{"id":1072,"date":"2011-04-28T22:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T01:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2016-05-18T10:31:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:31:37","slug":"thamyres-maturity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"Thamyres’ Maturity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas\"\"<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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A portrait of\u00a0Thamyres Gon\u00e7alves<\/strong>, written by\u00a0Saulo Araujo<\/strong>, both of whom are participants in the RioOnWatch<\/a> project\u00a0being trained in CatComm<\/a>‘s community journalism course<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

A student in a local teaching school and aspiring journalist, 16-year-old Thamyres Gon\u00e7alves has a relatively quiet life compared to other girls her age.\u00a0However, the responsibilities borne by this young woman from Sepetiba (in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro) extend far beyond what others have faced.<\/p>\n

Going to parties and dances is not Thamyres\u2019 preference; she rather enjoys her family activities.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m not a big going out person, I\u2019m more of a homebody.\u201d\u00a0The teenager, in addition to studying full time at the San Diego Normal School (for training school teachers) in Pedra de Guaratiba during the week, is pursuing a degree in Journalism, and, on the weekends, splits her time between caring for her five younger siblings and walking along the beach near her home.\u00a0\u201cI won\u2019t say I love my routine, but I do what I do because I like it,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Thamyres is aware that assisting in the upbringing of five children is a hefty burden to carry but believes God could have given her a harsher lot.\u00a0\u201cIt is better to take care of children than to deal with adults,\u201d she says. And her task is eased by good relationships between all her siblings:\u00a0\u201cwe respect each other a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite her responsibilities and commitments, Thamyres does not think she is precociously mature,\u00a0\u201cI don’t consider myself an adult, just a little more mature than most girls my age.\u201d Her relationship with her mother is where she most enjoys the benefits of such maturity.\u00a0\u201cTo the amazement of many, I get on very well with her,\u201d she explains<\/p>\n

A limited social life is not a cause for regret or annoyance to Thamyres, who admits having few friends.\u00a0\u201cI have also had few boyfriends, but each relationship lasted a long time,\u201d she says, explaining that she does not like to just \u201chook-up\u201d.<\/p>\n

Thamyres is closely following the revitalization work on the beach of Sepetiba, and likes it where she lives. She explains that \u201cpeople come here seeking to live in a quiet place.\u201d She will often visit Brisa, Pedra de Guaratiba, Santa Cruz and Campo Grande, but would love to know the rest of the city better.<\/p>\n

She believes it would be natural to work as a teacher upon completing her Normal course but does not see herself teaching for the rest of her life.\u00a0\u201cI chose journalism after several vocational tests and also because I am very interested in seeing other places such as those outside of the city.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas A portrait of\u00a0Thamyres Gon\u00e7alves, written by\u00a0Saulo Araujo, both of whom are participants in the RioOnWatch project\u00a0being trained in CatComm‘s community journalism course. A student in a local teaching school and aspiring […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1294,1328,1284],"tags":[103,106,21],"writer":[96],"translator":[70],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-communitymedia","8":"category-by-community-contributors","9":"category-interviews-profiles","10":"tag-profile","11":"tag-sepetiba","12":"tag-west-zone","13":"writer-saulo-araujo","14":"translator-ellen-marrone"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}