Since my weeks in Prague were a bit stressing and I was feeling so bored that I was even thinking about count the cars on the street. Thanks to my friends I didn't need to do that. And from the moment the airplane has landed I felt a bit better as something has changed. The problem was how long this feeling toke to disappear.

About 15 minutes.

It toke about 15 minutes to walk from the airplane to the immigration gate where I would start to miss Europe. Actually, that wasn't the biggest problem, but the people running to be there before me, like a bunch of wild animals crazy for food. The reason for that is: As soon you get to the immigration, sonner you get your bags and stuff. The problem is that we are talking about Brazil. The baggage started to be given to people after a loooong time... So, the rush - similar to this one - wasn't necessary at all.

Still at the airport, my flight from São Paulo to Vitória was delayed for about 1h. Reason: The airplane hasn't landed yet. And I was able to discover that only asking to the employee from the company I bought the ticket. Many people, just like me, didn't know about that and we all almost got the plane to Manaus (Amazonas state) which should come 30mins before (also delayed) and used the same gate as ours.

Oh yes, after that we heard on the speakers we should move to another gate.

I don't know if other countries have the same problem. I only know that we want to host the World Cup here in 2014 and we should move our asses right now. We have so many things to do... If I would be a foreigner traveling by plane in Brazil to watch a match and I would have such problem... Honestly, I would complain much more...

Languages. We have a lot of them in the world. Thanks to some crazy people who wanted to build a tower in Babylon. As God didn’t like these things he decided to confuse their languages. I think I heard this history at the first time when I was a child. From that moment I was always wondering how these people were trying to communicate with each other after this language problem.

Now I know.

Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe and everybody around the world knows (or should know) about that. And, because of that, we have a lot of tourists here. So many tourists that sometimes it’s even hard to hear Czech language while walking at Wenceslas Square. Such condition makes me think about 2 basic questions when I want to talk with someone:

Do you speak English?” and “Where are you from?”

Ah, the English conversation… I met people with worse English than mine! Besides, the infinity of accents is amazing. Simple words like “yes” can become “yezee” in an Italian mouth. Or “flat” can be a “flatch” for a Brazilian (yes, my accent...). I could say that the most important in these cases is to ask when you don’t understand something in order to avoid misunderstandings. For example: Yesterday I was talking with a friend and I wanted to say something like “...and he is a bit nervous...” but, due my accent, I said “...and he is a ‘bitch’ nervous...”. Well... 

Other problematic thing is about the difference of cultures. Usually happy cultures don’t fit well with sad cultures. I mean, it’s not a rule, but it’s the most common thing you notice when you go abroad. Brazilian and Italian, match. Brazilian and Spanish, match. Brazilian and Russian, match (the country is cold but sometimes they are “vodkally happy”). Brazilians and Germans, not always... And so on. But attention: I am talking about a table in a pub full of foreigners. So you can imagine how the relationships are going between people with very different cultures. Normally a “national” couple has the love/passion/attraction/whatever as main ingredient. But with an “international” couple the things are going very different as we have to add 2 more ingredients: Language and culture.

Nice, huh?

But after some time living in this crazy environment you get used to. You stop to care about these differences and you even have fun about them. And, who knows, write a text about that. The most important thing here is to know that once you are here, people might also joke about your accent and culture. If you know how to laugh at yourself, you will not have problems. ;)

One of the main reasons for me to rebuild my website was the excess of time I’ve gained after get fired. Let’s face it: It’s almost impossible to go out spend some time walking as it’s damn cold outside (around 4C). I even like cold weather but...

So, as I don’t want to get crazy while looking for a new job, I’ve decided to do some things in parallel. Here is the list:

1. Create a website/blog: I made this one you are reading now. I was postponing the release since… Since when? August/2009? Oh God… Anyway, in my case it’s very good to make such things as it’s fully related with my career. So, for me, it’s a kind of practice (even if this website is full of bugs – But I have a good excuse for them);
2. Make sports: As I said before, it’s very cold and impossible to go outside even for a short walk. You can do some exercises at home, if you don’t have a gym membership, or play Wii Sports Resort, in case you have Nintendo Wii (I do!);
3. Manage something: There are some possibilities of being a coach or manager in some sport for children. It’s a good chance to see if you are good of being a manager or not. Unfortunately I can’t do that due the language barrier (I don’t know Czech language). But I can still play my Football Manager. I am training Belarus (national team) and Desportiva Capixaba (Brazilian third division club) and I am a quite good virtual manager;
4. Learn something new or improve your skills: That’s good if you want to move forward on your career or even change its focus. Currently I am watching/reading some things at Microsoft Learning portal and considering a Microsoft Certification. Also, I am thinking about read some books but I am completely out of ideas. I’ve read some time ago "Who moved my cheese?" and "The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership". Very good books.
   

This list is working for now. In case I will discover other things I will make another list. :)

Since last year I was planning to reorganize my blog.

Let me explain...

I’ve started playing with blogs since 2005, when I was still living in Brazil. On that situation didn’t make so much sense for me to have a blog completely written in English language. But, once I’ve moved to Europe I’ve started to think: “Hum… Why not?”. Also, as most of my friends in Brazil speak only Portuguese I could not post a joke/video/anything which was in English.

So, finally I did it! Finally I can (try to) write my texts in English, post funny stuff I will see around the interwebs and, of course, talk about myself, my career and some other stuff which might be interesting for who is not able to understand Portuguese language.

Oh yes, I can also practice my English.

The website is still BETA so you will see some errors happening. :)