Teacher Gabi at UT

 Austin is a really colorful city, with a lot of life, diversity, beautiful nature and a lot of History.  The first place I visited here in Austin was the capitol, the house of democracy, it was bilt around 1888 and its made of a kind of stone called granite. It is higher than the main capitol in Washington DC. The second cultural place I visited here was Bullock Texas museum, where we can understand the Texas foundation a little, there I learned Texas first belonged to Spain and Mexico afterwards, Mexico sold north land to a American guy called Austin but they did not to negociate more land and of course there was a battle in San Antonio (the Alamo village) where its leader was Houston. The battle is know as San Jacinto battle then Texas became independent. In 1845 Texas finally became part of the United States.  We could experiment more of these history when we visit San Antonio city and the original the Alamo village. The third place we visited here was LBJ presidentia...

 When you travel to a different country It is inevitable you make comparisons with the culture you come from.  The first weird thing is we hear much more Spanish than English. It's kind of obviously when you hear the word America (USA) you quickly associate with their mother language English, but do you know in United States there are more than one official language? Spanish is the second official language spoken, and here in Austin you hear much more Spanish on the streets than English. Austin is a city in Texas, south of United States, the reason why the weather is more warm here even during winter time. But the weather is really crazy, you can have the four season in a single day. Autunm in the morning, spring and summer in the afternoon and winter at night.  People wear shorts even in a freezeing cold day. Yesterday for exemple, It was 0º degrees celsius and you found young people wearing shorts on the streets. So weird. When I came here I expected find more stores se...

As the title says, first I would like to talk a little about the program responsible for my trip to Austin TX. In Portuguese we call this program PDPI. PDPI is a program in training teachers from Brazil. The first step consist in filling forms proving that you are a teacher, the second step is a proficiency test measuring your English skills and qualifying you into one of three categories, they are intermediate 1, intermediate 2 or methods in teaching. After the test there is a rank showing if you are able or not to participate.  Once you are qualified for the program you have lots of documents to arrange and prove. The last part before you leave Brazil is a time you spend in Sao Paulo in a visa interview and so you are able to go to America and live the dream of studying in an American university.