Global Week on Entrepreneurship

The current challenge of becoming innovative and entrepreneurial has reached Brazilian organizations. From my observations and work during the past 3 months, since I got back, there is a high demand for innovation, driven by societal changes, by competition and by the global markets... and a big question: how?

Last week was celebrated the global week on entrepreneurship. In Brazil, Endeavor promoted the event with a series of workshops, lectures and presentations around the country, under the theme "bota pra fazer" (something like "let's do it").

Through the events I participated at, it was clear the message: we need to change a culture! Brazilians (and the business/political/cultural environment around) have to:

• Dare to fail - and face society's prejudice against failure
  
• Innovation from bottom-up, full support from top-down
• Persistence, courage and belief
  
• Existence of an "eco-system" for innovation
• Transformative education rather than technical knowledge transfer
  

Another key message, in between the lines, was about social entrepreneurship. The idea that business and entrepreneurs can solve issues such as poverty or AIDS or environmental destruction was said and repeated many times - without using the words "social entrepreneur" or "social business". Those of us operating in such a paradigm should feel like being at the wave crest (na crista da onda). It's exciting and it's the future!

SONHAR PEQUENO OU SONHAR GRANDE DÁ O MESMO TRABALHO!
(to dream small or to dream big: it's the same effort for both)

Post # 100 :D

WOW!! This is my 100th post to my personal blog!!!

It all started back in September 2005, when I was moving from Brazil to Netherlands, for an AIESEC internship at ABN AMRO Bank. And now, 3 years and 10 months later, I start to get prepared to come back. I arrive in São Paulo on 24th of August for a new cycle in my life. I'm closing my chapter of 4 years in Europe.

At the Kaospilots, I graduated two weeks ago, in an incredible party organized by Team 14 and 15 (first and second year students). I was carried home at 6.30am, by Pedro and Florentine, my two guests who came from Amsterdam to party with me! And, even better than that, I managed to pay all my school debts in time!! (this is definitely a good theme for another post!). Unfortunately, my final exam didn't go well (this is subject for yet another post), and I'll have to go for a re-exam, to take place on 19th of August :S

I'm finishing the last changes to my final project for my client, and on Saturday I start another "crazy European summer trip". Like in 2007 when I hitchhiked across France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Czech Rep, or in 2008, when I traveled over 3.000km and 40 different cars across Denmark, Sweden and Norway!

This time I'm combining fun and work, adventure and reflection!

• GetWild Nature Quest: going back to Sweden, this time as one of the "hosts" of the 7-days Nature Quest, including 3 days-solo in the Swedish Mountains of Vålådalen (see map). 21 young people from Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and even Brazil and Iraq (!) are joining us this year!

• Molde Jazz Festival: Mark, Philip and I will hitchhike and couchsurf to Trondheim and Molde (Norway), where the famous Jazz Festival takes place. We'll meet our friend Inger-Mette and hopefully we get some paid job for one week!

• Sailing trip from Molde to Oslo: one week sailing with Skipper Christian Løken, who joined our team at the Kaospilots but left us to join the Volvo Ocean Race ;-)

• Madrid: some days working with Guga, good old friend, with whom I'm developing a business plan for our startup and we're part of a competition promoted by Artemisia Foundation. Deadline is 2nd of August!

• Italia: back to the roots, once again. This time I'll travel to Rome with Florentine and relax for a few days in the countryside, with good wine, good food. Good life!

• Denmark: back to Denmark, time for the re-exam, pack my stuff and fly home!!!!!

Who knows, maybe I meet some of you on-the-road, let me know if that might be the case!

Ah, my record says that I blog an average of once every two weeks!! At least I'll keep this average for the the next year to come!

(and many updates come on Twitter anyway. Follow me...)

Event: Stories of Antarctica, Leadership and Climate Change

Today is EarthDay! First celebrated 39 years ago, it marks the birth of the modern environmentalist movement... learn more at www.earthday.net/earthday2009

As part of the celebrations, my "action" today is to start sharing my experience in Antarctica. I'll also write some reflections down on my blog (meanwhile you can check the Official Expedition Website) and look for photos, videos and blog posts, where I was one of the official bloggers).

If you are in São Paulo, try to join us at The Hub, located at Rua Bela Cintra 409 (see map) at 19h.


Thomas Ufer e Henrique Vedana foram escolhidos entre jovens do mundo inteiro para participar de uma expedição para a Antarctica (http://expedition-antarctic-2009.com), em Março/Abril de 2009, com a intenção de ver os efeitos das mudanças climáticas acontecendo no continente mais remoto e mais intacto do planeta, e conectar-se com lideranças jovens e cientistas de ponta, buscando entender a crise onde estamos e quais as perspectivas, o que a gente pode e deve fazer.

Mostraremos algumas fotos, o filme da expedição e contaremos algumas histórias... venha pra bater-papo, fazer perguntas e refletir com conosco!

Biking in São Paulo

I should write about Antarctica, about my final project at the Kaospilots, about my Magic Kombi and about Wind People, or even about my "facing my fears" climbing experience last weekend, but instead I rather talk about BIKES! Bikes in São Paulo!

The motivation: I love biking and I've done it since I was a child. A bit hidden from my parents, who would naturally advised me against, while in reality I was happily building self-confidence in exploring my hometown, Porto Alegre. I loved it. It was dangerous. I moved to São Paulo and continued doing so, without realizing the crazyness of such an attitude. Then, Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Aarhus (Denmark), and the "bikeland", the two most bike-friendly countries in the world. I had reached Paradise :)

Four years later, back to São Paulo, I was going for a 20min ride from Vila Mariana to Bela Vista this morning, crossing one of the main avenues in Brazil, Avenida Paulista, and I met Marcia:

An article on TreeHugger explained: "Márcia Regina de Andrade Prado [40 years-old] was a well-known bike activist who was run-down by a bus last January 14 (2009). Her accident exposed one more time the fragile situation of bikers in large cities and caused great mobilization among the Sao Paulo's bikers." Quite shocking and real!

Another cool website and some background info on biking in São Paulo...

• São Paulo has 6 million vehicles (3 times more than in 1980)
  
• There were 262km of traffic jams in 2008
• Being inside a car in the middle of a traffic jam is 2 to 4 times more damaging for health (pollution) than biking in the same situation
• There are 30km of cycle paths in São Paulo, for 250.000 bikes
  
• One citizen dies every 4 days biking in São Paulo (84 people in 2006)
  

As the CriticalMass movement states (Bicicletada.org in Brazil): (Each bike means) one less car! I recommend reading the Manifest of the Invisibles before calling me crazy, and for a better understanding of what the whole thing is about!

Join the movement... control what you can!

Ilha das Flores (best documentary/short film ever)

For years and years I've been searching for the subtitles!! Subtitles that would enable me to share with the world this piece of art. Ilha das Flores ("Isle of Flowers") is a Brazilian short film/documentary by Jorge Furtado, shot in 1989 in my hometown Porto Alegre.

The film got many awards over the years. According to IMdB votes, it's the best Brazilian short movie and best Brazilian documentary ever made, and it's the global #15 and #11 (respectively). According to wikipedia, "chosen by European critics as one of the 100 most important short films of the century".

So, today I finally found them - the subtitles :D

Enough said, just enjoy 13min of your time and watch it. And maybe you want to watch it again. And again. Reflect about it. I also would really invite you to post your comments and thoughts here...

Ilha das Flores-sub Eng
Uploaded by Simud

As the closing lines of the movie say (quoting Cecilia Meirelles):

"Free" is the state of those who enjoy freedom.
"Fredom" is a word that feeds the dream of humanity;
that no one can explain, bu everyone understands.

PS: a lot has changed in the Isle of Flowers over the last 30 years. Still, this is the reality of most of our population in the planet today.

Democracy in Russia

It's 4.39am and I'm somewhere in the outscurts of Moscow, in a kind of "comunist-style" sports-center, facilitating a 6-days conference for 80 young leaders from all around Russia. The organization is well-known to me, AIESEC.

The main part of the conference is dedicated to the elections of the national executive board of AIESEC in Russia, in a very competitive environment where 4 people run for President and 15 people run for the 7 Vice-President positions. Besides that, there is a "history" of local and national politics, and a Constitution (where the rules of the process are described) that is very weak, full of flaws. Also, as last components, we are in a very young democracy, Russia, and AIESEC is made of young people, average around 20 years old. It's definitely a school for all of them, to choose and to be chosen by democratic means to run an organization at local, national, and international level.

I had a similar experience one year ago, where I was facilitating the same process for AIESEC in Brazil, my home country. There we had the non-typical situation of 3 candidates running for national president (first time in the 37 years history) and NONE of them got enough votes - in front of 600 conference participants [a second round was needed a month later to finally elect the new president] It's not easy to coordinate, facilitate and maintain a healthy emotional level when it happens. I felt challenged and I survived (thanks to the support from a few special friends).

This year in Russia we had some other particularities, such as an incomplete Constitution, written in Russian, a tough competition among 4 candidates and only 7 local committees (among 15) having the rights to vote, due to their past performance. Were the remaining 8 committees lowered to a "second grade citizenship"?

Despite all, I survived once again, and AIESEC in Russia has a new president elected in a fair and trusted election. For the first time in years, it's a male, and it's from Romania. Congratulations Victor!

My conference is only half-way through, 3 long days and short nights to go, following AIESEC's principle of "working hard, partying harder!"

Dobre noche!!

Invitation: Education, Creativity and The Kaospilots

I've been studying for two years in Denmark, and many people have been asking me, either by curiosity or interest, about this school with this strange name "Chaos Pilots?". What is it? How does it work? How can I study there? Is there anything like that in Brazil?

As this is my last week in São Paulo, before returning to Denmark and finish my studies, I would like to invite you for an informal conversation about Education, Creativity, Innovation, and much more...

September 9th, 2008 (Tuesday)
Location: The Hub - Bela Cintra 409 - São Paulo
Reception at 7pm, chat goes from 7.30 until 9.30pm
Cost: suggested R$ 5,00 (for drinks and snacks)

This invitation extends for all interested people, and curious about the subjects!
Let me know in advance if you're coming by e-mail henrique@kaospilot.dk.

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
(...)
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Warriors Without Weapons 2009

I met quite a few folks who supported the last editions of this program, and a few others who have participated. It's impressive, life-changing experience! The deadline has passed for the 2009 edition, but they still accept participants from outside Brazil.

Check the website www.warriorswithoutweapons.net and warn your friends and family, you won't be the same afterwords...





Hello! Do you want to change the world?

We are taking applications for the 2009 Warriors Without Weapons program. The program will gather youth from different countries that are willing to roll up their sleeves and really make a better world.

After 30 days working collectively with a local community, they will come back home with knowledge and experience to start to promote change in their local realities.

In 2009 the program will take place in Santos, Brazil from January 5 to February 5. The applications must be sent until August 15!

Do you want to know more about the program? Visit our blog at www.warriorswithoutweapons.net to learn how to participate.

Please, do you know someone who wants to change the world?

If you think this is a good way and have people in mind to participate. Would you send this invitation to them?

Thank you so much for your atention!

People from Elos: André, Cláudio, Edgard, Mariana, Mila, Natasha, Rodrigo Rubido, Rodrigo Alvarez, Thaís e Val.

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 :)

Clonado no orkut!!! (impersonified!!!)

(no version in English this time...)

Gurizada, essa é de rir pra não chorar... dilemas da vida cibernética-pós-moderna. Fui clonado. Minha identidade usada de forma ilegal, crime de falsa identidade, nessa vida virtual. E o pior, já é a terceira vez em que isso me acontece!!

Alguém criou um perfil do Orkut usando uma(s) foto(s) minha(s)... confira aqui! Como já pedi pra Google cancelar o perfil, ele desaparacerá em breve, por isso gostaria de copiar aqui a introdução do rapaz - sugestivamente chamado "Henrique Raniere"...

Sou romântico, quase um amante a moda antiga, como diz a música do Rei... "do tipo q ainda manda flores"...
Sou do tipo q se apega facilmente as pessoas.
Sou calmo, tranquilo,fiel, não sou muito ciumento, só cuido daquilo q amo e q me é importante.
Sou um pouco tímido, mas estou aberto a novas amizades.
No momento, estou solteiro, e a procura da mulher q vai me conquistar e preencher minha vida por completo. Sei q é difícil, mas sou paciente e sei q ela está por perto. Estou muito carente... alguém se habilita??? (risos)
Sou muito ligado a minha familia e acho q isso é a base de tudo, e tudo q tenho e sou eu devo inteiramente a eles.
Tenho bom humor... mas sem exageros.
Trabalho muito, mas sempre arrumo tempo para me dedicar a pessoa q estiver do meu lado, aos meus amigos, e aos meus passatempos prediletos.
Acho q é isso!
Vlw

É brincadeira, né? Coisa de pentelho cheio de espinhas na cara. O pior é saber que ele tinha mais de 100 "amigos" e uns 40 e tantos FÃS!!! E eu!??

Ainda em 2006 minha amiga Licia encontrou um "Henrique Paulo Vedana", que foi desmascarado antes de poder fazer muitas amizades (embora ele tivesse até testemunhos!). Há um ano atrás, foi a vez do "Sr. Vedana", denunciado por um internauta Baiano "detetive particular", que também me advertiu sobre um sujeito do Acre estar usando a minha foto para seduzir gurias num desses sites de namoro online... sujeito bacana, né? (O Baiano, claro!)

Dessa vez foi minha futura hóspede pelo couchsurfing, que apesar de ser uma guria inteligente e interessante, deixou-se levar pelas palavras doces do solteiro Henrique... reconheceu as semelhanças, pensou que Raniere era meu nome do meio, me avisou, e ainda deve estar em dúvida sobre quem roubou as fotos de quem! ;-)

A foto maldita...


Essa foto foi tirada pela Laura, no inverno gaúcho de 2005. Eu estava gripado tomando um chimas em Santa Maria (dá pra ver a Roberta ao fundo) com velhos amigos. Dois meses depois eu estava embarcando pra Holanda e criei esse blog veds.nomadlife.org para documentar a experiência no exterior... e dei upload dessa foto como teste >>>

E não é que o Google Images "tagueou" a minha cara de doente, e todas as pessoas procurando por fotos de chimarrão passaram a ver a minha lata. Algumas pessoas, que hoje acabaram sendo amigas minhas, me adicionaram no MSN ou mandaram e-mail. Outras pessoas usaram minha foto em PPTs, sites de namoro, Orkut e outras coisas mais... até sobrinho da Mãe Elô eu virei!!!

Não quero assustar ninguém, mas é fato... caiu na rede, é peixe. Botou coisa na Internet, é imprevisível o que pode acontecer. Pra bom e pra ruim. Muitas coisas boas já me sucederam por ter um perfil no Orkut, no Couchsurfing, no Linked-in, no Flickr, além dos blogs no nomadlife.org... mas tudo faz parte dessa nova era e dos seus dilemas...


E ae, já deixou recado pro Henrique Raniere? Vai lá, pode sacanear a vontade... :D

Chaordic Principles and Learning Networks

I arrived in São Paulo two weeks ago. It's funny and nice to be back here 3 years later (I lived here before in 2003-2005). I got invited by an old friend Zoe, who works for Banco Real, to join a project on Corporate Education. As they defined it, they want to pioneer the future of corporate education in Brazil, in a very innovative and interesting way, through co-creation of multi-stakeholder networks, where educational experiences take place, creating value for all participants, society and for the bank (and other institutions). Banco Real recently received the award of "Most Sustainable Bank in the World", given by the Financial Times. It's amazing to see how much the language and 'walking-the-talk' is developed here. Not perfect, but far ahead of most of the private sector.

There are three key concepts involved in this project called "Vanguard in Education":

• Experience Co-Creation: developed by C.K. Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy in their book "The Future of Competition", a new paradigm for ceating products and services engaging stakeholders. The "consumer" becomes a key player in the creative process, The individual experience is central in the conception of "value".
  
• Chaordic Governance: combines chaos and order in a harmonious way, competition and cooperation. It was inspired by Dee Hock's work when developing the concept of VISA International through the 60s-80s and beautifully told in his book "The Birth of Chaordic Age".
  
• Networks: people find meaning and get engaged when colaborating with other people, instead of working alone. People get even more engaged when colaborating with other people from other organizations, based on knowledge networks and interests.

Instead of hiring a specialized consulting firm with a developed model to be implemented, the bank decided to look for young, entrepreneurial innovators to co-create and implement the new platforms. Kaospilots would naturally be a place to find people like me! :P

These first 2 weeks were designed for a better understanding of the project today, its needs and also get a better feeling about the bank and the context. Banco Real is starting a merging process with Banco Santander (from Spain), which will create one of the largest private banks in Brazil, with over 50,000 employees. It does affect many people, their careers, etc...

The team behind this project is also very promissing. International, diverse and passionate. Chaordic and self-organized :) Half of the team have been involved in AIESEC before (like me). For the next two days I'll be taking part in a national seminar "Networks and Development", hosted by LEAD Brazil and SENAC. Researching!

Summer plans?

I came back from China in the end of April and after spending 2 weeks in Amsterdam working for GRI and seeing some old friends, I arrived in Aarhus focused in finishing the semester and figuring out my summer plans... my original plans of staying in Aarhus working on a cool marketing project got canceled and I got a bit confused in the middle of a thousand ideas and no concrete decisions. Anxiety and impatience are not good companions for those moments, I must confess.

Cutting the crap (I guess no one wants to read about my inner conversations with myself over the last month), some good things came out and some more traveling is taking place!!

I'm taking part in a summer leadership/meditation retreat facilitated by John Milton (www.sacredpassage.com) in the mountains in Sweden, camping for one week, spending 3 days on a solo-trip where the sun never sets! I'm really looking forward for this experience and to prepare myself this this journey I decided to hitchhike all the way from Aarhus to Valadalen Natural Reserve, near Aare, a 1,500km road trip! I will have the company of my beautiful Danish friend Louise so I think we won't have problems to get rides! ;-)

After Sweden, I'll be in Copenhagen for a couple of days before heading to Brazil, where I will work on a project for the 2 months (from mid-July until early September). I'll be based in Sao Paulo and I'm looking forward to meet old friends, meet new people and start planning some cool future projects!! I'll be at the AIESEC Alumni Congress, for sure!!!! (I didn't imagine that happening...)


I'll blog more on the hitchhiking trip when possible, and share some thoughts from the camping retreat...

Three months in a nutshell...

I arrived back to Denmark this Monday, after spending three months back in Brazil. The initial reason for going there was my process assignment for the Kaospilots, where I have been working for the Projeto Agua for three weeks. Besides that, the whole trip became packed with different experiences, lots of traveling, meeting old friends and creating new relationships. So, in a nutshell...

October:

• Left Copenhagen and stopped one night in Madrid, nice city!
• One week for preparation for my assignment, while meeting lots of AIESECers, playing some football and meeting old friends, going for Vitor Ramil concert, and of course spending some time with my family at home.
• Two days in Florianópolis, meeting with my client and preparing together for the period in Paraiba, where the project is located
• One day in Sao Paulo, trapped in the constant rain, meeting the Brazil-China Chamber of Commerce and playing football in the rain with good old friends from AIESEC
• Two weeks in Urucu, a small community of Sao Joao do Cariri, 300km from Joao Pessoa in Paraiba state, for my assignment.

November:

• On the way back from Paraiba, a stop in Florianópolis and a final meeting with my client, evaluating the results and planning next steps. I even got a job offer, so I assume they were satisfied with the results!
• One week back home in Porto Alegre, procrastinating and writing my final report for the kaospilots, followed by an examination over video-skype (quite nice, although the connection was not very good)
• Not much time to rest, I flew to Rio de Janeiro, to join the Global Journey on Sustainable Communities, where I was one of the co-hosts. It was an amazing experience, for 8 days with other 40 people from 16 different countries.
• One day to rest, by coincidence my birthday (Dec 9). I had a great dinner with Helena and other friends at her place, Indian style :), and in the next day we had an alumni barbacue and I (re) met a lot of old folks from AIESEC in Rio.
• No more rest, a night bus to Sao Paulo to join AIESEC and CONAL, the National Congress, where I was the Chairman. The conference was 5 days long for 500 participants, plus 2 days of pre-meeting for 150 participants, and we had 9 people organizing all logistics and 11 facilitators from the National Office. It was hard-core experience, and I really enjoyed being back after 2.5 years away from AIESEC in Brazil.
• Done with the conference, time to be back home, for Christmas. These were the days I spent only with my family, including X-mas eve, and resting from the long month I had, but at the same time getting prepared for going back to Europe - vaccinations for China, new passport, new driver's license...
• Soon after Christmas, beach-time. Together with some good friends from AIESEC we rented a big beautiful house in Ibiraquera, a calm place 70km south of Florianopolis, and we spent new-years there without mobile signal and without cars. Perfect weather, lots of meat and beer, poker games and good relaxed conversations...

January:

• The excuse for the new-years meeting was to prepare for the wedding of our friends Malhado and Cibele, and we went straight from Ibiraquera to Santa Maria, located 3.5 hours from Porto Alegre. The wedding was beautiful and I met friends I haven't seen together for 3-4 years. It was too fast but it was awesome.
• Back quickly to Porto Alegre on the 6th of January, just in time for goodbying my best girlfriends Jo, Jana and Lalau, and again traveling, this time to Paraguay.
• I spent 4 days in Asunción, visiting Clemen, who I had met during the Pioneers of Change event in December. I had a great experience and it changed a lot of ideas about my neighbouring country. People were so friendly and warm, and at the same time so similar to Gauchos... (people from Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil)
• Back to Porto Alegre, after 21 hours on a bus, I just had a few hours to pack. I had my plans changed and I had to stop in Rio, in Teresópolis, to participate and facilitate a planning weekend for the AIESEC International Congress Organizing Team. This event will happen in Brazil this August and I got a "little" involved with it :)
• From Teresópolis to the airport and to Denmark. Not yet home, I still staying one extra day in Copenhagen to apply for my Chinese visa. Yesterday I got the confirmation, they accepted it!

Sorry for the short summary, but too much happening at the same time and without a proper computer in hands, there is not much I can do. I wish I could keep you updated more often!

Two weeks in Aarhus, and then Shanghai for another three months... Nomadlife continues...

Back from my latest project...

Hello!

I got back from the Northeast region in Brazil, where I spent my last three weeks doing a process leadership assignment for the Kaospilots. I wrote an article about it in my KaosBlog - kaos.nomadlife.org (in Portuguese) and I published the photos on my Flickr account.

I'm right now supposed to be writing a final report... while enjoying springtime at my parent's place... :)

One evening in Madrid

Last Sunday I flew from Denmark to Brazil. Due to the itinerary of the flight, IBERIA offered me a paid overnight in Madrid, including hotel and breakfast. Not bad! As I have never been to Spain before, a good opportunity to enjoy one evening there. I searched and increadibly found three old friends, all from AIESEC, currently living there! And we all managed to meet that night - the curiosity is that they didn't know each other yet...

Kristine was from AIESEC in Aarhus last year, we became good friends and she left to Mexico and then Madrid. Ania is from Poland and we were both trainees in Amsterdam last year. We travelled together once and she had just arrived in Spain to work for a consulting firm. Lucas is a Brazilian alumnus, we spent new-years once together and he was working in London until one week ago!

After arrival in Brazil, a very easy week, relaxed, some preparations and getting ready for the next 3-4 weeks of busy work in the Northeast. I'm so much looking forward for that!

Tomorrow I'm joining my first real Brazilian-Gaúcho churrasco (barbacue) in two years... yaaaammy...