I saw you yesterday
Today I saw two familiar faces while I was at the grocery store – my friend’s mother and my father. Actually I saw my father twice. But after some seconds I realized that they were unknown to me. It was…
Milestone
Hey! I’ve achieved one year of blogging! Today I want to celebrate it because it is my first milestone on “Believe in English”! This is a personal project that seeks to share emotions through the English language and to motivate…
In person
We used to meet once a week through the Zoom App – a women’s group where a few people have already met in person, but most of us met just online. Our last weekly meeting was in person, for a…
Freudian Slip
Last week I had to run some errands in Kitchener – the first city where I lived in Canada. It was a pleasant afternoon, when I could see a few friends. While I was talking with a Brazilian friend, I…
I am sorry for your loss
The terrorism got close to me. At the end of a spring Sunday, not so far from my house, a driver slams into a Muslim family, killing four people, and critically injuring the surviving little boy now in hospital. According…
Bump it up
As you know from my stories, I got the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine two weeks ago. My appointment at the pharmacy was on Sunday at 12:45pm, but I was able to get it in the morning. They bumped it…
Listening to myself
Recently I listened to two TedTalks about emotions. They both focused on “negative” emotions – those that we are used to blaming for failing to reach our goals. A couple weeks ago I wrote about it – that we grow…
Pet peeve
What comes to your mind when you hear the English expression “pet peeve”? For me at the first moment, it sounds like something related to pets, like training pads. LOL😆 In fact, it is an expression that means something that…
Charisma
Being an English learner brought me more than just a new language, it showed me how to be more polite and charismatic through words and practice small talks. Small talk is the ability of making meaningful connections, engaging and identifying…
Behind my shyness
If there is something that I’ve learned on my walk of life, it would be that I always have to question my feelings. Our mind is not too obvious, some feelings are actually just masking other ones. Everybody has five…
