Today marks one week since the start of my break. I think that vacations should be titled "world's best creation" for their greatness. Till now I managed to go to the gym several times, game more, play my accordion, go cycling and, ofc, stay at home and not worry about anything. A lot of people use their break to sleep more, but I don't like taking too many naps and waking up late because I think it's a total waste of time -- I avoid waking up after 9am because of that, so that i can have more time before having to cook lunch. Even so, i'm not crazy to wake up at 6.
I plan to keep studying a bit every day, to get ahead on the lessons. But studying is tiring as heeeelll. Some days I just say damn it and go gaming. With that said, I hope this week goes by very slowly. I hate the feeling us students get on sunday night when there's class the next day.

Hi friends!! Sadly, break's over. Looking back, I can safely say that the only things I did well were finish Digital Devil Saga, Terraria, Dom Casmurro (a book) and sleep. I'm not very good at using my time efficiently...
Besides that, this weekend i went to a little city with hotsprings in Santa Catarina (Saint Catherine?). Pretty cool trip! Below there's some pictures I took on saturday (26):
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It's august already... The year is 62% finished. Have you realized that it is going to end soon?
Anyways, I've been traveling, again, these past few days: this time it's my fourth trip to Gramado, Southern Brazil. The city's pretty cool. There's a sudden increase in tourism on winter, when the penguin people come to see snow and turn into ice cubes (I go through that everyday without even leaving the city), so there were a lot of tourists, even some coming from far away like the northeast and even Chile.
One thing that bothers me about touristic cities, besides the crowds, are the price increases. Almost everything gets at least a 25% price increase! Goddamnit, 8 reals for a water bottle?? I'm going to go bankrupt!!
The hotel was fancy, it had a gas fireplace in the hall, card system to open the rooms' doors (didn't work properly though) and even something called "bidet shower" in the bathroom (who uses those?). The beds were really comfy and I slept great on our first day. The second day didn't go the same way because my brother snored through the whole night.
We went shopping and I got some clothes. On saturday we went to a pirate-themed pizzeria and it was Awesome, all the employees wore pirate attires and they even had a breakdancing show in the end. Wow, that's rad.

Here's some pictures:

A small little breakdown, bear with me. There's no way I spent a whole week studying for this term's finals and when I got there, on saturday, turns out it's easy as hell. I thought I was going to get my ass whooped so I was absorbing the books' knowledge like this kid here but in the end that was just unnecessary despair...

The subjects were this year's hardest ones: zoology, geometric optics, eletrochemistry and thermochemistry, combinatorial analysis (!!), probability and plane geometry... Studying for biology was difficult because our teacher, Doc baldness Luciano, doesn't know how to teach! He's great as a biologist but he's not made for teaching: he started the lessons, divided the class in groups and assigned each a phylum to research about, presentate and that's it. I managed to learn about Porifera (my group) and had to rely on online classes to learn the others in ONE week, therefore I didn't go to the gym or attended my other classes during that. Physics and chemistry were ok, but I hate probability and plane geometry and my grades are generally bad because of them (7) so I studied a lot as well.

My studying schedule (for other things) was in hold this week so now I have to catch up.

If I had written this post before the test, rivers of tears would be flowing out and I would be begging for thoughts and prayers. But alas, I didn't have the time for it.

Ok that's it. Bye bye, bye bye

Hey guess what? We're in September and spring is coming soon. The good months of the year start now and last until December. February till July are the bad ones, January and August are neutral. I can't explain why, but I feel like better things happen at the end of the year...
Ironically, my schedule right now is busy as hell and my energy has been going REALLY downhill. Last week I felt like some entity was sucking out my energy and today's monday and I can't take it anymore. We had "classes" almost every saturday last month, I couldn't skip them, and now this week we'll have class on saturday AND sunday (Sept. 7) sooo... It's tough.
Right now it's 9:50 pm and I think I'll play the accordion to change things up, it's been some time since my last session. Goodbye.

Yesterday I went to take the EsPCEx test. It's a nacional exam for those who want to take the army path and begin life as an officer. But goddamn, it's hard... Like tenfold harder than ENEM. But there's also the fact that I don't know half the topics so of course I couldn't hope for it to be easy. Differently from those who complain about getting tired, sleepy or hungry during the exam, my only complaint is that I had to stay 5 endless hours sitting in that HORRENDOUS wooden chair!! My back is not happy about it.
Oh well, today is the second day of the exam and I'm going to take just the basic with me: 1 pen, 1 pencil, 1 eraser, Id card and faith. I feed on knowledge, so I don't need food

I just came back from the exam. I suffered through math and history; geography and english were alright. Thank goodness I was taking the exam just for funsies, because I discovered that I'll need to study a lot more to get approved on this one. It just so happens that EsPCex is one of my options (out of 5), but it's good to be prepared for it nonetheless.
I had that Wham! song "Everything she wants" stuck in my head on the first day. Today it was Queen's "Stone Cold Crazy" turn.
I just realized that the notepad div (to the right) scrolling makes the headbar scroll as well. Oops. No idea how to fix that.

I skipped school today. Nothing better than some extra time for anything. In the afternoon, I went swimming after months of not doing so and damn bro, my stamina and breath are GARBAGE I couldn't do 50m without getting tired. In the end, I swam 500m and left. I'll come back later to fix this mediocrity.
Another sad story is that it's been 1 month since I last went to the gym because of a stupid scapula pain (in the rhomboid, actually)... Funny that this happens on the year that I promise myself I would work out a lot. Must be divine punishment for my sins.

Weird... This week seemed to last so long but, at the same time, it went by so fast... Quite a bizarre week, full of complications and nuisances... É fogo.
Today I finished learning "Rosalina in the observatory" on the accordion! It's a simple melody that I chose to practice by ear (i'm terrible at it, can't survive without sheets).
Next on the list are to improve La Foule (Que nadie sepa mi sufrir) and to seriously start Por Una Cabeza.

30 days. 30 days is all that remains until summer break. Just 30 more days of classes...
Then I'll be able to spend my time doing what I like - or not. Last year I fumbled a bit and my summer months were over before I could realize. They flew away like birds that leave the nest. Something like that.
But check this out: if I wanted, I could skip all of this month's classes and it would be alright. But my mom doesn't think the same way. She always insists in "oh, don't skip school or you'll won't be able to when you really need it" and the result of that is that I have amazing 4 skipped days in the whole year. Next year's going to be the same stuff.

Update: only 21 days left -- Mark the date: November 13th i'm hopping out school.
Many little episodes happened this week... I posted a video playing the accordion on social media and received compliments from my friends. I wasn't sure if I should've posted it, but since they liked it, it's alright... I just wonder if they all watched to the end, because a 2min40s video is very different from the usual 5s stories on instagram. I think I'll write about this someday.

This week's exams were really easy: a writing essay for geography (unexpected), a normal History one (I expected harder) and a chemistry one (too damn trivial). The last one had 12 questions and I knew the answer to 3 because I saw them while studying on thursday. What a nice coincidence!

In other news, it's worth mentioning the guy on cram school who always takes a 800 page book- "The Brothers Karamazov", Dostoevsky - and leaves it in full view on top of the table. That makes me think "wow, what a showoff" because who reads during a class they paid to attend? There's a new word for it: "performance reading" and it seems that such cases are becoming more evident recently. That's also a nice topic to talk about...

Also in cram school, a girl shattered my bro's heart when she told him she was already seeing someone. He was friendzoned... Ah, these evil women...

I think that's all of the irrelevant stuff I had to tell: 4 little episodes.