Friday, January 19, 2007

My First Blog

One more new experience - I have a Blog!!!
It's fantastic how my life changed since I came to Canada. First I had to change all my routine, instead of working 12 hours a day, I started to study (English) "only" 8 or 9 hours a day and now I have a lot of free time to me and to my family. After a while, I started the LEAP program at University of Calgary. That was another big change: come back to University. I had been out of one university for more than 15 years! It was a chalenge but with great new experiences.
The Leap program allowed me to be integrated with the university life and I could learn much more than I could immagine. The most important skill that I could improve in the program, and I am improving yet, is writing. The way Canadians write essays is very different from the Brazilians: Introduction, Topic Sentences, Concluding paragraphs, etc...

It is a very special way to learn...