João - hello :)

“Oh no!!, not again!!, I don't have anything new to write about myself”!! (This was my first thought when I heard we had to write a brand new profile about ourselves) I don’t mind writing it, but since this is the third one I write it’s getting really hard come up with something knew about me to tell you all. But don’t worry, I’ll think about something :) , so, here it goes :

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By the way, that's me and my "lady" dog in the picture... :)

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My name is João, I’m twenty four years old (Oh my god!! I didn’t realise how old I was until I wrote the number 24…) I live in Lisbon, right in front of the “Assembleia da Republica”, so, as you can see, I’m really close to our university, but somehow I always manage to arrive late at classes… don’t ask me why or how, it simply happens… it’s like something from the “twilight zone”, well… either that, or I’m a really lazy guy (my parents would go with the last one).
I have a very beautiful home which I share with my partner (We’ve known each other for 12 years now, and have been living together since last year) and my lovely “lady” dog. She is a really pretty “German Braco” who loves to sleep, eat our food and rest in our human beds (What can I say… she has delusions of grandeur). She also loves to hunt down birds and other animals, especially cats, her mortal nemesis (hide the cats Blaze ;) ). In spite of being a crazy cat hater, she is really friendly, especially with children, and other dogs, even if they’re females. Although she may look big and scary, she is such a docile dog that you could spend an entire afternoon pulling her tail and ears that she would simply sit still until you grew tired of it… I know that this may sound silly to some of you, but I love her as much as I love my human family, she is like a human being to me… What can I say…, I simply love animals, especially dogs, which are without a shadow of a doubt my favourite animal!
Beside dogs, music and films are another of my interests (how original, I know). I simply adore everything related with films, and I can watch almost everything. My favourite directors are David Lynch, Tim Burton and Brian De Palma, and my favourite movies are “Mulholland Drive”, Edward Scissorhands, DogVille and all of the “alien” movies. I also enjoy watching good TV shows like “24”, “Twin Peaks”, “Lost”, “six feet under”, “Ugly Betty” and the extremely corny “The simple life” (there’s nothing better to cheer you up than to watch Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie acting stupi… errr I mean, acting naturally). As for music, well I’m quite “picky”, I hardly listen to commercial music. (Except when I’m with friends, which may result in a car crash thanks to me trying to sing along). I simply love classical and orchestrated soundtracks.
Another of my favourite interests is videogames. Nowadays they are no longer “toys” or “kids stuff”, some of them are pure works of art, with magnificent storylines, mature themes and exquisite soundtracks. Some of them are so well done that they can make you cry with an emotional scene, or be in shock with an unexpected plot twist.
My friends are another important part of my life. They mean everything to me and I would do anything for them. It’s really hard for me to make friends or find someone with whom I really like to talk with, so I guess that is why they mean the world to me. Me and my closest group of friends have known each other for at least 12 years now and our friendship is growing stronger by the day. In fact it is really good to look back at our old pictures and remember everything that we have been through together, since childhood to adulthood, and imagine what fate still has in store for us.
Well, I guess there isn’t much more to say for now, except that for what I have seen of our class, everyone seemed really, really nice, which is something that doesn’t happen very often, so I’m really glad to be there with all of you!

Well, quoting a very lovely cartoon pig: “that’s all folks” ;)