Sunday, June 7, 2009

Cricket Respiration Lab Answers

A small disaster

On Saturday morning I had to get up early because I went with Tati to their pneumatic lecture on the campus of UNIJUI in Panambi (You remember the dance group from Panambi Yes, exactly, with the "cavalier";)). At 7:20 we picked up a fellow student of Tati Tati at home, get up at 6:45 and that is on Saturday and after only about 5:30 hours sleep, because I had slept with and how Tati's just the way girls are we chatted for ages ... Oh well, but it did.

The campus in Panambi is really tiny (yes, smaller than all campuses of the University of Lüneburg!) And compared to the library in Panambi is the library in Ijuí absolutely huge (I incidentally found out that in Ijuí but actually over 160,000 books have found their place! essential more than I thought): In Panambi the library fits into a larger room ...
And I was proud of me, against my expectations because I'm in the pneumatic lecture even understood what a great deal even in the 2nd, practical part of the course where the teacher is a pneumatic system installed, demonstrated and explained. But in the theory part, I've not only understood Station and was engaged but counted the first time with how often the teacher "no caso" said (in the case). At 150 I was tired and there was not even half an hour to. Yes yes, I know these are trifles, but to me nothing's was all about and it's actually already really long time since I was in a "normal" course was (more than 1.5 years already. Have the last semester but still one or the other made, but these were mostly language courses or any courses).
This Saturday, the students got back their examination of the previous week. Was not that really good, all had 3.0 or 4.5 or something (of 10), but Tati was probably the best work with 8.0: Z) (but the teacher really strictly ...)

for Saturday evening and I had Tati big plans here free beer party in Absoluto, the disco in town and only 5 minutes walk away from my Pensao. The maps we had for as little as R $ 15 (about 5 €) purchased in advance (we were young, we would have paid $ R 25th In Brazil it is almost standard that men pay more than the women). To simplify matters, I had Ilsa Dona asked if Tati could stay that night in the Pensao, since they had a whole little further away lives, and that was no problem and yes I have two beds in the room anyway:) Quite
to start the party we met two girls aged about 16 or 17 years (even the majority of the audience was under 20 ...). At first I was impressed with how nice the two were: First, they provided us with them at the table to sit, when they saw that we were not included, and later she said: "We go dancing now. Will you come? "And since we were only two well, we took the offer gladly. But then, after a while we noticed that one only needed someone she can boss around ("We now go get a drink. Come on!" "No, here it is stupid to dance. We're going over there! ") And the other had only an appendage, so they are not so lost and alone, looked in their forays into the nightclub looking for a guy" para agarrar ", so to smooch (For this they had chosen primarily Tati).

At this point, maybe a slot on the relationship of the Brazilians to smooch, attached: While you need in Germany is ne whole, entire, while to kiss someone or even quasi shows its willingness also to other things, if someone kisses directly to a party where you get to know this person, is the very different in Brazil. One of the primary purposes of Parties is here to actually canoodling with at least one person (if you're single or if you are not too many on loyalty). And depending on how you (no, actually more women) have on it is, before that not many words are made. But often the girls do but at least some are canvassed, while many men are hoping to "Hello, how are you? I would kiss you sooooo much. "To reach the goal. Fine, but in return that they are so fast by kissing it, it will usually include only kissing. It is also passionately kissed and everything but the hands behave. With everything else man would risk a slap in the face. Yes, and that a kiss is also totally non-binding. After you have kissed a person who says no one mind if you kiss another 2 or 3 or 4 others. With such a code would be categorized in Germany directly bitch / asshole. Here we are just someone who cheerfully. This leads often to misunderstandings when Brazilians (s) to Germany (and I think here the cliché is it coming from Brazilians quickly jump into the box would be): the brazilian kissing a German man in a disco, with all the devotion, as it's known from Brazil thinks, but on to nothing. The German man thinks, "Oh, there goes that tonight," and sent soon his hands on the move, after which he by the Brazilian, a slap and a "What do you think of me?" Harvest, and they turn away disgusted by him .
Similarly, there are also differences in the way as it comes to relationships. In Germany, a relationship begins rather implied: you go out together several times, eventually it comes then to kiss and then we are actually more or less together. It is not said a word about it, but derived from the behavior that you are now together. In Brazil it's different: I have to go out with someone, often to kiss and everything, but before the man nor the woman asks if she with him will be, has neither any rights or obligations to the other . It makes a kind of test drive before you set considering.
Well, of course, exceptions to the rule determine, but that's how it usually runs.

Good, but Tati and I thought us that we really do not have to be ordered around by two minors and went so out of the dust.

Tati and me in Absoluto

IMG_1213 I with the two strange girls (which was in the middle of the "commander" and the right one that was always just somebody to Rumknutschen)

IMG_1212 A short time later we discovered also that the beer that was served was expired ... Initially, the beer was directly poured from the bottle into the cup, but eventually they started small beer bottles hand out and as we stood in line for the toilet , said a girl to us, pointing to our bottle of beer: "Drink not, that's expired" In fact, the expiration date on the bottle was exceeded for almost a month and we held the bottle up to the light swam as well as a few flakes Yummy rum in it ... ... So no more beer, but since we had not so much about it and dancing merrily. A little later offered us a couple of guys (who were over 20!) Smirnoff Ice, which we will also gladly accepted as a substitute. A bit suspicious, I was already beginning, because after I took a swig from the bottle, I wanted to return the bottle to their owners, so that drinking more could, but refused and said that I could keep the bottle because he may not like the stuff. I wondered why he had then purchased at all ... I offered him but as long again to the bottle, until at last he also gets his drink, for I thought even if he was drinking it, can nothing be there, if not, then I will bottle had better go very easily. But since then what he drank of it (or maybe he just did so ...), I was calm and so drank Tati and I happily continued with the guys who beischafften more and more and more Smirnoff Ice.
About four clock in the morning we came back to the board and not believe we got there, also had to Tati already passed and slumped quite a bit. I had no problems, however, took a shower on my own feet and cleaned also Tatis feet (in the disco the ground was already grown quite disgusting, because all it has become warm beer is dumped on the floor (Brazilian beer not in excess of 5 degrees really tasty)). Ugh!), Put it than the worst was over in bed and provided them with a still Kotzpott and water before I even went to bed. I was overcome's only when I woke up several hours later and wanted to go to the toilet. At first I thought, "Hmmm, but a bit overdone last night .... Well, then you will have the toilet three or four times a call and then it will be good. "But it did not stay for three or four times and also Tati did when she woke up where they left off before going to bed. The anti-vomit medication that gave us Sandra, who lives in the boarding house, helped, no nothing. And also bagged my cycle ever further and with time my cycle sagged steadily decreasing. I was completely pale and made it not even me really well to stay awake. Said Sandra decided at some point in the early afternoon to take us to the hospital. And that was a good thing, especially in my case (yes Tati had "liberated" from the evening has a complete set and therefore was not her's quite as bad but still bad enough). We were both very dehydrated and I already had some shock phenomena. The doctor also said that as well what had been possible in our drinks, because alone of alcohol can get that (and so much exaggeration we were now actually not), not even expired beer ... But after the drugs, one liter infusion and a little sleep during the infusion made her way, we were again reasonably established, so that we could go home.

Well, since I was not really at a party here, but for the next (n), I've definitely learned from this story ...

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Haircut For Mid Thirties Men

The internship

In this my second week here, where the weather was again a sunny, warm, "Brazilian" page, I devoted myself more at home than the books in the library for some books by Sidnei, which he had lent me wanted to be quickly given back to him.

On Monday evening (18.5.) Feli I met again, this time also with Nadia, (a Brazilian who lives with Feli in the WG and the German ancestry, and also get the German language and has included the Hunsrück dialect in it from time to time also eindeutscht a Portuguese word. She is an excellent example that do not study all the people that computer science nerds and have no idea about the "real life" have), John (another German from Karlsruhe, who in Ijuí and relatives here in the children's home placement makes. In spite of the similarities here he speaks (as yet) hardly Portuguese (was only for a month in Brazil) and if so, with emphasis Badenser hehehehe very funny! It is me, for example on the next following day dawned on what it means to be "Lahdakriannsa" is all about, where he works -> lar da criança [(Please also pronounce the r) lar because kriahnssa] = children's home) and Michael, a friend of John and fellow student of Feli.

On Tuesday morning (19.5.) I finally had my first interview and that in the COTRIJUI the agricultural cooperative / cooperative Ijuí. There I had an appointment with Leo, who is in the seed trade cooperative and responsible action in this case in particular for the sale of seeds and also for many years and in the neighboring cooperative and colleague of Walter, my supervisor was here. My interview contacts I get here all of the people I know who know someone and then so on. A bit stupid if you know anyone, but that does not happen really. Over a few corners you can always find someone and the people here are just simply helpful. And informal Make contacts has another advantage: the people take up in this way very happy to welcome and are still helpful.
The first interview is of course always a bit bumpy, but overall it was not really bad.

I asked Leo then also take me to a soybean seed-producing farmers in contact, which he did promptly (actually prompt). And so I met at the selfsame afternoon, back in the COTRIJUI with Cláudio. The rains, however, had little time pressure and we talked briefly (very nice gentleman) and the whole thing then adjourned to a day that's. Sounds funny, but has the sense. that these days he does not work in the field must / And can therefore be time has (until now it has it rained only on the weekend and I wanted him now do not even call ...)

Wednesday was the beauty given to: I went with Tati as a hairdresser was (slowly and really needed ... ). Wash, cut, blow dry and many hair care tips for R $ 15 (about 5 €)! nachzufärben Just to my tresses at the base, because they wanted R $ 70 (about 24 €), and yet without stain, and I thought then that with ner highlights package from the drugstore in Germany is also cheaper.
When the hairdresser told me that were not suitable for me quite as long hair, because I was so great Person is and work through the long hair would only grow, I had put to him and a laugh. This is the relatively large size and as I will consider only here in Germany, however small, even as a little ... well, but I also found that the hair was too long.
all, there are extremely rare here in Brazil hairdressers as ours, with several hairdressers, set up more or less fashionable, etc. At least I've never seen conscious. Include here those are mostly very small shops or the people do at home to make their garage or a small house built in the garden as it was at our hairdresser the case (which does not mean now, but is that their "salon" was not smart, on the contrary!)

Joah and Thursday (21.5.) had as Tati birthday and I was invited for afternoon coffee with the neighbors and neighbors. Well, the Tati seen by me on the other side of the center lives, because I had the opportunity to buy on the way to her a gift. Not so easy to find something for someone, because you know not even 2 weeks. But mission completed:)

Speaking of "on the way": I think just from the tracks that I put back here because I always do everything on foot, I would need almost no gym more. But now I've got it already paid for and actually doing it quite well after a whole day at my "huge" desktop to move!

So, and here there's now a few more pictures of my Pensao:

This here is the Rua Henrique Knudsen, which is on the left side of my Pensao (the image I have in the beginning of the road made standing, is So a very small street)

07 Rua Henrique Knudsen The main streets in town are all beautiful and well paved, but the side streets all look really like with "Hacksenbrechern" paved.

This is because the right side of the road, left typical for the region wooden house of the "Grandma," the mother of Dona Use, which has 75 strong years in the hotel business in the laundry, for example, collaborate and residents of the pension (see on the clothesline in the front yard;) & # 160;) ironed out) and right below, the board itself 08 casa da Oma e pensao And this is the board itself, the rooms are in the 2-story rear building (above the boys, the girls below) . In the front house of Cortona, the home of the family, the kitchen and dining area (where there are glass doors on the left and the people also are just at lunch). The original house is you no longer see, because the part was with kitchen and dining room built around the original wood-family residence. Means sitting at dinner, we at the windows of the rooms of the family, where even the shutters and even the Grid are tuned.

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And these are Mara and me. Mara lives just two nights a week at the inn, a member of the theater group of UNIJUI and in the process of completing her Master's (and I had a little in the knees for the photo. So much for my "size" hehehehe)

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Scars From Laparotomy

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 Tati e eu

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

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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

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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

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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:

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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.

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This is the competition

And this is really good
... and this is the "band" which played the accompaniment to the whole:

017 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!

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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:

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And the group of Cascavel in the neighboring state of Paraná:

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Monday, May 18, 2009

How To Create A 3d Church

begins yet more days in Ijuí

In the last entry 'First days in Ijuí "there is a new part!

After the first two days had still been summer-hot, on Tuesday arrived here by all the long-awaited rain. I was not soooo very excited about it, but all the people here were happy place for you, it already had about 3 months no rain here, and accordingly the water supplies were already strongly to a close. The people in Ijuí could not even remember, it should not consider it possible to clean up their yards and driveways and sidewalks in front of the house with the water hose. A disaster! (In Brazil it is to clean common practice once a week the court with lots of water ... is so important that you can eat in theory from the bottom of the driveway lunch because it's not enough just to use the broom ...) A woman's had yet ventured, was also confirmed by the same police, rightly, with a fine of R $ 600 (approx 200 €). ; No, but no fun in Ijuí the whole thing was still limited, but in other villages in the region, the situation was a bit more seriously. Since the people had only 2 hours per day running water ... This is really a reality that one is completely unknown in Germany ... Even in the summer of 2003, Mega we still had water, while in Brazil, but from time to time comes to shortages, especially at such events as Carnival, during which live in some cities, where else just maybe 30,000 people, are available for 5 days then once just 120,000 people on the road .

Well, now it was raining, however, Problem solved. And as the Brazilian rain soaked through power, not just as the German Autumn Pieselregen, I have the whole day in the Pensao at my desk lush and spent one of the books that had me Walter borrowed from his stock (almost antique pieces), in my thesis gewurstet.

How it happened that I am on this day as good as not talking, at least in terms of real face-to-face conversations, as the boys of the board, which constitute the greater part of the assignment here talking, not really with me or only very sporadically (with the girls do it, but those are just a 2 piece, sometimes 3). The Brazilian is actually a very strange behavior, because I am a) a woman, b) a foreigner, c) blond and speak d) Portuguese ... stick Normally, just the men, on samples like me. But I'm not alone with this experience. Feli, another German, since August is here and the usual Ijuí in the first 6 weeks in the Pensao do Bosque, has made the same experience. And now it has also been improved a little bit:)

came after the first 2 days with a lot of heat for 2 days with much rain and so it was raining and smelled too strongly on Wednesday. But this time everything nothing helped, I had to get out because I had an appointment at the center, with Sidnei. What should I do with this appointment, I knew that would not really. When I was on Monday in the UNIJUI decided Walter and Uli, that it would be good if I would talk to Sidnei, and before I could say much had Uli him the phone receiver in her hand and Sidnei on the phone, said only: "Hi Sidnei , here is Uli. Sarah is here, I'll give it to you once, so you can make an appointment "and I already had the earpiece in my ear:" Hello Sarah, all clear.? Have you received? When would you fit it? "Despite my awareness overwhelmed but I've managed to agree on sovereign RELATIVE an appointment for Wednesday morning, without knowing exactly what actually for. After the phone call me Uli cleared yet informed of where Sidnei is located (the UNIJUI is namely also a few offices in the city center and there is also located Sidnei) and that Sidnei with processamento geologico (= GIS = geographic information system) works, which gave me at least once a hint. & # 160; So I met on Wednesday morning for Sidnei, an albino man in the 2nd half of the 30 (... that was the first time in my life that I've seen an albino people live). The meeting with Sidnei, who was very sympathetic, has also been lived 3 years in the Pensao do Bosque, has also been involved in an internship in Germany (in a small town between Pforzheim and Stuttgart), straight Here his master then begin to complete his doctoral work in Germany can, however, proved to be very fruitful even! Always expect the unexpected. Apart from some useful data sets on farming in the region, he gave me quite a few book tips, and not only tips he gave me the books on Saturday even be over yet! I will also probably on a weekend with him and his wife to Santa Rosa, a town near the Argentine border, to go there a few interviews to do. Sidnei comes from the area there, so he and his wife go there more often, and also has contacts with the local cooperative / association.

On Wednesday afternoon was finally finished my library card I've also tried it once. The magazine archive, I had met through the many "errands" to the lady who made my card. So now with the help of my brand new card through the turnstile in the library ... which is much smaller than I had imagined it ... actually consists only of a single large room with many bookshelves, but then again soooooo many do not and a few desks and a whole were not sooooo many students in the library, not what I'm used to from Lüneburg. In general had my Expectations more or less at Lüneburg scale, not great good and great but not bad is calculated, after all, the UNIJUI is about the same number of students as the University of Lüneburg and Ijuí, as in Lüneburg on the main campus, the central part the library. Well, this is the unreflective expectations ... What it also does not have are copiers, scanners and other copying tools. But to compensate there's two student assistants, which is pressed a note into the hand with the numbers of the books they want to have, and then collect the books together for one. Just admit it again the books away, you can leave after work just in the workplace. This in turn is luxury for me. Joa, and one can in fact work in the library also pretty good, I've found, just simply because not much of going on and the few, but for large work tables can, where you spread out nicely, do the rest.

On Wednesday evening I met then with the above-mentioned Feli (citas) from Tübingen, the 2 semester studying at the UNIJUI (only one was planned, but then it became just yet 2) ) in the "Metamorfose" a Pastel Bar 10-minute walk from the Pensao (the emphasis here is on "foot", because at short distances can be here in Ijuí, do differently than in Campinas, in the dark alone on the socks). It was still strong at the bins and thunderstorms, which caused a blackout in the city, so we were seated about 15 minutes in the dark. Even something like what we in Germany do not know sooooo much. After the power failure was the bar always full and full and bursting at the seams almost the end, as was the Metamorfose on the big screen the game from Gremio, one of the two football teams from southern Brazil. Thus, all faces averted focused on the screen, only Felicia and I stayed focused and we do not schnackt blithely about the same and different experiences that we had room with Brazil. One difference was mainly that apparently the people of Rio Grande do Sul are more conservative than in Sao Paulo, for Feli said that the gauchos, if they have a (n) friend (in), do not leave everything alone in the evening, but always with annex. This has to do with the fact that the people here in terms of relationships, are extremely jealous ... If you then but time alone will go away, all suggest the same, that the relationship is passé and you have at least debated (as it Feli, the a Brazilian friend in Ijuí has often happened). From Campinas I knew such behavior only in a few cases.

After two days now, it was really hot and then 2 days had been raining a lot, now followed three days cold Wintervorbotentage. When I talk about the actual temperatures, every German laughs probably broken, but the thing is just, as I mentioned in my first post, the lack of insulation and heating systems and if insulation + heating = 0 follows then from the outside temperature = inside temperature . So feel because even at 12 degrees rather cold, especially when one spends his days sitting at a desk. One way however, it to move so I went on Thursday evening to the nearby gym, where I had signed up the day before and I think 3 times a week to pay a visit (so far I've held out!). After all this time I will not end up like after my stay in Campinas and not even be able to Bockel "mountain" on which the campus is situated in Luneburg, get up on a bicycle. It also does great after the whole Rumgesitze at the desk to move again. The whole thing cost me, for 2 months and 3 times a week, R $ 100, so about 35 €. On Thursday I was then evaluated for the first time, measured and in all possible categories (size, weight, Fat and muscle) and then got my personal training program shown. ... For some of you may be the old beer, but I've never really visited a gym.

What I have then driven on weekends so that comes in the next few days!