Ana #5 – Description

Some unaware person could depict Lisa as normal looking woman. In my eyes, she had a pale face flooding mystery and sensuality which brought me a frenzied thrill down through my spine. Brown eyed, her prominent cheek bones and a small delicate mouth, added up with her sparkly eyes, would make her expression ambiguous and staggering. Her hair was brown, curly and thin portraying her somewhat fragile. I just stared at her for some minutes, amazed by her incomprehensible appearance. As time went through,  I experienced the sensation that her rounded face would just match perfectly with her sharp nose and also every little inch of Lisa’s visage.Not long passed, and my being was upset with my incapacity of unveiling her feelings throughout that astounding physiognomy. Then, so fast and unexpectedly, she disappeared in the haze.

Ana #2 – Birth Order

Birth order affects how people see and refer to themselves, it brings different happenings in your life history. A few decades ago, people would never think about that, but it turns out that experiences that we have gone through as in being the first born, being the secound born, how your family treats you, affect us in so many insidious ways that it’s just staggering.

Being an only child, most likely means that this child just has his parents to turn to, at least when he is small, and he grows up needing their attention and he fells alone or inadequate more often than a youngest child who has siblings would feel. Of course that this is not always true, it hinges on many factors and even the parents’ personality and nature can change the way the child feels. For instance, I’m an only child and based on my life history, I can say that I feel very self conscious mostly because my mother didnt know how to deal with me and raise me, also because she was a single parent.

The experiences that I’ve been through though, make me realize that when i get to be a parent I will try not to make the same mistakes she did. When i have children, I’m going to give them moral compass, by showing them the direction they should take,in order to pave the path to their adulthood smoother. Additionally, I’d give him love and affection, taking care not to bee too strict, demanding and complaining so he would feel secure and have better self-esteem.

Considering that life experiences can shape personality, the way people are and feel about themselves is a valuable step of course, because birth order can also be changed on it’s bad aspects if the parents are aware of their upbringing environment and the relationship patterns they are having. Although, we must always remember that bad experiences are inevitable, and we, children, ought to deal with them the best possible way because parents aren’t perfect.

Ana #1 – Introduction

My name’s Ana and I’ve always been living in São Paulo, though I’ve never wanted to, there are many reasons for this; first of all it’s too polluted, second I don’t like to look out of the window and see lots of buildings and a little green, it’s not the location where I live, the city is like this, third is that I also don’t enjoy being stuck in the traffic all the time. Living in big cities is very impersonal. That’s why I’ve always wanted to move somewhere else, possibly abroad. I’ve travelled a lot in my life and I just love it.  One year ago, I went to Canada on an student exchange program, and it brought me freedom, peace and happiness that i hadn’t felt for a long time . Also, besides the fact that i was taking an English course there, which is something I really enjoy doing, I didnt want to come back at all to Brazil, because I get easily stressed out here and there I was just chilling and hanging out, I could actually see nature around me and it was just amazingly beautiful and relaxing. In my life, I’m sure someday I’m going to be living in a foreign English speaking country, taking an MBA course probably, I’ve been studying English to achieve this goal.