Informationes Guten Tag! Mein name ist Else. Der Vorname "Else" ist Deutsch. Ich lebe in Santa Catarina, in Brasilien. Santa Catarina liegt in Süd von Brasilien. Meine Postleitzahl ist 89490-000. Ich spreche Portugiesich, Englisch und ein bisschen Deutsch.

New friends, old friends Last night I had a great time with some old friends (not so old, but during the graduation so much things happen, and it seems that a long time has spent). And today I was thinking about that, about the conversations we had, the laughs, the... (Sorry my friends, but in portuguese here I'd write "saudades"... I've already found some words in English for "saudade", like "homesick", but I don't trust it very much. Can you help me here?). Well, let's go back. As I was saying, my old friends were here and this make me think about how things happen fast, change fast. They don't live near me anymore (and soon I'll change of city too), they don't study at the same university than me anymore, they even have some different opinions now. But I love them same way. So we spent time toghether last night, and while they were here I was looking around and thinking: God, what an old television we have, I'm far away from my family, there isn't so much food in the fridge... But I had my iced beer, their fellowship and so much good stories to be told... What a great moment! And if my fridge is not full, my TV is not so good... I know that's just because I'm academic and that's not forever, I really don't care now. But I hope that when I become a big engineering and have a good TV and a full fridge... I still have some good friends around and an iced beer.

Guten abend! Ich heisse Else, Ich wohne in Brasil. Gute nacht!

New challenges for 2014! I haven't been here for a while and I miss that! I wanted to be here, but I had no internet in these last days. Well, this week I came back to the university, and I'm at same time excited and scared, there are so much thing that I need to do! Well, I have so much to talk/write about, but it's a little late here in Brasil and I need to sleep because tomorrow I'll wake early. For now, I just would like to say that in the next week we will have the freshers' hazing, and I'm really waiting for this considering that this is my last year studying Environmental Engineering. hahaha, that's all, good night for you guys.

Buying a plant Ok, the plant is not mine but I want to talk about it same way. All starts with my boyfriend, who lives alone in a little (try to understand me here, is REALLY, REALLY, REALLY little) apartment. I mean, I think you can walk about seven or eight steps inside here, but I still like the place. It’s easy to clean, it’s near to the big supermarkets, to some nice bars and pubs and to the university. Well, let’s go back to the plant. So, it’s impossible having a pet here, plus he’s never at home to take care a dog or any other possible pet. And some days ago he’s decided to buy a plant to put some…life here. And last night, we bought the plant! The type of the plant is “jibóia” (in Portuguese, I don’t know the correct name in English). It’s beautiful, small and of course, green. Obviously it doesn’t bark, pee or cause any kind of troubles. And it doesn’t play with me, like a dog would… Sorry plant, you’re beautiful but I still want to have a dog!

About music and life I believe that the auditory memory is one of the most important that people have. Through the music, we can travel to so many different places, feelings that we have lived, people that we have met, moments in our story that just ourselves could know. It seems that when I listen certain songs, I am living the moment one more time…everything become so real again. God, and there are SO MANY good songs. I think to myself, when, in life, I’ll be able to know all the good ones? It’s impossible, I guess. Because music is special in a different way to each one. So, even if I asked you to make me a list containing all the best songs, I don’t know if you’ll be able to fill my expectations. I will never be sure that I have listened ALL the good songs, that ones that are so awesome that make you feel...disconnected to the world. Meanwhile, I'll live my life with what I already have, and about the answer..." the answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind... the answer is blowin' in the wind".

AutoCAD Well, I’m studying to become an environmental engineer, and I believe I’m almost there. But there are some things that an engineer really needs to know, and I think AutoCAD is one of these. I’ve studied AutoCAD in the beginning of the university, but I didn’t practice it along the course. Now that I’m almost graduating I know that I need dominate it before leave the university. I’m working on it during my vacations, trying to fixes this lack. I’ve participated in a three months course last year, but I’ve missed a lot of classes for different reasons (my mom had a surgery, I traveled, etc). I feel shame because of that, but I’ve paid the whole course and I can't say that I know how to work with this tool. But as I said, I’m working on it… By the way, I gotta go to my class right now! See you!

Environmental Engineering Despite I'm enjoying my vacations, soon I'll go back to the university, to my environmental engineering course. I just need to study one more semester to know everything I should to know to become an engineer. Wow. Of course, this is in theory, because I know the most part of habilities in work come with practice. Still, this kind of scares me a little. Well, but I’m courageous and I know that I can do this. Sometimes I still get cold feet when I think about the future, but I think this is completely normal. I just need to take a deep breath. It’s funny to be afraid about the future at the same time I remember the past. When I finished high school, I had no idea about what to do. I mean, I had an idea, I used to think about studying Marketing or something like that, Jornalism, I don’t know. But I didn’t have my family support, so I gave up. Then, in the beggining of 2010 I was at the beach, thinking about my future and asking "Please God, help me, send me a sinal, whatever". Well, in the next day I just knew that environmental engineering was the right choise. I felt it, and I was so sure and happy about it! You see, it was not suddenly , actually. My brother is chemical engineer, and he works with environmental engineering too. We talked about this in some occasions, but I never felt really interested about it. Then, at the beach I suddenly just knew that this was what I needed to do. And now, here I am, almost getting graduated, completely excited about it! More and more I know that I did the right thing, because I love environmental engineering so much! And despite the cold feet, I have an enormous wish to win and this is what makes me moving forward.

Hot, hot, hot! Oh dear god! It's incredibly hot in Blumenau. This isn't normal for me, where I live the temperature is comfortable, the hottest days are absolutely not like what I'm living here right now. In addition, there is no air conditioning, just an old fan. But we're solving the problem on the weekend, we're going to buy an air conditioning. Then all it's going to get pretty much better. It's just too hard have to work, study, do the housework, and any other thing this way. Even the cold shower is hot. I have the impression that I'm like cookies in the oven. See? See what hot temperatures are doing to me? I'm not annoying like this (well, at least I really don't think so...but who knows?). Well, I think I'll just come back here to write again when I have the air conditioning...