I'M GOING TO HOLLAND, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going!!!! XDDDDDDD
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! XDDDDD
Yeeeeeeeeyeyeyeyeyeyyeyeyeyeyeeyyeyeyeye!
OMG SO HAPPY! XDDDDDDDDDDD
OMG OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOG I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE I'M ACTUALLY GOING!!!!
I've been planning this for like yeeeears, I've always wanted to study abroad!! XDDDDD OMG CAN'T BELIEVE IT!

YEEEEEEEYYEYEYEYEYYEYEYEYEYEY!

Weird things have been happening!

These days, a man threw his 5 year old daughter out of the 6th floor window and everybody is going absolutely crazy about it. No, I mean, absolutely crazy, you have no idea, it's like the only thing people talk about in the whole country, it's absolutely bizarre!
I mean, it's a pretty horrible story, and it gets worse every week when new facts are revealed by the police in a CSI fashion, cause the guy and his wife won't confess. But people went absolutely crazy about it, in a way I've never seen, like thousands and thousands of people in front of wherever they are, the police station, their parents house, shouting, singing, etcetc... absolutely crazy, and the newspapers won't talk about anything else.

Or wouldn't, before yesterday night when an even more interesting event took place in the southeast part of the country: an earthquake! A real, actual earthquake, here, right here! 5.2 degrees, something like that! Everybody was like omg, the ground is shaking, ahhhh! Apparently last time an earthquake of that magnitude happened in Brazil was like 1922. Which I, personally, can't quite remember, none can anyone else I know, including my grandma. So you see, it is quite a big event! And today everyone was like "Did you feel it? Did you feel it?" "Oh, I felt it, at home!" "I felt it, too!" "Ohhh, I didn't!..." "oh, pity.... it was awesome! The ground actually shook!". Today the whole town was divided into "happy excited people who did feel the earthquake" and "poor frustrated people who didn't"

(That, obviously, only because it's very rare such a tremor here, so people get quite excited about it. And it didn't actually cause any damage, so it's something people are talking about as if they'd seen Santa. (I include myself in this))

(And I felt it, by the way, we thought it was because of the building they're constructing just besides mine! And they were working in the garage, underground, so we totally thought it was their fault! The building manager even went downstairs to complain, and then my brother called from another part of the city saying he'd felt it too!)

But my point to all this is: it's always so weird when everybody, just everybody start talking about the very same subject, in the whole city, or even the whole country, isn't it?
Like when there was that accident where they're constructing the subway, and a giant hole in the ground appeared, the so-called "crater".
Or when those recent horrible accidents with airplanes happened... ooh, I totally hate plane accidents, they're too tragic....
or even the case of that boy..., that's by far the worst, I don't even like to remember....

But anyway.
Apart from that, my news are... not so many. But for one:
I have been anxiously waiting for a certain result. I enrolled for a student exchange in the Netherlands. There are two places for Delft, and about 15 candidates... of the around 10 possibilities of colleges abroad that you could choose to go to, Delft is by far the most wanted one. I'm not sure why, I mean, it's holland, you know, who'd want to go to holland? I mean, they're nice and all that, but it's not a pop place like paris or london. But they're saying Delft is where the best architecture course is, in europe, and so suddenly everybody seems to want to go to Delft. I myself have been planning on trying the student exchange ever since my first year, and to Delft specifically, because of a number of reasons...
So i have to beat the other 14 candidates, or at least 13 of them, in order to go to the Netherlands as planned. There's going to be an interview, with three of our professors, who'll also analyse our curriculum lattes, our activities in the university so far, our marks, our motivation and our portfolio.
I'm absurdly anxious about it all and wish they'd just decide once and for all who's going and who's not, so that I can make plans for my next semester. Cause it's kinda difficult to know what you'll do next semester if you can't tell which country you're going to be living in.

Well, I'm very motivated. Wish me luck!

>3<

(And if you have devastating earthquakes in your country and is indignant over my excitement about ours, please excuse us, it's just that it's such new thing to everyone! And we certainly don't expect to have them again, we hope)

I've been submitting drawings to this account -> ^

^_^

>3<

The most amazing shots have been submitted for the "Earth - The Deepest Respect" contest!
Here!
An infinite number of deviants entered the contest and there just aren't dispensable entries, they're all really really beautiful!! XD
I wonder how the judges are going to make a choice to decide on the winners! I'd have a very hard time choosing one, or even a few...

>3<

This week we learnt to develop films! xDD Yey!
But I wasn't very successful... apparently I hadn't put the film the right way into the camera, because it didn't turn... and I didn't notice it wasn't turning, by the way. Very stupid of me, I must say.. and it was such a stupid mistake, you know, I have used the camera before, put in films before, but for some ridiculous reason I let it loose and it didn't turn, so all the shots were taken one over the other. The result is interesting, though, I may try to enlarge it later.

But it was very sad, you know? We took our films out of our cameras (I noticed something was very wrong when I rewinded it, and I thought it had somehow come loose from the reel... When I opened the camera in the dark there was only the reel, so the film was all in there..) then we did everything, threaded the film onto the reels, put it in the tank and put in all the chemicals, and all that, and finally, after all the shaking, waiting, pouring, counting, everyone took their films out of the tanks and they were all very happy, with their perfect shining negatives, and mine was all blank! Ç_______Ç

I felt like a kid whose ice cream had just fallen on the floor!! Ç_Ç

Well, some other films went wrong too besides mine... there was a tank that fell open while it was still on the developer stage, and it was a three reel tank! Amazingly they were still able to save some of the shots, not all of them got burnt! lucky!

Since I was extremely abashed by the fail, I decided to try again today... Luckily I had some p&b films at home, so I took some new pictures this morning and went back to the lab at lunch time, to develop them... and this time it worked! ^_^
I also took the time to enlarge some shots of a negative I had had developed in a professional lab some weeks ago, but hadn't had them enlarged...

The good thing about film photography, today, is that you can manage to find material for free from friends or family who won't use them again! The camera I'm using I bought, recently, and it was very cheap. It's a Praktika MTL3 with a Pentacon 50mm lens. It's all manual, which is very good. Then my uncle, who's a photographer, gave me some very old films he had, both p&b and colour... and my brother's girlfriend had some photographic paper she gave me... and it's a very good quality one!!

Anyway, so I enlarged two pictures, but they didn't come out too good. I didn't put the enlarger's light long enough, so they didn't come out with a very good contrast. And one of them has some very weird lines and I can't figure out where they came from...

But I think I'll post it anyway, cause it looks nice, anyway, and they mean a lot to me, of course, since it's all my work!! xDD