One more day in Porto

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One more day in Porto

 Europe » Portugal » porto By AK Julia
March 29th 2007
Julia Normand Back to my regular teacher today--Sara, who is a grand lady, born in France to Portuguese parents who left Portugal during the Salazar period. she grew up learning both Portuguese and Frence. First her sister came back to Portugal, then she did, then her parents. She's very patient with me and very helpful, partly because she knows English and can tell in English if I really don't understand. However, she almost always manages, one waqy or another to get me to understand in Portuguese.
Today, the school had an activity for the students. Check out the pictures, and you'll see I am by BY FAR the oldest student. The "kids" are very kind to this old lady. It's fun to be around them--for awhile. Then I prefer to be on my own.
Saturday, I go by intercity train to Guimaraes for three days. Since I'm part of the group known as "tercer edade," third age, I only had to pay 2 Euros. I'm not sure what second age is. I'll have to ask.
More tomorrow.

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Photos

Playing around
Juliana, Daniel, & me

Azuleos
The front of the house is all tiles

Repair cars for the Streetcars
Both have lifts to get up to work on the lines, but the front one is more useful since it didn't need electricity to get to the site.

Street Repair
Huge piece of equipment that is hslping to dig up one of the main streets to do underground work.

Lisbon's Eifel Elevator
This is a picture of Lisbon from a tower built by Eifel (sp?)

Another Broken Promise
More paving stones, these quite complicated

Comments

[Liam]

Nice pictures!
This is a first, being able to see you trip as it happens!

[Sara]

Muito obrigada, Julia... Foi um prazer ser sua professora. Fico à espera de um blog em português! :) Um beijo