RUGBY - Segundo dia / Second Day

Segundo dia do Rugby

Na quinta-feira eu tive o segundo treino de rugby. Dessa vez foi bem diferente do primeiro porque a gente nao ficou fazendo exercicios do tipo "passar a bola". Dessa vez nos ensaiamos varias jogadas de ataque e defesa. O tecnico me colocou na posicao que os mais rapidos do time ficam... Logo eu ne que corro que nem uma tartaruga... As meninas que estavam no ataque viravam pra tras e falavam "Jogada 2 tesoura 4" ai as meninas iam passando de boca em boca ate chegar na ultima. E eu repetia tudo que elas falavam mas quem disse que eu entendia o que "JOgada 2 tesoura 4" queria dizer?? hahah eu me divirto. Muitas vezes estava no lugar errado, fiz impedimento, apanhei tambem.
O tecnico fez uma jogada em que assim que eu visse uma menina do ataque bater na bunda da outra eu tinha que correr o mais rapido possivel, pegar a bola e tentar passar pelo paredao das meninas do outro time. Pronto.. primeira vez eu nao consegui pegar a bola. Volta e faz de novo. Segunda vez: eu pego a bola e corro ai uma menina me pega e me derruba. Nessa hora o tecnico me ensinou qual eh o jeito "certo" de cair no chao. Eu tenho cair no chao olhando pro meu time e deixar a bola na minha frente, mas sem segurar.
Terceira vez: Eu corro, pego a bola e saio correndo pelo meio das meninas que estavam meio destraidas ate que uma brutamontes me agarra pelas pernas e me derruba. Uma outra menina pisou no meu braco com a chuteira e agora eu to com um roxinho que parecem 3 bolinhas (das travas da chuteira). Nessa hora a capita do time falou pras outras meninas pegarem leve porque eu era novata.. hahaha Na verdade nem doeu, acho que eu tava tao empolgada tentando aprender a jogar que nem senti nada, so vi o roxo quando cheguei em casa. Como diz o pai do Kuba, a pisada foi de leve porque no roxo nao da pra ver de que marca era a chuteira.. heheheheh. O resto do treino foi normal e no final nos tivemos que correr em volta do campo e depois fomos embora.


Second Day of Rugby
On Thursday I went to my second rugby practice. This time it was very different than the first time because we did not do any of those exercises such as "pass the ball". This time we were rehearsing some of the strategic plays of offense and deffence. The coach set me at the WINGER position - the one that runs the fastest - except that I am a turtle when I ran.. and I not very good at sprinting.. I am better at longer runs. Anyway... girls that were at the offense position would yell "Play 2 scissors 4" and all the other girls were yelling the same until the last girl on the team heard it. I repeated everything that they yelled but I had no clue what was going on. I had so much fun trying to figure it out! hehehe Lots of times I was in the wrong place, I made offsides and I also got beaten.
The coach taught me a play in which as soon as one of the girls touched the other girls' butt I was supposed to run as fast as I could and catch the ball and run thru the deffense team. First time: I did not catch the ball. Ok, go back and do it again. Second time: I catch the ball and this girl knocks me out. At this point the coach came and taught me the "right way to fall". I needed to fall facing my teammates, protect my head and let the ball go.
Third time: I run, catch the ball, run thru the deffense since some of the girls were distracted talking to each other. I ran until this "beast" grabs my legs and puts me on the floor. ANother girls stepped on my arm and now I have a bruise that looks like 3 dots. At this point the team capitan tells the girls to do "white play" because I was new and did not quite know what to do. To be honest with you it did not hurt and I only noticed I had a bruise when I got home. I was so concentrated in the play that i did not feel anything. As Kuba's dad says, it was just a "soft step" because by looking at the bruise I cannot tell what was the brand of the girls' cleats. heheh At the end of practice we ran around the field and sprinted a little.

Relogios - Clock

O que aconteceu com os meus relogios que ficavam aqui ao lado direito do Blog???

What happened to the watches that used to be on the right-hand side of the blog??

Rugby - Dia/Day 1

Quem ve essa foto acha que essas pernas ai jogam futebol... Errado! Essas pernas jogam RUGBY.


Ontem eu decidi participar do treino feminino de rugby. Estava na duvida se deveria participar do treino ou participar de uma organizacao que faz trabalhos voluntarios. Bom, rugby ganhou... porque? Nem eu sei. Nao sei absolutamente nada sobre rugby, so sei que eh um esporte famoso no Reino Unido, na Australia, na Irlanda e no Canada. Ahh.. e um amigo meu, o Felipe Godoy joga no time de rugby da USP. Mas com o que o rugby se parece? Eh jogado num campo parecido com o campo de futebol, mas eh meio violento (tanto eh que os jogadores usam uma protecao pros dentes que nem os boxeadores). Parece um pouco com handball porque se passa a bola ate fazer o gol, mas tambem eh meio futebol americano com a excessao de que quando a bola caiu no chao o jogo nao para. Ja ouvi gente dizendo que eh que nem basquete porque os jogadores tem que se movimentar bastante mesmo sem ter a bola... Caramba, o que eh o rugby?? Ha uma grande controversia sobre a historia do rugby. Diz a lenda que William Webb Ellis, um estudante de Londres, estava jogando futebol em uma escola publica de Londres chamada Rugby 1823. Esse cara era muito ruim das pernas e ficou irritado com o jogo de futebol, e teria agarrado a bola nos braços e corrido no campo provocando a ira de seus colegas, que tentavam pará-lo agarrando-o de qualquer maneira. Assim, inconscientemente, o rapaz teria inventado o jogo de rugby. Depois comecou a ser jogado em outras escolas ate chegar na Universidade de Cambridge onde em 1872 eles formaram o primeiro Clube de Rubgy.
Eu nao sabia de nada disso ontem quando eu fui ao treino, mas eu fiz a minha "licao de casa" pra aprender um pouco sobre o jogo (pelo menos as regras basicas e o nome das posicoes). Assim que eu entender mais sobre o jogo eu explico mais... hehehe

<----Time feminino de Rugby da Sacramento State University

Ontem as meninas foram super legais comigo. A capita do time esta na minha sala de microbiologia e ela parece ser bem legal. Todas se apresentaram e tentanvam me explicar o que eu tinha que fazer. Eles me colocaram na defesa - onde as meninas mais magrinhas ficam - em vez do ataque - onde as gordinhas e fortes ficam... e apanham mais tambem. Dei muitos passes ruins, alguns bons e pouquissimos otimos, mas como o tecnico disse: pra quem nunca jogou e nao sabe nada sobre o jogo, eu me sai muito bem. Quinta feira vai ter outro treino... O Kuba foi assistir o treino ontem mas ele ficou escondido, eu nem sabia que ele tava la ate o final... heheheh

OBS: fotos: As pernas, Bola (parece uma "bola" ou mais parecida com um ovo.. tipo de futebol Americano porem mais leve e maior). O campo e o time feminino



------------------------- ENGLISH --------------------------------ate University

If you look at the first photo, you would think that those legs play soccer... WRONG! Those legs play Rugby.

Yesterday I decided to join the University's Rugby team. I was not sure if I wanted to participate in the rugby practice or participate at an organization that does volunteering work. Rugby won... Why? I am not even sure. I know absolutely nothing about rugby. All I know is that it is a very popular sport in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Canada. I also have a friend, Felipe Godoy, who plays for the University of Sao Paulo team. But what does rugby resemble? It is played in a field similar to a soccer field, however it is quite violent (the players even have to use a mouth piece similar to the one used by boxers). It is similar to handball in the way that you have to pass the ball along until you reach the goal. It also seems like it is American football with the exception that if the ball touches the ground, the play does not stop. I also heard people say that it is like basketball in the way that the players continuously move although they don't have the ball. WOW! What is rugby like?? The legend says that rugby was "invented" in Englang by a student called William Webb Ellis at a English Public School, in Rugby, London in 1823. During an inter-class soccer game, William, which was really bad a soccer got frustrated by not being able to kick the ball and grabed the ball and ran as fast as he could while his teammates were trying to catch him on the field. His teammates were very mad.
Other schools started playing the same game and in 1872 the University of Cambridge established the first "Rugby club".
I did not know any of that yesterday when I went to practice. I did my "homework" today and now I know the very basics of the game. As soon as I understand more about it, I will try to explain it.

But anyway... Yesterday the girls were very nice to me. The introduced themselves. The team capitan is in my Microbiology class and she seems very nice. All the girls gave me tips on how to play and what to do (which was nice of them). They placed me on deffense - where the smaller, thinner girls play - rather than offense - where the bigger and stronger girls play. I gave lots of bad passes... some good ones and few really good. The coach said that for someone who has never played or watched it before I was very good. On Thursday we will have another practice. Kuba went to watch the practice yesterday but he was hiding so that I could not see him and get distracted.

pictures: rugby legs, rugby ball (similar to American football ball but bigger), field and Sacramento State Rugby team.

So cafe mesmo pra me manter acordada. Ultimamente tenho tido problemas tentando prestar atencao nas aulas, o sono vem e eu nao consigo ficar acordada (ou prestar atencao) e quando vejo ja perdi 3 minutos de informacao! Nao sei o que acontece comigo. Na sexta feira passada nem cafe me manteve acordada, eu tive mesmo eh que jogar agua no meu rosto no meio da aula... O motivo de tanto cansaco eu nao sei, acho que so estudos mesmo. Essa semana que passou eu estudei tanto pra minha prova de microbiologia e eu acho que eu fui bem. Notas abaixo de 9,5 vao me deixar decepcionada!! (que nerd!!). Enfim... Essa semana mais umas provas... trabalho sabado. E domingo tambem. AI AI AI...

Only coffee keeps me awake lately. I am not sure what has been happening to be, but lately I get so tired in class, i cannot keep myself awake and when I see I already lost 3 minutes of really important information. This last Friday not even coffee was enough to keep me awake, i had to splash my face with water in the middle of the class. This past week I studied so hard for my microbiology exam that if I get a grade worse than 95% I will be really disapointed. Anyway... one more week coming, more tests, work on Saturday and likely Sunday as well...

Aniversario do Kuba - Kuba's B-day - Urodziny Kube

Nos saimos pra comemorar o aniversario do Kuba no dia 15 (o aniversario dele eh dia 14 de outubro). Nos fomos num restaurante Marroquino, escolha da Aimee.. Primeiro nos nos sentimos muito sem graca porque tinha uma mulher fazendo a danca do ventre. Depois a moca foi embora e ai a gente jantou e comemos bolo aqui em casa. O Craig, pra variar, esqueceu o aniversario do Kuba! heheh . O presente dos Pfaffs pro Kuba foi uma caixa de papelao cheia de vinhos de marcas diferentes! heheh Ele ficou feliz...














On the 15th of October we went to a Moroccan restaurant to celebrate Kuba's birthday. The restaurant is Aimee's favorite. At first we were very uncomfortable because there was a woman doing the belly dance, but then she went away and everything has fina again. The food was really good. As usuall Craig forgot about Kuba's b-day this year!! hehehe The Pfaffs gave Kuba a box full of wine bottles from all kinds of brands. He was so happy . Kuba's b-day cards -------->
Cartoes de Aniversario do Kuba --------->

Fogao Solar - Solar Cooker

As portas se abriram! Premio Nobel ai vou eu!

Muita ambicao e pretencao da minha parte em pensar que eu um dia vou chegar ao premio Nobel ne? Mas te garanto que hoje eu estou a um passo a frente de muitas pessoas no mundo. Tudo comecou no final da minha aula de Microbiologia na universidade. Enquanto eu guardava as minhas coisas, todo mundo saiu da classe e eu pedi ao meu professor pra me contar mais sobre a pesquisa que ele estava fazendo. Meu professor: Dr. Bob Metcalf da aulas a 30 anos na universidade e eh um professor maravilhoso. Ha 25 anos atras Dr. Metcalf se interessou por um "fogao solar" inventado por duas mulheres no Arizona. Ele adquiriu um "fogao solar" e comecou a cozinhar todas as refeicoes dele com um fogao solar durante o verao aqui em Sacramento. Como ele tambem da aula de Microbiologia e comida, sabia que a agua nao precisa ser fervida para matar as bacterias. Na verdade a agua precisa ser mantida a temperatura de 65ºC por 15 minutos e isso eh suficiente pra matar as bacterias. Com isso, Dr. Metcalf testou o "fogao solar" contra as bacterias na agua e viu que efetivamente todas as bacterias morriam. Entao ele decidiu se involver com o governo do Kenya e a Tanzania, dois paises muito pobres na Africa que sofrem com a falta de recursos (madeira) para cozinhar assim como sofrem de um serio problema com a contaminacao da agua. Dr. Metcalf desenvolveu um "indicador" de temperatura (avisaria quando a agua esta a 65ºC) assim como um fogao solar simples feito com apenas 3 dolares: Papel aluminio, caixa de papelao, sacola plastica transparente, e um pedaco de vidro. Forra-se a caixa com o papelao por dentro, coloca-se a comida dentro da sacola plastica e coloca-se o vidro encima e deixe no sol por algumas horas ate que a comida esteja pronta. Enfim... usando esse fogao solar, as pessoas no Kenya poderiam aquecer a agua para pasteuriza-la, matando todas as bacterias, assim como cozinhar e nao precisar comprar lenha ou derrubar as arvores (ja escassas) para obter lenha. Dr. Metcalf usa de um metodo de testar a agua sem precisar de um laboratorio, usando pedacos de papel (com produtos quimicos e organicos) apenas ele testa a agua e no dia seguinte ja se tem resultados. Nos ultimos 20 anos ele tem trabalhado com isso, ja provou a eficiencia do fogao solar contra as bacterias e tudo isso com a juda de alunos da faculdade e com o proprio dinheiro dele. AGora Dr. Metcalf trabalha com agentes de saude publica nesses paises e estao testando esse metodo de pasteurizacao da agua em outras comunidades. Como eu entrei nessa?? Bom... sempre quis fazer pesquisa e no semestre que vem poderei juntar-me ao time dele de pesquisa e ajuda-lo em outros testes. Dr. Metcalf esta pra publicar os resultados da pesquisa dele e acha que isso vai ser um BUM mundial, acha que as autoridades vao investir nesse projeto ja que a eficacia esta provada. Dr. Metcalf esteve no Rio de Janeiro em 1992 para a Conferencia do Earth Summit, promovida pela Organizacao das Nacoes Unidas e trabalhou com purificacao da agua nas favelas e comunidades pobres do interior do estado. Ele quer me ensinar a usar os equipamentos para os testes de agua (os papeis) assim como fazer fogao solar pra distrubuir para as pessoas e ensinar ao departamento de saude e agua no Brasil como usar os simples testes que ele usa.

Sei que eh um assunto dificil de entender mas vou tentar explicar melhor. Alias, hoje quando cheguei em casa notei que o site do Solar Cookers International - Cozinheiros Solares Internacional (localizado aqui em Sacramento) tambem esta disponivel em portugues (porem com uns erros de gramatica) o site em ingles www.solarcookers.org e em

Portugues

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.solarcookers.org%2Fbasics%2Fwhy.html&langpair=en%7Cpt&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools


Eh um pequeno passo... mas ja fiquei muito feliz em poder ajudar, participar nessa pesquisa maravilhosa e acima de tudo, com a possibilidade de ajudar o nosso pais. Se alguem conhece alguma autoridade na area de saude e agua no RJ, SP ou outros lugares, seria bom entrar em contato comigo. Uma pessoa pode SIM mudar o mundo. Dr. Metcalf esta fazendo a parte dele. O que voce pode fazer???


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In English: The doors are now open. Nobel prize here I go!!


It is very ambitions and pretentious of me to think that one day I will actually win a Nobel Prize, right? But I can guarantee that today I am one step closer than a lot of other people. Everything started at the end of my Microbiology class at the university. While I was packing everybody left the class and I took the opportunity to ask my teacher to tell me a little more about the research project he was working on. My professor, Dr. Robert Metcalf teaches at CSUS for 30 years now and he is an excellent professor. 25 years ago Dr. Metcalf got interested in this "solar cooker" invented by 2 women in Arizona. He bought a solar cooker for himself and started cooking all his meals this way, throughout the whole summer in Sacramento. Since he also teaches food Microbiology, he knew that water does not have to be boiled in order to kill all the bacteria. In fact, water only needs to be heated to 65ºC for 15 minutes. That is sufficient to kill the bacteria thus pasteurizing water. With that in mind, Dr. Metcalf tested pasteurizing water with his solar cooker and effectively pasteurized water. He decided to get involved in a project with governmental agencies in Kenya and Tanzania, 2 very poor countries in Africa which suffer from lack of resources (wood for fire, money to purchase wood) as well as water contamination. Dr. Metcalf helped develop a temperature indicator which indicates when the temperature of 65ºC is obtained. He also developed a "cheaper version" of the solar cooker using materials that would cost 3 dollars: Aluminum foil, cardboard boxes, clear plastic bag and a piece of glass. How does it work? Place the aluminum foil into the inside of the box, place food inside plastic bag and place the glass on top of it. Leave it in the sun for a couple hours and your food/water would be ready for consumption. So... by using this solar cooker, people in Kenya (and other countries) can heat up their water, pasturize it and cook without spending their meager incomes on fuel and without having to walk for miles to collect wood. Dr. Metcalf also uses of simple techniques to do water testing without having to use fancy laboratory equipment. In the past 20 years, he has been studying solar cooking and water pasteurization funded by his own income and with the help of students from CSUS. As of today, Dr. Metcalf works with govenmental agancies in Tanzania and Kenya to promote the use of solar cookers. How did I get into this?? Well... I always wanted to participate in research and next semester I will be able to join his research team. Dr. Metcalf is about to publish his research and he thinks this will be a revolution. He thinks authorities will finally invest in this project since its efficacy has already been proven. Also, Dr. Metcalf was in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, at the Earth Summit conference promoted by the United Nations. He worked with water pasteurization in the slums as well as poor communities in the countryside of Brazil. He wants to teach me how to use the equipment so that I can test water myself while I am in Brazil and report to him, make the simple solar cookers and show the population how to use it as well as share this wonderful information with the Brazilian authorities.

I know this is a difficult subject to understand, and today I found this website called Solar Cookers International that will explain better. The address is www.solarcookers.org and you can translate it into Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian as well as German. (sorry no Polish)

This is just a small step I took... I was already really happy to be able to participate and help in this research, specially because it involves Brazil as well. YES, one person CAN change the world. Dr. Metcalf is doing his share. What could you do to help??

Mais uma vez eu falei com a minha familia esse domingo. Aqui vai uma fotinho do meu pai!! ----- My dad

Ahhhhh mais uma coisa! Eu fui adicionada ao Mundo Pequeno, um site contendo varios Blogs de Brasileiros pelo mundo a fora. Pra ver o meu, clique em EUA, e CALIFORNIA e eu estou la. (Obrigada Luciana)

3 coisas boas - 3 good things

Faz bastante tempo que eu nao atualizo o meu blog, mas tres coisas importantes aconteceram essa semana. A primeira eh que o Kuba decidiu ir pro Brasil comigo no natal. Fiquei muito feliz com a decisao dele e ja compramos a passagem e tudo (dia 23/12 estaremos ai!!). A segunda eh que o Lucas, amigo de loooooooooonga data fez o primeiro teste dele pela F-1 nesse final de semana. Por mais que fosse uma coisa ja esperada, eu fiquei muito feliz e orgulhosa dele. A terceira e nao menos importante: Nos descobrimos um lugar Muito legal aqui pertinho de Sacramento para fazer windsurfe chamado Rancho Seco. O vento tava bom, a agua nao estava tao fria e o lugar eh bem legal!!!

Acho que eu nunca vi o Kuba tao feliz fazendo windsurfe antes, ele estava com um sorriso de orelha a orelha e nem saia da agua, so pra comer hehehe!! No comeco o vento estava fraquinho e eu aproveitei pra tomar um solzinho e ler o livro pra faculdade. (Nessa hora o Kuba vinda de vez em quando falar comigo)... Assim que o vento ficou mais forte ele sumiu... De vez em quando no horizonte dava pra ver o Kuba indo de um lado pro outro hehehe. Depois de um tempo eu resolvi entrar tambem e como ja nao tinha muito sol e o vento estava forte eu usei o "wetsuit"- uma roupa especial pra agua gelada que SUPOSTAMENTE faz voce se sentir mais quentinha! O vento estava muito forte pra mim e eu caia toda hora. Enquanto isso o Kuba ia de um lado pro outro... heheh e com um sorrisao! Nos saimos la do Rancho Seco ja estava quase de noite e estavamos suuuuuuuper cansados. ------------------------ It has been a long time since I updated my blog. I haven't had that much time but since 3 really good things happened this week, I decided to give it a chance. The first: Kuba decided to go to Brazil for Christmas with me!! I was extremelly happy with that decision, and we already bought his ticket and everything. We will be there on the 23rd of December. Second: Lucas Di Grassi, a long time friend experienced a Formula One car for the first time this weekend. He "test-drove" F-1 Renault (same car as Fernando Alonso -the current Champion). I was really happy and proud of him for that. Go Lucas! Third: We found a really good spot for windsurfing close to Sacramento. The place is called Rancho Seco and is about 28 miles from our house. kuba had a blast, in fact I have never seen him so happy while windsurfing (and I was joking that he was not as happy even when I got back from Brazil). At the beggining the wind was not so strong so I sat down to read my book and tan a little while Kuba hit the water. He only cama back to the shore when he got hungry. At the end of the day, I hit the water as well (wearing a wetsuit. Although the water was not very cold, the wind was making me super cold!) but it was a little too windy for me and I kept falling the whole time. Kuba was really far in the horizon and once in a while I could see him flying across that lake. He was so happy! We came back to Sacramento it was almost dark. We were extremelly tired however happy. ;)