PROFESSOR DANIEL FERRAZ -

very short, MORE serious stuff.

This is the Center here at the University of Manitoba where I am studying ( and doing research).

Check this link where GCS_Centre published my research and my visit:

http://myuminfo.umanitoba.ca/index.asp?sec=1238&too=100&eve=8&dat=4/27/2010&npa=22411

http://umanitoba.ca/centres/gcs/

Professor Daniel Ferraz at the GCS Centre - Centre for GLobalization and Cultural Studies

The cleaning

Ok, at 33 years old ( yes Tamine I AM!) I m back to my student's days...
Yes, I have to CLEAN UP, TO DO THE LAUNDRY, TO COOK, TO CLEAN THE BATHROOM, DO THE DISHES, to IRON, ETC ETC I can't believe that...over there in Brazil I have Elzinha who cleans up for me and of course Pretinha (Carol) who takes care of me and of my things!!!

well, if you think life is always paradise it s not...heheheheh

yesterday I got a cleaning PRODUCT like "Veja" and then decided to clean all the apartment...so I took the sponge and the PRODUCT and started cleaning up!!! AFTER 5 MINUTES MY HANDS WERE BURNING!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes yes the product was so strong i burnt my hands....

living and learning...

never use a strong product straight in your hands...that's why GLOVES were invented (MORON!!!), right?

see you next time
dan

FROM BRAZIL...

This is the Camargo Aranha team! Sandra is the one wearing a "tres chique" scarf!


Hi There!, so I ll post this lovely nice words from my friend Sandra Elias ( Sorry Sandra I didn t even ask you if I could!!!). so Sandra and I have been workmates for quite a long time now...

Sandra, thanks for the nice words. Here goes the email:


Hi Daniel,


In case you can´t remember me, I´m teacher Sandra Elias, from Camargo
Aranha, who attends ( and enjoys ) your workshops whenever Irene
gives me the opportunity!

Irene has just shown me your blog and told me your adventures in
Canada!!! I saw the pictures and I think they are great: no street
vendors, no pollution, no litter on the streets?Ok, no people either,
but who cares??? Enjoy the silence and breathe fresh air? It doesn´t
happen all the time and living in São Paulo, it´s almost impossible!!

I can understand it´s quite difficult for you to appreciate solitude
because besides being both a wonderful and efficient teacher, you are,
most of all, an actor who deserves an audience and it will come as soon
as you start studying and taking part in the course!

I am sure you will be feeling at home in no time and will have problems
to leave everything behind the moment you have to return to your old
Brazilian life? Enjoy every moment because everything is going to be
here in six months ( school, classes, students, Tamine, friends. . .)
just waiting for you and ready to be continued and improved, of
course!!!

If you think I should mind my own business, just tell me and I will, ok?

Love,

Sandra

THE LIBRARY experience!!!

this is a quick one: I know it would sound ridiculous to some, but here goes some pics of the Millenium Library downtown. IT WAS TOUCHING ( realmente emocionante p mmim!) to see/walk through the aisles of such a huge place for reading and studying...here u get everything; books, DVDs, Cds, audio books, mags, newspps, etc AND WIRELESS access and nice tables to study!!!



You study with this VIEW





tables for us to study... u can bring your laptop and use the L's internet connection


See you guys! Dan

PS- as we re talking about readind, I m readind and enjoying:
-Saint Exupery's Terra dos homens ( thanks to my friend Tamine)
- The 5 Love languages, by Garry Chapman ( for fun)
- Critical theory by Hoy ( philosophy!!!!!!_)
- Historia da sexualidade M Foucault ( quite interesting!)
recommended...

The drawing lesson!

Minha relfexao today is: como eh dificil ficarmos com nos mesmos, nao? Ja tentaram acordar pela manha num silencio absoluto e ficar assim, sem ouvir a propria voz, por muitas horas? Bem, para alguns pode ser ate normal, mas, para nos, professores TALKATIVE MACHINES, eh dificil...e como eh dificil... ( alias desculpem pela acentuacao ,nao havera, ainda nao instalei o Portuguese KEYBOARD SORRYYYYYYY)

respeitar o silencio...a reflexao, e ficar com vc mesmo...

Bem, entao la vou eu em mais uma tentativa de quebrar o silencio e fazer amigos e conversar e conversar e falar de mim ( como gostamos de falar de nos mesmos, nao? as vezes , muitas vezes nao deixamos nem o outro falar - ja falamos de nos!!!) ... entao entrei num curso de desenho na WAG - Winnipeg Art Gallery...cheguei e me paresentei para o professor e pensei: Hummm so nice so many people ( around 15) It s gonna be cool...

7 pm - the teacher says - ok guys everybody into the room...we ll start... todos os artistas da cidade entao entraram, pegaram suas bancadas ( sim cada um tem suas bancadas e crayons and charcoals special paper) e teacher Daniel com seu caderninho e lapis ( can you believe it?) entrou na sala e se ajeitou timidamente num cantinho...

THE CLASS BEGINS:
entra uma modelo CHUBBY CHUBBY e fica nua, nuazinha da silva ( of course Daniel it s a LIFE DRAWING course)...ate ai no problems...quando...
the teacher says ( na verdade ele quase grita) ONEEEEEE MINUTE...out of the blue ;....DO NADA!!!!!! todos comecam a desenhar rapidamente e PROFISSIONALMENTE( teacher Daniel CARA de CONTEUDO...oh God what s going on? na verdade pensei TO F...)
ai todos terminaram. ..a modelo muda de posicao e o teacher : TWOOOOO MINUTES e vai...a mesma coisa...bem e por ai vai a aula...muito desenho NENHUM TALK, NEM mesmo com o teacher que so passava e olhava...

bem eh isso , continuo com minhas tentativas de TAAAAAAALk to someone
ah e sim claro minha dearest amiga LILI me esperou a noite para conversarmos pelo skype
ah meu skype: danielmelloferraz ( p quem quiser talk ha ha ha)

pelo menos hj nao teve incendio kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk


love
Dan

The Fire!!!

Well, as some of you know I m living at a Dorm with young students and elderly ladies and gentlemen...it's really nice ... and different... The most striking thing is: the old ladies kind of put fire in their rooms... out of the blule the alarm in the corridor SETS OFF ...and a voice: " calm down, remain in you room, there s fire in the South Tower" Remain in your rooms????? My God, of course i went down...and to my surprise, everybody was walking calmly among the dozens of firefighters ( who were also walking and talking calmly)...well I heard the fire is quite common over here!!!! Yep folks, it happened again, yesterday night, and THIS TIME, I can prove it, I recorded:

Winnipeg

Life in Winnipeg...


5th day in Winnipeg and just returned from an open air concert right on the sidewalk of WAG - Winnipeg Art Museum ( yeah, these things happen over here: a classical music concert right on the sidewak!) ...and with this feeling I sometimes have: to put things off my chest and write and write and write... well, you might be asking: what a sudden feeling ! out of the blue he's decided to write...actually i ve always written...for myself. This time I ll write to MOSTLY myself again, but also to dearest friends in Brazil, family in London and the over-the-net-friends-to-be that will - who knows? - interact with me on this journey...

As I said before I am really hoping no one will ever read this ( even though it seems to me that GENERACION Y from Yoani sanchez - one of the most influential blogs in the world - started like this ...laughs/ http://www.desdecuba.com/generaciony I recommend!). But if you took your time to do read this blog, hope you enjoy the stories I am going to write...

One thing about truthfullness of stories to be told: not responsible at all !!!...I do believe truth does not exist except for oneself's , one's context, a time, a place... in that sense, truths are constructions, mere interpretations of the world...

so here we go my interpretations of this worldly connected world...and if you get bored, do as I do: go straight to the pics! they are worth a thousand words!

Daniel Ferraz


The Legislative
Streets of Winnipeg

My little room:

where I live

This is the building, the North Tower ( the South tower is on FIRE!!! every other day!)

the pics of Winnipeg:

zzzz