Where to? Next stop Viçosa (MG, Brazil)

The past 3 weeks were busy, with a lot on my mind. However, the weeks passed by without a lot of noticeable activities. I'm more and more integrated here, also some unusual things here in Brazil strike me now more as usual. Quite strange to get used to these ways of living, while when I will be back in the Netherlands I need to get used again to the Dutch way of life. I'm still planning to post interesting blogs for you all, which should give you more insight of how Brazil is. The project research work is really started, and it is more time consuming than I expected. I went for a second time to the coffee farm of Marcelo, the same one as the first time. Here I saw the coffee separator for the first time working! At the farm we observed the sample collection. Ate some fruit that was growing between the coffee plants (providing the needed shadow for the plants). The next day Marcelo brought the collected samples, it was then when we heard the samples (green cherries and red) w...

After Goías there was a Portuguese test waiting for me. At first I must be honest with you, I thought I just will see how it goes. But than someone said to me I must try my best and practice! 😳  What else could I do than practice and do my best, together with Samanda we practiced till the end (literally). And there the test was, I found it kind of difficult but there were also some questions that were easy to solve. In the end the result was good, unfortunately I don't have a grade (don't know if there will be one). After the test and eating something there was a presentation about the culture of Portugal. 2 of the exchange students from Portugal presented it, Diego was there to translate some of the talk for me. Probably somewhere in May we (Katinka, Lucas and I) will do our presentation about the Dutch culture. At least we are hard working on the presentation. Because Katinka needed some help with her project, as kind as I was I went to EPAMIG to help her. And I was sooo ...