Hello dear ones,
after my not really perfect blog (see it all the meaningless posts from my last trip to Brazil ...) is now a bit more than 14 months sat dormant in front of him, he will now be reactivated again, for tomorrow in the morning you go back to the Southern Hemisphere!
For those who are not up to date: This time I stay a little longer than 2 months away and this time it is in another city in another state, namely in the world-famous city Ijuí (about 70,000 inhabitants, for Brazilian standards so a really small town) in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil.
And this trip is also more pragmatic motivation than the last one: This time it takes me to the land of good humor for the purpose of data collection for my thesis with the well-sounding title: "Perspectives of sustainable soybean production in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: an actor network analysis" Specifically, this means that I with individuals and representatives of organizations in my study area in soybean cultivation and involved trade are conducting interviews and by the end of my time there may also try a small workshop with some of these players in the Sojaanabaus organize . Whether the latter hinhaut, remains to be seen. Above all, it's just the interviews.
Fine, but before it's really gets going, I am taking a few days trip to Campinas and Belo Horizonte to see old friends again.
But something is different than last time: While I'm bursting from anticipation before my last trip, since I am this time but a little ambivalent. On one hand I'm excited there at the time and am very happy to see my friends, but then again I'm a little sorry for himself and uncertain.
The word "South" (yes I go to the "south" of Brazil) makes every European in the heart of the sun laugh. In this case, one must remember, however, that This positive connotation on the other into the opposite hemisphere and with it the same all the seasons. Means something like: while here the days are getting longer and warmer, there's the opposite, and in the south of Brazil there is already significant cooling in the winter there. Of course nothing compared to our winters, but without heating, double glazed windows and other insulation and with the thought to mind that it is now beautiful spring-like-summer, is one not quite so warm-hearted.
This is of course also the fact that my dissertation and thus depend on 40% of my final mark of this journey. This leaves just raised doubts about if I really create everything as what I've done since ... Okay, but we simply want to be a bit optimistic and try to jump over his own shadow (which is certainly sometimes be necessary ...) And another very significant
Wehleidigkeitsfaktor is existent since my better half a few months, which I here must leave at home. Well, one might say that 2 months and some days really are not forever, but they are quite enough to let a few tears fall over it and a stone from felt to 2.367 kg in the stomach ...
In this context, my journey but ultimately also a good thing: On the way back of Ijuí to Lüneburg early July, I'm still a couple of days stopover, namely, in Vitória, where I will get to know the parents of my better half then finally in person (via Skype know each other quite well, but the live experience can be to replace not).
So, enough of an introduction, there's the next news then, whenever, from Brazil!
