here once a few pictures of my stay:
My 8sqm Empire (although are 2 beds in it, but I do only live in this room)
My room seen from above
... and do not forget: my office;)
One of the two baths for the girls
The lounge of the girls
... with kitchen for self catering on Saturday evenings and Sunday
The board also has a private area for the boys, of whom live here much longer here than girls.
The lady Dona Use, who leads the board for 20 years, is of German descent and speaks some German, but not too good. Why is that that has its own history: in their parents' house was only speaking German Ilse, and so learned to school age otherwise than German. Now teaching in the school was in Portuguese and it was sitting in first class for now. The following year she was lucky and had a teacher who also spoke German and its very help. At that time, she vowed never again to speak German because the language had made her life so difficult. Many years later, Ilse was then looking for a job and applied in a bakery in the city, wanted to work in each. In the interview the boss asked if they also German speaking, and since they have to say no, unfortunately. She did just about everything was still and talking, but not fluently ...
Dona Ilse and her husband are very nice, how to assess their two daughters, I do not really know which are somehow not quite as open and friendly, but this may be because they are simple almost all their lives accustomed to the comings and goings of people in the board and thus make the individual person is not too much, especially since I'm also only 2 months remain.
On Sunday afternoon I got together with Tati then a bit to know the city, the quiet MUCH and is safer than Horizonte Campinas or Belo. Here the houses have even fences, but found much lower than in Campinas and so far I've still no electric fence or barbed wire can. On the wide, as in the U.S. always nice to each other at right angles of streets is relatively little going on and the drivers sometimes even notice the zebra stripes! :) And in general allows the size of the city is also so well done to how it all on foot, even if it is for even a little bit on the road and uphill and down has to run, but in the end it did not take longer than if one half hour or more by bus must travel to reach the center.
So I hope this can be self-employed than in Campinas, where I was very often and especially in the evening to rely on people who had a car.
Joa and today (Monday) morning we went go directly: At 9 clock brought me my present manager Walter Frantz, who lives just 50 meters from the Pensao off, and we went to UNIJUÍ ( where you need to walk from my Pensao only about 20 minutes). A better manager than Walter, who obtained his doctorate in Germany, and therefore speaks fluent German (although he tries to speak Portuguese with me, then falls in between but every now and then back into German), I would hardly can meet. He knows a lot of people that have to do in the region with soy, so that the contacts will be of socializing with interviewees probably not a problem:) That makes me very ever!
At the UNIJUI I then Uli (Ulrich alias Dressel) met the people who is responsible to the University for Foreigners ... and also speaks fluent German. Well, actually he is in fact also a German. His father was a pastor who had come to a missionary to Brazil and stayed here because even 15 years. During this time, Uli was born and is therefore grew up in Brazil and when his family went back to Germany, Brazil could not easily forgotten and has been for 20 years then decided to come back. Today he considers himself more as Brazilians as a German. He still has both citizenships, but would also give his German. Despite that he feels like a Brazilian, but rather noted the German influence. Uli is a really nice and helpful person, but somehow very distant, what else by the Brazilians is not as usual (where are the people here but a trace more distant than in parts of Brazil, where I spent most of my last stay I).
Well, Uli and I were then also controlled the organizational stuff, which meant, above all, to see how I get access to the university library, because I'm not an official student enrolled UNIJUI, but got there just only one supervisor. But fortunately there's indeed something like guest access cards. Costs R $ 30 per semester (about 10 €), again R $ 5 to make make the map (so again just under 2 €) and a little leg work: First, the library desk to generally time to ask, then one by the magazine archive and a Office sent through to a lady who explained the whole thing with a guest account and says, that one has to fill in the first place, the Internet as a form and send it off. So back in Ulis office, filled out the form and sent it ... did not work. After several attempts then call the lady. Instructions: Print the whole thing and come back to her. So back to the library, through the newspaper archives and the office to the office this lady. The press then a 2 payment instructions in the manual (one for the 30 and once for 5 reais), with which one goes to fund the university, again, as well as Uli's office, located in a different part of the main building. So to checkout, money and then pull the trigger with the receipts again all Way back to the lady, the one then says that the card is completed within 2 days to be. Beleza *.
The disadvantage of my guest map: I can therefore only in the library in, but can not check out books. That would theoretically also, but I would need again a letter from any teacher and in the end is my "work" in the Pensao's not as big and practical and a bit of exercise is so good, so I've decided to me save me the effort and then often times prefer to walk the university campus in an entrepreneurial and work in the library.
The Monday afternoon began after the lunch in the Pensão so that I Uli, who in their own words at the moment not so awful lot of work, a private tour of the Museu Antropológico Diretor Pestana Fidene that only 5 minutes walk from the Pensão is admitted. This small museum, where Uli is involved in any way with, tells the history of the region, ranging from the Indians, the first settlers, the back-and-forth of the region as part of I think Paraguay, and then again Brazil, the Jesuit Missions (to evangelize the "Sete Povos [ssetschi pohwos, 7 nations], founded by the Jesuits at the local Indians, and civilize them by ruthless in front of the Bandeirantes, to protect the Indians love to go on killing or taking as slaves) and finally the settlement of the region by Europeans, especially German, Italian and Polish, but also Arabs and other Europeans such as French, Dutch, Austrians, Spaniards. All this time is to have very interesting and very helpful, because ultimately it is this history that forms the background of everything here in the region, including from my work.
explained in the context I Uli also the existence of UNIJUI. The UNIJUI is neither a government or a private university (this division is usually the case in Brazil, with the state universities and better respected than the "educational super markets" of private universities), but a "Universidade Comunitária" whose support neither the State nor any private profit, are but a foundation. And "foundation" here does not mean that someone had left too much time and thought to do something good for anything, but simply a legal figure, an association of persons, such as a club. This form of university it is mainly in the south of Brazil and it ultimately means for the students that they must pay for their studies themselves (depending on what you studied and documented the number of subjects is, does the whole thing in usually R $ 1000-1200 per month, so 300-400 €) that this money but not any / a entrepreneur benefits. It was necessary to found the University in this way, as European immigrants were aware of the importance of education and value placed on the state but not in this remote corner of Brazil thought a university place added. So people here have had to help themselves and the UNIJUI (the main campus is located in Ijuí and the remaining 3 in Panambi, Santa Rosa and Três Passos), with its 10,000 students and four campuses is the result of this self-help.
After the private tour of Uli I still fast to the Museum Archives paid a visit, where I showed charge lady before, what there is of material that could be interesting for me. Good, but browsing the archives I'm keeping for later, first I would scour the library and make up my interviews.
the rest of the afternoon, I then used some organizational issues in the city center, once hill hill down and back hill, 20 minutes walk away from the Pensão - at 33 ° C it accounts this way quite a sweat. One of the things that I wanted to do was get it to a map of Ijuí, because there are usually so at the tourist office. To me because of the identity I've also gone. When I asked there for a city map, one of the staff took some searching for such a show, spread it on the table and asked, according to which street I was looking for. "... Uh, I need a whole plan, not just a road ... I'm not from here ..." "Oh! Where are you from? "" Germany. "" Hmmmm, so we have only this one card ... There are some who in the shops to buy, but people say that are not very complete and up to date ... What just as we do? ... Oh know you what: Just take this card here, we have come along without them "?" safe "" Yes, yes, take it with only. We do not know that you are up progressions. We're coming along without the card. "" ... Ok, thanks then. This is very nice. "" No worries. ! And not running up "That's it, the famous Brazilian helpfulness:)
*" Beleza "actually means" beauty " but very often "all clear" for "ok" and so on.
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