You can also find me at these pages:
http://stoa.usp.br/briannaloch
http://www.hikut.com/brianna_loch
http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=7972644164945921335

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Most of the pics here are from the site www.deviantart.com - where I'm not a member, so sure they're not made by me.

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I'm ungraduate on Language and Literature Studies at University - USP, Universidade de São Paulo, at FFLCH, the Philosophy, Literature and Language, Humanities Faculty there.

I'm not an English Native Speaker, I'm a Learner, I'm Brazilian, so be patient about it, plz...

I'M NEVER AVALIABLE FOR CHAT. PLEASE DON'T ASK FOR IT.

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The most popular free newspaper at São Paulo are also avaliable to read on the web. If you trying to learn BR Portuguese, or wanting to learn it, or just curious, you can take a look at these adresses:

www.destakjornal.com.br
www.metronews.com.br
www.jornaldotrem.com.br

and more news and interesting things at these:

http://stoa.usp.br
www.usp.br/jorusp
www.eca.usp.br/jc
www.softwarelivre.org
www.direitoacomunicacao.org.br
www.fflch.usp.br
www.bbcbrasil.com
www.gnusp.cjb.net
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I'm a Neopaganist, an Wiccan at learning *still a learner* and my mind is open to talk without prejudices... not prejudging !

...And I really don't like to rank/ rate people/ friends, nobody needs to do this to me, I don't ask for it... People are ranked/ rated at school, at the job, at University, at the family... I think there's enough rankings/ ratings on our lives !!!

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Here is something I wrote, and I really like to write it again at many places I go...


Pré-conceituar é se abster de refletir.
Estereotipar é se abster de analisar.
Preconceito e estereótipo é o que não falta - e que nunca faltou - nesse mundo. O desafio é refletir e desfazer isso quando encaramos.


To prejudge is to refuse on reflect about.
To stereotype is to refuse on analyzing it.
Prejudice and stereotyping are not in default - and neither were ever - on this whole world over. The challenge is to meditate and to undo this when we face it.


(original text - of my own - above, on Portuguese, and below it a translation try on English... I hope it seems good...)

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Roots: Mixed Blood

Places I have called home: around the city I live at now

Talk to me in: American English, British English, Brazilian Portuguese - I'm not European, please don't try jokin' about it

Rosy-Roti: Student

Interests: ***
o to study - and to use - the Language
o to read - and to write - very very much
o to take a walk on the Campus
o to pray to the Goddess and the God
o taking fresh water at anytime
o getting my e-mail - when it works at its normal way

Current Location: São Paulo

Restaurants/Hangouts: I taste all kinds of food I can - when it seems interesting for me to tasting...

Favourite Brands: Brands... huh? what brand means for you? I'm no certain about it... you tell me... for me means not much...

Best Books: Through the arc of the rain forest (by Karen Tei Yamashita), Sophie's World, Dracula (by Bram Stoker), The Mists of Avalon, The Art of War (by Sun Tzu), Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Sagarana (by Guimarães Rosa), Dom Quixote (by Miguel de Cervantes), A Hora da Estrela (by Clarice Lispector), Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works, To the Lighthouse (by Virginia Woolf), Ulises (by James Joyce), Language and the Internet (by David Crystal), OALD - The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary :D , English Grammar in Use (Cambridge University Press) XD ... sorry, I'm a learner, not a native speaker of English... I am a Brazilian, and I want still to going on learning much more !

Movies/TV shows: I realy don't like to watch TV so much... I almost don't take a look at it ! Books are perfect at off-timing !

Favourite Music: I have eclectical tastes about music...
Classical music - like Bach, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Chopin, Villa Lobos - New Age - like Enya, Kitaro, Enigma, Yanni - MPB - like Adoniran Barbosa, Elis Regina, Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil, Inezita Barroso - World Music - like Celtic, Indian, Russian, Chinese music - Hip Hop/ Rap styles - like Marcelo D2, Gabriel o Pensador, Eminem, Jay-Z, Fort Minor, Black Eyed Peas - Pop - like Mariah Carey, James Blunt, Kelly Clarkson, Janet Jackson - all kinds of rock - like Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Avril Lavigne, Evanescence, Angra, Shaman, Creed, Nightwish, Linkin Park, Nirvana, The Beatles, U2, Queen... I think if the music is well done and creative, if it really says/mean something, the melody is just a complement.