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    I believe that Portuguese society is on a good path. You can see enough electric cars and bicycles through the streets of Lisbon. Many people this year have been using public transport, specially now with the rising of fuel prices.  In my city for example, all the streets already have the 3 crates instead of a general one. In the Algarve for example most restaurants sell drinks in glass bottles instead of cans or plastic bottles. But even so, I think Portugal still has to evolve a lot in terms of sustainability. I'm a person who tries to keep a balance. At home, I've already installed LEDs (on tape) so you can spend less power. Many of the times I end up leaving the lights on by forgetfulness but my mother is the opposite of me and always turns off everything be it lights or appliances.  On my computer, I downloaded the performance so that it consumes less power. When I bathe for example, the water does not heat up soon, it takes about 1 minute. So you don't waste all t

  We started to promote afternoon talks in our library regarding reading habits, cultural interests, to engage students, teachers and other staff in positive aspects of our lives. Reading is not the primary issue but along the way someone share a text, present a good moment reading or discussing a good movie that led them to the book behind the screen. This coming week we will do our 3rd and 4th talks. One is dedicated to manga, the Japanese cartoons, and the other to books that they want to read.  It has been quite interesting to promote these moments. We never know beforehand who will turn up, but the joy in their eyes, the feeling go wholeness has been a really interesting discovery and perception. This might seem strange, but our students are over 16 years and ours is a vocational school. Usually, they say they don't like reading. I hope we are about to change it. Cristina Basílio

  It's interesting to think that we want something we don't know, we all want to be happy, but what for some is happiness for others may not be.  Happiness has phases, the first is when we are children and we have no worries and everything is always fine and then we have the phase where we grow up and realize that everything is different.  In order to be happy we need to know how to build happiness and everything starts with liking ourselves, we have to be able to understand that not everyone will want our happiness.  In my opinion happiness is a feeling that we all seek in the day to day, even on less good days we try to find happiness, something good, because if we do not go after our happiness ourselves who will?  We must always be surrounded by people with a positive energy who want to see us well, so that we can also share happiness with someone. Each person can have a meaning to the word/feeling happiness and are not always meanings alike, it all also depends on our lifes

In the early 20th century,  women did not have as many rights as women today. In the old years, the women who worked were in the minority. Still my grandmother, mother of 5, did not work stayed at home to do daily tasks. Also in the minority groups there were women who were dependent and with higher education study.  Today it is no longer so, most women are already independent. Even so, there are still countries where men have a higher salary than women in the same profession which in my opinion makes no sense at all.  My mother, for example, is an example of an independent modern woman. She came from Ukraine alone and today she's in the job market, working as a nurse, being able to support me and her.  Nowadays women can also enlist in the army, which in the past did not happen in anyone's head.  In conclusion, the modern woman compared to the woman of the early twentieth century has changed a lot. Miguel Costa