What about Vinícius de Moraes

Greetings, dear readers! I am Gabriel Curuja and today I’ll talk a little bit about Vinícius de Moraes, my English classmate at UFRGS, not the famous one, sorry.

Vinícius was born in Porto Alegre in 1991, in the district of Santa Maria Goreti, where he lived until he was nine years old, and then he moved because his parents got divorced. He said “I miss the friends of my neighborhood.” Since he was born, he lived in Porto Alegre. He loves the city and he is pretty addicted to it. He would not be able to leave it easily.

I guess you heard the name Vinícius de Moraes somewhere before, and he confirmed that his parents chose this name with a certain purpose. His father’s last name is Moraes, therefore, his mother chose Vinícius as his first name, as a tribute to the musician and poet.

Last year, he was admitted at UFRGS in philosophy, but he didn’t continue it. In 2011 he took the exams again and he was admitted again. Nowadays he is a Letters student at UFRGS. He says he loves English, and he wants to share the feeling he has towards the language with his future students: “I love English, and last year I wanted to be a teacher, so I chose Letters.”

At last but not least, the most important part: when I asked him why he shaved his beard, he gave me a pretty simple answer; he got tired of his beard and decided to get rid of it. In his words: “I wanted to feel my chin again, not to mention that I thought it was weird.”