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Movie Review - Raw / Grave

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Hello friends and welcome back to the blog! This week I bring you another movie review and today's trip takes us the Francophone universe. *This is an updated review from 2024, but the original post is from 2017* This movie was all over the news a few months ago and I decided to give it a try and watch it. The main theme is cannibalism.   Here's a brief explanation on the subject: "Cannibalism in humans is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called a cannibal. The expression cannibalism has been extended into zoology to mean one individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food, including sexual cannibalism."   Raw or Grave (original movie name) was a smart and well structured movie. The plot is simple to the eye, but complex in a more detailed way.  Justine, played by Garance Marillier is a strict vegetarian in first ye...

What it's like to live abroad

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Hello guys, I hope you're doing amazing this week. This week's post is going to be personal and based on my experience living abroad. I hope you like it and that this can help you in some way. I think it's fair to start by explaining why I decided to leave Portugal. For the ones that don't know, this is not my first time living abroad. When I was 12, my mom left our country and started a new life in Switzerland. I was young and my French (at the time) was not the best. It was not easy at first because I had to deal with a lot of racism and stupidity from people and general, but besides that, it was an awesome experience and I would do it all over again. Now I'm 22 and I decided to leave Portugal again to start a new life and try to be happy.  I finished college last year and I thought to my self that my life needed a change. A big one. I always wanted to leave Portugal, to be honest. I never felt really happy in there. The only thing that made me really...