Building ideas together

It has been an intensive, fun and productive week! We are now able to perceive better each other's culture, and use that to boost our creative thoughts.

One of our activities in this week involved showing some of our favorite sites to the others and explaining why we like them. It could be motivated by anything, from content to usability or even other reasons. Some of the sites pointed by me and my colleagues are linked below. Mine is the first one, because I can host my trip pictures without ceasing my rights over them, instead of doing so in a web service that would need agreement on a contract or similar type of document. Thus, I chose to host them in a server I control. There are also many cool links, from online courses to games, that can be accessed below.

http://paulo.oc.eti.br/gallery/
http://pet.qq.com/
http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/
http://www.agencynet.com/
http://waterlife.nfb.ca/
http://www.cnn.com/


Besides, to tighten our bonds even more, we had a Brazilian lunch on Sunday, and plan to have international meals from our countries from time to time, so that we see each other in the weekends and learn more about our colleagues and their cultures. That is catalyzed by our language board in the office, on which we write some words of interest in each of our languages, and also in English and German, so that we get to learn a bit more of the languages we speak.

Still about languages, I am pleased that besides English, I am able to communicate in Spanish with four of my colleagues, or even in Portuguese with one of them. This makes our office a very interesting place to learn and practice other languages as well.

I'm very glad to be here, and I feel this is shared by my teammates. Besides working hard, we are having a truly amazing time here!


Paulo Henrique Azevêdo Filho
Cybernetic Specialist