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Introduting myself

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 Let me introduce myself properly, my name is Luzia and live in Três Lagoas a city placed at the East of Mato Grosso do Sul,where a I teach English to Children from 6 to 11 years old até a Municipal School. I've been teaching at this Elementary School since 2007, and I love it.  I applied for a Program at Capes/Fulbright on 2019 but because of the pandemic they only continued the tests in 2022. Since I passed in all of the tests I was selected to come to Austin-Texas University where I am now which onde I will live here for about 42 days with another 34 wondefull teachers from every states of Brazil to improve our knoledgement in English and appy on our classes when we get back. The University is so huge and beautiful I got charmed by it.  The first day we had breakfast at the Campus and the instrutions in the morning. In the afternoon we had a Joyride to know a little bit about this city and It was wondefull. The next day there were classes during all day longe and it wa...

Arriving at Austin-Texas

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  This is me and my friend Sandra. We até from Três Lagoas/MS, since São Paulo we traveled about 28 hours to get in Austin, and when we finally arrived we were amazed because at the airport there were some sculptures of beautiful and colorfull guitars. On the way to our dorms we could  see lots of different houses through the windows. When we got to our apartments we Saw many kinds of different things comparing to Brazil. And the University were so huge and beautiful that we through we were downtown.