Cellar Door: 20 August 2017

Samstag, August 26, 2017

Holding down the pain

Painful moments
If disappearing is some sort of solution
I wanna vanish
Ta-dah gone
Just void
Leaving not a trace
No waves, no vibration, no nothing

Nice meeting you in case you haven't known me yet

I'm Laila C. Batista, crazy hair, and from some Jewish heritage. My family has been dealing with franchising language schools way before I was born, named FISK and PBF. I've been a foreign language instructor since I was 14 years old.

So far, I've been an EFL, Portuguese as Foreign Language, Spanish, English, and a German instructor. I am also a certified Journalist, translator, interpreter, a dropout psychology major, and a writer as human necessity. I was born in Brazil. I have 6 cats and 6 tattoos.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Communication in Brazil, in 1997, I decided to live abroad, in order to fully learn another language, attend a complementary course for my academic education process, and get to know a different culture. I lived in Saint Petersburg, US, for five years.

I will be soon 42, I've got a business of my own since I was 27, I've been married for 18 years, and I've forcefully decided to live back in my home country for good (who would've thought?). Hate it here.

My family has got two language schools in Brazil. I teach kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school EFL, and I have got two ongoing book projects: a poetry one and a fiction novel and have recently launched a book of shorties intended for EFL learners in Brazil.

My experiences in journalism towards entertainment news and short story writing led me to the artistic literary practice. I have also taught languages for 27 years. Through my education background, abilities, and desire to work, I believe I can be very useful to any editorial. I was looking forward to hearing from publishers to discuss about any possible publication of my manuscripts; as I'd written that years ago, I am fine in that matter, actually.

I am currently a columnist of a variety local magazine which I named - Blister, and I'm nearly ending my very first poetry book. I love blogging, playing the drums, teaching languages, proofreading, and translating. I am definitely in my element.

Ms Burden

Sup? I'm Laila Chris Burden. Welcome to Cellar Door. English isn't my mother tongue, but that's the language in which I best communicate. Besides a blogger, I am a teacher, a poet, a stationery junkie, a married woman, and have two cats. I teach languages, do pilates and therapy, and major in psychology. I speak Portuguese on the daily basis. Brazil is the country where I live and in here people speak this awesome latin language. I also speak German, Spanish, some French, Mandarin, and Japanese. I am a visual arts freak, although I'm very fond of music. I lived in Florida for a while though my trip was part of an exchange student program. I went to the US to achieve another college degree. I studied Liberal Arts in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas County (Tampa Bay area), USA. I had also taken another college degree course in Brazil before moving to Uncle Sam's land. I hold a bachelor's degree in Journalism. Another interesting fact of my life is that my present occupation is not actually based on writing or arts per se. I teach ESL- English as a Second Language. Never would I imagine becoming a teacher in this life. Well, maybe I should have since my both parents are ESL teachers. My husband manages our ESL school, PBF, and teaches English as well. We live along with a Siamese cat called Tibby and a black short-hair one called Pancho Villa. I am terrible driver but a wonderful chef. Hubby's name is Roberto and we are both from Sao Paulo. We have been non officially married for 14 years and we have been officially dating since September 1991. Btw, I'm in my mid thirties. Hubby and I have been going through gizillions of ups and downs in this life and yet we keep on moving. We work hard to pay utilities including the broad band Internet wireless connection which allows me blog on. We do struggle. We do love what we do. I love my writings, my husband, my kitties, my occupation, my blogs. I love being the kind of monkey I turned out being.

Ms Burden