Maria Molinari Zanatta

About Me

           My name is Maria and I’m twelve years old. I am tall and thin. My hair is long, brown and straight, and my eyes are brown too. I think I am friendly and I’m outgoing, but I don’t know why I’m not in the school.

                I live with my father, my mother and my brother. My father is called Cássio, my mother is Beatriz and my brother’s name is Pedro. We are “Santistas”.

                I love ballet, but I hate avocado. It’s horble! My favourite animals are dogs and owls, but I hate spiders.

                I love listening to music in records, and my favourite bands are Queen, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones. I love them, but I can’t stand Restart!  I like so much classical music, too.

                I love Emma Watson!! She’s an actress and she does the Harry Potter films. She’s perfect!! 

                At home I have to lay and clear the table  and  sometimes I help my mom with the cooking. My brother hardly ever helps with the housework.He just likes cooking.

                On Mondays and Wednesdays my after school activity is English Class. I think is so long, I stay there two hours!

                On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, I have ballet classes. It’s longer than the English Class, but for me it’s so quickly!! I enjoy so much doing that.

                When I’m not during after school activities I spend doing homework. Then I hardly ever have homework on the weekend.

                For my future I don’t know many things. I don’t want to stop ballet and I like so much photography and animals. I don’t know what I want to be.

                I’d like to travel around the world, but I don’t know if I want to go somewhere to study.

                This is me and my life.

Sharing Life Stories

              

                The  first character of my story was my grandmother (from my father’s side) called Celina. She was born on 24 June 1932 in São José do Rio Pardo and she was a History and Geography teacher.

                The second character in the story was my grandfather (from my father’s side) called Irineu. He was born on 17 June 1922 in São José do Rio Pardo and he was a shop assistant. He came to São Paulo when he was 16, soon he became a storekeeper.

                They were friends in their childhood and they studied in the same school. They felt for each other a great attraction. However, Celina was engaged to get married with a cousin. When Irineu knew that, he came to São José do Rio Pardo and asked her for marriage.

                Well, they got married and she came to São Paulo with him. They had three sons: Carlos, Paulo and Cássio, my father. When they were both retired, they moved to São José, and there they live happily all their lives.