“To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.” Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

Dreaming and thinking about the future is very pleasant and healthy. But that’s not enough. We have to act! That’s what I have had in mind: I try to do my best in order to achieve my goals.
Last week was full of activities: although I had no time to relax or hang out with my friends, it was worth it. I learned a lot! It was the “Journalism Course Week” at UFSC, and I subscribed to a course of “Cultural Critic” that took four days (from Monday to Thursday). I have always been very interested in the communication area (after all, I study language!), and Journalism has attracted my attention. Each day we had a different professor, and they talked about critics in literature, movies, music and theater. It was quite interesting! I specially liked the day we learned about theater critic, because it helped me a lot to think about the essay I’m supposed to write for the Drama class: a kind of a critic about the play we watched (As Troianas).
We had a review in the Linguistic Studies class, since our first test (about Morphology) is going to happen next week, on Monday. It will be my first test this semester, and I hope everything goes right!
The Applied Linguistics classes were very nice: we always learn a lot. People usually give their opinions and very interesting discussions always come up. I have learned a lot, not only from my professor, but also from my colleagues. I feel I am part of a very nice class which is full of students willing to learn!
On Wednesday we went to an open seminar conducted by Anna Camati (a post-doctorate student) about Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Anna talked about the plays’ adaptations, and made me think about things I had never thought of while I read the play. On Friday we had a close reading class of the play, and it was funny. I was Demetrius, the one who loves Hermia (and then falls in love with Helena).
I only regret not having had enough time to study French. But my friend gave me a very nice idea: there’s a group of students that gets together every day of the week (except Tuesday) at half past midday to talk to each other in French, discuss grammar topics, watch French movies, etc. It’s for free and I think I would learn a lot from this! Next week I won’t have time (I have two tests to study for!), but the week after next week I will certainly join this French group!
I’ve written too much again! See ya!