daughter is majoring Physical Education too. I will try to download a video of her working at Village Boys (Meninos da Vila).Village boys is a CT (Training Center from Santos Football Club) in Santos.Santos Football Club has great names such as Pelé, Elano, Diego, and Robinho. She loves physiology very much and she is making physical evaluation on this video.A cousin of mine is a great photographer and I put some of his pictures here.