Gender Roles

VagabUndo delivered the following questionnaire to ten teenagers, in order to study the gender patterns in the portuguese society:

1. Who does what?

The majority of people said that both genders cook, clean the kitchen, do the dishwasher and are in charge of buying groceries.

When it comes to clean the house, tidy the bedroom, take care of the laundry and ironing, women are the only one's to do such chores. On the other hand, both genders are pointed as responsible for the household maintenance.

Both genders drive the car and take care of pets.  

Men are in charge of the car maintenance and DIY (do it yourself) jobs.



2. Criteria for the division of tasks at home 

Regarding the division of tasks at home, two aspects were pointed out: the fact that women in Portugal have always been linked to housework and were victims of discrimination for many years, and the time each one has available.

3. Who is in charge of the finances of the household?

The mother is in charge of the finnances of the household.

4. Who do you have to ask permission to? (when going out or buying something)

The majority said both, but the father has the last word.

5. Do you consider that the division of tasks in your family reflects the reality in your country?

The majority agrees that in the portuguese homes women remain in charge of all the housework, not sharing the burden with their husbands. Half the teenagers said this reality is reflected in their home, and the other half said the opposite.

6. Who comes home from work first, and who spends more time at home?

The woman spends more time at home and comes from work first.

Gato Fedorento!

Regarding the suggestion of teacher Isabel Neves, here are some sketches of the portuguese comedians group "Gato Fedorento", composed by four friends: Ricardo Araújo Pereira, José Diogo Quintela, Miguel Góis e Tiago Dores.

The Media and Us!

Hello everyone! VAGABundo decided to post an article we made about the Media!

We use different types of media, depending on what we want to get from it.

To see the news, we prefer to watch the tv newscast, but if we want more
detailed information about a certain news, we rather use the internet for it.

When it comes to communicate with others, like most of the teenagers here, João and Juliana prefer to use the mobile phone to send text messages, but Ema prefers to use the internet for it. Tools like Messenger and Skype are very popular, specially to communicate with people that are far away from us.

Social networks are also highly used to communicate. A few teenagers use Hi5, but more recently Facebook became a growing phenomenon. Nowadays, almost every teen owns a Facebook account.

If we had to chose only one mass media mean to use, we would choose the internet, because it's kind of a combination of the other mass media forms. Either if it’s to research for school purposes, to use Social Networks, to watch videos of news, our favorite Tv shows and movies on Youtube, to listen to music or hear podcasts and to seek information about everything, the Internet is what gives us more power of choice: we see what we want, whenever we feel like it.


In spite of being the generation of the Internet, we still spend some time watching tv. Our favorite shows are Family Guy (see video below), How I Met Your Mother, American dad, Skins, The Big Bang Theory, Glee, Dr House, Grey’s Anatomy. We also like to watch music channels like VH1.

We also enjoy to watch sketches from the Portuguese Comedy Group “Gato Fedorento”. They are very known and appreciated by the Portugese, because of their ironic criticism towards the Portuguese society.

American Tv shows like Family Guy and Youtube personalities like Ray William Johnson are very popular amongst teens nowadays. They influence the way we speak, act,
and some of them became references of our generation.


Nowadays we see the media as a source of entertainment, while our grandparents saw it as the mean to get news. During our parent's generation, media was still manly seen as a thing to get information and news, but entertainment on them media started to grow. However, our parent's didn't focus as much time to the media as we do now.


Regarding our grandparents' time, there were a lot of people that couldn't read, specially in the more rural areas, so they listened to the radio to seek for news. Those who could read used to buy newspapers.

Regarding our parents, the ones who owned a TV used to watch it, but nothing compared with how we do it nowadays. Besides TV, they listened to the radio and, occasionally, read magazines.
On both generations, communication was made manly face-to-face, but for longer distances they used to send letters. During our parents' generation, the telephone was also used occasionally, and not everyone owned one.

Free Time Activities

Hey everyone!
Sorry, we know we're a bit late, but we had a few problems with the video... For a better resolution of what we wrote in the videos, please watch them on youtube :)


We had to split them into two parts:


In this first video we talk about our free time activities, and show you some of them.

In this second video we show you the intervies that we did to some of our relatives.
If the subtitles don't appear, click on the arrow on the right side, and then "CC" until it turns red. :D

Hope you like it! :)

As you can see in the bottom of our blog, we've posted a powerpoint presentation about our school! You can enlarge it to see it better.




Here is a link for other information like the extra-curricular activities and the school system of our school:


A little bit more information about how our school works!






Enjoy! :)

Here's our School's Guided Tour!

The speech Anna Lena made about us after going away x(

My name is Anna-Lena. I'm from Germany but now I am in Portugal and I will be here for 10 months with AFS, a student's exchange program.
I want to tell you a few things about my new school, about the differences and my feelings. 

My first day was very exciting! I didn't know anyone and I don't speak Portuguese. I was so happy that my host sister Ema is on the same school and helps me to find my classrooms.

When I saw the school for the first time, I was without words... It looks big, very new and very interesting. And friendly! My first impression was really positive.

But there is one crazy thing that I don't have in my home town: there is only one little entrance.

My new class was very friendly! They translate some things for me (of course not all xD). They showed me the school and we all got friends.

School in Portugal is really different that in Germany! For example, here the student's use the teacher's first name, and in Germany we have to use their last name.

The student's have to wait for the teacher to enter their classroom. I think that in Germany that's not the usual way.

When you say "Olá" to someone, you give them two ltlle kisses (left and right).

But at least one thing is the same: there are always teachers who want to teach the student's. But some use stranger ways than others x)