<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445</id><updated>2011-07-28T16:27:14.620-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Estrangeira</title><subtitle type='html'>Um pouco da minha vida...
A small piece of my life...
Un petit peu de ma vie...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>75</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-1239728502979202488</id><published>2010-04-05T15:07:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-05T15:56:26.477-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Let there be peace</title><content type='html'>One of the discoveries I liked most in the last month is by poet &lt;a href="http://www.lemnsissay.com/"&gt;Lemn Sissay&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/about-us/resident-orchestras-and-associate-artists/lemn-sissay"&gt;South Bank Artist in Residence&lt;/a&gt;. I first heard of him in early 2009, during a photographic exhibition about poets in the &lt;a href="http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?search=ss&amp;amp;LinkID=mp92848&amp;amp;rNo=0&amp;amp;role=sit"&gt;National Portrait Gallery&lt;/a&gt;. Well, anything that comes from Ethiopia, where Lemn Sissay was born in 1967, calls my attention, but his "Love Poem" which was featured along with his portrait by Madeleine Waller captivated me even more:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You remind me&lt;br /&gt;Define me&lt;br /&gt;Incline me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you died&lt;br /&gt;I'd"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the first poem of his book "Listener", which can be also read as a song, "(...) his poems are songs of the street", according to the Independent newspaper:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let There be Peace&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Let there be peace&lt;br /&gt;So frowns fly away like albatross&lt;br /&gt;And skeletons foxtrot from cupboards;&lt;br /&gt;So war correspondents become travel show presenters&lt;br /&gt;And magpies bring back lost property,&lt;br /&gt;Children, engagement rings, broken things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let there be peace&lt;br /&gt;So storms can go out to sea to be&lt;br /&gt;Angry and return to me calm;&lt;br /&gt;So the broken can rise and dance in the hospitals.&lt;br /&gt;Let the aged Ethiopian man in the grey block of flats&lt;br /&gt;Peer through his window and see Addis before him&lt;br /&gt;So his thrilled outstretched arms become frames&lt;br /&gt;For his dreams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let there be peace.&lt;br /&gt;Let tears evaporate to form clouds, cleanse themselves&lt;br /&gt;And fall into reservoirs of drinking water.&lt;br /&gt;Let harsh memories burst into fireworks that melt&lt;br /&gt;In the dark pupils of a child's eyes&lt;br /&gt;And disappear like shoals of darting silver fish.&lt;br /&gt;And let the waves reach the shore with a&lt;br /&gt;Shhhhhhhhhh shhhhhhhhh shhhhhhhhhhh."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-1239728502979202488?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-3997700363302724728</id><published>2010-01-30T17:20:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2010-01-30T17:47:29.976-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Silver lining</title><content type='html'>They say the days are getting longer...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-3997700363302724728?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/3997700363302724728/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=3997700363302724728' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3997700363302724728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3997700363302724728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2010/01/winter-blues.html' title='Silver lining'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-1368262642762836870</id><published>2010-01-23T19:59:00.002-03:00</published><updated>2010-01-23T20:14:33.455-03:00</updated><title type='text'>New York 2</title><content type='html'>This reference to New York is made by Hans van den Broek, the protagonist of "Netherland", written by Joseph O'Neill (Harper Perennial, 2009) and suggested by the book club of my beloved local library, &lt;a href="http://www.southwark.gov.uk/YourServices/LibrariesSection/librariesandlocations/dulwichlibrary.html"&gt;Dulwich Library&lt;/a&gt;, in London. "You might say, if you're the type prone to general observations, that New York City insists on memory's repetitive mower - on the sort of purposeful post-mortem that has the effect, so one is told and forlornly hopes, of cutting the grassy past to manageable proportions. For it keeps growing back, of course". Van den Broek is a cricket player.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-1368262642762836870?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/1368262642762836870/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=1368262642762836870' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/1368262642762836870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/1368262642762836870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-york-2.html' title='New York 2'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-5630822459189405707</id><published>2009-12-26T09:31:00.004-03:00</published><updated>2009-12-26T15:00:49.046-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Parallels, paradoxes and peace</title><content type='html'>The legendary conductor and pianist &lt;a href="http://www.danielbarenboim.com/"&gt;Daniel Barenboim&lt;/a&gt; will be performing in the end of January/beginning of February 2010 in the &lt;a href="http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/classical/tickets/daniel-barenboim-with-berlin-staatskapelle-45167"&gt;Royal Festival Hall,&lt;/a&gt; in London. I was meant to get tickets to see him conducting the Berlin Staatskapelle through Beethoven and Schoenberg masterpieces, but too late... The cheapest tickets had already been sold out!&lt;br /&gt;I first heard of Barenboim not through music, but through literature. He wrote with the late critic Edward W. Said "&lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/parallels-and-paradoxes-explorations-in-music-and-society-by-daniel-barenboim-and-edward-w-said-600438.html"&gt;Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society&lt;/a&gt;". I got the Portuguese version a long time ago in Brazil (&lt;a href="http://www.companhiadasletras.com.br/detalhe.php?codigo=11704"&gt;Companhia das Letras&lt;/a&gt;, 2002) and it has been one of my favourite books since then, those ones you take wherever you go and which comforts your soul.&lt;br /&gt;Close friends, Barenboim (1945), a Jewish Israeli-Argentinian, and Said (1935-2003) , a Christian Palestine, created in 1999 the &lt;a href="http://www.barenboim-said.org/index.php?id=158"&gt;West-Eastern Divan Orchestra&lt;/a&gt; to bring together young musicians from Israel and the Middle East, to provide them with a space to share skills about music and to encourage dialogue and appreciation among people whose countries have been torn apart by an endless war. The Barenboim-Said Foundation has been developing remarkable initiatives in terms of music education, such as the production of the first Palestinian opera and a music kindergarten in Ramallah.&lt;br /&gt;Music helps to build mutual understanding because it touches universal emotions. It sees no boundaries, frontiers, colours or shapes, political or religious differences and stimulate you to look beyond the visible and foreseeable. As the title of a film made to register the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra suggests, &lt;a href="http://www.knowledge-is-the-beginning.com/Story.html"&gt;knowledge is the beginning&lt;/a&gt; to create a world with more peace and respect to others.&lt;br /&gt;Because of the orchestra, young people from countries which had experienced war in the past (or present) had to sit down and work together. It led to memorable situations, as Barenboim describes in "Parallels and Paradoxes". "A Syrian boy told me he had never met a Israeli boy and that the word Israeli meant everything negative that you could imagine to happen to your country and to the Arab world. But after a while both had to share the same music stand. They were trying to play the same note, play with the same dynamics, the same arch movement, the same sound, the same expression. They were trying to do something together. Simple like that. They were trying to do something together, something they both liked, something they were passionate about. Well, after they had managed to play the same note together, they could not look at each other on the same way as before, because they had shared a common experience (...)". (&lt;em&gt;note: free translation from the Portuguese translation&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;Barenboim is considered to be the first person to hold both &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/15/musicnews.classicalmusic"&gt;Israeli and Palestinian passports&lt;/a&gt;, a fact that irritated many people. When he was granted the Palestinian citizenship, two years ago, Barenboim told the Israeli newspaper &lt;a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/944235.html"&gt;Haaretz&lt;/a&gt; that he had accepted the new status "(...) because I believe that the destinies of...the Israeli people and the Palestinian are inextricably linked. We are blessed - or cursed - to live with each other. And I prefer the first".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me too.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-5630822459189405707?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/5630822459189405707/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=5630822459189405707' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5630822459189405707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5630822459189405707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2009/12/parallels-paradoxes-and-peace.html' title='Parallels, paradoxes and peace'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-7443222180377458069</id><published>2009-06-05T17:39:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-05T17:57:41.956-04:00</updated><title type='text'>New York</title><content type='html'>In the book "The Reluctant Fundamentalist", by Mohsin Hamid, the narrator meets a young American tourist in a café in Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan. Well educated and articulated, he describes the impact of urbanization in the districts of Lahore, but refers to the old parts of the city, particularly to the one where they are staying, as "more democratically &lt;em&gt;urban&lt;/em&gt;". That is when the American asks him if the Pakistani would compare it with Manhattan:&lt;br /&gt;"(...) Yes, precisely! And that was one of the reasons why for me moving to New York felt - so unexpectedly - like coming home. But there were other reasons as well: the fact that Urdu was spoken by taxi-cab drivers; the presence, only two blocks from my East Village apartment, of a samosa- and channa-serving establishment called the Pak-Punjab Deli; the coincidence of crossing Fifth Avenue during a parade and hearing, from loudspeakers mounted on the South Asian Gay and Lesbian Association float, a song to which I had danced at my cousin´s wedding.&lt;br /&gt;In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a &lt;em&gt;New Yorker&lt;/em&gt;. What? My voice is rising? You are right; I tend to become sentimental when I think of that city. It still occupies a place of great fondness in my heart, which is quite something, I must say, given the circumstances under which, after only eight months of residence, I would later depart."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-7443222180377458069?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/7443222180377458069/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=7443222180377458069' title='4 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/7443222180377458069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/7443222180377458069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-york.html' title='New York'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-6261323654658755602</id><published>2009-06-05T17:22:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-05T17:38:46.416-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Books</title><content type='html'>This blog has been taking a different path in the last few weeks or months. Inspired by the books I have been reading in the last year, I started to post excerpts that spoke to my heart, words that reminded me of situations lived in the past. Books also lead us to cities. And, of course, there are the unforgettable ones: the cities that made us whom we are today.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-6261323654658755602?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/6261323654658755602/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=6261323654658755602' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/6261323654658755602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/6261323654658755602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2009/06/books.html' title='Books'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-7166454163987384400</id><published>2009-05-23T06:18:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-23T06:36:51.864-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Spring</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/ShfNu1icHiI/AAAAAAAAAC8/v8OOxUznOQM/s1600-h/Irlanda+CAWeek+May+2009+065.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338962087800217122" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/ShfNu1icHiI/AAAAAAAAAC8/v8OOxUznOQM/s320/Irlanda+CAWeek+May+2009+065.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Spring´s pardon comes, a sweetening of the air,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the light made fairer by an hour, time&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as forgiveness, granted in the murmured colouring&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;of flowers, rain´s mantra of reprieve, reprieve, reprieve.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The lovers waking in the lightening rooms believe&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;that something holds them, as they hold themselves,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;within a kind of grace, a soft embrace, an absolution&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;from their stolen hours, their necessary lies. And this is wise:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;to know that music's gold is carried in the frayed purse&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;of a bird, to pick affection´s herb, to see the sun and moon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;half-rhyme their light across the vacant, papery sky.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Trees, in their blossoms, young queens, flounce for clemency"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(by Carol Ann Duffy, in the book Rapture, 2005, Picador)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-7166454163987384400?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/7166454163987384400/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=7166454163987384400' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/7166454163987384400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/7166454163987384400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2009/05/spring.html' title='Spring'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/ShfNu1icHiI/AAAAAAAAAC8/v8OOxUznOQM/s72-c/Irlanda+CAWeek+May+2009+065.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-6015316161232371444</id><published>2009-05-23T06:07:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-23T06:16:18.414-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Peace</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/ShfL08sXYsI/AAAAAAAAAC0/svBRYgHgi-M/s1600-h/Irlanda+CAWeek+May+2009+110.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338959993776857794" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/ShfL08sXYsI/AAAAAAAAAC0/svBRYgHgi-M/s320/Irlanda+CAWeek+May+2009+110.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moville, Co. Donegal, Ireland&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;by the shores of the Lough Foyle, overlooking Northern Ireland&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;May 10th, 2009&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-6015316161232371444?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/6015316161232371444/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=6015316161232371444' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/6015316161232371444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/6015316161232371444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2009/05/peace.html' title='Peace'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/ShfL08sXYsI/AAAAAAAAAC0/svBRYgHgi-M/s72-c/Irlanda+CAWeek+May+2009+110.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-4370212115018717807</id><published>2009-05-23T05:39:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-23T06:41:39.874-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Pensata</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/ShfE2mlRhDI/AAAAAAAAACc/ti41LSZrHDA/s1600-h/Irlanda+CAWeek+May+2009+064.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338952325619876914" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/ShfE2mlRhDI/AAAAAAAAACc/ti41LSZrHDA/s320/Irlanda+CAWeek+May+2009+064.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Belfast, Ireland&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tuesday afternoon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;May 12th, 2009&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-4370212115018717807?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/4370212115018717807/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=4370212115018717807' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4370212115018717807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4370212115018717807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2009/05/pensata.html' title='Pensata'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/ShfE2mlRhDI/AAAAAAAAACc/ti41LSZrHDA/s72-c/Irlanda+CAWeek+May+2009+064.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-7529243833811617824</id><published>2009-05-04T17:07:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-04T17:43:23.219-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Que alívio!</title><content type='html'>Estava escrevendo há pouco uma nota de repúdio contra a visita que o presidente do Irã Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faria ao Brasil nesta quarta-feira. E me chega, agora, a notícia de que o Itamaraty confirmou o cancelamento da viagem. O pedido partiu do próprio governo iraniano. Viva!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-7529243833811617824?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/7529243833811617824/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=7529243833811617824' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/7529243833811617824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/7529243833811617824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2009/05/que-alivio.html' title='Que alívio!'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-5934271998653930230</id><published>2009-05-02T15:04:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-02T15:08:27.249-04:00</updated><title type='text'>May</title><content type='html'>May has been more generous to us than wrote the poet Wendy Cope in "English Weather". Today is the 2nd of May and we have already had two days of sunshine:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January's grey and slushy,&lt;br /&gt;February's chill and drear,&lt;br /&gt;March is wild and wet and windy,&lt;br /&gt;April seldom brings much cheer.&lt;br /&gt;In May, a day or two of sunshine,&lt;br /&gt;Three or four in June, perhaps.&lt;br /&gt;July is usually filthy,&lt;br /&gt;August skies are open taps.&lt;br /&gt;In September things start dying,&lt;br /&gt;Then comes cold October mist.&lt;br /&gt;November we make plans to spend&lt;br /&gt;The best part of December pissed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-5934271998653930230?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/5934271998653930230/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=5934271998653930230' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5934271998653930230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5934271998653930230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2009/05/may.html' title='May'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-8159875893775558237</id><published>2009-04-18T18:07:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-18T18:19:28.174-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Conversation</title><content type='html'>'Well', said Lydia. 'I became very tired of the view from my window. Every day, summer and winter, I looked out at the school yard and the high fence and the apartment block beyond, and I began to imagine I would die seeing these things, and I didn´t want this. I expect you understand what I mean?'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Lydia to Lev, explaining why she left her teaching job in Eastern Europe, on a coach to London. "The Road Home", by Rose Treman, Vintage, 2008)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-8159875893775558237?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/8159875893775558237/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=8159875893775558237' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/8159875893775558237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/8159875893775558237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2009/04/conversation.html' title='Conversation'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-7741229411214139301</id><published>2009-02-15T07:04:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2009-02-15T07:06:57.102-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Em Luanda</title><content type='html'>Finalmente, depois de anos de espera, cheguei a Angola. Solo abençoado, este africano. Bem hajas!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-7741229411214139301?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/7741229411214139301/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=7741229411214139301' title='4 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/7741229411214139301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/7741229411214139301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2009/02/em-luanda.html' title='Em Luanda'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-7823423398227984678</id><published>2009-02-15T06:47:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-02-15T07:04:33.412-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Assim começa mais uma história em África...</title><content type='html'>"O avô Bento, em noites de cacimbo à volta da fogueira, nos contou, fumando o seu cachimbo que ele próprio esculpiu em pau especial. Dizia a estória se passou aqui mesmo, nas serras ao lado, mas pode ser que fosse trazida de qualquer parte da África. Até mesmo do Oriente, onde dizem também há água lilás.&lt;br /&gt;Se virmos bem, em muitos lados pode ter uma montanha semelhante. Eu só escrevi aquilo que o avô nos contou, não inventei nada."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pepetela, em "A Montanha da Água Lilas"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-7823423398227984678?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/7823423398227984678/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=7823423398227984678' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/7823423398227984678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/7823423398227984678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2009/02/assim-comeca-mais-uma-historia-em.html' title='Assim começa mais uma história em África...'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-8786364882081524984</id><published>2009-02-02T14:17:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2009-02-02T14:21:10.026-03:00</updated><title type='text'>London Today</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SYcrStpGHSI/AAAAAAAAACU/VwtjnGcDx2U/s1600-h/P9100049.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298251087114280226" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SYcrStpGHSI/AAAAAAAAACU/VwtjnGcDx2U/s320/P9100049.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;"... da janela lateral, do quarto de dormir..."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-8786364882081524984?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/8786364882081524984/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=8786364882081524984' title='4 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/8786364882081524984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/8786364882081524984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2009/02/london-today.html' title='London Today'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SYcrStpGHSI/AAAAAAAAACU/VwtjnGcDx2U/s72-c/P9100049.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-5669672629092041794</id><published>2009-02-01T09:26:00.003-03:00</published><updated>2009-02-01T09:40:19.723-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Snow and China in London</title><content type='html'>A rare thing to see: it snows in London. The weather forecast was predicting icy blasts to hit the UK on the weekend. I look back at the window. The snow has stopped. Indeed, a rare moment in Westminster. But unlike last Sunday, the sky is bright, calm and inviting for a stroll. Today is the highlight of the celebrations of the Chinese New Year in London, with street performances, fireworks, cultural and food stalls. I am heading to Chinatown and Trafalgar Square. Happy New Year of the Ox!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-5669672629092041794?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/5669672629092041794/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=5669672629092041794' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5669672629092041794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5669672629092041794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2009/02/snow-and-china-in-london.html' title='Snow and China in London'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-4270639369288302313</id><published>2008-09-18T11:33:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-02-01T09:26:13.887-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Pensata</title><content type='html'>"Considero Londres o melhor ponto de observação do mundo" (Henry James, 1843-1916)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-4270639369288302313?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/4270639369288302313/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=4270639369288302313' title='3 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4270639369288302313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4270639369288302313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2008/09/pensata.html' title='Pensata'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-208999501322076965</id><published>2008-09-01T06:34:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-01T06:36:31.176-04:00</updated><title type='text'>London</title><content type='html'>"When a man is tired of London he is tired of life, because there is in London all that life can afford" (Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-208999501322076965?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/208999501322076965/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=208999501322076965' title='3 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/208999501322076965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/208999501322076965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2008/09/london.html' title='London'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-5663955024588549591</id><published>2008-08-24T20:43:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-24T21:00:28.764-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Simplicidade</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SLIBbiZxEJI/AAAAAAAAABk/63_UT98hgHo/s1600-h/Florianopolis.+Julho+2008+066.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238250889188282514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SLIBbiZxEJI/AAAAAAAAABk/63_UT98hgHo/s320/Florianopolis.+Julho+2008+066.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cenas de um domingo preguiçoso na praia de Itaguaçu, em Florianópolis...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;... e com direito à poesia romântica no banco da praça.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SLIC7yP6USI/AAAAAAAAABs/22qiZQxICrQ/s1600-h/Florianopolis.+Julho+2008+049.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238252542709354786" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SLIC7yP6USI/AAAAAAAAABs/22qiZQxICrQ/s320/Florianopolis.+Julho+2008+049.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-5663955024588549591?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/5663955024588549591/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=5663955024588549591' title='3 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5663955024588549591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5663955024588549591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2008/08/no-banco-da-praa.html' title='Simplicidade'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SLIBbiZxEJI/AAAAAAAAABk/63_UT98hgHo/s72-c/Florianopolis.+Julho+2008+066.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-5059671600606331524</id><published>2008-08-24T19:53:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-25T07:27:06.160-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Paz e respeito às diferenças</title><content type='html'>O sítio &lt;a href="http://www.didinho.org/"&gt;Guiné Bissau Contributo&lt;/a&gt;, do jornalista Fernando Casimiro, o Didinho, publicou neste domingo um artigo de minha autoria, sobre a experiência que vivi como estudante de mestrado neste último ano na &lt;a href="http://www.upeace.org/"&gt;Universidade para a Paz (UPaz)&lt;/a&gt; , na Costa Rica. Você pode conferir o texto &lt;a href="http://www.didinho.org/PAZERESPEITOASDIFERENCAS.htm"&gt;Paz e Respeito às Diferenças&lt;/a&gt; e aproveitar para conhecer o sítio deste combativo ativista político guineense, radicado em Portugal desde 1988. Boa leitura!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-5059671600606331524?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/5059671600606331524/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=5059671600606331524' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5059671600606331524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5059671600606331524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2008/08/paz-e-respeito-s-diferenas.html' title='Paz e respeito às diferenças'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-4757012540265968989</id><published>2008-08-23T11:27:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-23T11:37:37.363-04:00</updated><title type='text'>No coração da cidade</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SLAuY5ZdCeI/AAAAAAAAABc/5urYio7ssu4/s1600-h/Florianopolis.+Julho+2008+019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237737371891206626" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SLAuY5ZdCeI/AAAAAAAAABc/5urYio7ssu4/s320/Florianopolis.+Julho+2008+019.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SLAtkLeD-XI/AAAAAAAAABU/81XoFxJB6pg/s1600-h/Florianopolis.+Julho+2008+018.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237736466209306994" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SLAtkLeD-XI/AAAAAAAAABU/81XoFxJB6pg/s320/Florianopolis.+Julho+2008+018.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Florianópolis me surpreende a cada dia que passa. Mas nada te deixa mais baixo astral do que a violência crescente na cidade, especialmente quando ela passa de raspão por ti. Ontem, pouco antes das 13 horas, horário de almoço para boa parte das trabalhadoras da capital, um assassinato aconteceu em plena Praça XV de Novembro. Dois meninos-soldados do narcotráfico, de 15 e 17 anos, mataram à queima-roupa um rapaz de 24. A vítima cambaleou até a frente da Farmácia Panvel e terminou de morrer ao lado de um papa-entulho, aqueles contêineres enormes onde são depositados restos de material de construção. O motivo do assassinato é o de sempre: acerto de contas do tráfico de drogas. Centenas de populares presenciaram a cena, no coração da cidade. A polícia retirou o cadáver, mas ficou a poça de sangue. Minutos depois, os bombeiros limparam as marcas da morte. E a cidade manezinha terminou a digestão do almoço e voltou ao trabalho.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-4757012540265968989?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/4757012540265968989/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=4757012540265968989' title='3 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4757012540265968989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4757012540265968989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2008/08/no-corao-da-cidade.html' title='No coração da cidade'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SLAuY5ZdCeI/AAAAAAAAABc/5urYio7ssu4/s72-c/Florianopolis.+Julho+2008+019.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-749288404323293290</id><published>2008-08-23T11:15:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-23T11:27:33.711-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Catch the bomb</title><content type='html'>Organizações pacifistas, como a &lt;a href="http://www.br.amnesty.org/"&gt;Anistia Internacional&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam_in_action/where_we_work/brazil.html"&gt;Oxfam&lt;/a&gt; e &lt;a href="http://www.iansa.org"&gt;Iansa (International Action Network on Small Arms)&lt;/a&gt;, lançaram a campanha internacional &lt;a href="http://www.controlarms.org/en"&gt;Control Arms&lt;/a&gt;, que pretende pressionar os governos a ratificarem o Tratado Internacional de Controle do Comércio de Armas. O Brasil já assinou o documento. O tratado tem importante impacto local, como a redução do número das armas de fogo e de munições que provocam a morte de tantos jovens em nossas comunidades. Segundo as ongs, existe uma arma para cada dez pessoas no planeta. Para sensibilizar o público, as organizações lançaram o jogo virtual &lt;a href="http://www.controlarms.org/en/games/catch-bombs-br"&gt;“Catch the Bomb”&lt;/a&gt; , onde você pode ajudar a recolher as bombas, granadas e minas ao lugar que elas merecem estar: no lixo. No Brasil, integram a campanha o &lt;a href="http://www.vivario.org.br/publique/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm?tpl=home"&gt;Viva Rio&lt;/a&gt; e o &lt;a href="http://www.soudapaz.org/"&gt;Instituto Sou da Paz&lt;/a&gt;, de São Paulo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-749288404323293290?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/749288404323293290/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=749288404323293290' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/749288404323293290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/749288404323293290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2008/08/catch-bomb.html' title='Catch the bomb'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-149936023955757272</id><published>2008-08-21T12:54:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-21T12:58:21.701-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hoje</title><content type='html'>Tristeza pelos atentados na Argélia e pelo acidente com o avião na Espanha. É por essa e por outras que tenho pressa de viver intensamente.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-149936023955757272?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/149936023955757272/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=149936023955757272' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/149936023955757272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/149936023955757272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2008/08/hoje.html' title='Hoje'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-467590776281333919</id><published>2008-08-20T11:29:00.014-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-21T12:49:12.475-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Talento Márlio</title><content type='html'>Xeretando blogs alheios em busca de novidades, encontrei uma ligação para o blog do primeiro ator de teatro que conheci, o Márlio da Silva, do querídissimo Grupo A de Teatro, do qual eu era fã de carteirinha na minha época de adolescência. Eu não perdia uma apresentação do grupo em Florianópolis, em especial da minha peça preferida, "Vivo Numa Ilha" que, por sinal, ajudou a revelar um outro talento, Ney Piacentini. Márlio mora em Amsterdã (Holanda) desde 1992 e tem um blog, &lt;a href="http://home.deds.nl/~kaputz/"&gt;O Corolário das Jararacas&lt;/a&gt;. Além de bom ator e escrever bem, ele continua um gato, apesar de o blog mostrar somente o perfil dele.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.: Minutos depois, numa pesquisa mais atenta, descobri que Márlio esteve na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), no mês de abril, participando da 1a Semana de Leitura Dramática. Eu não estava no país na época, mas com certeza teria ido lá para dizer que sou sua eterna fã. Na matéria da &lt;a href="http://www.agecom.ufsc.br/index.php?secao=arq&amp;id=6400"&gt;Agência de Comunicação&lt;/a&gt; tem foto e tudo. Realmente, ele continua um charme.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-467590776281333919?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/467590776281333919/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=467590776281333919' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/467590776281333919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/467590776281333919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2008/08/talento-mrlio.html' title='Talento Márlio'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-3777245740890907513</id><published>2008-08-19T13:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-19T13:10:04.781-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Pensata</title><content type='html'>"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman"&lt;br /&gt;Virginia Woolf&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-3777245740890907513?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/3777245740890907513/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=3777245740890907513' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3777245740890907513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3777245740890907513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2008/08/pensata.html' title='Pensata'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-3963507722169753389</id><published>2008-08-17T23:11:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T13:20:24.212-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Entre gatas e gatos</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SKj4JkUYucI/AAAAAAAAABM/wtfEJP3gyLQ/s1600-h/UPEACE+friends.May+and+June+2008+089.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SKj4JkUYucI/AAAAAAAAABM/wtfEJP3gyLQ/s320/UPEACE+friends.May+and+June+2008+089.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235707410069895618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SKj1Q4Si2-I/AAAAAAAAABE/Esu27HKtfeo/s1600-h/Rwanda+and+others.April+2008+080.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SKj1Q4Si2-I/AAAAAAAAABE/Esu27HKtfeo/s320/Rwanda+and+others.April+2008+080.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235704237155081186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saudade de um bichano ronronando por perto.&lt;br /&gt;Este é Gigi, meu gatinho companheiro de últimos meses de Costa Rica. Foi um presente de meus amigos e vizinhos Naita Saechao e Federico Chialvo. Na verdade, pensei que fosse uma gata até o dia em que a levei ao veterinário para fazer a cirurgia de castração. Como o controle de natalidade deve ser preocupação de ambos os sexos, Gigi não teve escolha. O nome, em homenagem a uma cantora maravilhosa da Etiópia, acabou ficando o mesmo. Na foto acima, Gigi dorme o soninho da tarde e, embaixo, enrolado numa manta do povo masai, do Quênia.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-3963507722169753389?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/3963507722169753389/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=3963507722169753389' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3963507722169753389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3963507722169753389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2008/08/gatas-e-gatos.html' title='Entre gatas e gatos'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SKj4JkUYucI/AAAAAAAAABM/wtfEJP3gyLQ/s72-c/UPEACE+friends.May+and+June+2008+089.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-631859628667604450</id><published>2008-08-17T13:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-17T21:27:30.668-04:00</updated><title type='text'>O retorno necessário</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SKh8nykW3YI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/nG-XJp_Mgiw/s1600-h/transylvania-poster01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SKh8nykW3YI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/nG-XJp_Mgiw/s320/transylvania-poster01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235571589849210242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SKh8oLTwwfI/AAAAAAAAAAY/9RE8VsGFAfs/s1600-h/transylvania03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SKh8oLTwwfI/AAAAAAAAAAY/9RE8VsGFAfs/s320/transylvania03.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235571596490490354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Depois de meses, retorno ao blog. Retomo a língua portuguesa, licenciada durante um ano por causa de meus estudos de mestrado em uma universidade internacional, e o tema que mais aprecio e que pertence à minha vida, ao meu pensamento, à minha política: as fronteiras. E, principalmente, a ausência delas. O assunto me remete ao diretor de cinema que inspirou o título deste blog, Tony Gatlif (é de sua autoria "Exílios", no qual a personagem principal diz se sentir estrangeira em sua própria terra...).&lt;br /&gt;Assisti ao último filme do cineasta, "Transylvania", às vésperas de minha partida da Costa Rica, em julho. De nome Michel Dahamani, Gatlif é nascido na Argélia, tem nacionalidade francesa e em suas veias corre sangue cigano, herdado dos pais, também de origem espanhola. E foram as fortes raízes que o levaram a filmar na bonita e mística região da Transilvânia, na Romênia. Para aquelas terras geladas e distantes segue Zingarina (interpretada pela atriz italiana Asia Argento) à procura do namorado que a deixou na França ou "en busca del hombre que ama, en el corazón de Rumania", como anuncia o cartaz no Arte Cine Lindora, em San José, capital costarriquenha.&lt;br /&gt;A dor do amor perdido sangra ainda mais o coração de Zingarina quando ela reencontra o rapaz, Milan, e leva um fora sem qualquer piedade. É o início de uma tormenta psicológica que leva a mulher à beira da loucura. Ela vaga sem destino pela Transilvânia, mas cruza com personagens interessantíssimos, entre eles o charmoso cigano Tchangalo (o ator turco Birol Ünel), responsável por uma reviravolta em sua vida. Eles se apaixonam e têm um filhinho juntos. Por incorporar as vestimentas e o estilo de vida ciganos, Zingarina sofre na pele o preconceito contra o povo rom. Uma das preciosidades deste filme é o cruzamento de fronteiras em questões como nacionalidades, religiões e idiomas. Em alguns momentos é praticamente impossível identificar a língua em questão - se inglês, italiano, romeno, italiano, alemão ou tantas das diferentes variações lingüísticas que existem em um continente tão multiétnico como a Europa.&lt;br /&gt;Volto a Gatlif e à sua forma de interpretar as fronteiras deste mundo, após uma visita recente a São Paulo, talvez o exemplo mais multicultural de cidade que tenhamos no Brasil. Ali, conheci o casal Alessandra e Mabrouk. Ela, paulistana, e ele, argelino da região da Cabília, mais precisamente de Bejaïa, capital da "petite" ou "basse Kabylie". No território da "haute Kabylie" está a cidade de Tizi-Ouzou, célebre foco de resistência popular nos anos 1950 e 1960 contra a sangrenta ocupação da Argélia pela França. Até hoje, a Cabília, com um dos menores índices de desenvolvimento econômico do país, luta pelo reconhecimento de sua cultura e de sua língua - o Tamazigh, popularmente conhecida como bérbere pelos ocidentais - pelo Estado argelino.&lt;br /&gt;E a cultura da Cabília não é pouca coisa, não. Da região vêm grandes músicos, como Idir, nascido em 1949 em Aït Lahcène e radicado na França. Idir vive as contradições de ter nascido em um país e ter adotado - de forma voluntária ou não - um outro para viver. Em um de seus discos, Identités (1999), ele se questiona "porquoi cette impression étrange que mon pays s´éloigne chaque jour un peu plus et me renvoie une image de plus en plus mythique, alors que j´ai toujours dans la tête une valise prête, mais hésitante?".&lt;br /&gt;Quem nunca viveu as contradições de se sentir diferente e dividido ao confrontar-se com diversos comportamentos, línguas, países e culturas? É por isso que o tema das fronteiras - sejam elas físicas ou sentimentais - fazem parte de todas as situações que eu vivo. São presentes e permanentes, principais e fundamentais no meu cotidiano. Necessárias para compreender-se os dilemas da sociedade, como o racismo, o sexismo, a homofobia e outras discriminações que perseguem os que não detém o poder político. Só a indiferença pode esconder estas contradições e a sensibilidade e o respeito às diversidades, torná-las visíveis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.: O encontro com Alessandra e Mabrouk aconteceu numa esquina movimentada na zona oeste da capital paulistana, junto com o meu querido Orlando, degustando um bom prato de macaxeira, carne de sol e bolinhos de abóbora com carne seca. Tanamirt (obrigado, em Tamazigh) pour votre amitié!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-631859628667604450?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/631859628667604450/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=631859628667604450' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/631859628667604450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/631859628667604450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2008/08/o-retorno-necessrio.html' title='O retorno necessário'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vnTu3qUV3Ig/SKh8nykW3YI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/nG-XJp_Mgiw/s72-c/transylvania-poster01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-7383471510906842390</id><published>2008-05-20T20:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-17T22:26:51.566-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Pensata</title><content type='html'>Are the clothes you are wearing today made with child slave labour? How about your earrings and necklaces?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watch "Slavery: A Global Investigation" in &lt;a href="http://www.freedocumentaries.com/film.php?id=192"&gt;www.freedocumentaries.com/film.php?id=192&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-7383471510906842390?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/7383471510906842390/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=7383471510906842390' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/7383471510906842390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/7383471510906842390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2008/05/pensata.html' title='Pensata'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-6093213928800677216</id><published>2008-05-15T22:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-15T23:07:28.207-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Land of tomorrow I</title><content type='html'>I believe in a world without geographical barriers and frontiers, where we can move with freedom and without fear. I believe that, although we don't choose the place where we are born, we can live in a place of our desires and dreams. Maybe it is a place we will never be, but it hides deep in our heart and thoughts. That is what keep us moving in this world: the desire of reaching a place of tranquility and peace, away from wars and greed.&lt;br /&gt;Thinking of it, I chose Wayne Visser's poem to illustrate the feelings of this Thursday evening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I weep for Africa –&lt;br /&gt;And my tears water the ground&lt;br /&gt;Where the tree of life first took hold&lt;br /&gt;And its severed roots still spread wide&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I weep for Africa –&lt;br /&gt;And my tears salt the wounds&lt;br /&gt;Where the battle for freedom first was fought&lt;br /&gt;And its fallen heroes still lie scattered&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I weep for Africa –&lt;br /&gt;And my tears mark the stain&lt;br /&gt;Where the blackness of slavery left its trail&lt;br /&gt;And the rust of chains still bleed red&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I weep for the invisible:&lt;br /&gt;For all those who still live in darkness&lt;br /&gt;Because the light of the world's media is dim&lt;br /&gt;And poverty's face does not sell &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I weep for the forgotten:&lt;br /&gt;For all those who died nameless&lt;br /&gt;Because the eye of the world’s memory is blind&lt;br /&gt;And history only remembers the conquerors&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I weep for the ignored:&lt;br /&gt;For all those who cry out in vain&lt;br /&gt;Because the ear of the world’s commerce is deaf&lt;br /&gt;And free trade is freedom for the few&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I weep for Africa –&lt;br /&gt;Whose mountains are scarred by greed&lt;br /&gt;And whose deltas are slick with corruption&lt;br /&gt;Because power is like cancer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I weep for Africa -&lt;br /&gt;Whose valleys are lined with graves&lt;br /&gt;And whose rivers flow with blood&lt;br /&gt;Because revenge feeds on itself&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I weep for Africa –&lt;br /&gt;Whose villages are skeletons of mud&lt;br /&gt;And whose cities are phantoms of dust&lt;br /&gt;For progress leaves many homeless&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I weep for the mothers:&lt;br /&gt;For all those who cradle sickness&lt;br /&gt;Because their compassion does not pay&lt;br /&gt;And life still has a price tag&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I weep for the fathers:&lt;br /&gt;For all those who sweat for food&lt;br /&gt;Because the forges of industry are infernal&lt;br /&gt;And labour is still just a commodity&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I weep for the children:&lt;br /&gt;For all those who grow up too soon&lt;br /&gt;Because the killer virus reaps a bitter harvest&lt;br /&gt;And childhood is still a luxury&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I weep for Africa –&lt;br /&gt;But not tears of pity&lt;br /&gt;For this is a land of countless assets&lt;br /&gt;And a people of abundant resourcefulness &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I weep for Africa –&lt;br /&gt;But not tears of despair&lt;br /&gt;For this is a land of vast potential&lt;br /&gt;And a people of inextinguishable hope&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I weep for Africa –&lt;br /&gt;But not tears of judgement&lt;br /&gt;For this is a land with its own destiny&lt;br /&gt;And a people whose sun is on the rise&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet for my forgetting of her ancient ways &lt;br /&gt;And my ignorance of her hidden secrets&lt;br /&gt;For my deafness to her fireside stories&lt;br /&gt;Africa weeps for me too&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;And for my dwelling in her shadows past&lt;br /&gt;And my cutting loose her community ties&lt;br /&gt;For my arrogance looking from the outside in&lt;br /&gt;Africa weeps for me too&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Yes, for turning my back on her wild spirit&lt;br /&gt;And bleaching the arc of her rainbow vision&lt;br /&gt;For my veil of salty tears shed for her&lt;br /&gt;Africa weeps for me too&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-6093213928800677216?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-6523563942548459904</id><published>2008-05-15T21:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-15T21:51:43.919-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Land of tomorrow II</title><content type='html'>An inspiring poem by Waine Visser (www.waynevisser.com):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I Am An African&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am an African&lt;br /&gt;Not because I was born there&lt;br /&gt;But because my heart beats with Africa’s&lt;br /&gt;I am an African&lt;br /&gt;Not because my skin is black&lt;br /&gt;But because my mind is engaged by Africa&lt;br /&gt;I am an African&lt;br /&gt;Not because I live on its soil&lt;br /&gt;But because my soul is at home in Africa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Africa weeps for her children&lt;br /&gt;My cheeks are stained with tears&lt;br /&gt;When Africa honours her elders&lt;br /&gt;My head is bowed in respect&lt;br /&gt;When Africa mourns for her victims&lt;br /&gt;My hands are joined in prayer&lt;br /&gt;When Africa celebrates her triumphs&lt;br /&gt;My feet are alive with dancing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am an African&lt;br /&gt;For her blue skies take my breath away&lt;br /&gt;And my hope for the future is bright&lt;br /&gt;I am an African&lt;br /&gt;For her people greet me as family&lt;br /&gt;And teach me the meaning of community&lt;br /&gt;I am an African&lt;br /&gt;For her wildness quenches my spirit&lt;br /&gt;And brings me closer to the source of life&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the music of Africa beats in the wind&lt;br /&gt;My blood pulses to its rhythm&lt;br /&gt;And I become the essence of sound&lt;br /&gt;When the colours of Africa dazzle in the sun&lt;br /&gt;My senses drink in its rainbow&lt;br /&gt;And I become the palette of nature&lt;br /&gt;When the stories of Africa echo round the fire&lt;br /&gt;My feet walk in its pathways&lt;br /&gt;And I become the footprints of history&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am an African&lt;br /&gt;Because she is the cradle of our birth&lt;br /&gt;And nurtures an ancient wisdom&lt;br /&gt;I am an African&lt;br /&gt;Because she lives in the world’s shadow&lt;br /&gt;And bursts with a radiant luminosity&lt;br /&gt;I am an African&lt;br /&gt;Because she is the land of tomorrow&lt;br /&gt;And I recognise her gifts as sacred&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-6523563942548459904?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/6523563942548459904/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=6523563942548459904' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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recent discoveries is youtube. It has been an useful source for me on news and music, especially. It is like being connected to the different worlds there might be in this world. &lt;br /&gt;I made a list of what I will call "A dream of a soundtrack", the songs I will take with me forever, wherever I go. Some of them I discovered with my friends at UPEACE, others I brought from Brazil, my home country. Enjoy them!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;o Clocks (Coldplay)&lt;br /&gt;o Talk (Coldplay)&lt;br /&gt;o The hardest part (Coldplay)&lt;br /&gt;o Don´t panic (Coldplay)&lt;br /&gt;o Good Luck – Boa Sorte (Vanessa da Mata &amp; Ben Harper)&lt;br /&gt;o Gigi (singer from Ethiopia)&lt;br /&gt;o Is it like today? (World Party)&lt;br /&gt;o Man on the moon (REM)&lt;br /&gt;o All Good Things (Come To An End) Nelly Furtado &lt;br /&gt;o Try (Nelly Furtado)&lt;br /&gt;o Saa Magni (Oumou Sangaré)&lt;br /&gt;o Yala (Oumou Sangaré)&lt;br /&gt;o Iowya (Angelique Kidjo &amp; Dave Matthews)&lt;br /&gt;o Ngomorera (Oliver Mtukudzi)&lt;br /&gt;o Dzoka Uyamwe (Oliver Mtukudzi)&lt;br /&gt;o Outro Lugar (Milton Nascimento)&lt;br /&gt;o Aquarela (Toquinho)&lt;br /&gt;o Requisitoire (Taby Ley Rochereau)&lt;br /&gt;o Sisters are doin´ it for themselves (Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox)&lt;br /&gt;o Ooh, child  (Nina Simone) &lt;br /&gt;o O Relicario (Cassia Eller &amp; Nando Reis)   &lt;br /&gt;o Dreams (The Coors &amp; Fleetwood Mac)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-3892756655714466761?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/3892756655714466761/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=3892756655714466761' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3892756655714466761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3892756655714466761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2008/05/dream-of-soundtrack.html' title='A dream of a soundtrack'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-4814787631318697831</id><published>2008-05-15T20:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-16T10:58:39.106-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Long time no see!</title><content type='html'>I have not been around for a long time... Since January, to be more precise. But I promise that I will be back soon. I am still in Costa Rica, in the last weeks of my masters program in Gender and Peace Building at the University for Peace (UPEACE). There is so much to do and to think about that I almost forgot my blog. Today I learnt about my friend Karla Santos´s blog (dublinenses2008.blogspot.com)and just loved it! This is just a quick text to say that I am still around, learning and living in a speed that reminds me of my time in New York City (1994-1997), where everyday was different from the previous one, and that in every corner you found a new surprise.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-4814787631318697831?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/4814787631318697831/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=4814787631318697831' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4814787631318697831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4814787631318697831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2008/05/long-time-no-see.html' title='Long time no see!'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-100767446897835099</id><published>2007-12-27T01:59:00.001-03:00</published><updated>2007-12-27T02:06:16.594-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Life encounters</title><content type='html'>My trip partner in the Central America is Marcia Ribeiro, a friend I met in 1999 during a course in the Archipelago of the Azores, in Portugal. Marcia is a Portuguese born journalist who has been living in Montréal, in Canada, for 16 years. She visited me twice in Florianópolis, after had worked in the World Social Forum, in Porto Alegre, for the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC). This is the third time we meet after our first encounter in the Azores. &lt;br /&gt;After Nicaragua, we head to El Salvador.&lt;br /&gt;Hope that there will be more trips together!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-100767446897835099?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/100767446897835099/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=100767446897835099' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/100767446897835099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/100767446897835099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/12/life-encounters.html' title='Life encounters'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-800734053138374082</id><published>2007-12-27T01:30:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2007-12-27T01:58:45.546-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Under the Nicaraguayan sky</title><content type='html'>Nicaragua embraced us with a warm breeze and a starry sky. There is no better way to start a visit to a new country. We arrived yesterday in the largest country in Central America, after a ten-hour bus trip from San José, the capital of Costa Rica. Managua, the Nicaraguayan capital, was busy on Christmas day. Nearly 60,000 Nicaraguans left Costa Rica to spend the holiday season with their beloved ones, back home. &lt;br /&gt;The country has been part of my imaginary since my childhood. More specifically, since 1979, when a revolution overthrew the Somoza family´s dictatorship and installed a socialist government, led by the people who followed the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN)´s ideas and ideals. &lt;br /&gt;As usual, the United States´ and Great Britain´s interference didn´t allow the country to go beyond most of its projects. Nicaragua, as most of the Central American nations, is seen as economically and politically strategic for the big potences.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-800734053138374082?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/800734053138374082/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=800734053138374082' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/800734053138374082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/800734053138374082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/12/under-nicaraguayan-sky.html' title='Under the Nicaraguayan sky'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-6512708459664349633</id><published>2007-12-09T11:57:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2007-12-09T17:34:15.764-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Sunday tunes</title><content type='html'>Sunday morning feels like listening to Malpaís, one of the my finest musical discoveries in Costa Rica. I missed two of their concerts, but hope to see them in 2008. New year always comes with new expectations. &lt;br /&gt;A bit of Malpaís here, in the lyrics of "Contramarea", by Jaime and Fidel. &lt;br /&gt;"Adónde estabas perdida, sueño del alba, espuma de los remansos donde crecí? Adónde estabas durmiendo, lírio del agua? Nací solo para verte...Nací solo para verte llegar a mí..."&lt;br /&gt;More information about them on anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-6512708459664349633?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/6512708459664349633/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=6512708459664349633' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/6512708459664349633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/6512708459664349633'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/12/sunday-tunes.html' title='Sunday tunes'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-5098340440220044533</id><published>2007-12-09T11:31:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2007-12-09T17:37:31.583-03:00</updated><title type='text'>State of belonging, state of being</title><content type='html'>The last issue of the Refugees Magazine, edited by the United Nations Refugee Agency, brings a special report about "The Excluded - The strange, hidden world of the stateless". One of the people mentioned in the article is the German philosopher Hannah Arendt, who was stateless for 16 years until she became an American citizen, in 1969, six years before her death. As the report states, Arendt had a successfull career, as one of the most influential thinkers in the 20th century, but most of the millions of the stateless people in the world remain anonymous and marginalized by their situation.&lt;br /&gt;Here is Arendt´s reflection on the issue:&lt;br /&gt;"To be stripped of citizenship is to be stripped of worldliness; it is like returning to a wilderness as cavemen or savages... they could live and die without leaving any traces" (Hannah Arendt, in "The Origins of Totalitarism")&lt;br /&gt;The full report can be seen at www.unhcr.org&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-5098340440220044533?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/5098340440220044533/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=5098340440220044533' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5098340440220044533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5098340440220044533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/12/state-of-belonging-state-of-being.html' title='State of belonging, state of being'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-3829949470498810632</id><published>2007-11-24T13:21:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2007-11-24T13:22:55.077-03:00</updated><title type='text'>To think about, before starting a new war II</title><content type='html'>“My children, this country has lost its good heart. People don’t trust each other anymore. Years ago, you would have been heartily welcomed in this village. I hope that you boys can find safety before this untrustworthiness and fear cause someone to harm you"&lt;br /&gt;(a village elder to Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier in Sierra Leone, in the book "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier", Vancouver: Douglas &amp; McIntyre, 2007)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-3829949470498810632?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/3829949470498810632/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=3829949470498810632' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3829949470498810632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3829949470498810632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/11/to-think-about-before-starting-new-war.html' title='To think about, before starting a new war II'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-8479573322212684647</id><published>2007-11-24T13:17:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2007-11-24T13:20:50.172-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Pensata</title><content type='html'>"An enemy is one whose story we have not heard"&lt;br /&gt;Gene Knudsen-Hoffman&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-8479573322212684647?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/8479573322212684647/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=8479573322212684647' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/8479573322212684647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/8479573322212684647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/11/pensata.html' title='Pensata'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-5365438208426639607</id><published>2007-11-24T12:32:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2007-11-24T13:16:59.781-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Sorry, guys, but this one goes in Portuguese...</title><content type='html'>Senti minhas primeiras saudades do Brasil ontem, com a visita de meus amigos Silvia Pavesi e Eumano Silva a Ciudad Colón, cidadezinha a meia hora de San José, na Costa Rica, onde vivo desde agosto deste ano.&lt;br /&gt;Sim, falar português por horas, saber das notícias da política e da economia (e, claro, do poço Tupi!), lembrar do gosto da farinha (só em imaginação...), tomar café da tarde (só faltou a cuca de Brusque!), comentar sobre os amigos de tempos passados.&lt;br /&gt;Ou de tempos futuros - quem sabe? Eu e Silvia não nos víamos desde 1994, segundo nossos cálculos. Os destinos nos levaram, naquela época, a locais tão distintos e distantes. Ela, a Paris. Eu, a Nova York.&lt;br /&gt;Agora, a América Central nos uniu. Silvia e Eumano estão pelas estradas latino-americanas desde abril de 2007 e têm muito chão pela frente. Logo logo estarão na Nicarágua, onde encontrarão outros amigos nossos, Cristina Gallo e Lúcio Lambranho. Que Nossa Senhora de Los Angeles, nossa padroeira na Costa Rica, ilumine os seus caminhos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-5365438208426639607?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/5365438208426639607/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=5365438208426639607' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5365438208426639607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5365438208426639607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/11/sorry-guys-but-this-one-goes-in.html' title='Sorry, guys, but this one goes in Portuguese...'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-702082954605128114</id><published>2007-10-31T13:18:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2007-10-31T13:31:14.083-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Smells and colors</title><content type='html'>There are also the smells and colors of the Caribean. Oh, yes, they are different. The colors, for example, I would compare with "chitão", a hard fabric from Brazil that mix strong colors such as blue, yellow, green, and red. It is almost composed of flowers, huge flowers. So, that is the Caribean. Chitão, considered a popular fabric, worn by countryside ladies, became now fashionable and it is a must in the wardrobe of famous clothing designers and home decorators.&lt;br /&gt;The smell comes from the sea and from the pots in the kitchens, cooking fish with coconut milk, the traditional Caribean sauce.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-702082954605128114?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/702082954605128114/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=702082954605128114' title='3 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/702082954605128114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/702082954605128114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/10/smells-and-colors.html' title='Smells and colors'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-6095751273280663334</id><published>2007-10-31T13:10:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2007-10-31T13:17:32.221-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Manzanillo</title><content type='html'>Manzanillo was my welcoming embrace to the Caribean sea. Yes, the Caribean is everything that you dream of and something else. Yes, there are coconut trees and a feeling of laziness that you may find only in Salvador de Bahia, in Brazil. Manzanillo beach is in the province of Limón, Caribean Sur de Costa Rica. It is a half-hour drive from Puerto Viejo, one of the most touristics areas in Limón and which reminds me a lot of Lagoa da Conceição, in my hometown Florianópolis (southern Brazil), because of its dreadlocks, tatoos and reggae. Reggae, by the way, is the prefered rhythm around here. Add to that, salsa, merengue and calypso.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-6095751273280663334?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/6095751273280663334/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=6095751273280663334' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/6095751273280663334'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/6095751273280663334'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/10/manzanillo.html' title='Manzanillo'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-9094524380685276968</id><published>2007-10-31T12:36:00.000-03:00</published><updated>2007-10-31T13:08:01.279-03:00</updated><title type='text'>Jamaica in Costa Rica</title><content type='html'>I went to Jamaica two weeks ago. Not physically, but sentimentally, torn by the waves of the Atlantic sea. Jamaica is in the Limón province, located in the South Caribean portion of Costa Rica. The region is mostly populated by blacks, descendents of Jamaicans and from other Caribean islands. From that interesting encounter, there came a language called patois, a mix of English, French and Spanish. Some call it "broken English". It sounds like music to the ears and it is matter of pride for its inhabitants.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-9094524380685276968?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/9094524380685276968/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=9094524380685276968' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/9094524380685276968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/9094524380685276968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/10/jamaica-in-costa-rica.html' title='Jamaica in Costa Rica'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-3739645882569983649</id><published>2007-10-01T21:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-01T21:14:24.998-04:00</updated><title type='text'>To think about, before starting a new war</title><content type='html'>I heard her voice calling "Mother, Mother." I went towards the sound. She was completely burned. The skin had come of her head altogether, leaving a twisted knot at the top. My daughter said, "Mother, you´re late, please take me back quickly." She said it was hurting a lot. But there were no doctors. There was nothing I could do. So I covered up her naked body and held her in my arms for nine hours. At about eleven o´clock that night she cried out again "Mother," and put her hand around my neck. It was already ice-cold. I said, "Please say Mother again." But that was the last time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hiroshima survivor, cited in Bel Mooney, "Beyond the Wasteland", in &lt;em&gt;Over Our Dead Bodies: Women Against the Bomb&lt;/em&gt;, ed. Dorothy Thompson (London: Virago press, 1983)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-3739645882569983649?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/3739645882569983649/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=3739645882569983649' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3739645882569983649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3739645882569983649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/10/to-think-about-before-starting-new-war.html' title='To think about, before starting a new war'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-4861599858628686672</id><published>2007-10-01T21:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-01T21:07:54.505-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My country is the whole world</title><content type='html'>"(...) Therefore if you insist upon fighting to protect me, or "our" country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share; but not to gratify my instincts, or to protect myself or my country... As a woman I have no country, as a woman I want no country, my country is the whole world"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Three Guineas", by Virginia Woolf&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-4861599858628686672?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/4861599858628686672/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=4861599858628686672' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4861599858628686672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4861599858628686672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/10/my-country-is-whole-world.html' title='My country is the whole world'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-8314621223323567924</id><published>2007-09-23T13:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-23T14:05:38.761-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Encuentro</title><content type='html'>"Por eso tengo que volver&lt;br /&gt;a tantos sitios venideros&lt;br /&gt;para encontrarme conmigo&lt;br /&gt;y examinarme sin cesar,&lt;br /&gt;sin más testigo que la luna&lt;br /&gt;y luego silbar de alegría&lt;br /&gt;pisando piedras y terrones,&lt;br /&gt;sin más tarea que existir,&lt;br /&gt;sin más familia que el caminho..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pablo Neruda&lt;br /&gt;Fin de mundo (El viento)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-8314621223323567924?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/8314621223323567924/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=8314621223323567924' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/8314621223323567924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/8314621223323567924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/09/encuentro.html' title='Encuentro'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-6062885758893607625</id><published>2007-09-21T01:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-22T20:44:00.549-04:00</updated><title type='text'>New country, new life, new hopes</title><content type='html'>One of the things that most touched my heart during this week were the pictures of the Palestinian children at the Ruwaished camp, in Jordan, sent by the United Nations Refugee Angency´s communication officers in Brazil. Wearing the T-shirts with the colors of the national team (green and yellow), the kids had hope in their eyes. Hope of a new life starting very soon. They are part of a group of about 100 people who start to arrive in Brazil on this weekend, after being repeatedly displaced between Iraq and Jordan in the last years. They will be settled in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul and, hopefully, very soon, will become "gauchos" like our locals. After the removal, the Jordanian camp will be closed down.&lt;br /&gt;The Palestinians are already part of the Brazilians´ lives, especially the ones who live in the big cities, such as São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, and even in my town, Florianópolis, where they own businesses in the downtown area.&lt;br /&gt;Brazil´s position of receiving the refugees is humanitarian and, at the same time, political. It will contribute very much for the comprehension of Palestinian situation and will help to bring peace to the lives of these people. This will be also a good opportunity for the local communities to learn about the importance of solidarity and multiculturalism.&lt;br /&gt;I wish good luck for the newcomers and I hope Brazil will always be open to people in need of a stable environment, distant from wars, hunger, political and religious persecution.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-6062885758893607625?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/6062885758893607625/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=6062885758893607625' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/6062885758893607625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/6062885758893607625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-life-new-hopes.html' title='New country, new life, new hopes'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-3178393553013168657</id><published>2007-09-21T00:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-21T01:02:26.053-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Be curious</title><content type='html'>"(...) as we go forward in the twenty-first century, feminists inside and outside academia need to be on our guard against a cynical form of knowing. We need to send the roots of our curiosity down ever deeper. We need to stand ready to be surprised -to admit surprise and build on it. It is bound to enliven our teaching, broaden our conversations, and make our strategies more savvy."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the book "The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire", by Cynthia Enloe (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-3178393553013168657?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/3178393553013168657/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=3178393553013168657' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3178393553013168657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3178393553013168657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/09/be-curious.html' title='Be curious'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-3404326214907915631</id><published>2007-09-21T00:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-21T00:54:14.339-04:00</updated><title type='text'>That´s what it is all about</title><content type='html'>"I have no country&lt;br /&gt;My country is the whole world" (anonymous)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-3404326214907915631?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/3404326214907915631/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=3404326214907915631' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3404326214907915631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3404326214907915631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/09/thats-what-it-is-all-about.html' title='That´s what it is all about'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-3624410124660378630</id><published>2007-09-09T13:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-10T15:44:22.697-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Celebrations</title><content type='html'>This coming week will be full of important events for the students at University for Peace (Upeace). On September 12nd, Ethiopians celebrate their new millenium, the Enkutatash, or the "gift of jewels". The country and the diasporas all over the world will celebrate this special moment with family and friends´ gatherings, food (injera!) and music. Between the 13th and the 14th, depending on the lunar calendar, it starts Ramadan, the sacred month of fasting and spiritual retreat for Muslims. Next Saturday (15th) there is Costa Rican Independence Day. Public parades are expected all over the country. &lt;br /&gt;I wish you all a great celebration!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-3624410124660378630?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/3624410124660378630/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=3624410124660378630' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3624410124660378630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3624410124660378630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/09/celebrations.html' title='Celebrations'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-7584226422348504551</id><published>2007-09-09T13:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-09T13:43:44.488-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Malpaís</title><content type='html'>One of my recent foundings in Costa Rica is the band Malpaís, named after a beach on the southern tip of the Nicoya peninsula, on the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Malpaís means "bad land", in Spanish, because of its isolation, although it became a touristic destination after the band´s success among &lt;em&gt;ticos&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;ticas&lt;/em&gt;. It will be, definitely, one of my destinations in a near future. I wonder myself what has inspired Malpaís to write these touching verses...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Malpaís&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Letra y musica: Fidel)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por aquella memoria que te tengo&lt;br /&gt;yo sigo aqui pensando cosas malas&lt;br /&gt;y me lleno de voces y recuerdos&lt;br /&gt;que me traen tus ojos de gitana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bebo un trago en el bar de los malditos&lt;br /&gt;y me pierdo en la noche que te llama&lt;br /&gt;y entre la oscuridad  y los delirios&lt;br /&gt;vuelvo a amarte, muchacha, en marea baja.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y en las malas palabras de tu cuerpo&lt;br /&gt;en pecado mortal entrego el alma.&lt;br /&gt;Tal vez fue sólo un juego del deseo&lt;br /&gt;pero quien mal comienza mal acaba.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En este Malpaís, que es paraíso,&lt;br /&gt;donde se enciende el mar como una hoguera,&lt;br /&gt;a donde van los gatos del olvido&lt;br /&gt;cuando el vientro es tu calma y es mi espera.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donde el camino es corto y es eterno&lt;br /&gt;entre nubes de sal y cordillera&lt;br /&gt;atrás quedo tu historia en las verdades&lt;br /&gt;y mentiras que arrastra la marea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allá en tu Malpaís donde no existo,&lt;br /&gt;en donde sigo esperándote en la puerta,&lt;br /&gt;será mi culpa o será el destino&lt;br /&gt;que ya no sé si voy o estoy de vuelta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O si el amor que amé y perdi en el viento&lt;br /&gt;fue sólo el canto de tu risa marinera.&lt;br /&gt;Me que dó el rojo de aquel sol muriendo&lt;br /&gt;allá en tu Malpaís, quemando el cielo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-7584226422348504551?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/7584226422348504551/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=7584226422348504551' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/7584226422348504551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/7584226422348504551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/09/malpas.html' title='Malpaís'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-1887585112731923748</id><published>2007-08-30T19:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-30T20:49:35.891-04:00</updated><title type='text'>"On Violence"</title><content type='html'>That´s the title of the book we read during the week for the Foundation Course at the University for Peace (Upeace), in Costa Rica. It is a classics written by the German philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). I have always heard of this book, but finally had the chance to read a part of it. Now I understand why it became a classic: Arendt´s words are important tools to understant society, relations between people, but, specially, how state can opress people with its old and violent structure:&lt;br /&gt;"Today we ought to add the latest and perhaps most formidable form of such dominion: bureaucracy or the rule of an intricate system of bureaus in which no men, neither one nor the best, neither the few nor the many, can be held responsible, and which could be properly called rule by Nobody. (If, in accord with traditional political thought, we identify tyranny as government that is not held to give account of itself, rule by Nobody is clearly the most tyrannical of all, since there is no one left who could even be asked to answer for what is being done. It is this state of affairs, making it impossible to localize responsibility and to identify the enemy, that is among the most potent causes of the current worldwide rebellious unrest, its chaotic nature, and its dangerous tendency to get out of control and to run amuck.)"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-1887585112731923748?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/1887585112731923748/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=1887585112731923748' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/1887585112731923748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/1887585112731923748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/08/on-violence.html' title='&quot;On Violence&quot;'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-5923624835570280904</id><published>2007-08-30T19:21:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-30T19:42:09.870-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Survival kit</title><content type='html'>Besides an umbrella, a newcomer in Costa Rica must pay attention to two essential accessories in his/her survival kit: a compass and a map! In Ciudad Colón, distant 35 kilometres from downtown San José, the streets have no names. If you want to get somewhere, try to memorize the names of the gym place, the supermarket, the barber shop, the ice cream place, the children´s school and the grocery store. In the beginning, it may seem a little awkward, but after a while you get used to it. It is a warm excuse to get in contact with the local people. You always have to ask someone if you are going the right way. My house, for example, can easily be found "de la estación de servicio Los Angeles, 300 metros al oeste y 50 metros al sur. Casa de duas plantas, color terracota con blanco".&lt;br /&gt;That´s how the mailman can also find me to deliver letters from Brazil. Yes, the post office recognizes the address. So, instead of numbers, the addresses have faces and nice people behind them. It used to be like that in any small city in the world, remember?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-5923624835570280904?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/5923624835570280904/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=5923624835570280904' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5923624835570280904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5923624835570280904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/08/basic-kit.html' title='Survival kit'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-1739696567809244846</id><published>2007-08-25T01:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-30T19:20:31.346-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Babel</title><content type='html'>I have had some experiences in the past with multicultural groups, but this is the first time in my life I have the chance to live with people from so many different nationalities at the same time and place. Take a look at the Babel tower we have in the University of Peace (Upeace) programmes for the year 2007 - 2008. The list includes students and Upeace staff:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Afhganistan&lt;br /&gt;- Armenia&lt;br /&gt;- Bangladesh&lt;br /&gt;- Brazil&lt;br /&gt;- Canada&lt;br /&gt;- Cameroon&lt;br /&gt;- China&lt;br /&gt;- Congo&lt;br /&gt;- Costa Rica&lt;br /&gt;- Equador&lt;br /&gt;- Egypt&lt;br /&gt;- Ethiopia&lt;br /&gt;- France&lt;br /&gt;- Gabon&lt;br /&gt;- Guyana&lt;br /&gt;- Honduras&lt;br /&gt;- Hungary&lt;br /&gt;- Iceland&lt;br /&gt;- India&lt;br /&gt;- Indonesia&lt;br /&gt;- Japan&lt;br /&gt;- Kenya&lt;br /&gt;- Kirquistán&lt;br /&gt;- Mexico&lt;br /&gt;- Nepal&lt;br /&gt;- Nicaragua&lt;br /&gt;- Pakistan&lt;br /&gt;- Peru&lt;br /&gt;- The Philippines&lt;br /&gt;- Romenia&lt;br /&gt;- Russia&lt;br /&gt;- Rwanda&lt;br /&gt;- Serbia&lt;br /&gt;- Sierra Leoa&lt;br /&gt;- South Korea&lt;br /&gt;- Sudan&lt;br /&gt;- Sri Lanka&lt;br /&gt;- Switzerland&lt;br /&gt;- Tajiquistan&lt;br /&gt;- Tanzania&lt;br /&gt;- Uganda&lt;br /&gt;- United States&lt;br /&gt;- Vietnam&lt;br /&gt;- Zimbabwe&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-1739696567809244846?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/1739696567809244846/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=1739696567809244846' title='3 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/1739696567809244846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/1739696567809244846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/08/babel.html' title='Babel'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-1848455673620240765</id><published>2007-08-22T21:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-22T22:15:56.497-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Huracán Dean</title><content type='html'>O furação Dean deixou suas pegadas de destruição também em Ciudad Colón, em San José, capital da Costa Rica. Hoje (quarta-feira, 22), início de nossas aulas, fomos informados pelo reitor da University for Peace (Upeace) que a estrada que leva à instituição fora destruída por conta das fortes chuvas da noite anterior. Por uma medida de "emergency adjustment", o grupo foi levado diretamente ao Gimnasio Municipal Canton de Mora, em Ciudad Colón. Ali será o nosso ponto de encontro até a estrada for reconstruída. Ainda não sabemos quando isso acontecerá.&lt;br /&gt;Ali, conhecemos e socializamos com os cerca de 150 colegas de 50 nacionalidades presentes em dez programas de mestrado. Para se ter idéia da diversidade da instituição, terei colegas no "Media, Conflict and Peace Studies" oriundos da Etiópia, Sudão, Índia, Estados Unidos, Camarões, Uganda, Serra Leoa e Ruanda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ainda sobre a chuva: estamos na metade da estação de inverno, época de muitas chuvas na Costa Rica. O dia amanhece, geralmente, com sol. Pelas três horas da tarde, uma grossa nuvem negra começa a se formar e anuncia a chegada da tempestade. Por isso, uma sombrinha é item obrigatório para qualquer morador de San José.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-1848455673620240765?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/1848455673620240765/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=1848455673620240765' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/1848455673620240765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/1848455673620240765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/08/huracn-dean.html' title='Huracán Dean'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-5415983506895059836</id><published>2007-08-22T20:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-22T21:37:20.950-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Flor Aguilera</title><content type='html'>Chama-se Flor Aguilera a mulher que abriu sua casa em San José para me receber. Vivo em Ciudad Colón, localidade distante sete quilômetros da University for Peace (Upeace), onde curso o programa de mestrado em "Media, Conflict and Peace Studies" até agosto de 2008. Flor é casada com Carlos e tem cinco filhos muito bem criados, todos já morando fora de casa. É o símbolo da mulher guerreira, batalhadora e maternal, um retrato da mulher centro-americana. A líder da casa. A cozinheira da casa (a comida que prepara é um capítulo a parte).&lt;br /&gt;Inicialmente, pretendia ficar num apartamento próprio, independente, mas optei por morar em uma casa de família para ter mais contato com a cultura, os costumes, a língua e a gastronomia local. Foi um bom acerto.&lt;br /&gt;Como Carlos Aguilera viaja durante a semana para o interior da Costa Rica (ele trabalha como topógrafo), moramos eu, Ledet Teka e Husnur Esthiwahyu, minhas colegas etíope e indonésia, respectivamente, que também freqüentam a Upeace.&lt;br /&gt;Flor nos oferece mais do que cama, comida e roupa lavada uma vez por semana. É uma pessoa solidária, querida, um ótimo e divertido papo à mesa, a figura materna que nos falta quando estamos longe de casa. Estou muito feliz aqui.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-5415983506895059836?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/5415983506895059836/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=5415983506895059836' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5415983506895059836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5415983506895059836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/08/flor-aguilera.html' title='Flor Aguilera'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-3048931367367824505</id><published>2007-08-22T20:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-22T20:32:37.565-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Pensata</title><content type='html'>O que seria de Nova York sem os latinos?&lt;br /&gt;O que seria de Paris sem os magrebinos e africanos?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-3048931367367824505?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/3048931367367824505/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=3048931367367824505' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3048931367367824505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/3048931367367824505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/08/pensata.html' title='Pensata'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-5392407912518160856</id><published>2007-08-22T20:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-22T20:23:18.462-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Latin Mix</title><content type='html'>Nas opções de trilhas sonoras oferecidas pela Copa Airlines - empresa aérea que me levou do Rio de Janeiro até o Panamá e de lá, até a Costa Rica, escolhi a seleção Latin Mix. Claro, para cair no embalo dentro do avião mesmo. Es pura vida!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Amor Gitano", Beyoncé and Alejandro Fernández&lt;br /&gt;"Lo Que no Di", de Marc Anthony&lt;br /&gt;"Adiós", Jennifer Lopez&lt;br /&gt;"Nunca Había Llorado Así", Victor Manuelle featuring Don Omar&lt;br /&gt;"Será", Sin Bandera&lt;br /&gt;"Miéntele", DJ Kane&lt;br /&gt;"Te Voy a Perder", Alejandro Fernández&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dos três anos em que morei em Nova York, entre 1994 e 1997, metade deles vivi em Washington Heights, na parte norte de Manhattan. A maioria da população era formada por dominicanos, portoriquenhos, cubanos, e por uma minoria de grupos como americanos, russos, venezuelanos, colombianos, africanos e estudantes da Columbia University. O Caribe era ali. Possivelmente hoje já está bem mudado. &lt;br /&gt;Folheio este capítulo de minha vida para dizer que o Latin Mix da Copa Airlines me lembra, e muito, meu antigo bairro. Eram salsa, merengue e calipso durante todos os dias. A música não tinha horário nem local para acontecer: era dentro dos supermercados (num volume bem generoso), nas ruas, no rádio do simpático porteiro do meu prédio, na 824 West 176th street, nas tiendas y bodegas, e por aí vai. &lt;br /&gt;A Costa Rica está me levando, de uma forma positiva, a referências passadas. Um passado que nos move ao futuro e a novas direções. Muita coisa está por acontecer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-5392407912518160856?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/5392407912518160856/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=5392407912518160856' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5392407912518160856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5392407912518160856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/08/latin-mix.html' title='Latin Mix'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-1055784303697425343</id><published>2007-08-22T19:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-22T20:28:23.842-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Rumo a Costa Rica</title><content type='html'>Cheguei bem a Costa Rica (sábado, dia 18), depois de uma viagem de quase 24 horas que incluiu três escalas até a capital San José. Do aeroporto Antônio Carlos Jobim (Galeão), no Rio de Janeiro, até o Tocumen, no Panamá, foram cerca de sete horas no avião, uma viagem tranqüila e repleta de expectativas. É a primeira vez que visito a América Central, região que acompanhou meu imaginário durante boa parte da adolescência e início de vida profissional, seja pelo cinema, jornalismo ou pelo relato de amigos e amigas que viveram na conturbada área. A América Central vive atualmente um período de estabilidade política, ainda que de dificuldades econômicas, e a Costa Rica, país localizado entre o Panamá e a Nicarágua, um dilema que acompanha qualquer nação em desenvolvimento: o de equilibrar a expansão econômica com a preservação de seu rico patrimônio natural, o crescimento com a inclusão das populações tradicionais.&lt;br /&gt;Vislumbrar o mar do Caribe é experimentar uma sensação especial. Ainda que não seja possível perceber a cor cristalina na água, pode-se ver as ilhotas pontuando o litoral que se aproxima da janela do Boeing 737. É a primeira visão do território centro-americano.&lt;br /&gt;Horas depois, desembarcaria em San José, capital da Costa Rica.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-1055784303697425343?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/1055784303697425343/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=1055784303697425343' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/1055784303697425343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/1055784303697425343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/08/rumo-costa-rica.html' title='Rumo a Costa Rica'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-8640400229916591928</id><published>2007-08-11T23:28:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-11T23:45:27.662-04:00</updated><title type='text'>"The Earth is Closing on Us"</title><content type='html'>"Where should we go after the last frontiers,&lt;br /&gt;where should the birds fly after the last sky?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A piece from "The Earth is Closing on Us", by Mahmoud Darwish (palestinian poet)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-8640400229916591928?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/8640400229916591928/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=8640400229916591928' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/8640400229916591928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/8640400229916591928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/08/earth-is-closing-on-us.html' title='&quot;The Earth is Closing on Us&quot;'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-877009183246951813</id><published>2007-08-11T23:13:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-11T23:16:22.797-04:00</updated><title type='text'>To Kill a Mockingbird</title><content type='html'>"Mockingbirds don´t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don´t eat up people´s gardens, don´t nest in corncribs, they don´t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That´s why it´s a sin to kill a mockingbird..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Miss Maudie to Jean Louise Scout Finch&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-877009183246951813?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/877009183246951813/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=877009183246951813' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/877009183246951813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/877009183246951813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/08/to-kill-mockingbird.html' title='To Kill a Mockingbird'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-1592936752614192403</id><published>2007-08-11T23:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-11T23:04:47.605-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Say a little prayer for me</title><content type='html'>"Dear God, let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry... have too much to eat. Let me ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is lost..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Francie Nolan, in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-1592936752614192403?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/1592936752614192403/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=1592936752614192403' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/1592936752614192403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/1592936752614192403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/08/say-little-prayer-for-me.html' title='Say a little prayer for me'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-4343526808277054019</id><published>2007-07-31T20:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-31T20:34:08.784-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Frío como un jardín de invierno</title><content type='html'>O frio desta noite, aqui em Florianópolis, lembra os versos de Pablo Neruda em "Jardín de invierno":&lt;br /&gt;"No falta nadie en el jardín. No hay nadie: sólo el invierno verde y negro, el día desvelado como una aparícion, fantasma blanco, fría vestidura, por la escalas de un castillo. Es hora de que no llegue nadie, apenas caen las gotas que cuajaban el rocío en las ramas desnudas del invierno y yo y tú en esta zona solitaria, invencibles y solos, esperando que nadie llegue, no, que nadie venga con sonrisa o medalla o presupuesto a proponermos nada..."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-4343526808277054019?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/4343526808277054019/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=4343526808277054019' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4343526808277054019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4343526808277054019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/07/fro-como-un-jardn-de-invierno.html' title='Frío como un jardín de invierno'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-2789202409043029209</id><published>2007-07-25T18:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-25T21:24:05.977-04:00</updated><title type='text'>In Her Shoes</title><content type='html'>One Art&lt;br /&gt;(Elizabeth Bishop)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The art of losing isn't hard to master; &lt;br /&gt;so many things seem filled with the intent&lt;br /&gt;to be lost that their loss is no disaster. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lose something every day. Accept the fluster&lt;br /&gt;of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. &lt;br /&gt;The art of losing isn't hard to master. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then practice losing farther, losing faster: &lt;br /&gt;places, and names, and where it was you meant &lt;br /&gt;to travel. None of these will bring disaster. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or&lt;br /&gt;next-to-last, of three loved houses went. &lt;br /&gt;The art of losing isn't hard to master. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, &lt;br /&gt;some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. &lt;br /&gt;I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture&lt;br /&gt;I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident&lt;br /&gt;the art of losing's not too hard to master&lt;br /&gt;though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-2789202409043029209?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/2789202409043029209/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=2789202409043029209' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/2789202409043029209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/2789202409043029209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/07/em-seu-lugar.html' title='In Her Shoes'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-4150685116561691723</id><published>2007-07-25T18:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-25T21:30:47.935-04:00</updated><title type='text'>A House on Mango Street</title><content type='html'>Há frases que nos acompanham sempre, são nossas bengalas em tempos de altos e baixos. Descobri Sandra Cisneros (1954, Chicago), de origem mexicana, e estas frases em Nova York e, desde então, têm feito parte de meus álbuns, de cadernos, de folhinhas perdidas...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Not a flat. Not an apartment in back. Not a man´s house. Not a daddy´s. A house all my own. With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. My books and my stories. My two shoes waiting beside the bed. Nobody to shake a stick at. Nobody´s garbage to pick after. Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem" (&lt;em&gt;Sandra Cisneros&lt;/em&gt;, in "A House on Mango Street")&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-4150685116561691723?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/4150685116561691723/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=4150685116561691723' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4150685116561691723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4150685116561691723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/07/house-on-mango-street.html' title='A House on Mango Street'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-7925829587760163210</id><published>2007-07-25T18:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-25T18:25:48.319-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lembranças do Marrocos - Tangier e Fès</title><content type='html'>Encontrei este texto há pouco, escrito em abril de 2004, sobre a minha viagem ao Marrocos entre 1999 e 2000. Não cheguei a terminá-lo. É um pouco antigo mas ainda mexe com as minhas lembranças e sensações, especialmente depois deste meu último final de semana. Elas continuam vivas como nunca...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voilà le texte!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Passei duas semanas no Marrocos, entre dezembro de 1999 e janeiro de 2000, e trouxe daquele país as mais belas lembranças que uma viagem jamais poderia ter me &lt;br /&gt;proporcionado. Iniciei pelo sul da Espanha. Estava em Sevilla, na luminosa região da Andaluzia, e lá pensei: por que não?, já que aquele país do norte da África fazia parte de meus sonhos havia muitos anos. De Algeciras, tomei o &lt;em&gt;ferry-boat&lt;/em&gt; até o porto de Tangier, uma das principais entradas para o Marrocos. Era época do Ramadã e muitos marroquinos residentes na Europa iriam passar a data com a família. São apenas 14 quilômetros de uma costa a outra, pelo estreito de Gibraltar, mas o mar revolto empurrou a curta viagem para algumas horas a mais. Meus planos eram o de chegar a Tangier e tomar um ônibus diretamente a Fès, mas como já era noite, mudei de idéia. O problema é que, desprevenida, não me dei conta que havia uma agência de câmbio dentro do navio. Quando desci em Tangier, não havia mais nenhum local aberto para trocar as pesetas espanholas pelos dirhams marroquinos para poder telefonar &lt;br /&gt;aos meus amigos marroquinos nem tampouco havia reservado um quarto de hotel para mim. Um francês que viu a minha situação e com quem eu tinha batido papo no barco &lt;br /&gt;- aquela era a 12ª vez que ele viajava ao Marrocos -, me emprestou uns dirhams para eu poder telefonar, pelo menos, para o serviço de informações turísticas.No local, encontrei um marroquino que dizia conhecer um hotel barato, de um amigo. Como desconfiança é regra número um para uma mulher que viaja sozinha, principalmente em países árabes, fiquei com um pé na frente e outro atrás. Fiz cara de brava, mas segui o rapaz. Era, realmente, um bom hotel, limpo e charmoso. Ali havia vivido o escritor americano Paul Bowles, autor de "O Sol Que Nos Protege", que mais tarde Bernardo Bertolucci levaria para as telas. Saí sozinha à noite para poder telefonar aos amigos de Fès e explicar que seguiria no dia seguinte. No caminho, ouvi palavras &lt;br /&gt;em árabe direcionadas a mim mas que até hoje não fiz questão de saber o que significavam. De manhã, tomei café com &lt;em&gt;croissants&lt;/em&gt;, herança dos anos que a França dominou o Marrocos, e, pronta para seguir para Fès, pedi ao taxista que me &lt;br /&gt;levasse até a rodoviária. No trajeto, observei a beleza da cidade, com o mar reluzente à frente. Como o mercado informal é o forte em quase todas as cidades &lt;br /&gt;marroquinas, uma turista (mulher) pode ser um alvo fácil para qualquer um. Vários homens me abordaram para eu viajar com aquela ou a outra companhia, mas acabei optando por comprar minha passagem no guiché. Embarquei e horas depois fui &lt;br /&gt;recebida por Hamid, meu contato em Fès. Era final de dezembro e passei a virada de ano em um lar marroquino, acompanhando todos os rituais do Ramadã, período em que os &lt;br /&gt;muçulmanos fazem jejum do nascer ao pôr-do-sol. Por ser ocidental, meus amigos me deixaram muito à vontade e pela manhã traziam gentilmente um copo de leite e um &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;croissant&lt;/em&gt;.Numa casa marroquina, e mais tarde, fui perceber que em outras casas árabes acontece o mesmo, o visitante é um membro da família. É preciso, no entanto, deixar os preconceitos de lado e mergulhar na cultura riquíssima do local.De Fès parti para Marrakesch, a cidade vermelha, dos mercados livres, dos cheiros dos temperos..."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-7925829587760163210?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/7925829587760163210/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=7925829587760163210' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/7925829587760163210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/7925829587760163210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/07/lembranas-do-marrocos-tangier-e-fs.html' title='Lembranças do Marrocos - Tangier e Fès'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-4561371960852611438</id><published>2007-07-25T16:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-25T16:55:29.136-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Boletim médico - Tigrinha</title><content type='html'>Tigrinha dorme enrolada numa manta de lã. Dorme o sono dos anjinhos. Dos anjinhos como ela. Não posso imaginar minha vida sem estas duas coisinhas: Neném e Tigrinha.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-4561371960852611438?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/4561371960852611438/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=4561371960852611438' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4561371960852611438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4561371960852611438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/07/boletim-mdico-tigrinha.html' title='Boletim médico - Tigrinha'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-2750499015797683517</id><published>2007-07-25T14:17:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-25T14:18:11.714-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Tigrinha</title><content type='html'>A todos que ligaram e enviaram e-mails: Tigrinha já está em casa e passa bem. Chegou com um colar elizabetano que fez a Neném estranhar a velha companheira!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-2750499015797683517?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/2750499015797683517/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=2750499015797683517' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/2750499015797683517'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/2750499015797683517'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/07/tigrinha.html' title='Tigrinha'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-8028632351642866560</id><published>2007-07-24T09:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-24T09:20:05.635-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Feliz aniversário!</title><content type='html'>Eventos históricos do dia, além do meu aniversário!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1883 - O município de Campos dos Goytacazes, no estado do Rio de Janeiro, torna-se a primeira cidade da América Latina a ter iluminação pública. &lt;br /&gt;1875 - Patrice Mac-Mahon, presidente da França decide a favor de Portugal e contra o Reino Unido sobre a posse da região sul de Moçambique. &lt;br /&gt;1911 - Hiram Bingham descobre a cidade inca de Machu Picchu, no Peru. &lt;br /&gt;1969 - A missão Apollo 11 retorna à Terra, pousando próxima ao Havaí. &lt;br /&gt;1975 - Samora Machel, presidente de Moçambique decreta as nacionalizações da saúde, educação e justica. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nascimentos&lt;br /&gt;1783 - Simón Bolívar, líder político sul-americano (m. 1830). &lt;br /&gt;1802 - Alexandre Dumas, pai, escritor francês (m. 1870). &lt;br /&gt;1862 - Raimundo de Farias Brito, escritor e filósofo brasileiro (m. 1917). &lt;br /&gt;1897 - Amelia Earhart, aviadora norte-americana. &lt;br /&gt;1930 - Jece Valadão, ator e diretor brasileiro (m.2006). &lt;br /&gt;1938 - Eugene J. Martin, pintor norte-americano (m. 2005). &lt;br /&gt;1952 - Gus Van Sant, realizador norte-americano. &lt;br /&gt;1959 - Giulio Lopes, ator brasileiro de tv e cinema. &lt;br /&gt;1962 - Edson Bueno de Camargo, poeta brasileiro. &lt;br /&gt;1963 - Karl Malone, basquetebolista norte-americano. &lt;br /&gt;1970 - Jennifer Lopez, cantora e atriz norte-americana de origem porto-riquenha. &lt;br /&gt;1976 - Tiago Monteiro, piloto português de automobilismo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-8028632351642866560?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/8028632351642866560/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=8028632351642866560' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/8028632351642866560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/8028632351642866560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/07/feliz-aniversrio.html' title='Feliz aniversário!'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-313869632475091602</id><published>2007-07-24T09:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-24T09:12:33.692-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sôdade di bô</title><content type='html'>Il ne manque que de sôdade di bô...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-313869632475091602?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/313869632475091602/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=313869632475091602' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/313869632475091602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/313869632475091602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/07/sdade-di-b.html' title='Sôdade di bô'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-8075271592771956391</id><published>2007-07-17T11:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-17T11:30:59.435-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Falafel</title><content type='html'>A Sociedade Amantes da Leitura promove na próxima sexta-feira (20 de julho) o jantar "As Mil e Uma Noites", onde será servido falafel, uma das mais deliciosas iguarias que já provei em minha vida! Conheci em Nova York (o meu predileto era de um restaurantezinho chamado Jerusalém, na esquina da Broadway com a 76th street), repeti a dose em Estocolmo e em outras cidades européias mas, depois, só me restaram saudades...&lt;br /&gt;O falafel será servido no pão pita e virá acompanhado por saladas variadas, como hummus, salada de berinjela, tabule e baba ganoush. &lt;br /&gt;O endereço para encontrar o tesouro é Biblioteca Barca dos Livros, rua senador Ivo D´Aquino, 103, Lagoa da Conceição (ao lado da loja do Koerich).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De brinde, uma receita de falafel, do site www.tendarabe.hpg.ig.com.br:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ingredientes:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 xícara de grão-de-bico&lt;br /&gt;3/4 xícara de salsa picada&lt;br /&gt;1 colher (sopa) de cebolinha verde picada&lt;br /&gt;1 colher (sopa) de fermento químico&lt;br /&gt;2 colheres (chá) de cominho em pó&lt;br /&gt;11/2 colher (chá) de pimenta síria (bahar)&lt;br /&gt;1 colher (chá) de sal&lt;br /&gt;1/2 colher (chá) de coentro em pó&lt;br /&gt;3 dentes de alho amassados&lt;br /&gt;1 cebola grande picada&lt;br /&gt;1 batata média ralada fino&lt;br /&gt;Molho de gergelim&lt;br /&gt;1/2 xícara de água&lt;br /&gt;1/3 xícara de tahine (pasta de gergelim)&lt;br /&gt;1 colher (sopa) de suco de limão&lt;br /&gt;1 dente de alho amassado&lt;br /&gt;Sal a gosto&lt;br /&gt;Para fritar&lt;br /&gt;2 xícaras de óleo &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Modo de preparo: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Na véspera, lave bem o grão-de-bico e deixe-o de molho, trocando a água a cada três horas. &lt;br /&gt;No dia do preparo, escorra e transfira para um pano limpo. Feche como um pacote e esfregue sobre uma superfície para retirar a pele. Passe pelo processador e junte os demais ingredientes. Misture até obter uma massa homogênea. &lt;br /&gt;Umedeça as mãos, faça os bolinhos e frite-os no óleo quente até dourarem. &lt;br /&gt;Molho de gergelim &lt;br /&gt;Numa tigela média, misture todos os ingredientes até obter uma pasta rala. Sirva com os bolinhos quentes ou frios.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-8075271592771956391?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/8075271592771956391/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=8075271592771956391' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/8075271592771956391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/8075271592771956391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/07/falafel.html' title='Falafel'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-5706794155594329529</id><published>2007-07-16T20:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-17T09:49:27.145-04:00</updated><title type='text'>African proverbs - II</title><content type='html'>From "Black Pearls - Daily Meditations, Affirmations and Inspirations for African-Americans (by Eric Copage, 1993). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Anticipate the good so that you may enjoy it" (Ethiopian proverb)&lt;br /&gt;"God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed" (African proverb)&lt;br /&gt;"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable" Kenyan (Bondei) proverb&lt;br /&gt;"May God preserve us from ´If I had known´!" (Hausa proverb)&lt;br /&gt;"If farmers do not cultivate their fields, the people in the town will die &lt;br /&gt;of hunger" (Guinean proverb)&lt;br /&gt;"By trying often, tne monkey learns to jump from the tree" (Cameroon &lt;br /&gt;proverb)&lt;br /&gt;"A single bracelet does not jingle" (Congo proverb)&lt;br /&gt;"You cannot shave a man´s head in his absence" (Yoruba proverb)&lt;br /&gt;"Treat the world well... It was not given to you by your parents...It was &lt;br /&gt;lent to you by your children..." (Kenyan proverb)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-5706794155594329529?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/5706794155594329529/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=5706794155594329529' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5706794155594329529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/5706794155594329529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/07/african-proverbs-ii.html' title='African proverbs - II'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-1064599353187005649</id><published>2007-07-16T20:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-17T09:52:13.950-04:00</updated><title type='text'>African proverbs</title><content type='html'>African proverbs sent by my friend, Mozambican journalist Frederico Katerere&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A farmer does not boast that he has a good harvest until his stock of yams lasts till the following harvest season"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"When you are eating with the devil, you must use a long spoon"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"People helping one another can bring an elephant into the house"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A single tree cannot make a forest"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"If one person in a street kills a dog the street is named the street of dog killers"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The giraffe looses much height while drinking. Some people loose their dignity when drinking"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-1064599353187005649?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/1064599353187005649/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=1064599353187005649' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/1064599353187005649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/1064599353187005649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/07/african-proverbs.html' title='African proverbs'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-4619956374463151831</id><published>2007-07-16T20:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-16T20:14:20.314-04:00</updated><title type='text'>África no rodapé</title><content type='html'>Duas frases acompanham o rodapé de meus e-mails, independente de onde eles forem parar. Coincidência (ou não), são frases que chegam do território africano, do continente que me aguarda dentro em breve. Já foi outrora ocupado por Mia Couto, que cavalheiro que é, gentilmente cedeu lugar a um provérbio de sua terra natal e ao mestre Nelson Mandela.&lt;br /&gt;A África soube construir sua cultura em cima de provérbios: a tradição oral sendo passada de geração a geração, ao longo dos séculos, pelos velhos griots, à sombra dos baobás. Mensagem raramente entendida pelo ocidente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Quem dança não é aquele que levanta poeira. Quem dança é aquele que inventa seu próprio chão" (Provérbio moçambicano)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Ninguém nasce odiando outra pessoa pela cor de sua pele, por sua origem ou ainda por sua religião. Para odiar, as pessoas precisam aprender; e, se podem aprender a odiar, podem ser ensinadas a amar" (Nelson Mandela)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-4619956374463151831?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/4619956374463151831/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=4619956374463151831' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4619956374463151831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/4619956374463151831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/07/frica-no-rodap.html' title='África no rodapé'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-13466633620632662</id><published>2007-07-16T20:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-16T20:02:51.832-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Exílios</title><content type='html'>Não hesitei em escolher este nome para o blog. Foi após ter assistido ao filme "Exílios", do diretor argelino Tony Gatlif, e ter me emocionado com a personagem Naïma, vivido pela atriz Leila Makhlouf, que me decidi pelo título. "Sou estrangeira em minha própria terra", ela falou.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-13466633620632662?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/13466633620632662/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=13466633620632662' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/13466633620632662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/13466633620632662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/07/exlios.html' title='Exílios'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1356144439386336445.post-6994680011267323610</id><published>2007-07-16T19:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-16T19:56:29.717-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Impressos</title><content type='html'>Impressos...&lt;br /&gt;Impressões...&lt;br /&gt;Este espaço foi criado para registrar o que mais gosto de fazer nesta vida... viajar!&lt;br /&gt;Seja bem-vindo às minhas impressões do mundo lá fora.&lt;br /&gt;Depois de Nova York e Estocolmo, minha próxima parada será... San José!&lt;br /&gt;Saludos, Costa Rica!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1356144439386336445-6994680011267323610?l=anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/feeds/6994680011267323610/comments/default' title='Postar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1356144439386336445&amp;postID=6994680011267323610' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/6994680011267323610'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1356144439386336445/posts/default/6994680011267323610'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://anaclaudiamenezes.blogspot.com/2007/07/impressos.html' title='Impressos'/><author><name>Ana Cláudia Menezes</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13905666872702585124</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
