My name is Tiago, I'm from Brazil, 26 years old, working a lot and whithout time

[Arabinda]

Hi Tiago,

I am Arabinda, nick name is Rupak. I found u to be one of my friends. Hope u'll not mind to have a friendship with me. I am from a small city Jorhat of State Assam of India. Have u ever been heard about Assam. This a state located at North Eastern Region of the country India. Assam is famous for its Tea and One horned Rhino. The one horned rhino is unique creation of Assam only. Assam possesses the world's largest and smallest river island i.e. Majuli and Umananda.

We will discuss a lot later on. Keep in touch.

With regards,
Rupak

[Ollga]

Hi, Huy, Tiago and Huyen!
I am so much grateful to all of you for your warm welcome!
But I must apologize for my late answer. I haven`t been able to answer it at once.
You story about festivals in your country was very interesting! I think I will be able to visit your country and see bright festivals with my own eyes.
Thank you for your offer to be my guide! I think we`ll have a good time!
When speaking about festivals I bagin to reccollect my childhood. When I was a child my grandparents used to watch TV-programms such as "The Club of Travellers".
And I was facsinated by multicolored pictures of Vietnam, Brasil and Japan, france and Ireland.

My country is located on both continents Europe and Asia and is a multicultured. The capital of Russia is Moscow (I live not far from Moscow and I am going there this January to the iceshow "Christmas story the Nutcrackraker", music by P.I.Tchaikovsky). Usually every town has a few theatres. Movie theatres are also becoming popular in Russia and they
are equipped with the latest sound systems. The majority of Russians consider themselves as Christians, and belong to Russian Orthodox Church. It's a great achievement
for the country where atheism was the official state religion for more than 70 years. Medical aid and education in Russia are free, though Russians joke that education becomes less and less free with every year. One can still get a university education for free by passing the entrance tests (exams). Russian holidays: The biggest Russian holiday is New Year (1 January (by the way I was born on the 1 of January - And when you have yuor birthdays?). During the Soviet time people were not allowed to celebrate Christmas (Russian Christmas is 7 January), and New Year was the most cheerful holiday.
Thank you for your attention. I am looking forward for your stories abot your culture, hobbies. Good luck!

[Tiagomoliveira]

Hello people!

I'm very happy to see this forum! From a small topic that I sent one week ago we are developing a very interesting conversation. Now, I know a little bit more about Vietnam ( I never imagine that exists snow in Vietnam), and I want to know more about Russia.

Maybe I'll have a tourist guide in Vietnam, won´t me?

About my country festivals, I can say there is a lot of festivals and parties. If you are looking for FUN, come to Brazil.

The most popular is Carnival (in February or March), it's 4 days of parties and happines. Each city has a type of Carnival, the most famous is in Rio de Janeiro and Bahia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Carnival). There is too parties in June, and it is celebrate normally at the country side (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer#Brazil).
In the North of the country there is The Parintins Festival (I never went there, because here the North is really far from here - up to 4 hours by plane) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parintins_Folklore_Festival).

Ollga and Rupak, thans for join in our conversation!

Ollga, your name is famous here in Brazil and named an interesting movie about her history. She was a german-brasilian comunist, that suffered on second world war after married with an important and revolutionary of Brazil.

Regards, I intend to write again to you in this year.

Bye

[Tiagomoliveira]

Hey folks,

I found this video on you tube, all the narration in English (good to practice too). Its about Rio de Janeiro Carnival, very interesting, very beautiful.

Please, watch it and send your reviews :



Bye

[Tortoise]

Hey everybody! New year is coming. My time zone is GMT+7. And the new year is coming in about 7 hours and a half after this reply is posted. Wishing all of you a very happy and successful year 2010. :)

[Ollga]

Hi everybody!

Tiago, thank you for your exciting message about carnavals!
It is very difficult to find words for such wander!
If I were a Brazilian I could also to take part in it! You Brazilians are so happy people.

Thank you for your story about my name. This name came to Russia from Scandinavia. And sounded as Helga (where "H" is pronounced).
The meaning is "saint". This name became famous because of the Russian clever rather cruel princess Olga, who
retaliated upon the enemy, which had killed her husband.

Huy, Tiago, Huyen and Rupak! And what about your names? Tell me please abaut the meanings of your names.
I am looking forward to your reply!

[Yoski]

hello~ Tiago~ nice to see you here~ hope we can make friends~ lol~

I have contacted Brazilian customer before, but it's pity she don't know English, you know when i call her, she speak Portuguese, and I only can speak English and Chinese, so we can't go on~ hehe...Does your country speak English few ?

Thanks.

Yoski