Today I had 50 minutes of an English Class online with a teacher from a small country of the Eastern Europe. It was a conversation class, and today we talked about the bad quality of the many services provided by public and private companies in our countries, and we made the comparison between the services in both of them. We noticed that the problems with the service in both countries are similar (not only in the services, but also in the politics, social...) like a long wait for service in too long lines, crowded locations and bad quality in the services offered. I became impressed when she told me that she had to spend 2 hours waiting in line just to pay a mere cable TV bill! It's is awful and inhuman, the people become very tired, stressed and have a great waste of time for nothing! In the case of my country, Brazil, we can pay online the bills like of cable TV, telephone, mobile, internet, etc... avoiding wear in endless lines. But the Brazil we are far from paradise, because here we also spend a lot of time waiting for atendance services, mainly in public services such as in post offices and hospitals. It's awful and inhuman how much people die waiting for medical attendance in Brazil! But at least our conversation was amusing, because we talked in a good mood about these problems, and we laughed a lot when each similarities between our countries was identified. These tragedies had a comic side.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Awake and anxious
It's 4 o'clock in the morning, I should be sleeping, but the anxiety doesn't let me. I'm writting my 2nd post in this blog 2 days after the first, although it should be daily. It's difficult to fulfill something that seems so simple, and I have difficult for educate my will in order to comply my estabilished plans.
The reason of my anxiety is exactly this, it's like my mind warned me about the things that I need to do, and it'll not allow me to sleep until I put into practice what was planned. And here I am at 4:00 pm. Fortunately today is holiday in the city where I live (Sao Paulo's birthday) and I can compensate for lost sleep during the day.
I'll try to meet the goal of daily posts, even if I have to post at least one sentence in the days when I am more tired, but I have to make it a habit. No pain, no gain. Well, I'll try to get some sleep. Until next time!
The reason of my anxiety is exactly this, it's like my mind warned me about the things that I need to do, and it'll not allow me to sleep until I put into practice what was planned. And here I am at 4:00 pm. Fortunately today is holiday in the city where I live (Sao Paulo's birthday) and I can compensate for lost sleep during the day.
I'll try to meet the goal of daily posts, even if I have to post at least one sentence in the days when I am more tired, but I have to make it a habit. No pain, no gain. Well, I'll try to get some sleep. Until next time!
Sunday, January 22, 2017
The first step is always the hardest
Start something is nothing easy at all. It's need to create a habit. I'm trying to start this blog, I've been thinking about it for months, and I see that now I have no alternative, I have to start! There is no time to remain only thinking, otherwise I will continue putting off day by day. What is more difficult is that this blog will not be written in my native language, but this is the main objective, to write in English as much as I can, as often as I can, to improve my ability to express myself in this language.
I barely started writting this text and I already feel like stopping. Damn laziness! My mind is trying to find some reason to disperse, as it did during this Sunday. I waited during all week for a free day for practice more my English, and when I perceived, I was surfing on facebook wasting my precious time. And now I feel my mind trying to force myself to the same mistake again. If I obey it, I'll soon be on facebook seeing a lot of posts that discourage me like bad and fake news, bizarre thing happening in my country and around the world, not counting a large amount of bullshit that nothing useful adds to our lives.
But what matters is that the blog finally started. My goal is to write here about various subjects and things that I think, always in English. I hope it will be useful to expand my knowledge and skills in English, and that may be interesting for some reader who falls here by accident. Now, I'm late for dinner. Until next time!
I barely started writting this text and I already feel like stopping. Damn laziness! My mind is trying to find some reason to disperse, as it did during this Sunday. I waited during all week for a free day for practice more my English, and when I perceived, I was surfing on facebook wasting my precious time. And now I feel my mind trying to force myself to the same mistake again. If I obey it, I'll soon be on facebook seeing a lot of posts that discourage me like bad and fake news, bizarre thing happening in my country and around the world, not counting a large amount of bullshit that nothing useful adds to our lives.
But what matters is that the blog finally started. My goal is to write here about various subjects and things that I think, always in English. I hope it will be useful to expand my knowledge and skills in English, and that may be interesting for some reader who falls here by accident. Now, I'm late for dinner. Until next time!
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