1 month gone, 1 month to go

Half of my time in Brazil has passed already. Very fast, as I expected. Today is Friday, I can hear the helicopters flying all around Avenida Paulista ("the Brazilian Wall Street"), and in a few hours I'm flying to my hometown, see my family, a few friends and relax.

The days at the bank have been interesting. We have had a lot of meetings and hours of discussions. As the topics of the project are quite abstract, it was not a waste of time, but necessary for creating a shared understanding and a common "working language". During the first week, we spent one day at The Hub São Paulo (ver inspiring space) defining our Purpose and Principles, using Dee Hock's chaordic model. Five weeks later the project has a much better defined shape and we are ready to invite potential partners to join in and create a real network. I learned a lot about the methodology of Co-Creation, and I even facilitated a presentation/training for the Human Development area last week. They loved it and I felt quite comfortable about it.

Besides that, I've been practicing Yoga two or three times a week (offered by the bank for the employees, from 6.30-7.30pm), getting used to longer lunch hours (1h-1h30min) and longer office hours (no earlier than 6pm), and lack of coffee (I reduced the amount of coffee consumed in 95%).

Meanwhile I start to plan my year ahead at the Kaospilot, my third and final year. I need to find a host organization for my internship in October-December, and define my final project (Feb-May 2009). At last but not least, find a way to raise some money to pay Ove, the school money man :)