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About me:

I'm Portuguese and very proud of my origins. I live in an incredible place, Sintra, and I can't imagine a better place to live. It's magical, historical, romantic, impressive, all in green and blue...

I recently graduated in Portuguese and English studies, and I'm working as a translator, from English, Italian and French into Portuguese, which is something I really enjoy doing.

Meanwhile, my goal is to travel as much as I can... and as much as my budget allows me!

And yes, I can spend hours looking at other people's profiles and dreaming about the next trip... :)

Some things I like:

ANIMALS

It's one of my passions and also one of my worries :-S Currently I have only two dogs, but I wished I had a lot more. If I ever win the lottery, first thing I'll do is build a big house where I can put abbandoned animals; it really makes me sick and sad when I see a poor dog walking around alone.

My older dog has 4.5 kg and my youngest 50 kg! They do not get along very well... In the beggining, the little one bit the bigger, and he didn't mind because for him it was a game...

... Now he grew older and that's another story... Whenever he has the chance he shows Cocas who's in charge ;-)

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BENFICA

I love to watch football. I know it's not very common for women to do it, but I grew up loving it (maybe the fact that my dad is a football maniac and he always wanted but never had a male son to go to the stadium on sundays helped a little...).

My team is Benfica- once a golden team, nowadays a little bit more 'little', but still the biggest team in Portugal and the one with the best tiffosi in the world! ;-)

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RELAXING

Yes, I admit it... I'm lazy and I love to sleep and do nothing! :-) Specially with good company in a sunny day ;-)

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SUNSETS AT THE BEACH

One of my favourite winter things to do is take my dog and go to the beach at sunset. He loves to run freely in the sand and smell the other dogs that walk around and there is no police controlling this ;-P In the beaches near my home the sun falls straight into the ocean at the end of the day, and it's one of the most beautiful images for me.

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Travel Plans for 2009

January - one weekend in Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal

February - back in Rome for one week

May - back in Rome... again! and 4 days in Barcelona

August and September - road trip in the south of Spain

November - Milan for one weekend

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  • Intro Updated Aug 3, 2009
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  • a2lopes's Profile Photo
    Oct 21, 2010 at 12:40 PM

    Olá Rita. Parabéns atrasados, tenho andado fora do vt, mas ainda venho a tempo de desejar mais um excelente ano.

  • PALLINA's Profile Photo
    Oct 10, 2010 at 1:35 PM

    Buon Compleanno! Come stai? E' davvero tanto che nn ci scriviamo...a presto

  • Martin_S.'s Profile Photo
    Oct 10, 2010 at 5:24 AM

    Wow, do you really live in Pena Palace?? Seriously though, you do live in a beautiful area, lucky you. ^O^ Martin

  • pieter_jan_v's Profile Photo
    Oct 10, 2010 at 12:23 AM

    Happy Birthday greetings from the Netherlands. PJ

  • Mikebond's Profile Photo
    Oct 10, 2009 at 1:30 AM

    Feliz aniversário Rita! Ho iniziato a studiare il portoghese, chissà se lo imparerò bene!

  • Swades's Profile Photo
    Oct 10, 2009 at 12:48 AM

    Many-2 return of happy days. wish your dram come ture...love n smile..vivek

  • kopwint's Profile Photo
    Oct 9, 2009 at 8:27 PM

    Happy and free in your days there, and wishing you get strong and harmony, and get smart and success, and get healthy and wealthy, especially you get smile and more get laughing in your life, from Burma. Know Burma??

  • Childish's Profile Photo
    Mar 4, 2009 at 6:57 AM

    Hi Rita :-) absolutely... the same ... :-)

  • Propermark's Profile Photo
    Jan 14, 2009 at 5:24 AM

    Ehi! Piacerebbe anche a me fare il tuo lavoro di traduzioni! Roma è molto bella e sono sicuro che ti piacerebbe vivere lì. Io potrei andare ovunque in europa dipende dalle occasioni di lavoro. Per ora aspetto notizie. Ho fatto dei colloqui! Speriamo bene!

  • Kid-A's Profile Photo
    Sep 17, 2008 at 9:38 PM

    Hi Rita, I have a language question for you :) How would you translate 'coisas minhas' into English? I tried an internet translation and got 'My Things.' But I'm sure there's a better translation??? Hello, again, from Germany, Brian :)

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