tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41324492011-10-29T02:46:52.111-07:00Gabi_in_PolandNewsletter about Gabriela Werner's journey in Poland, during an AIESEC traineeship.Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-949905702003-05-28T07:44:00.000-07:002007-05-28T03:56:14.885-07:00VISUAL MOMENTS - FINALLY, THE PICTURES!After writing all these stories, I also put some pictures on line. The address is photos.yahoo.com/bc/gabiwerner and there are many interesting people and moments shown.Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-942868492003-05-13T13:52:00.001-07:002007-05-28T04:05:52.676-07:00FIRST MOMENTS IN BRAZILI arrived in Brazil early in the morning, after a long trip back while which I needed to translate english to spanish to a pregnant girl from Ecuador, who wasn't able to speak english, french or german, languages spoken by the flight attendants.However, instead of landing in São Paulo - where Helena, Malhado and Marcio were waiting for me - we landed in Campinas, because ofGabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-942868222003-05-13T13:52:00.000-07:002007-05-28T04:20:14.384-07:00ZURICH, MUCH BETTER NOW!After coming back from Germany, I slept one more night in Kasia's, witnessed Kristy lose her train to Ljubljana, went to the Palace of Culture once more and took the bus with Blajez and Ben for the last time.I bought 2 more zubruwkas in the airport and took the plane headed to Zurich, where I would spend around 6 hours. The city was much more attractive know, comparing to Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-942867162003-05-13T13:50:00.000-07:002007-05-28T04:17:12.100-07:00BERLIN, HERE WE GO!As the traineeship has come to its end, I decided to travel a little bit out of Poland. Unfortunately, I have little time, as I need to come back to my studies in Brazil soon.My first plan was to go to Prague, in Czech Republic, but bureoacracy involving visa procedures made me give up this time.So, me and Kristy decided to go to Germany, as none of us would need visa and we Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-942866952003-05-13T13:49:00.000-07:002003-05-28T08:09:52.000-07:00BACK IN WARSAW
After 2 months of great experiences, time to come back has come. We all left oru cities and schools and came back to Warsaw. The feeling was quite strange: at the same time, satisfaction, for accomplishing a mission and for living great moments; and sadness, for saying goodbye.
Good part of trainees met at a pub on wednesday night, but we weren't able, because of logistical Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-942865692003-05-13T13:47:00.000-07:002003-05-14T08:32:39.000-07:00TEACHING TOLERANCE
As you all can imagine, our mission was quite hard: teaching tolerance. In the very beginning, AIESEC told us we could even just talk about our countries, because indirectly the students would get in touch with other cultures and start to respect them. However, after long talks and discussions, most of trainees agreed that we should enjoy the most we could this opportunity andGabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-939317332003-05-07T08:27:00.000-07:002003-05-07T08:27:59.063-07:00JASLO IN OUR HEARTS
Our last city is called Jaslo and we stayed there just 4 days (April 13th - 16th), as the school had Easter holidays from thursday on. But that didn't make your time less special, because we really, really enjoy this school - certainly one of the best ever!
Although they had received other PEACE trainees last month, it was great to get in touch with the students, as the Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-928823312003-04-19T03:11:00.000-07:002003-04-19T03:11:40.920-07:00GETTING A TAN - BUT IN THE MOUNTAINS?
Last weekend (april 11st - 13th), me and Kristy went to Zacopane, a wonderful city in the south right in the border with Slovakia, where are the Tratra mountains. The picture is almost unbeliaveble, really beautiful, because the mountains are very high, covered with snow and showing people how small and fragil we are.
We arrived on Friday in the evening andGabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-928818152003-04-19T02:44:00.000-07:002003-04-19T02:44:08.030-07:00POLISH MUSIC
Polish music is interesting, although less diversified than brazilian. They have some characteristical rythms from each region - folk songs; some popular pop, rock and hip hop songs; and a lot of external influence, from US and Europe. A brazilian heavy metal band is very famous here - Sepultura. But other rythms are not known, except from lambada, which was very popular some years Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-924189732003-04-11T03:13:00.000-07:002003-05-04T14:34:30.000-07:00LINGUISTIC CHALLENGES IN GORLICE
My time in Gorlice started a little bit strange. My host - Kamila - is very nice. However, she doesn`t speak english and we needed a translator, dictionary or computer to perfectly understand each other. The family is very nice, specially the father and the 6-year-old brother. But, once more, communication is quite hard.
Our classes in school are ok. The school Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-924154792003-04-11T01:04:00.000-07:002003-04-11T01:04:23.966-07:00FREEZING, BUT GREAT GDAÑSK
We arrived in Gdañsk about 6p.m. on friday. In the way, between Krakow and Warsaw, we met a really nice guy - Greg - that was very interested in south america, spent 1 year in the Netherlands and studied in the same high school we are going to work in our last week, in Jas³o. Small world!
Before arriving, another group of trainees (Angie, from Australia; Silke, from Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-924154022003-04-11T01:02:00.000-07:002003-04-11T01:02:11.200-07:00CHAMPIONS IN LOSING TRAINS
We arrived in Kolbuszowa on March 30th several hours later than we were supposed to. That happened because we lost the train, as we didn`t realize that the time changed, because of the beginning of summer time. But this is not all. We should live Kolbuszowa on friday at 5a.m. in order to catch the 6:25 train in Rzeszow. As we had a good party the previous day, my Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-924153652003-04-11T01:00:00.000-07:002003-04-11T01:00:59.826-07:00SCHOOLS
After many weeks working in polish schools, it`s possible to identify some common characteristics. I`ve have already put some very nice in some parts of this blog: generally, the level of english is very nice, schools are very organised, and there is programs in sports and arts.
Besides those things, there are others that show that polish schools need to delevop a lot, specially if the Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-922880092003-04-09T06:22:00.000-07:002003-04-09T06:22:23.483-07:00KOLBUSZOWA
This is the name of our next town. In there, there are 10.000 inhabitants, 1 pub, 1 river (Nile!), 1 square and 4 motivated trainees. AAEEHH!
I stayed in Joanna`s house, a very nice house - much more modern and confortable that the average of polish houses. Joanna is very nice, tto. She lives with her brother in Kolbuszowa, while their parents work in New York/US as security guard Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-917964122003-04-01T13:48:00.000-08:002003-04-01T13:48:32.200-08:00SKIN HEADS
It`s been very interesting to talk about Tolerance in a country like Poland, where you almost just find polish, white and catholic people. Generally, we feel really comfortable to talk about controversial issues, like discrimination based on sexual orientation, races, religion and others, specially because people are waiting for us, eager to hear and participate. But we also felt veryGabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-917963402003-04-01T13:47:00.000-08:002003-04-01T13:47:35.903-08:00PLANS
As we don`t have much time left - unfortunalety, we are planning well our last weekends. Probably, we`ll go to Zacopane for the next one, a city in the south, very typical, with mountains, ideal to relz, ski and have a good time. In the other, we either eant to go to Prague, Budapest, Berlin or Gdañsk (in this order). The problem is that I always have problems with visa, differenty from myGabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-917961012003-04-01T13:43:00.000-08:002003-04-01T13:55:31.000-08:00UNFORGETABLE KRAKOW
On Friday (March 29th), we said bye bye to our great hosts and went to Krakow, the most beatiful city in Poland, in my opinion. As soon as we got there, we let our things in an AIESEC member`s apartment and went t the Market Square to meet some other trainees from Holland, Germany and Austria. After going to a pub, we went home and played some drinking games with ¿ubruwka, a Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-917959592003-04-01T13:41:00.001-08:002003-04-01T13:41:50.950-08:00REVOLUTION IN ITS FIRST WEEK
The name of our group is Revolution, because we changed some plans in the very beginning in order to have a great time, either in our weekends and in classes. Now, we are totally focused on the suject Tolerance, and the results have been much better, because students really think and discuss directly about this issue with us.
Our first city was Jêdrejow, a small Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-917959102003-04-01T13:41:00.000-08:002003-04-01T13:45:31.000-08:00WEEKEND IN WARSAW
During the weekend (March 21-23rd), all trainees came back to Warsaw for evaluation and swiching groups. Meeting everybody again was wonderful, because we were really missing the whole group, with its joy and diversity. The problem was that we just ha a little bit more than 1 day to spend together. During Saturday, we had activities with AIESEC, in which we evaluate our Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-911204612003-03-21T04:54:00.000-08:002003-03-21T04:54:31.436-08:00£UKOW
Our third week in schools just happenned in £ukow, a town of about 40.000 inhabitants. We arrived here on Sunday (March 16th) and many young teachers were waiting for us in a pub near the school. We stayed in the school`s dormitory, which was very, very good. Quickly, we made many friends and talked to many students, as well as I learnt how to play table tennis, or ping pong. During the Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-911191502003-03-21T04:19:00.000-08:002003-03-21T04:19:02.610-08:00NEVER ENDING WINTER
The Spring is beginning today. Really? Just in the calendar! Yesterday we had heavy snow during the whole night and morning. Today, first day of Spring, it was very, very cold and windy, but the sun appeared and we had a great party in School, to welcome the flower`s season. Students made buquets, put flowers in their clothes and hair, participated in a playback singing Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-911186632003-03-21T04:05:00.000-08:002003-03-21T04:05:59.293-08:00DIFFERENCES
Last week, AIESEC in Florianopolis asked me to sent 7 differences between Brazil and Poland, that I had notices so far. Here comes the result:
"Ainda nao consegui enxergar o fundo do iceberg. Posso dizer que, ateh agora, tenho encontrado mais semelhancas que diferencas.
As escolas, por exemplo, tem um sistema bem semelhante ao nosso, inclusive com vestibular para entrar na Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-909872352003-03-19T04:38:00.000-08:002003-03-20T05:00:34.000-08:00SHOCKING EXPERIENCE
Besides havng fun, we also had a shocking experience in Lublin: we went to Majdanek, the second biggest concentration camp in Europe during II World War. The camp has about 270 hectares and received more than 50.000 (!) jewish people between 1939 and 1944. It was very, very impressive and sad. This camp is in the Russian part of Poland (during II WW, Poland was divided Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-909871382003-03-19T04:35:00.000-08:002003-03-21T04:55:38.000-08:00WEEKEND IN LUBLIN
For the weekend (March 15th and 16th), we went to Lublin, the biggest city in this East State - about 400.000 people. It`s a pretty interesting city, with a high tower, old cathedral and a very artistic Castle, in which the King use to live many centures ago and where, nowadays, there are art exibitions and a very beautiful chapel, in bizantine style.
But the most attractive Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-909868152003-03-19T04:26:00.000-08:002003-03-19T04:26:48.763-08:00MORE ABOUT KRAŒNIK
On Wednesday (March, 12th), we had a meeting with the Mayor of the city, a very competent man, but with liberal ideas that I don`t agree with. The impression I have is that his inspiration is Tony Blair, because he looks and acts a little bit like him. He had a special presentation about the town in the City Hall and went out for a fancy supper after that. I think he saw that Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-905819082003-03-12T04:05:00.000-08:002003-03-12T04:05:01.076-08:00IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN KRAŒNIK
Since Sunday evening (March 9th), we are in a small city called Kraœnik. This city has about 38.000 inhabitants and a few attractions like a XII century cathedral.
The first two nights, we slept in the school dormitory and it was pretty nice. The students came to our room and we had a party with samba, polish language classes and hip hop. Now, we moved to our hosts` Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-904583202003-03-10T06:53:00.000-08:002003-03-12T04:04:33.000-08:00LESSON IN SINAGOGUE
On Sunday morning (March, 9th), we woke up early, because we wanted to enjoy the most the city. After walking around the old Jewish center (a part of Krakow where Jewish people used to live before the Scond World War), we got into a sinagogue. In a room next to the sinagogue, there was an exposition of pictures about important moments on Jewish jouney, specially about the Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-904578052003-03-10T06:42:00.000-08:002003-03-12T03:45:12.000-08:00KRAKOW`S DRAGON
Have you heard about a Dragon, that used to live in a basement of a big castle in Krakow? During this weekend, we had the opportunity of knowing his story better, as well as experience it. We visited the castle where the Dragon used to live. The legend says that it used to eat everything in the kingdom and annoy the king, that didn`t feel happy. When the princess was kidnapped, Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-902969422003-03-07T04:45:00.001-08:002003-03-10T06:43:05.000-08:00COOKING PIEROGI
My host family in Pu³awy is wonderful! Yesterday, the father os my house cooked some pierogi for me, because I needed to taste and also learn how to do it. The recipie is easy: potato, white cheese, pepper, salt, onions, oil, flour and water, but the result is very impressive! My friends, you can wait for a complete polish night when I come back, with stories, personal Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-902969062003-03-07T04:45:00.000-08:002003-03-07T04:45:02.810-08:00FIRST WEEK IN SCHOOLS
The first week in school is over! During this week, we had the opportunity of getting in contact with many students and teachers, who had been always friendly and helpful.
On monday, tuesday and wednesday, we worked with juniors high and high school students of one of Pilawy`s public schools, whose age was between 14 and 19 years old. On friday, we worked with students of Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-902963532003-03-07T04:29:00.000-08:002003-03-10T06:38:44.000-08:00KAZIMIERZ
On Thursday (March 6th), we went to some cities near Pu³awy with teacher Sonia and some students. One of this cities is called Kazimierz and is really, really lovely. It`s a small city - about 5.000 people - and has a special arquitecture and spirit. There is a beatiful church in the village and a big square in the middle of the town, in which we can find artists, art galleries, Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-901117652003-03-04T06:02:00.000-08:002003-03-04T06:02:10.060-08:00FUNNY SITUATIONS
During these 2 weeks that I`ve been in Poland, many funny situations happened, mainly because of the language and cultural differences.
I saw one of these differences reading the warning messages in the trains. Do you know what was written in trains` windows? "Nie skakaæ przez okno" or "Don`t jump out of the window"!
Another interesting situation ocurred when I and Corin (Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-901110392003-03-04T05:43:00.000-08:002003-03-04T05:43:49.670-08:00FIRST DAY OF CLASSES
On Sunday (March, 2nd), me, Karlijn and Marc arrived in Polawy, a town of 50.000 inhabitants, where we`re going to live during this week. Our hosts were waiting for us in the train station and took us home. I`m staying in Agnieszka`s house. She is a 17 years old high student, really nice. She lives with her parents - Wieslaw and Maria - in a simple and kind apartment, near Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-900489712003-03-03T05:51:00.000-08:002003-03-12T03:53:30.000-08:00CARNAVAL IN WARSAW
It`s carnaval all over the world, right? Yeah, but I couldn`t tell that living in Warsaw. They have some typical celebration, but it`s not a big event at all. Anyway, it`s being a new experience.
On Friday (Feb, 28th), we went to a concert, really nice! They played Chopin and Shumman`s music - both musicians from XIX century. Wonderful! After that, we went to a pub and had Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-898498092003-02-27T10:00:00.000-08:002003-02-27T10:00:26.296-08:00FELLING SZCZÊŒLIWY
Yeah, that`s how I`m feeling: incredibly happy! Although today the cold wind had come back (it was - 9oC at 9 a.m), I had a very special day. In the morning, we had our last polish lession - now it`s up to us - and a lecture with 2 guys from United Nations Development Programmes (www.undp.org), the organisation that raised our traineeships. It was pretty good and many traineesGabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-898491992003-02-27T09:48:00.000-08:002003-02-27T10:02:04.000-08:00GETTING TO KNOW WARSAW
Yesterday (27th), we`ve got a task: save the Earth! Actually, it was just an exercise, in which the group, divided into 3 smaller groups, should visit many places in Warsaw, get some information and discover some sentences that could be formed with the answers. In the end, we didn`t accomplish the mission, but the sightseeing was excelent! We visited the old center, that Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-897361172003-02-25T14:08:00.000-08:002003-03-12T03:52:24.000-08:00Aldous Huxley`s message about exchanges
Travelling...
"... So the journey is over and I am back again, richer by much experience
and
poorer by many exploded convictions, many perished certainties. For
convictions and certainties are too often concomitants of ignorance...
I
set out on my travels knowing, or thinking I knew how men should live,
how
to be governed, how educated, what they Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-897355062003-02-25T13:58:00.000-08:002003-02-25T14:07:52.000-08:00MEETING MANY TRAINEES
After skating for 2 hours on Friday, I met many trainees on saturday. Even more got in Warsaw on Sunday, when we went out together to visit some museums, eating and having fun.
Our preparation week just started on Monday (24th) and it`s being wonderful so far. We are 27 trainees, from: China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brazil, USA, Peru, Germany, Austria, Macedonia, Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-894944872003-02-21T05:25:00.000-08:002003-02-21T05:25:04.496-08:00SUNSHINE
Today (21/02) is the first day I see the sun shining. Before, the day was quite clear, but very cloudy. This means that, in some weeks, we won`t have snow anymore. So, I`ll try to enjoy it as much as I can. Maybe today I`ll go ice skating.Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-894943892003-02-21T05:22:00.000-08:002003-02-21T05:22:27.840-08:00PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
This subject deserves a special description, because, as long as I`ve seen, is really good. In the city, we can use many kinds of public transportation: subway, train and bus are the most important ones. The good thing is that you just need 1 ticket to use all of them! Indeed, there are buses during the night each 30 minutes and each 6 minutes during the day.Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-894941822003-02-21T05:16:00.000-08:002003-02-21T05:34:58.000-08:00FIRST WALK ALONE
Yesterday (20/02), I went to downtown by myself. I took the subway, found an information room, took many brochures and maps about the city and started explorting Warsaw. I went to the Palce of Culture, a really nice and high building, where there are many theathers and cinemas (but, unfortunalety, they were closed by that time). After that, I walked a little and entered a huge Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-894327222003-02-20T06:14:00.000-08:002003-02-20T06:24:14.000-08:00WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT WARSAW?
So, check the following websites:
-> www.thevisitor.pl
-> www.cityguide.travel-guides.com/cities/war
And may we meet here!Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-894303442003-02-20T05:18:00.000-08:002003-02-20T05:18:50.940-08:00FIRST DAY IN WARSAW
I arrived in Warsaw around 22:30p.m, after a 2-hours flight from Zurich and Michal (polish trainee in Porto Alegre in 2002) was there to pick me up. It was really nice to get in a totally strange country, where everything is written in polish, and find someone known there, talking to you in portuguese!
After talking a little, we took a bus and a subway and got Kasha`s house, Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-894030772003-02-19T17:58:00.000-08:002003-02-19T17:58:36.970-08:00IN ZURICH
As soon as I arrived in Zurich (6a.m. local time; 2a.m. in Brazil), I participated in an almost unbelieved situation. There were 3 brazilian (2 girls and a guy) that came alone to Switzerland in order to meet someone (internet boyfriend in girls` case, and sister in guy`s case) without money, contact address or phone number, and without speaking a word of german, french, italian or Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-894019602003-02-19T17:38:00.000-08:002003-02-19T17:38:49.870-08:00IN THE PLANE
During the plane trip, besides talking and eating, I read everything I had nearby. And some nice information were from Switerland, as the plane company was Swiss and I would be arriving in that country in some hours, to spend the whole day.
So, here come some curiosities I read:
-> the M-11 plane (in which I was travelling) can flight until 13000km without stopping and can take off Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-894012202003-02-19T17:24:00.000-08:002003-02-19T17:24:43.070-08:00SAO PAULO WITH EMOTION
Afer a huge sunrise in Floripa, I arrive in Sao Paulo, wearing pants and shoes, as I would arrive in freezing Europe in some hours. Luckly, it was about 24oC in Sao Paulo, as it was raining.
Wonderful Malhado picked me up in the airport and we wet to his house. Afer that, we had lunch with M'arcio, Hanna and Nigel.
Now, the emotion moment of this title: my flight time - Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-894003562003-02-19T17:07:00.000-08:002003-02-19T17:07:35.083-08:00LEAVING FLORIPA
My departure was really strange, because, at the same time I know I`ll stay away for 2 months and a half, I didn`t have a lot of time to thing about that. The end-of-semester feeling was more intense this year, as I had to do many tests and many papers in many days. Besides that, I remained in contact with @, even with the end of my term. To have more precise information, I had Gabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4132449.post-878202712003-01-21T19:36:00.000-08:002003-01-21T19:37:44.000-08:00STILL IN BRAZIL
Hi people,
I'm in Porto Alegre right now, enjoying my last days of vacation before going to Poland for my traineeship. I'm going to Warsaw join Peace Project (www.peace.pl) and spend 9 weeks there. During this time, I'm going to work directly with children as a brazilian ambassador, altogether with 25-30 other trainees from many countries of the world. I'm certain it's going toGabi Wernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05710230271042481168noreply@blogger.com