Brazil calling!

Hello to all!!

My name is Julie and I am a sixteen-year-old Brazilian eleventh-grade student. As a matter of fact, I go to a French school here in São Paulo (southern Brazil), because my father is French. I've been studying English since I am 10 years old, but I've only started to study it seriously since I've sit the FCE (to be honest, before this exam I had no real difficulties to learn the languages...). This is what my school looks like! (it's pretty small, 900 students including primary school):

The curriculum here at Lycée Pasteur is bilingual: it fits both the Brazilian and the French Education system. However, most of our classes are taught in French, and the only subjects we can actually study Portuguese are Portuguese itself and Brazilian Geography and History. Next Saturday, the Lycée is celebrating its 40th birthday and there's going to be a party with varieties of music and food... I am going to participate in the parade, but I am not really looking forward to walking on a stage with a bunch of people staring at my moves...(to tell you the truth, I have no idea why I have accepted to do such a thing!) The course I am taking is a Literary one, and involves loads of writing and a bunch of strange skills (for instance, how to answer an unintelligible question without showing that you have no idea what you're talking about!). We have about 6 hours of French classes a week, 4 hours of English, the same for History, Geography and Portuguese, and few scientific classes. Apart from the curriculum subjects, I take two optional ones which are Latin and Greek.

By now, you've probably noticed that I'm extremely fond of literature and languages in general. This has probably started with the fact that I live in a small apartment filled up with piles and piles of books (and mess)! There are very few things that I fancy as much as diving into a great novel, mingling with the characters and incorporating the story. Perhaps I'm too much of a dreamer, but books allow me something that real life doesn't which is to live more than one life and be more than one person at a time. I'm fond of reading books in English (Jane Austen is great!) as well... Right now, I've started Heminghway's classic: For whom the bell tolls. The problem is that my sister's already told me the end and now I'm too afraid to go on reading it knowing that it'll end up very sadly. One of my favorite writers is Milan Kundera, even if I have read but one of his books (the most famous) The unbearable lightness of being...

Well, enough about books and let's go to a more egocentric part of this presentation! In short, I'm an incredibly stubborn spoilt girl (with brains however... -at least I hope so), born in an egoist city and raised in a system that encourages individualism... Existential crisis and books apart, I love drawing, listening to Brazilian Popular Music, watching stupid sitcoms (does the name Friends say anything to you? What about Tru Calling?) and swimming once in a while... Ah! I almost forgot: I'm mad about my cute furry cuddly cat!
In my spare time, I enjoy going out with friends, dancing, going to the movies, traveling (if there's money enough!)... and dreaming (a lot) !

Enough of useless words about my insignificant person... Why don't you tell me something about yourself? Hope to have a reply soon...

JuLiE