All together

Em Português é mais simples e, afinal, somos todos, neste departamento, professores de Português!
Amanhã vamos estar juntos pela última vez, num daqueles encontros que formalizam os nossos laços da pior maneira. Era preferível organizarmo-nos em five-o'clock-work-tea, em vez de chamarmos a este encontro o nome burocrático que tem: Reunião de Departamento.
Felizmente, não presido. A Paula fá-lo, com certeza, muito melhor do que eu e eu agradeço-lhe o empenho e o profissionalismo com que se dedicou a esta tarefa para mim muito ingrata.
Infelizmente, não faço parte neste momento, formalmente falando. Mas, do ponto de vista pessoal e humano, sei que pertenço e faço parte. Nunca na vida tinha tido estas certezas! Nunca na vida tinha sentido que a Humanidade a que pertencemos, em dose restrita, um grupo de amigos, como é o caso, uma família, nos pode "aguentar", nos pode ajudar a atravessar um ribeiro, um rio e até um deserto.
E eu não queria que o ano lectivo acabasse sem vos dizer que vos estou muito, muito grata, por todas as ajudas que vieram, em formas de palavras, de gestos, que transformaram os momentos mais difíceis em momentos tremendamente felizes, que dissiparam as dúvidas, que fortaleceram as fraquezas, e que, no seu conjunto, mudaram definitivamente o rumo das coisas. Nestes quase três meses, nunca me senti sozinha, nunca me senti afastada, distante desta vida que também é minha, claro! Nunca se quebrou o nosso contacto e a maioria sabe tudo o que aconteceu ao longo destes meses: ao vivo e a cores, por sms, pelo telefone, por mail. Fosse como fosse, senti que estávamos sempre com a humanidade da relação de amizade perfeitamente actualizada!
Que mais posso dizer para além de “obrigada”?
Queria que lessem ou ouvissem a minha gratidão, como eu a sinto: uma emoção muito forte que me faz feliz.
Se alguma coisa mudou em mim foi mesmo a auto-estima que está em alta, que é um grande combustível para grandes travessias.
All together faz cada vez mais sentido. Parece ter sido premonitório.
All together now and for ever!

It's July!

"Hot July brings cooling showers,
Apricots and gillyflowers."Sara Coleridge, "Months"Summer is a fun time but it is also a time to be wary of preventable injuries and conditions.
Sun is fun, but, please, take care.
If you go to the beach don't forget your sunscreen lotion, specially on the most exposed parts - the lips, face, neck, shoulders, back, knees and tops of feet.
take the cap and if it's to hot, wear a t-shirt. Your shoulders will thank you for that.
This is very important: we're talking about YOU!

BLUE

Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal mixture of red and green light. On a colour wheel based on traditional colour theory (RYB), the complementary colour to blue is considered to be orange.
The English language commonly uses "blue" to refer to any colour from navy blue to cyan. The word itself is derived from the Old French word bleu.

Psychology

Blue often represents the human emotion of sadness, e.g. "He was feeling blue".
Music

The blues is a style of music originated by African Americans. Contrary to popular belief it is not called Blues because its lyrics are depressing but because its scale is inclusive of the "dark notes" or blue notes.

National colours

Blue is the national sports colour for India, as it denotes secularism.

Blue is the national colour used on flags of several countries surrounded by seas or oceans such as Australia, and also of Europe as a whole (not just the European Union that also uses the same flag).

Blue and white are the national colours of Scotland, Finland and the Central American countries of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, as well as Greece, Israel and Nation of the Uniteds Organization using a light shade of blue symbolizing peace.

Blue and yellow are the national colours of Sweden, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Barbados, and along with green, of Brazil, and along with red, of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Chad, Romania, and Moldova.

Red and blue are the national colours of Romania, Liechtenstein and Haiti, and along with white (where it composed the French tricolour whose simple design or colors were taken by other countries), The United States, the United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg, Norway, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, Serbia, Croatia, Paraguay, Iceland, Panama, Russia, Cuba, Chile, Thailand, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Liberia, Nepal, Slovenia, South Korea.

Mysticism

Psychics who claim to be able to observe the aura with their third eye report that someone with a blue aura is a person who is oriented toward spirituality. People with blue auras are said to be interested in social service work and to be in occupations such as social worker, counselor, teacher, writer, and psychologist.

And it ....is my favourite colour. It's the colour of the summer!

TO ALL OF US ( BUT SPECIALLY TO MADA)

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
- Martin Luther

To Madalena!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FRIENDS
Friends smile at you.
They like your face.
They want to be with you
Any old place.
Friends have fun with you.
Friends share.
They’re glad when you’re happy
When you’re sad, they care.
If you’re a friend
Then you care, too.
That’s why your friends
Are glad you’re you!!!

Dreaming of Summer

I'm dreaming of warm sandy beaches.
I'm dreaming of days by the pool.
I'm dreaming of fun in the afternoon sun,
and week after week of no school.

I'm thinking of swim suits and sprinklers,
imagining lemonade stands.
I'm lost in a daydream of squirt guns and ice cream
and plenty of time on my hands.

I'm picturing baseball and hot dogs,
Envisioning games at the park,
and how it stays light until late every night,
and seems like it never gets dark.

I long to ride skateboards and scooters.
I want to wear t-shirts and shorts.
I'd go for a hike, or I'd ride on my bike,
or play lots of summertime sports.

My revery turns to a yearning
to draw on the driveway with chalk.
It's really a bummer to daydream of summer
while shoveling snow from the walk.

Kenn Nesbitt

On this day, 1128

Portuguese forces, led by Afonso I, a young and ambitious man, defeated his mother D.Teresa and D.Fernão Peres de Trava,near Guimarães. It's called Battle of São Mamede. After this battle, the future king called himself "Prince of Portugal".
The city is often referred to as the "birthplace of the Portuguese nationality" and also was the birthplace of Afonso I of Portugal, the first Portuguese king.
(source- Wikipedia)