Noah CooperI couldn’t find an appropriate image, but I really like this painting by Mark Chadwick – CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 I recently saw a video of a friend who is bringing her son up to speak English and some Portuguese. I have a lot in common with...
To let or buy? by Boyce Duprey CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 We are looking for a new flat at the moment. We did have plans to build our own house, but thanks to the interminable bureaucracy that is the Brazilian government we have had to put these plans on hold...
Oasis Soup by atomicjeep CC BY 2.0 As you probably haven’t noticed, I haven’t written anything on here for about a month or so. I went to the IATEFL conference in the UK and decided to make a bit of a holiday out of it for both myself...
Ready for the Zombie Walk We don’t do carnival in Curitiba. We have a couple of pre-carnival days a couple of weeks before the big holiday, but from the Friday before carnival the vast majority of people in this city escape to the beach...
An Interesting Story (Photo credit: Wikipedia) When I first started writing this blog, I posted a number of reviews of books that we were reading to our son. I had envisaged this being a regular thing, perhaps every couple of weeks or so. I soon...
The world’s greatest secret agent (Wikipedia) We had a boys’ night in last week when it was just me and Mr. T. As he was on his way to pre-school earlier in the day, I asked him what he wanted to do, and he loudly declared...
One from the family album (Samantha Meets Mocha by AMagill – CC-BY-2.0) Shakespeare got it wrong. He might have been a great wordsmith and playwright who could look into people’s souls and see what made them tick. But when it came to...
(Wikipedia) A while ago I was talking to a good friend of mine who used to be an English teacher, but who has now moved on to other things. We were talking about how frustrating it can be teaching young children English and, despite only ever...
AHA! (Benabomb on Wikimedia CC-BY-SA 3.0) For a long time Mr. T has been saying ‘dah‘ for ‘yes’ or ‘sim‘, as I might have mentioned before. And then last week it changed. I had half expected him to start saying...
“There is this theory of the Moebius. A twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop from which there is no escape. So when we reach that point, whatever happened will happen again.” This was what Worf and Geordi Le Forge in...