The first (full) weekend in Ijuí My first full weekend in my temporary home I have, exemplary, with getting up early and walk to the campus, again started in the library. The library, open on Saturday mornings only and I was on this Saturday morning, pretty much the only visitors to the very least the only one besides the student assistants, who has stayed longer than 3 minutes in it. Maybe it was because it was in there cold as the fridge? Well, at least I'm consistent with my afternoon visits to the library already attained a certain level of awareness and so did the one student assistant, even before I gave him my note with the codes of the books I needed in the hand, expressed that I wanted the German-Portuguese dictionary and took it at once (... well, he has brought the English-Portuguese, but it looks at first glance just as the German-Portuguese). So I then after about 3 hours later came out from the library to familiarize myself on the way back to the inn, where it would soon be lunch, it was much warmer outside than inside, so that when I walk home again at least somewhat thawed.
the evening I had a full program: First came by with his wife and Sidnei gave me a stack of books with which I begin, perhaps what could, to reading a (very nice of him). Then came as soon Tati and her mother drove by to pick me up. On the way to Tati home we paid the mother of a friend of Tatiana from a brief visit (the girlfriend of Tati himself has 1 or 2 months in Germany with her fiance) then, there was quick dinner before it for now had to go to the theater, where watched us a piece of auto de Compadecido, performed by the theater group of UNIJUI (learn I had the better of this performance of Mara, a girl, no, a woman - because it is already 34 - the member said theater group, and 2 nights per week in my pension stayed). The play was very amusing. It played in the north-eastern Brazil, one of the below seen in the south appears almost like a different country, and roughly it was about how a few $ $ $ but can change minds. With a few more of those $ $ $ in his pocket had buried the priest at once no problem to the more dead dog in the baker's wife in the cemetery and with the Latin litany, while he initially had resisted to the utmost. Similarly, also saw the bishop when he was richer by a few $ $ $, no problem there. And finally proved to even the Virgin Mary as corrupt. To him, that the play was well acted and well, won the Theater still a plus, because in there it was nice and warm:)
went to the theater we going into a nearby pub, where you had to pay R $ 5 entrance fee, but where it had until midnight beer, vodka and other jokes for free ( including one with strawberry Cachaça. Very tasty, but actually had two drop passed it, because the stuff was terribly sweet).
Tati and me in the pub 
In the pub we met was done in one, two fellow students from Tatiana (Tati studied mechanical engineering as it has so plenty of fellow students). And as the drinks flow at midnight was not in vain, the pub emptied from 0:30 to 1:00 quite spontaneously ... there was also the singer who had started half an hour earlier with his program, do not change much. Somehow he was sorry ... Tati and I still had not the great desire to go home already and so we joined Diego [in Brazil says the Chih-ehgo], one of Tati's colleagues, in and drove with him to his brother and another friend of his, for Baile Gaúcho, a dance ball with traditional regional music on the fairgrounds just outside the city. "Ball Dance" sounds to many well-to evening dresses etc, and, as we see in the above photo, we were not exactly equipped with it, but is at a baile Gaúcho not necessarily the case. There quite a few people come with the costume of the gaucho (the man in costume) and the Prenda (the woman in costume), but not the obligation, there were also many people in "normal" clothes present. Mostly it's just a question that played on these balls gaucho gaucho music and dances are performed (here understood "Gaúcho" as a general term for the people of the state of Rio Grande do Sul).
A few, not so well-done impressions of baile Gaúcho
And I've in dancing practiced and got it after 1.5 then hammer out even dances. As difficult isses not, 2 right, 1 left
On Baile Gaúcho I ran for even one other of student assistants in the library on the road. Tati was on Saturday having ridden with him to school in Panambi and was told that they would pick up the evening, a German from the bus station, and when he then saw that I had used the library in the German-Portuguese dictionary, he thought, already, that was then I was probably that Tati had been collected. He also asked what I was doing really, that I spend so much time in the library and said that it was his dream, internship or similar to make in Germany and whether I would have photos of Germany on my computer I have always lived in the here and so are so treacherous Bib dictionaries;)
too long, we did not, however, because we were both already since 6:30 morning on the legs (yes I go to the library, Tati, because she has a lecture on Saturday mornings) and so we went after 1.5 or 2 hours back home, where we had a cozy room ... cold ... That night It was 3-6 degrees (and the houses still have no insulation), but with a long sleep suit, a thick fleece sweatshirt, socks and 3 ceiling we were able to sleep but to freeze to death without;)
... and the next day the sun warmed the air and again at a comfortable 20 degrees:) After Sleep took Tati and I the opportunity and drove back to the fairgrounds, for there was in this weekend of the rodeo Ijuí place, the occasion had been his and the Baile Gaúcho. At this exhibition center, each ethnic group, which is at some point migrated into the region here, her small house and then celebrate at the show, which always takes place in October, a little of their original culture.
Here, for example, the Austrian House
Besides the rodeo itself, which I have not seen in the end, there were performances by gaucho dances and actually competitions. Here are some impressions:
This is a bit we dance Schuhplattler of a lying on the ground rod without touching it and also as much posturing over the present competitors with which to dance in a change ( far right), create your day.
... and this is the "band" which played the accompaniment to the whole:
group ballroom dancing competition "Prendas" and "gauchos" group from the city Panambi (there is another campus and there UNIJUI Tati also studied the most part) - so I am a fan of the Prenda dresses (in general). They are great!
If you have noticed that the girl in blue dress falls right in the picture and her dance partner helps you not even stand up? (Tati and I have discovered in the video at the show we have seen not even know that the girl falls down) ... but the ideal of a Gaúchos is to be "male", for which there is also a gentleman to be. Well, who has the ideal probably not so internalized. But it may be because it is the group Panambi. According to Tati, who are studying there and sometimes still lives there, the people there something very strange. There are many people of German descent, whose ancestors immigrated to the good times are, when you thought that you could imagine something on it to be blonde and blue eyed and has well kept. NEW: Now I read in a book that Panambi 1899 by a certain Hermann Meyer beautiful in a far advanced Waldau downstream, far away from the already existing colonies, when ethnic-uniform model colony under the name New-Württemberg was founded. These were a colonization project privately funded, which was in contrast to the national colonization projects in the north west of Rio Grande do Sul, which provided an ethnic mix of settlement. Residents from Panambi distrust anyone who does not look like German (which encompasses For example, even Tati ...) and if the person comes on top of that not even from Panambi, then it is probably the embodiment of evil. Tati said that close to people the shutters, when she walks down the street ... And once it's really hard have fallen, as it has risen out of the bus, has opened the knee and her hand was bleeding and the people who were drum rum have simply done nothing., not helpful, not asked if everything was ok, nothing. Something is very untypical for Brazil! So, really strange people. Since we have
but also very surprised that in the dance group from an Afro-Brazilian Panambi join was "allowed".
The group from Passo Fundo:
And the group of Cascavel in the neighboring state of Paraná:
