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With my Korean friend, I went to Lisbon week to see. I got the info through FACEBOOK and when I saw the picture, it sounded very interesting. Loving Portuguese history, we had fun listening to beautiful songs and watching dances. The weather was hot but they offered cold beers and water for free. My Portuguese is not good enough to understand all but I could see who's who they are representing and understand enough to know what "Pombal" with his brothers in tow talking about. Pombal's brothers, Paulo who was in charge of "Inquisition" and Francisco, who was the governor of Brazil and minster of the "Ultramar," which later changed to "Colonies"

Loving history, palaces, and museums, it was very interesting to study Portuguese with the documentary series. After watching and studying "Palácio do Marquês de Pombal" I went to see the palace again. Much more interesting. The more you know, the better you can enjoy. Definitely!!

Lisbon is full of history. Wherever you go, you can see some vestiges of Marquês de Pombal in downtown. I love Palácio do Marquês de Pombal so through my Korean blog, where at least 1000 people frequent everyday, whenever people contact me in person and ask me what are the must-sees, I always recommend this beautiful but somewhat deserted Palácio do Marquês de Pombal.  Palácio do Marquês de Pombal has an audio guide in English but I loved RTP documentary on Palácio do Marquês de Pombal. My friend found about some RTP documentaries on Portugal museums and forwarded me the information. And now I am studying Portuguese through these documentaries.

In Korea, there is a drama featuring Lisbon in Portugal and Morocco. Vagabond is about a Korean guy who wants to find out what happened to his nephew. His nephew and others got on a plane to Morocco to demonstrate TaeKownDo, Korean martial art but the plane crashed and all the passengers and crews died. However, it was not an accident. The protagonist is busy pursuing the truth with the help of a secret agent. Only in the episode one has some scenes from Lisbon. Lisbon is such a beautiful place but most of the scenes were filmed at night so it was hard to see the beauty of Lisbon. What a shame.

With my husband, I already saw the movie, Parasite. It was a little bit violent for my taste but I liked the storyline a lot. The movie had quite a few things for all the world to identify. The gap between the haves and have-nots exists not only in Korea but in all over the world. Here in Portugal too. My Portuguese friends are going to see the movie tomorrow. I hope they don't find it too violent.

My friend took me to a sailing class, which was fun and informative. It was done in Portuguese so sometimes I couldn't understand well. But the skipper spoke to me in English sometimes, which was very helpful. It was a good day to enjoy sailing. All the terms were kind of hard to remember. It was my first time to sail but I want to continue to learn.

Only one more episode to go but I have been busy taking classes in Portuguese. When I am done with the series now I am thinking of writing in Portuguese to improve my Portuguese. I am kind of good at reading and listening but speaking and writing are no good.  Practice makes perfect!! So I believe in myself. One of my friends sent me these wise words "Se um ovo se rompe por uma força exterior - a vida termina . Mas se ele se rompe por uma força in terior  - a vida  começa .  Grandes coisas começam a partir de seu interior." If an eggs is broken from the outside fore, the life is done. But if it is broken from the inside force, the life begins. Big things start from your inside.

Lisbon is known for its beautiful sunny skies but nowadays it has been raining or cloudy. My friends are here from Korea and England and another friend is coming from Porto soon. They are expecting sunny skies but what we have now here looks like those of England or Porto. My friend from England said 'I brought the English weather with me to Lisbon.' Maybe. Ha ha ha. I hope that the weather will clear up tomorrow but the forecast is unlikely. I have been boasting about the weather being wonderful here in Lisbon. But now not so. What a shame!

Sometimes my friends come here to attend a conference. I wish there were more conferences here so I could see them often. Today I met my friend late in the afternoon because he was here with his graduate students. The conference was held yesterday but they wanted him to visit here and there in Lisbon together. That's why I met him late. We talked more than three hours and promised to meet tomorrow. His family is coming in from Cambridge tonight. After spending the day with his family and his students, we will meet at night again tomorrow. And on Sunday, I will take them to my favorite museum here in Lisbon, Military Museum.