Long time no write... to say it so...

Indeed, more than 2 months and a half since I wrote something in the blog … not very good…   

Well… work has been tough and unfortunately it continues to be like this… For the first time since I started working with Kaiser I don’t feel the happiness when I have to wake up in the morning and go to work…

I feel I am trapped in this “shitty project” – he he… this is a joke I started to make as the project concerns the Diapers Market… so literarily it’s a shitty project ;)… but then again… it will finish in about 22 days!!!

And the line I found that helps me keep up my spirit is “Everything is OK in the end… If it’s not OK, then it’s not the end”…

But… leaving work aside I can say that quite a lot of things happened in these last months:

I paid my dues!!!!!!!!

Aeeee… now really… last month I finally paid all the debts I made in order to come to Brazil and the spending money for the 1^st month in here… I am – almost – a free person J  (I still have some small debts… but the highest one is gone!!!

A lot of fun

Talking about working a lot… well… it’s always good to balance a lot of work with… a lot of fun… and in the end this is what I am getting very good at while here in Brazil 

And this happens especially because of the really group of “Friends of the UN” –  the nice group of foreigners that we gathered here in São Paulo – most of them being either AIESEC trainees or AIESEC Alumni… or just very good friends

Between the things we did …

      -  Went another time to Rio – this time visiting most of the turistic places – Pão de Açúcar (Sugar Loaf), Cristo Redentor/Corcovado, ate in nice restaurants, had walks along the beach of Ipanema and Copacabana… mmm… Rioooo….

     -  Carts – it was greeaaaaaaaatttttttt… I will not comment about me being the last one from the 14 people we did the race… I will only say that it was really cool, fool of adrenaline… and… that my arms hurt for about a week afterwards (from holding the wheel so strong…)

     -  Went to Campos do Jordão – a very nice little town, a combination of Switzerland/Germany/Austria architecture (and with low temperatures  – reached 2°C in the night J - that’s something new for Brazil ;) ). This weekend was really great: we ate stawbery and bananas covered in chocolate – all on a stick, fondue (with cheese, meat, fruits and choclate – again J ) really nice… There we also went to some leisure parks where we did “Tirolesa” – this is a nice adrenaline bumping sport – originated from the town of Tirol, in Austria, “Tirolesa” consist in an aerial cable suspended between 2 high points, on which you move /dive (veryyy fast) through some shives connected to an alpinism seat (actually some strong strings passed through your legs and waist that are going to be connected with the cable… )… and off you go!!! It was 450m in length and normally it takes about 26 seconds to get from one end to another… I did this at the beginning in the normal position (seating) but as Adrian has done it before me with his head down (and its seemed much more fun) after some 50-100m I turned also upside down and… enjoyed the ride!!! Reaaaly nice!! Some people from our group also did horseback riding, ice-skating, mini-golf… etc etc. It was really a nice weekend!!

     - Went to Conade 2006 – AIESEC Conference – really nice… Only sorry that I went during the week-end only (lot of work to do, I could not go since Wednesday – when the conference began L ). But it was really nice, I got to meet about 25-30 of other trainees in Brazil and exchange opinions about our experiences here…

Now… the World Cup is coming, tomorrow will be the first match… I think Brazil it’s the best place to be during world cup. They live the football. And for sure it must be because they are already penta-champion… and hoping to become hexa this year… Let’s see how it will work out (I’m cheering for them… due to the fact that Romania didn’t do us the honor to make it to the world-cup… hmm… my friends here already had their share of making fun of me and the Romanian team… but then again, when I’ll have the chance I’ll pay them back J Between friends ;))

It’s really nice to see how Brazilians are preparing for the Cup… Shops are full of promotional stuff with the colors of Brazil… Every little bar has been already decorated with little flags, prepared one or more TVs so the funs can watch the matches… Also companies are arranging for the employees to watch the matches – either at work or outside the office…

Already about a week ago we received from a colleague a small program that installs in Outlook the Calendar of the World Cup – so you have all the matches in your schedule J

Even here at Kaiser we already have arranged for the first match of Brazil (with Croatia) to be seen here in the Company with all of us, some sweets and some drinks to make it nicer… man! I love Brazil J

Also we’ll see how we will do with our schedule at work during the most important games… I cannot believe thisJ. For me is very weird and interesting in the same time to see how a whole Brazil stops its business rhythm for the Cup…

Almost all the people I know are one step away from completely filling the World Cup albums with stickers of the players, teams, stadiums… Even I, knowing that I don’t like that much football, I started to fill one! (This way I will update my knowledge about the teams and be able to join the football passion around here J )…

Well… time will tell… I’m sure it will be a very interesting period to be in Brazil and I hope I will enjoy it to the maximum!

But now… back to work!!!