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Nicky é um aluno da Caminhos Language Centre.  Em uma série de posts ele vai descrever sua experiência em suas 16 semanas de curso de Português. Nick é um falante nativo de Inglês, e nunca estudou outra língua antes. Ele vai ficar no Brasil por 6 meses, no Rio de Janeiro principalmente. Acompanhe as aventuras do Nick a cada semana com sua […]

Estamos muito felizes e orgulhosos de informar a vocês algumas novidades que nós temos feito recentemente. Living Your Dream começou a dar aulas para as crianças que viviam no orfanato. Como informamos anteriormente, infelizmente o orfanato em Xerém fechou em março do ano passado. Apesar dessa notícia muito desagradável, nós continuamos a ajudar os sonhos de nossos alunos. Nós vamos mostrar a […]

Nick is a student of Caminhos Language Centre.  In this blog series he will chart his journey through the entire 16 week Brazilian Portuguese course, from absolute beginner to advanced level. Nick is a native English speaker who has never learned a foreign language before.  He will spend 6 months in Brazil, mostly in Rio de […]

Three months have passed since Davi returned to Brazil and he’s already beginning to miss the Netherlands, especially the care and comfort he received from the Pirson family, all his friends in Genhout, the good job at Leaven and GSV28, and the football club. Davi has reaffirmed that Brazil is his homeland, but he would love to visit […]

Two years ago, Bart and Jascha decided to offer Davi the opportunity to participate in a fully paid annual exchange program in the Netherlands . In dream news 1 & dream news 2 we described in detail about his preparation in Brazil with Living Your Dream and upon his return, his amazing experience in the […]

[dropcap]L[/dropcap]Living your Dream started to teach English to children from orphanages in Rio. Word of mouth was so powerful that students outside the ‘orphanages’ wanted to participate as well. It was decided that all children in need were welcome to participate on the condition that they were motivated to learn. Davi in the Netherlands In […]

[dropcap]C[/dropcap]asa do Caminho Language Centre (CDC) and Living your Dream are proud to present to our students, volunteers and supporters, our latest success story: ‘Brave Kids.’ As you are aware, our organization seeks to provide unique opportunities to motivated Brazilian children and teenagers whose access to education has been denied or limited. The goal is […]

[dropcap]R[/dropcap]io de Janeiro, Brasil Algumas noites atrás, durante minha volta para casa para o Vidigal no ônibus lotado do aeroporto, eu senti minha primeira pontada de excitação para a Copa do Mundo. Talvez tenha acontecido por ter sido jogado violentamente de um lado para outro como resultado da condução imprudente; ou, talvez, quando eu senti […]

[dropcap]R[/dropcap]IO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – With the long-awaited arrival of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games looming ever closer you’d be forgiven for thinking that you’ve seen just about every Brazil-related documentary going.  Whether it be on gangs, policing, poverty, mass protest movements, deforestation, water pollution, plastic surgery or even sport – you […]

[dropcap]C[/dropcap]asa do Caminho Language Centre (CDC) was founded in 2009 by Bart Bijen, who was at that time the managing director of the Casa do Caminho orphanage in Xerem. Bart founded and funded the CDC, which is a separate entity and independent from Casa do Caminho in Xerem, with the objective to generate funds to […]