Erasmus is almost finished

The next week will be a very difficult week for me. I will have a lot of exams in this period. The project presentation of Marketing 1 starts Monday. Than on 12 I have a test at Business English. After on 14 will start the presentation of Management. Than I think I will have 2 tests on 17. The presentation of Marketing Communication will be on 19.
This period will be very difficult for me.

But February will be a  free month with no school and projects. :)

I will spend it traveling, shopping....there are so many things that i would like to do.
So it seams that after the storm there is a rainbow.

I liked to be an Erasmus. Now that Erasmus is almost finished I can say that I learned a lot from this experirence. I will advice my friends to come here in the summer so I can visit them.

Also I enjoyed to live Porto a lot. I would like to return in Portugal after some years and see the changes.

Good luck to all in this last weeks.

Happy New Years everyone!

Happy New Years everyone!
I'm going to start the year off with a  optimistic insight.  I will  discuss something that I have recently discovered: Hope. Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.

Hope has truly changed my life. Hope has turned me from a cynic (the modern, not ancient, context) to an optimist. Being cynical is easily the worst way to influence your ethics. In short, modernistic cynicism is the totally blind distrust in the motives of others, regardless of who they are. Cynicism, in my experience, led to low confidence in everything, from myself to life in general. I came into things expecting the worst, and blindly accepted that if a better outcome happens, it is purely luck, not personal skill or logic. Cynicism was the prime factor in my now absent self esteem issues. Like heroin, cynicism is extremely hard to break, but I guess miracles happen.

Optimism does wonders for the soul. It really does. Always, always expect the best in things, not the worst. Put yourself in this situation. If you win a new TV, but you are currently in possession of one, how do you view it? If you answered "as a way to be thankful for what you have, or to make someone else very happy" congratulations. This example is, by no means, common reality, but a way to relate my point. Winning the TV may not have benefited you directly, but, if one were to look at the best way to handle it, beneficial is still achieved in the knowing that happiness could be reached, direct, or indirect.

Hope brings optimism. If you have hope in something, regardless of what it is, one would strive at nothing to preserve the feeling. Even if one ends up in disappointment in the end, one ought to take it optimistically, as a way to learn from the past to prepare for the future.

In closing, I just want to stress that in order to have a happier life, having hope and thinking optimistically should be in place. Trust me, cynicism leads to nothing positive, sure, it may be funny and cute at times, but, in the end, it only harms yourself.

A Happy New Year to everyone!

Feliz nono ano 2011!

Un an nou fericit!