About bravos and cabrestos

Living in Portugal I´m getting familiar with some Portuguese customs like bullfighting, called touradas here. The truth is I prefer to see these magnificent animals in the countryside but I must say I´ve witnessed this activity occasionally.

Give me a reason to live

I´m learning to read and write and I like to do it on my own. All help is very welcome

Dear Fran,

     I´ve always worked a lot in spite of my father thought on the contrary. And I never thought I was special, however hard he pointed at my leg. 
     I´m disabled.

Brexit means Brexit May dixit

To start with, I was against leaving EU.

Said this I ought to explain why I disagree with many defeatists who they think that Brexit will be a catastrophe to Britons.

Win the race and be honest

Dear Sir or Madam,

In Joana Petiz´s article Das cosas boas desta cidade, the journalist has given me a little joy. In that article she makes an itinerary about the Pavilhão Carlos Lopes.

Ribs

I´m learning to read and write and I like to do it on my own. All help is very welcome

     Today on my  return from the market I have seen a little coalbird. It was on a fence, swaying its red tail up and down. It was a female but the male was eight or ten meters further.

Bankers are not like vampires

I know there are animals that sucker blood from other ones, but I didn´t know that there are vampires that they give their blood to others.

When i became I

I´m learning to read and write and I like to do it on my own. All help is very welcome

     Dear Fran,

     You have seen I use the capital letters if I have to write surnames and first names –like Beatrice, Violet and Hope- and when I write any word after a dot. In cities, rivers, mountains, week days, months, seas and, the most important, when I have to say I.