Aramitan 09

O ARAMITAN deseja um Feliz 2010, com muita Confiança e Esperança para o FUTURO !!!

2010-01-14T04:13:00.000-08:00

Perseferança é aprender

Aprender é praticar
Praticar é repetir
Re petir é ganhar experiencia
Experiencia é crise

Crise é profa
Profa é fortalecimento
Fertalecimento é liberdade
Liberdade é criar do nada
Criar do nada é transformar
Transformar é caminho é fim ao mesmo tempo.
Rudolf Steiner

Cuida tus PENS AMIENTOS porque se volverán PALABRAS. Cuida tus palabras porque se volverán ACTOS.

Cuida tus actos porque se convertirán en COSTUMBRE. Cuida tus costumbres porque forjarán tu CARÁCTER.
Cuida tu carácter porque formará tu DESTINO. y tu Destino será tu VIDA…

Clique aqui e veja o blog 2010

www.aramitan2010.blogspot.com

25 de Dezembro, um lindo dia de natal!

2010-01-13T08:13:00.000-08:00

Cheguei no portao do aramitan, nao tinha nada, nem ninguem, sequer um barulhinho...Depois de umas horas de onibus ate chegar aqui, isso foi bom, mas eu pensei: iiih, onde ta todo mundo? vou passar o natal sozinha agora... Fui pra casa do Santi, e la estavam ele, Sandra, Weslley e o meu amado Mateo!!! O Santi e a Sandra estavam cozinhando, o Weslley acordando e o Mateo quando me viu: Veni!Venii!!... Brincamos e conversamos, ate o almoco ficar pronto. Fui com o Santiago buscar as criancas da familia, eu nunca tinha ido na comunidade onde eles moram, fiquei impressionada em ver um mundo que ainda cabe tanta diferenca, que existem coisas acontecendo nele que a gente nem consegue mais imaginar. Entao eu pensei no sentido do natal, de humildade e de compartilhar, e vi que o que estavamos fazendo era isso, dar um natal mais lindo e mais feliz, as criancas que talvez nunca tivessem comemorado assim. A Sandra preparou a comidinha, com muito carinho,estava muito boa, e mais uma vez eu me vi refletindo quando estavam todas as criancas sentadas a mesa, meio envergonhadinhas...a Sandra perguntou qual era a comida preferida delas, entre pizza e batata, a Giovanna respondeu: A daqui! Depois do nosso lindo almoco de natal e de ver um dos objetivos do aramitan se concluindo num simples gesto, o que se ouvia pela casa eram risadas e brincadeiras. Assim seguiu o dia, com todas essas criancas, que trouxeram ainda mais calor e vida pro nosso natal. Nunca vou esquecer este dia!

Grace Mattos

Domingo, 20 de Dezembro- Vielas Coloridas!

2010-01-13T07:21:00.000-08:00

Hoje, foi o ultimo dia deste mutirao (que passou muito rapido!). Com o grupo dos organizadores...eu Pra mim o dia comecou bem,cedo, mas bem!as seis e meia fizemos uma reuniao de avaliacaoestav muito muito cansada por causa do sabadabadu. paramos a reuniao para nos despedirmos das suecas, foi um momento muito lindo onde eu pude ver o que estes dias que passamos juntos no aramitan representa para cada um, que a juncao dos momentos que vivemos juntos aqui toca de verdade no coracao de todos e acrescenta muito para nossas vidas!
O cafe da manha foi tranquilo, com a mesa no gramado, o sol e o vento, a sensacao vedadeira de um dia de domingo.
Fomos ao grajau, e realizamos o projeto do Eduardo,"vielas coloridas", que ja queriamos ter feito ha algum tempo...Foi muito lindo ver tanto movimento e cor em um so lugar, em um so dia.
O lugar virou outro. E tinha gente que nao queria mais parar de pintar.
Fomos tomar acai e tudo foi muito divertido!! Fiquei muito canda e feliz depois deste dia!

BEIJO ME LIGAAA!!!
Grace Mattos

19/12 - Rancho do Zico - "Fechamento"

2010-01-13T04:52:00.000-08:00

Este dia como todos os outros foi especial para cada um nós, após tantos dias de trabalho e atividades paralelas, enfim, uma dia tranquilo, sem ter que fazer esforço físico! fizemos um belo café da manha, arrumamos nossas coisas, e lá fomos nós para o Rancho do Zico, um espaço super aconchegante, bem típico do interior e cheio de natureza, onde pudemos almoçar tranquilamente em meio a natureza, ao lado de esquilos e Beija-Flor nos rodeando o tempo todo... sem se preocupar com quem vai lavar seu prato! Lá fizemos um dia como "Fechamento do Mutirão 2009", onde fizemos uma reflexão do que foi o mutirão para nós?Houve alguma mudança em nosso convívio para com o mundo?...dentre tantas reflexões, coisas belas surgiram, como lagrimas que nao paravam de cair, e que aos poucos foram sensibilizando cada um que ali estava, e demonstrando cada vez mais o quanto o Aramitan e os mutirões são especiais na vida de cada jovem que por aqui passam, sendo um espaço onde se transforma e se é transormado!!!! Tenho agora um nó na garganta, só de lembrar de tantos momentos especias aqui vividos, e que não basta ler para saber o que vive no Aramitan, tem que sentir, e aqui estar! :-). Então pessoal, enchugando as lágrimas e antes de terminar meu escrito gostaria de citar algumas visitas importantes as quais nos acompaharam neste dia maravilhoso, tivemos a honra de ter a presença da Dona Jacinta e Solange, as quais nos alimentou a cada dia do mutirão com sua comida maravilhosa! Todas as Crianças da Família, inclusive a família do Santiago e o Senhor Arnaldo quem nos ajuda muito como voluntário na parte teórica e prática dos trabalhos na construção.

Um muito obrigada a todos de que alguma forma faz com que tudo isso aconteça! Muitas felicidades para todos nós!

Tatiane Andrade

18/12/09 Sao Nicolau

2010-01-09T04:51:00.001-08:00

Despertecon el suspiro del sol naciendo. cerre los ojos e volvo a despertar con las cigaras de las guitaras. eduardo me hiso ver, como la dispocicion de la mesa de desayuno, puede verse tan linda y tentadora, si se acomoda con amor.
bajo el sol hisimos la roda, una ciranda de alegria. se planeo el dia y cada uno fue a sus que haceres. los trabajos de la maciana, siendo el ultimo dia de trabajo, se enfococaron en las famosas ventanas. ventana que fue hijada, pintada, limpiada, pintada, ensuciada, y vuelta a limpiar. y en terminar la parecita del centro cultural. toda la manana trabaje en la cocina.
como desfruto de cocinar con dona Jacinta. Una maestra en la vida, cada palavra es una ensenansa.
Un rico alimenzo, y todos a preparar el espacio para el gran evento. el grupo organizador ya habia planeado toda la tarde, pero como gran olan humano esta sujeto a mudanzas.

La cocina se lleno de resetas, harina, idiomas, mujeres y mucha alegria.
El centro cultural fue acomodado y liompiado.
El gran salon de arriba, futuro espacio de criatividad, sufrio una transformacion hermosa. De ser un lugar lleno de polvo colchonetas, cortinas de ropa para secar, campamento de mijeres. se transformoen un espacio acojedor lleno de magia.

FLORENCIA CARUSSO, Argentina

17. 12. 2009

2009-12-18T04:56:00.000-08:00

Bom, acordei um pouco encima da hora. Mas isso não mudou meu humor e minha alegria de estar aqui mais um dia compartilhando esses momentos agradáveis. Fizemos a roda como já è de costume e fomos as nossas tarefas. Fiquei com as janelas novamente, mas feliz porque estava na janela da cozinha, bem próximo das comidas...
Pintando as janelas fiquei observando muito. Minha cabeça esta meio confusa, não vejo mais as coisas normais. Tudo para mim è como um quadro. Mas para ter um quadro perfeito eu preciso compor ele com belas cores e usando bem as linhas de minha imaginação. Bom, legal, mas me vem uma duvida: como deixar o meu Brasil como um quadro? Tento enquadrar de varias formas, ate consigo mais umas manchas aparecem sempre. Aì percebo que devo me empenhar mais em meus pensamentos. Mas tudo bem, preciso me enquadrar pessoalmente como pessoa. Nossa pirei de mais! ☺
Preciso ir, hoje tem Barzinho Cultural na Monte Azul e ensaio para o teatro e as apresentações que queremos fazer em Dornach, Suíça. Nossa, acho que estou atrasado. Sou Brasileiro.

Adriano, Brasil (Vagabundo) ☺

16. 12. 2009

2009-12-17T04:36:00.000-08:00

Today I was up bright and early with the birds to help prepare breakfast. Tati, Manu and the always reliable Luiz were among the many helpers to ready a morning feast fit for a king to rise for. An early night and a morning coffee had left me obnoxiously chirpy for that time of the morning which I put to good use, with the help of Rodrigo, as a slightly out of time human alarm clock. Everyone was very appreciative ☺.
Once breakfast was gobbled we played “adoleta” (a traditional Brazilian children’s game) which was good times and got everyone properly roused and ready for the day. The work was then allocated and everybody got into it.
There were people painting inside, finishing windows and a large group helping to work on the brick walls being constructed around the outside cultural area. (Which is living up to its name having been used to host a debate/talk on culture with the minister of coulter from Embu Guaçu the night before). I think a lot of people were keen to sink their teeth into some heavy physical work; hence the large group for a reasonable mellow job. But the more the merrier aye!
Lunch came and went, bellies were filled and then the usual post lunch scattering of bodies (vaguely resembling a battle field) followed. There was also some lunchtime soccer.
Just before we started work again the heavens opened and a torrential downpour let loose. The music was already full bore and the combo was too much to resist. Everybody should spend some time dancing in the rain I think, very very good time…
Once everybody had calmed themselves and dried themselves, work started for the afternoon. The jobs were much the same as the morning for the most part, painting and concreting, expect Simon and I got to have some fun. We needed to paint the stair well that goes up to the sleeping area and it was very high and quite sketchy. After a bit of deliberation we decided to get out the rope and harnesses. I was quite surprised that there was harnesses at all and they were in good condition. The same could not be said for the rope unfortunately, which was freighted and old and definitely not meant for its adopted purpose (abseiling), but you have to do things in Aramitan so we decided to go ahead. I climbed up and set the ropes in the rafters and we got into it. All’s well that ends well I always say and there were no falls so the actual strength of the rope and the not so sturdy rafters they were tied to thankfully were not fully tested.
For dinner we had a fantastic lasagne which left no complaints (even from the Swedish girls) only content smiles. Everybody is just chilling out now before we head into Embu Guaçu to go dancing for the evening which I have been campaigning as it is my last night here in Aramitan and my last chance to hang with the crew before I leave tomorrow.
All in all my stay here at Aramitan has been choice (meaning “legal” in Portuguese and “thumbs up” in English). It hasn’t been exactly what I expected but I think it has surpassed my expectations. I have made lots of good friends who I will hopefully see again before I leave Brazil and if not I think I will be returning!
Aramitan, good times, good friends, good night and it will be really good to see you all again!

Sam,
c/o New Zealand

12. 12. 2009 - The World March for Peace and Non-Violence

2009-12-17T04:21:00.000-08:00

In order to speak about the march I must return to the 2nd October when it commenced in Wellington, New Zealand. In the month of December, after it had passed through many countries, it reached Brazil, Embu Guaçu, a municipality close to Aramitan. The day before the march took off here in Brazil many young people, including participants of the workcamp, came together to paint placards and banners in the “Parque da Vàrzea” in Embu Guaçu. Furthermore, that same night at Aramitan many people gathered to paint t-shirts and write messages for peace on them.
Saturday the 12th was the day of the march, however it was very overcast with threatening rain clouds. Nevertheless, after a hearty breakfast of coffee and homemade bread with spreads, we were ready to go and not disheartened by the weather.
While waiting for the bus to come and collect us from Aramitan, we practiced some songs in a circle. However, after some time the bus did not turn up so we decided to walk to the bus station, which is about one kilometer from Aramitan. Once we arrived at the station we finally found the much-awaited bus that took us to Cipo, where many people were anxiously waiting for our arrival. They warmly received us and we commenced the march.
There were between a hundred and a hundred and fifty people and the majority were wearing white shirts. Among the marchers were the mayor and his wife, the secretary of government of Embu Guaçu, the president of the city council, the director of Health and many others.
The march ended in the park where a stage had been set up. After we were welcomed and acknowledgments were expressed, the stage was opened up to musicians.
All in all the whole event was very interesting, and by Aramitan participating in such an activity, we were once again able to demonstrate our commitment to creating a culture of peace and a society full of confidence and hope for the future.

Sandra, Brazil

15. 12. 2009

2009-12-16T05:53:00.000-08:00

Ola!
O dia hoje foi bem agitado para mim, foi quase um dia daqueles em que eu quase enlouqueço, foi muito agitado mesmo. Muitas opiniões diferentes e algumas criticas o que para mim sempre soa positivas ou pelo menos construtivas.
Foi ótimo para mim poder estar mais uma vez ajudando na cozinha, pos e sempre um prazer poder ajudar a Dona Jacinta a fazer comida para esse povão de meu Deus, e também e muito divertido trabalhar com elas na cozinha.
Tem coisas que aqui no Aramitan e como algo mágico só você vivendo aqui no Aramitan para sentir essa magia, eu hoje consegui sentir essa magia em cada um enquanto estavam trabalhando, eu vi da janela da cozinha pessoas trabalhando com brilho no olhar, com um lindo sorriso na boca e eu vi isso em todos os lugares em que eu passava. Nas janelas as Japonesas quase voando em direção ao chão, as Suecas quase lixando o bloco da parede ☺...e a turma da limpeza que não parava de procurar algo que tivesse cheiro pra passar no banheiro.
Ha não posso me esquecer do que aconteceu a tarde. Foi assim: Nos fomos fazer algumas pinturas no bairro do Filipinho que fica próximo do Aramitan. Estávamos em sete, quando chegamos na linha do trem paramos para fazer uma pintura. Não demoro dois minutos e começou a chover forte, todos pegaram sua folha e saíram correndo ☺...
E è isso que eu vivo aqui no Aramitan, todos os dias uma experiência nova e cheia de vontade de estar sempre vivendo e fazendo algo pelo mundo e por todos nos.
Transformar è possível.
Você só precisa acreditar e tudo se transformara em realidade.

Obrigado
Arthur Duarte, Brasil

12. 12. 2009 - Marcha mundial pela paz e não violência

2009-12-15T07:56:00.000-08:00

Dia 12 de Dezembro de 2009 cheguei no Aramitan em volta dos oito e maia da manha depois de uma noite longa de trabalho. Quando cheguei no portão, eu vi que todos estavam prontos para sair em direção ao ponto de encontro da caminhada pela paz. No começo não estava tão encorajado para ir, estava bem cansado mas depois que eu vi todos fazendo uma grande roda na grama, a vontade de ir junto surgiu. Rapidamente tomei um banho e coloquei uma roupa mais comportável. Enfim saímos em direção à rotatória onde iríamos pegar um ônibus. Dentro do ônibus foi bem divertido, pois cantávamos as musicas mais bregas que conhecíamos. E assim fomos ate que chegamos. No lugar tinha uma quarenta e cinco pessoas esperando por nos. Começamos a caminhar com varias faixas escritas que tinham todos os tipos de frases pedindo paz. Tinham faixas ate em inglês. No começo tinha um carro de som atrás de nos, isso foi uma coisa boa porque tocava uma musica que pedia um basta as guerras. A letra da musica era muita bonita mas qualquer coisa, mesmo sendo bonita, depois de ser executada quase uma hora sem parar, fica insuportável. Eles poderiam ter tocado mais uma de musica...Não e possível que só exista aquela musica pedindo paz.
Enfim, continuamos a marcha ate chegar ao parque. Uma coisa que me chamou muita atenção, foi que chamaram um pastor para falar com todos sobre a paz, ele citou alguns trechos da bíblia. Bom! Agora preciso colocar o meu ponto de vista. Não sou contra nenhuma religião ate porque e uma escolha muito pessoal de cada um, mas não acho que uma pessoa precisa ser de uma igreja ou de qualquer religião para falar ou ter consciência sobre a paz. E sobre a caminhada e uma ação muito boa. E bom saber que ha tantas pessoas buscando a o mesmo ideal. Mas não e só uma marcha que vai mudar as coisas. Acredito que você precisa levar a paz com uma opção de vida, por exemplo: Uma pessoa vegetariana não tem uma data especial para não comer carne e sim fica sem comer carne todos os dias, não importa qual dia. Acredito que a paz seja dessa forma, todos os dias você precisa criar relações boas com as pessoas e com as sua família. Assim, acredito que vamos conquista a paz. Bom! Assim termino o meu relatório do dia 12 de dezembro de 2009.

Marcio Inácio, Brasil

What was up on Friday, 11th December in Aramitan?

2009-12-15T07:38:00.000-08:00

The organizers of the workcamp met early at 7 o'clock to discus several points and to preview the special events for the weekend.

After breakfast everyone practiced together "Djige-djige djai popo" - a funny but challenging dynamic game adding new variations in the circle...Singing, dancing and organizing the daily work tasks, that is what we did till 9 o'clock. Afterwards we decided to tidy up all areas of the house, and then everyone resumed their task in their particular work area.

We had a special guest today: Olivia Girard from the institution “Freunde der Erziehungskunst Rudolf Steiners” / Berlin - Germany. She came with Tarita and was introduced to the Aramitan’s projects, our vision in the short and long term. Santiago showed her some areas of Embu Guaçu, including the neighborhood of "our family" we are supporting. She was shocked about the poverty and the difficult living conditions there, unaware of that side of her home country.
Surprised and impressed by our work and activities, she promised to support us knowing now what we are doing is beneficial and serious work. Hopefully we will be financially supported by her organization; the voluntary accommodation project is still our aim within this and the next workcamp in January - For this we need the construction material and the professional helpers.

I took part in our painting session with Christina from 11 till lunchtime - My personal challenge in the art class today was to focus on perspective. I will keep on practicing…

In the afternoon a smaller group went to meet with organizers and participants for the “March for Peace and Non Violence” which will take place on the 12th December Embu Guaçu. We prepared some banners and some participants got to know the Ecological Park, where the march will finish and where further events related to environmental consciousness and activism will take place.

Refreshed by a simple but delicious corn meal called Pamonha that we bought on the way to the center, and drinking a good Maracuja and Açai-Banana milk shake, we did a small shopping for dinner and went back to Aramitan.

Meanwhile those at home worked on the lower wall of the cultural center filling up concrete, kept on painting the windows, cut the grass, baked bread - good work was done.

Dinner went well - salads and a cake were appreciated and everybody was satisfied.

We still had another nice event: Paint our Aramitan T- Shirts, which we would wear on Saturday on the march for peace.
So we prepared everything on the tables and some people even kept painting till midnight.
I enjoyed that activity very much and I was glad with the result of this day.

Thankfully
Oliver Tump, Brazil / Germany

10. 12. 2009

2009-12-14T12:57:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was a great day at Aramitan! It started with a really nice breakfast, the best we tasted since we've arrived last Monday. There was a lot of homemade bread on the table, cinnamon biscuits, different kinds of sandwich spreads and sweet mango... After the breakfast Santiago introduced us to a man who helped us with the construction work the whole day. Our task was to build a wall in the "cultural centre". Another good thing about this morning was that the sun was shining. As well the first time since we've arrived in Brazil! As it was quite hot, the work seemed even harder than usually (but we built up a lot of muscles). Before dinner, when we had finished with work, we could see a big difference and suddenly the hard work didn't seem so hard anymore. After a quick shower and dinner we left Aramitan for a trip to a cultural event in Monte Azul.
The busride to Monte Azul was an adventure for three swedish girls...It took more than two hours to get there. That's crazy! But we really enjoyed the evening! Brazilian beer, differnt people, culture and live music. Everybody was really nice to us, even though we didn't know anyone at the beginning. It became quite a late night and we went to bed (sleeping bag) at 2 am...

Love/Linnea, Ester, Malin
Sweden

09. 12. 2009

2009-12-10T01:47:00.000-08:00

Hoje o dia começou bem engraçado porque quando eu levantei as 07:15 ninguém estava na sala, só eu, - pensei que todo mundo tinha ido embora. Depois eu desci para fazer café da manha com Luiz.
Depois do café da manha nos começamos a fazer uma brincadeira com Santiago, foi bem engraçado porque a gente não conseguiu manter muito bem a concentração, mas foi muito legal e engraçado.
Depois isso a gente dividiu as tarefas. Eu, Kiume e Natsume continuamos o nosso serviço na casa dos voluntários lixando as madeiras. Nos conseguimos terminar nosso trabalho antes do meio dia.
Depois do almoço eu voltei para desmontar o andaime. Natsume e Kiume não puderam me ajudar porque elas foram pintar com Christina.
Somente eu desmontei o andaime e depois disso eu fui ajudar a pintar dentro da casa com os outros. Foi muito legal! A gente brincava demais...
Depois do trabalho eu limpei os pinceis com outras pessoas.

E agora eu vou me divertir um pouco com os outros.
Eu espero que os próximos dias sejam muito bons aqui no Aramitan.
Terry, Indonesia/Germany

08. 12. 2009

2009-12-09T07:26:00.001-08:00

Hoy comienza la segunda semana. Parece poco tiempo quizás pero uno muy importante. Ya que desde mi mirada, todos logramos un clima de convivencia muy lindo, todos colocamos durante estos siete primeros días un poco de cada uno y como resultado obtuvimos una gran amistad y convivencia como una familia.
El día comenzó con el relato personal de cada uno de nosotros, cada uno compartió como a todos había vivido la primer semana de este mutirao, señalando tanto lo positivo como lo negativo. Yo note que cada uno trato de expresarse desde la verdad y eso fue muy bueno, porque es como abrirnos a todos y expresar que nos agrada y que necesitamos de los demás, de una forma en que todos fuimos escuchados y respetados por igual.
Fue muy interesante escuchar las palabras que cada uno fue diciendo, pero mas interesante y lindo fue después observar que todos (generalizando) de algún modo u otro tratábamos de lograr, cambiar etc. las cosas que habíamos escuchado en los relatos de los demás.
Es sumamente importante llevar y tratar una convivencia sana, porque somos muchos, la mayoría desconocidos entre si, y esto implica un gran esfuerzo de parte de cada uno. Y lo lindo es que este presente eso, ese pequeño o gran esfuerzo que cada persona aquí va haciendo y es así como logramos esta convivencia maravillosa, que al menos para mi no se consigue muy fácilmente, es mi realidad, pero aquí se vive verdaderamente, dando lo mejor, apoyándonos, escuchándonos y cuando hay algún problema grande o chico se nota el esfuerzo también que le colocamos para repararlo y lograr cada día algo mas para todos.
Esto es algo muy especial y yo creo que hoy se noto mas que nunca. Por eso lo desarrolle tanto en el relato de hoy.
El trabajo siguió con mas compromiso y voluntad.
Yo pienso que hoy todos juntos dimos un paso mas, crecimos como comunidad y hoy todos aprendimos algo mas.
Así fue el comienzo de esta segunda semana en Aramitan.

Gracias por todo!
Mailen, Argentina

05. 12. 2009

2009-12-08T16:10:00.000-08:00

As we pulled into the graveled drive in the early evening the children were painting the wall that bordered the drive in beautiful, bright colours. It had been over three years since I had last been at Aramitan, and I was eager to see the changes that had taken place since then. After a guided tour of the house, I could see that the developments to the interior and exterior of the building were vast. I was extremely impressed with all the tiling and plastering that had been done, the creation of a new kitchen, a classroom, the construction that was in progress on the volunteer’s quarters, and the architectural developments on the front lawn. As we moved down into the cultural area, I quickly spied the newly functioning washing machine, and I remembered past work camps where we had stood over sinks elbow deep in soapy water hand washing our clothes, but this would not be the case at this workcamp!!
As the evening commenced people gathered for the Sarau, and after a lovely shared meal, a wide variety of performances took place on the newly erected stage in the cultural center. The Brazilian music played on into the night and the dancing commenced.
The next morning was Sunday and we had the day free to participate in different activities, outings were taking place in the city, in Embu-Guacu or at Aramitan. A group of us spent a warm balmy day at Aramitan reading, talking, going for walks and getting some of the basic necessities from the supermarket for the following day’s meals. Late that night a group of us gathered in the kitchen and talked over cups of tea. I felt very happy to be back at Aramitan, to see the wonderful transformations, to take part in the current projects and to hear about the ambitious plans for the future!
Coral, New Zealand

04.12.2009

2009-12-08T07:32:00.000-08:00

Na Sexta demos continuidade aos trabalhos, foram divididos os grupos novamente e as pessoas que queriam fazer arte com a Christina passaram uma parte do dia desenhando e pintando.
Fizemos o planejamento das compras para o Sarau e também fizemos a cardápio com todos que estavam afim de cozinhar no dia do Sarau.
No fim do dia teve arrumação das ferramentas de trabalho, depois todos organizaram que tinham que fazer (pessoais, como tomar banho, arrumar suas coisas etc...), e já a noite alguns ficaram na casa para assistir um filme e outros foram para o centro de Embu Guaçu, e la no centro fizemos as compras e depois fomos comer o famoso “Pastel sem vento” que por sinal e muito gostoso.
Depois fizemos um tour pela cidade (eu, Marius, Manu, Mailen e Eduardo).
Quando voltamos ao Aramitan, no caminho fizemos Rap, conversamos bastante sobre a culturea de cada um, quando chegamos na “nossa casa”, a galera ainda estava assistindo filme, começamos a assistir também e depois algumas pessoas foram jogar bilhar e os outros foram dormir.
Para mim foi bem tranqüilo ese dia e bem interativo, gostei muito!
Bejio me liga
Juliana, Brasil

05. 12. 2009

2009-12-07T11:24:00.000-08:00

Então nosso dia ontem (05. 12. 2009, dia do Sarau) foi muito legal (muito legal melhor de bom) ☺...
Eu cheguei um pouco cedo com minhas amigas e minha mãe, mas ainda bem porque pude rever os meus amigos do conferencia ligaçaojovem.
Depois eu fui tentar fazer malabares com bolinhas de bexiga com areia dentro e ate que não fui tão mal assim, mas também não tão bom☺...
Depois teve a oficina de graffiti, “puts!!!”Essa foi a melhor, fiz uns desenhos “meia boca” mas deu para enganar.
Logo mais tarde começou o Sarau, onde todos se reuniram e sentaram na chão para assistir as apresentações. Bom não lembro de todas mas lembro que o Simon entro com as crianças muito daora, então ele apagou as luzes e entrou com velas acesas muito bom. Depois teve a “Francis” com a musica sobre racismo na Inglaterra muito bom ache que foi uma das melhores de todas, teve também os Japoneses com a dança “Dokotcho” muito daora tambem porque eu já conhecia a musica e a dança, e eu também apresentei com a historia galinha... Nossa como de costume a Tatiane uma das organizadoras do Sarau, do workcamp etc. pediu para mim de apresentar e eu ja não gosto de me expor fui e fiz muito daora porque as pessoas riam muito e gosto quando isso acontece.
Depois de um tempo teve o apresentação de uma mulher, com malabares de fogo, com a musica de fundo cantada pelo o grupo do mutirão.
Depois encerramos o Sarau e deixamos o pessoal a vontade com musicas variadas.
Ahahahahah, não posso esquecer da Tatiane com seu verso ou mais historia de garoto que consertou o homem depois o mundo, “bom acho que e assim”.
Bom nosso dia de ontem foi muito bom mesmo a família ARARMITANesta de parabéns!
Porque? Nos todos juntos que legal
Beleza pura da nossa união
Tem espaço no meu coração
Amizade de amigo e de irmão.
“Pode crê”!!!
Vinicius Brunno, Brasil

03. 12. 2009

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Ola bom dia!

Hoje o nosso dia comecou

muito bem. 7:

30 da manha o sol ja estava fazendo "matando cachorro a grito"...:-)

Fizemos as divisoes de tarefas, fiquei com a parte da pintura em parede e tampar os buracos, mas na verdade fiquei andando de um lado para o outro observando como as pessoas que nunca se viram na vida, consegue se relacionar tao facilmente e manter uma harmonia no ambiente, com gestos mimicas, caretas...

Por fim comecei a trabalhar com Simon nas janelas e outras pessoas, foi muito engraçado. Dançamos e conversamos, mas quando fomos pintar nao tinha tinta, entao eu desci e fui trabalhar com Jesse. Fazendo massa para construir um muro. Me senti muito bem porque gosto de ajudar e saber que eu estou sendo util para fazer o bem. Depoi do serviço fiquei sabendo que nao teria mais aula de dança, entao o pessoal resolveram ir ao centro, outros resolveram assistir filme, e eu resolvi dormir. Estava muito cansada, uma mulher trabalhadora como eu merece descansar...:-)

Mas quero agradecer desde ja essa oportunidade de conhecer outras pessoas e culturas. E saber que eu posso fazer algo de bom para o proximo.

Andressa, Brasil

02. 12. 2009

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It´s ten o´clock in the evening and I am very full of an intense day. Maybe I start from the back:

We just ended the day with an interesting lecture about the history of Brazil, a bit of geography and about the situation of today with this big in-balance of rich and poor in Brazil. I realized how I like lectures during work camps, - if you worked the entire day with your hands, it´s nice to get something to think about in the evening. And if we already speak about doing and thinking, then the part of "feeling" was also represented today with the artistic work that I did. (very waldorfy;-)

The painting was the main thing for me today. The other practical work I did before and after painting was not very inspiring: We cleaned, or better scraped dirt of a big amount of windows. It was great to see the cleaned and shiny windows afterwards, but the work itself was the kind of work that needs to be done but is not so much fun. I guess that I learn the most from this type of work.

As I said the artistic part of my day was great! It was the second day that I worked with a few other participants with a documentation of the work camp through drawing and painting. We started the artistic work with a few practices to train the perception and then chose different work areas and painted or drew the other participants working. I like this artistic element in the work camp very much. It has a lot of potential and makes the documentation more interesting.

A work camp is really more than just work. Why is it actually called a "work camp"? It can be a meet-camp, a cook-camp, a dance-camp, a talk-camp, a laugh-camp, an art-camp, a sing-camp and definitely a language course... I realize more and more that those kind of projects and meetings of young people give so much to each individual that takes part in it. And I also see how much each of the participants contributes to this place here. ARAMITANis so rich of hundreds of hands that put a lot of care and hope into this building. Sometimes I forget it, but I am fully amazed by this place called ARAMITAN.

Ok, that´s it for today from my side. Bed is waiting...

Christina, Switzerland

01. 12. 2009

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The day started with me and Marius doing Capoeira. For me it was a very nice waking-up experience to do Capoeira with someone that would push me forward, and not with someone that I have to lead the sport activity. I thought: Welcome to the work camp!

You meet new people and everything you are used to be doing happens with new people working together with you.

After I started the day with singing "Calypso" with the whole group, we divided the participants into the different work areas and everyone went off to work. A big bunch of people was sanding the "outside kitchen" and then put some varnish on the wooden pillars. It was an atmosphere of motivated working!

Another group made the trenches for the water system for the volunteer accommodation. Lots of earth was removed...

After lunch we had a bit of difficulties to return to our work with the same strength. The participants felt more like chatting with the new people around them than going to work. The conversations were very funny to observe, often people weren´t even speaking in the same language.

It was a light start of the work camp with lots of happiness and conversations.

We had a big challenge because our professional builder didn´t show yet. So big congratulations to all of the teams working without professional instructions and doing a great job.

Simon, Germany

30. 11. 2009 - Dia de Bem-vindo

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Apesar de nao estarem todos os participantes os trabalhos fluiram muito bem com um clima de mutirao de verdade. Tinha trabalho na "casa dos voluntarios" e tambem na "conzinha de fora" começamos a lixar pra passar verniz. O muro de centro cultural ficou quase ja todo cheio de cor, como cada pessoa que chagava tambem trazia uma luz a mais. Novos e velhos rostos.

Meu trabalho era trazer valetas na casa dos voluntarios, junto com Rodrigo, Jesse, Luiz, Terrz, Weslez, Sam... O trabalho ´tava pesado! :-) Mas tambem muito engraçado! O sol ´tava demais! Uh! Muita terra saiu.

Eu me senti muito bem! E o dia foi bem produtivo! A noite fizemos uma roda de apresentaçao...Mas o pessoal tava meio cansado. Tambem pudera!

Mas e so o começo e com certeza iremos nos conhecer melhor durante estas tres semanas, muito vai acontecer. O ARAMITAN vai mudar, crecer, e a gente tambem!

Beijo me liga, nova tem porada....

Grace, Brasil

O segundo semestre do Preparação Jovem no

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Aramitan continuou no mês de Setembro com temas relacionados a Globalização/Visão do mundo.

Depois de nos termos perguntado Quem sou eu?
fomos nos perguntar Como eu posso ver e entender o mundo?

Para isso realizamos três encontros:
8° aula: Geografia e Sociologia Mundial – com Marcelo Ferreira
9° aula: Economia e Política – com Odilon Guedes
10 ° aula: Religiões – com Maria Lumena Schuler

As aulas foram acompanhadas com as atividades:
- Vivencia de canto – Simon Stott
- Oficina de teatro – Luciana da Brava Companhia
- Danças circulares, percussão corporal e canto - Joel

Os encontros nas 6° feiras evoluíram sendo aproveitados com jantares, mostra de filme, contribuições dos participantes e mostra de slides; Murilo Passos, que havia viajado para a Guinea Bissau e o Senegal pode nos contar dessa sua experiência da estrema pobreza nesses paises.

Tivemos entre tanto muitos finais de semana com ações extras:
- Arrecadação de alimentos em uma Raive em Itapecerica para o Aramitan
- Ajuda em uma festa no Pequeno Príncipe
- Excursão para o festival de Teatro / Paidéia com as crianças da nossa família
- Alojamento do projeto Conscientização Sócio Cultural no Aramitan
- Acompanhamentos de crianças ( em uma excursão e em uma festa ) - Dia das Crianças
- Mutirão de arrumação geral no Aramitan
- Acompanhamento de crianças para ir a Festa dos Povos na Chácara Horizonte Azul

Os preparos do LigAçãoJovem para Conferencia, e a organização dos Mutirões Internacionais foram também tomando cada vez mais tempo de uma parte da equipe do Aramitan, que foi se encontrando com os outros organizadores nos meses Outubro e Novembro: www.ligacaojovem.blogspot.com

O quarto modulo nos levou a Visão Antroposofica partindo novamente do

Ser Humano – como peca chave no mundo

11° aula: Rudolf Steiner e a Filosofia da Liberdade - com Carlos Maranhão
12° aula: A vocação do Jovem - com Raquel Calcina
13° aula: A Trimembracao do Homem / Encontro consigo - com Rosa Prado

Na parte da tarde fizemos:
- Exercícios de malabares
- Euritmia
- Reflexão e apresentação artística do meio ano –
O que eu aprendi?

O evento do LigAçãoJovem no dia 19,20 e 21 de Novembro tornou se um verdadeiro encontro - Muitos dos nossos jovens participaram, muitos vieram de fora e contribuíram com sua presença ativa e um grande grupo de organizadores se apresentou com muita força e decisão.

A vinda de Elisabeth Wirsching líder e representante do movimento da seção de Jovens na Suíça deu o impulso para a percepção dos vários grupos de jovens atuando em projetos e a vontade de unir eles em uma nova rede reconhecida e apoiada dentro da Sociedade Antroposofica Brasileira, sendo uma revitalização de todas formas anteriores.

As questões mais fortes vivenciadas e discutidas desde o começo, em todo processo das reuniões e afinal tratadas na realização da conferencia foram as
- do Social - Como superar a separação das classes sociais e a paralisação das forças unificadoras? – Reunião & Ação
- da Comunicação – Quais são as condições necessárias para estabelecer uma boa comunicação entre nos? – Plataforma & Rede
- da Visão de uma comunidade saudável – Como eu começo a influenciar minha saúde/salutogenesis e depois a saúde da minha comunidade? – Pensar, Sentir e Agir de forma saudável e coerente.

OTIMISMO como força, atitude, e objetivo daqui para frente e para a próxima década foi expressada pela visitante Elizabeth Wirsching talvez em frente dos desafios mas também em frente das forcas presentes dos jovens atuais.

Já em uma semana - nos dias 28 e 29 de Novembro - iniciaremos, com a vinda dos participantes estrangeiros, o 3°Mutirão Internacional desse ano entrando no ultimo modulo do Preparação Jovem com o titulo Cosmo Metropolitano.

Convidaremos todos palestrantes, oficineiros e amigos para o
Sarau no Sábado dia 5 de Dezembro 2009
em comemoração e preparação a
Marcha Mundial pela Paz e não violência.

A Marcha acontecera no Município de Embu-Guaçu no dia 12 de Dezembro no qual estaremos também presentes com todos que querem participar!
Bem vindos a todos!

A equipe atual do Aramitan

Oliver / Juliana

Jesse / Grace / Santiago

Ju / Rodrigo / Marcio / Tati / Simon

Em busca de mais liberdade e amor - Retro das ultimas semanas ...

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Sábado 17.10.

Tivemos uma introdução na biografia de Rudolf Steiner, fundador da Antroposofia

Descobrimos o que seriam puros pensamentos através da geometria e como essa ciência tinha se tornado uma peça chave para quem queria provar e ligar dois mundos que no fundo só são um... O mundo material e o mundo espiritual.

Religião e Ciências caíram no dualismo e se separaram – fé e crença ficaram presos em dogmas ou ideologias, o mundo material continuava sendo explorado através da tecnologia e as ciências estavam a favor disso e postularam com Kant ( filosofo) a limitação da consciência do ser humano – Ele não alcança um conhecimento de deus, da liberdade e do infinito.

Steiner vivencia o contrario e descobriu então ainda mais, que com Johan Wolfgang von Goethe – conhecido como escritor e poeta alemão– alguém que ja havia anteriormente inaugurado novas métodos de vivenciar o mundo e transcender através da observação e fenomenologia para o lado das idéias, dos arquitpicos - por exemplo das plantas ou entao da questão o que e luz. Goethe – oponente de Newton – não foi entendido na sua época e não pude vencer o cientista. Hoje em dia isso se mudou um pouco. Existem novos cientistas e novas descobertas.

Para Steiner a obra de Goethe foi mais um ponto de partida para desemvolver sua Teoria do conhecimento, refletindo esse de maneira que pertencia a Schiller. Esse escritor e poeta, e amigo de Goethe - que havia observado o mesmo em sua busca e que tambem aprofundou a ciência do homem e sua ética em teoremas e cartas sobre educação.

Liberdade existia para Schiller no ato de brincar e na criatividade artística atraves da fantasia. Ela e que pode relacionar uma realidade com suas leis com idéias e intuições realizando uma nova sinthese – no caso de uma obra de arte em uma" bela aparência".

Apos disso Steiner continuou a evoluir seu estudo, sua visão e sua linguagem abrindo o caminho do conhecimento do homem. Sua obra de dissertação foi: “Verdade e ciência” que lhe trouxe o titulo e doutorado em filosofia. Sua pesquisa se aprofundou na obra: “Filosofia da liberdade” – essencia da Antroposofia. Apartir disso Steiner continuou com outras questoes de seu entorno. Elas foram iniciando as renovações nas diversas áreas –na teologia, na educação, na medicina, na arte, na agricultura e outros mais.

Refletimos em grupos, discutimos e elaboramos basicamente entre nos – sobre três questões:

O que e liberdade para mim?

O que e liberdade de e o que e liberdade para?

Isso já deixou muito falado do tema.

Em seguida sobrevoamos de maneira simples com o palestrante passos da obra com o objetivo de mostrar a “Liberdade da vontade no pensar”:

- Pensar como estado de exceção – com o pensar podemos refletir nossos próprios pensamentos

- Pensar puro – esse não depende do mundo exterior, das percepções

- Intuição – ela vem normalmente de repente e nos trás soluções, descobrimentos ...

- Intuições morais & Individualismo Ético

Elas sao realizadas através de uma Fantasia Moral e de uma Técnica Mooral – o que e conscientemente uma alta presencia de espírito.

O mundo e o homem – tudo que existe – e um resultado do pensamento puro - o pensamento de deus; deuses em outras antigas culturas então...

Podemos acessar esses pensamentos através do veículo do pensar, através da intuição e da meditação. Nisso praticamos uma interligação do agir ao pensar.

Voltando a questão se a liberdade sozinha soluciona e aponta a missão do mundo, vivenciamos e sofremos ainda a ausência do amor, algo que se senti que poderia permeiar mais os dois lados o agir e o pensar criando os diversos sentimentos profundos( como o spectro de todas as cores entre preto e branco).

A arte e que envolve o sentimento. O se emvolver e se interessar mais e o que Steiner então colocou como prioridade em todas as ciências, que levaram de mais a serio o objetivismo do raciocino intelectual.

Quando o saber e o fazer se tornam arte, satisfazemos, preenchemos e completamos o homem de novo.

A trimembracao do homem deve ser evoluída como um todo, se não ela continua sendo apoderada por forcas opostas – chamadas luzifericas / tornando idéias em ilusões - arimanicas / tornado a matéria em deus.

Entre elas se encontra uma forca benéfica, que busca o equilíbrio e uni os mundos . Conhecemos ela como o Christo. Com essa fortalecemos o Eu do homem e religamos ele ao mundo espiritual.

Finalmente entramos em discussão o que nos falta mais e o que nos ofende nesse mundo.

Chegamos a questão do social, da desigualdade, do carma e da oposição.

Sobemos que Steiner também projetou e sugeriu uma trimembracao do social, que não se manifestou na socidade, mas que depende e pede uma educação para a liberdade, incluindo uma nova capacitação para a fraternidade e para a igualdade. Algo, que o homem senti mas não sabe pensar em uma nova dimensão.

A trimembracao do social em

ciência e cultura – política – economia deve se reformar e se re-ligar aos ideais guias: liberdade - igualdade – fraternidade –

Temos um longo caminho para frente, com muitos sofrimentos, desafios, sacrifícios, encontros e desencontros. Mas não esquecemos nosso entusiasmo a forca juvenil em todos nos em busca do futuro melhor.

Trabalhar a liberdade em conexão ao amor e o importante:

“Viver em amor com as próprias ações e deixar viver em plena compreensão da vontade alheia e a máxima dos homens livres”. - Rudolf Steiner

PJ – Novo modulo Antroposofia - Seminário com Carlos Maranhao

“Viver em amor com as próprias ações e deixar viver em plena compreensão da vontade alheia e a máxima dos homens livres”. - Rudolf Steiner

Domingo 18.10. - dia de ação/mutirão

VIVA a BARRIGA o TEATRO e a REVOLUCAO !!

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Tivemos um intenso fim de semana 18/19. 09.09 com o PJ

O encontro na 6°feira começou com atividades na cozinha criando assim um prato mexicano para a janta e uma sobremesa mineira. Em seguida preparamos a sala para a mostra do filme sobre a viagem do jovem Che Guevara: Diário de um motociclista. Antes de iniciar o filme os participantes se apresentaram uma curta informação sobre um pais sul americano escolhido.

Simon, responsável pela 6° feira em geral gostou do resultado e se sentiu muito bem.

No sábado tivemos na parte da manha a oficina de teatro com a Luciana, membro da Brava Companhia. O trabalho dela foi muito bem aproveitado e resultou em discusoes intensas e produtivas apos a mostra de encanações pelo grupo.

Mesmo atrasando o almoço tivemos tempo suficiente para descansar e digerir a boa comida oferecida pela dona Jasinta.

Não desistindo de buscar o nosso palestrante que nos deixou de informar ou avisar em respeito do transporte tivemos também a palestra na parte da tarde sobre a situação da economia brasileira sobre efeitos da globalização e sobre a desigualdade econômica, incentivando para uma busca de mais informações, direitos, protesto e atividades como por exemplo o orçamento participativo.

Mesmo sendo em partes uma repetição de uma primeira palestra dada na 2° mutirão e não podendo entrar muito mais em dialogo em busca de mais soluções com o nosso palestrante Odilon Guedes... ficamos satisfeito com o programa em geral.

Para a equipe do PJ Oliver

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Trabalhos & obras recentes no Aramitan

Palestras e seminarios do 3° Modulo do PJ

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Foi muito legal ter o Marcelo – membro e participante do grupo – como palestrante sobre a geografia munidial. Ele nos abriu os olhos para a questão da povoação do mundo e os efeitos sócio-politicos e econômicos.

Nos divertimos logo mais com canto, percusao corporal e dancas com o musico Joel

PREPARACAO JOVEM em ACAO-CONNEXAO-MUTIRAO

2009-10-02T13:36:00.001-07:00

Participando ...festejando e representando o nosso trabalho

Assim e que se criam novos elos, parcerias, recadacoes necessarias ...

PREPARACAO JOVEM em ACAO-CONNEXAO-MUTIRAO

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Jovens do Preparacao participando no Connexao .....no bairro do Horizonte Azul

Report of the first semester of "Preparação Jovem" (English tranlation ( em portugues, esta logo abaixo)

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The first half-year of the „Youth Preparation Program“ in Aramitan began February 2009 with two international work camps, bringing a new experience of being an active cosmopolitan.

That was practically the first module of the course, which gave space for participation, local knowledge and a cultural exchange.   

Then the young Brazilians were invited to continue the course in a form of a seminar every fifteen days.

The 2nd module with the titles – Vision of Brazil started with 20 participants, over 5 visitors and volunteers coming Fridays and Saturdays sometime stretching their stay until Sunday.

We did 6 classes, in addition planning and carrying out a traditional party „Festa Junina“ for a poor community in the midst of our studies. We were also participating in the mini congress „Youth Connection“ 2009 in Horizonte Azul.   

1st class: SER BRASILEIRO „to be Brazilian“- with Rangel Garcia and waldorf students of Sao Paulo – dealt with the roots of this young nation, identifying with the land and the first new mixed population of Brazil.  

2nd class: We deepened the subject - with Marli Pereira.  

3rd class: Use of content through participating  

4th class: Youth Identity - with Reinaldo Nascimento / Freunde

Event: The „Festa Junina“ a traditional happening for a poor community.

5th class: Participation in Youth Connection - topic: „Who stole from me?“ Organized and conducted by young people!  

6th class: Learn how adult!? -Oliver Tump  

7th lesson: Continuing the theme - Reflection and orientation of the year PJ - Introduction of  theme of the 3rd module: Globalization - World Vision with Simon Stott   

All classes were accompanied by practical and artistic activities:  
- Portrait Collage/ Beautification and Painting  
- Food, traditional sweets  
- Contemporary & African Dance/Musica Berimbau  
- Games work shop for children and celebrating 
- Dynamics 
- Choir  
- Recycling Crafts   

Beside social and individual activities such as:
Discussions / Music Rap / Documentation of the Family House / Interest in the participation of public Budget / the idea of a room for the preparation program / Sofia YIP Monitoring Program / Portfolio   

We also offer space to participate in other initiatives:  
• Language classes such as English, German, and Portuguese  
• Mini Work camps Family House  
• Work camps International Futures  
• Connectivity2011 South Africa  

We were accompanied by lovingly cooks Dona Jacinta, Solange and Rosangela, by workers and professional friends Joshua, Mary, Ute, Santiago, Lila and crew Aramitan containing Tatiane, Simon Oliver, Eduardo, Andreza, volunteers and tutors of the seminars. Thanks to everyone in the realisation of our first half period and welcome everyone to its continuation.  

Grateful Oliver Tump

Relatorio semestral do Preparação Jovem

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O primeiro meio ano Preparação Jovem no Aramitan começou em Fevereiro 2009 com as mutirões internacionais trazendo uma nova forma de Vivencia Metropolitana Ativa.

Isso foi praticamente o primeiro modulo do curso que deu espaço para a participação e o conhecimento do local e de um intercambio cultural.

Depois convidamos os Jovens Brasileiros para continuar o curso em forma do seminário de quinze em quinze dias.

O 2° modulo com titulo Identidade – Visão Brasil começou com 20 participantes mais 5 visitantes e voluntários, vindo sextas e sábados e prolongando as vezes para os domingos.

Fizemos 6 aulas, prolongando o tempo planejado e tendo uma festa Junina para uma comunidade carente no meio dos estudos. Também fomos participar no mini congresso Conexão Jovem 2009 no Horizonte Azul.

1° aula: SER BRASILEIRO – com Rangel Garcia e alunos da escola RS de São Paulo – Tratamos as raízes desse povo jovem, nos identificando com os territórios e as primeiras matrizes

2° aula: Aprofundacão do tema – com Marli Pereira.

3° aula: Aproveitamento dos conteúdos através dos participantes

4° aula: Identidade Jovem – com Reinaldo Nascimento / Freunde

Evento: Festa Junina

5° aula: Participação na Conexão Jovem – tema: Quem me roubou de mim? Organizado e realizado por jovens!

6° aula: Aprender como adulto!? –com Oliver Tump

7° aula: Continuação do tema – Reflexão e orientação do ano PJ – Introdução do

tema do 3°modulo:Globalização – Visão do Mundo com Simon Stott

Todas as aulas foram acompanhadas por atividades praticas e artísticas:

- Retrato Colagem / Embelezamento e Pintura

- Culinária, Doce

- Dança Afro Contemporâneo / Musica Berimbau

- Oficinas Brincar, Festejar

- Dinâmicas Rítmicas

- Musica Canto

- Artesanato Reciclagem

Fora as atividades sociais e individuais dos participantes, como:

Bate Papos / Musica Rap / Conto Documentação Casa Família / Interesse Orçamento Participativo / Idéia Projeto Quartos do PJ / Acompanhamento Programa Sofia YIP / Portfólio

Oferecemos também espaço e participação para outras iniciativas:

· Aulas de Línguas como: Inglês, Alemão, e Português

· Mini Mutirões Casa da Família

· Mutirões Internacionais Futuros

· Connectivity2011AfricaDoSul

Fomos acompanhados carinhosamente pelas cozinheiras Dona Jacinta, Solange e Rosangela, pelos trabalhadores e amigos profissionais Josué, Maria, Ute, Santiago, Lila e a equipe do Aramitan contendo Tatiane, Simon, Oliver, Eduardo, Andreza, outros voluntários e os palestrantes ditos. Obrigados a todos na realizarão desse nosso primeiro meio período e bem vindos a todos para sua continuação.

Grato Oliver Tump

Festa Junina for a new community -----------------28th of june 2009

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Background

Congonhal is a poor suburb from Embu Guacu in the south of Sao Paulo. Many people live there having land occupied and very bad constructed sheds fort them to live in. They often don’t have flowing water, only a few have had energy and time to dig a font to gain water. Hygienic artifice are selden and they go in the bush to carry out their daily needs. Animals walk freely around the area. Horses, dogs or chicken bring a lot life to the neighborhood.

As you can read from our documentation before Aramitan has started to build a house for a family in this area.

Preparation

Our next step was to include the neighborhood in our activities. The plan was to organize a “Festa Junina” for Congonal. We wanted the whole community involved in a socializing activity, for us to get more connected to them and for them to interact more with each other.

We walked through the vilage and started to ask people what kind of contribution they would like to offer. For shore seven families where pleased to donate traditional dishes.

Friends where invited to help with the preparation, and lots of games where organized. On Friday the 26th of June we had a “Mini Work-Camp” together with the seminar of „Freunde der Erziehungskunst“ and started to build up the tents. By the end of the day there where four improvised, not yet decorated tents for various activities ready. This Day was full of rain but although many people left the building side very early, for a small group of helpers enthusiasm didn’t stop.

Saturday was the action day for cooking. New helpers come to make „doces“. I ( Simon) and Rodrigo and Marcio went out to the community and decorated the football field. Made Bamboo walls fort the tent and started to clean up the area where the party was going to take place.

Sunday the 28^th of june we started with breakfast together, it was a big group of helpers and we had a meeting to organize our selves. We had various people responsible for different tasks. Decoration, food, games and the prices needed to be organized

Festa Junina starts!

With a lot of care and many helpers Lila a kindergarten teacher from Horizonte Azul drew with the kids and made Lanterns, throughout the fest they led a whole handicraft workshop. Kiko and Eduardo made kites with the children, later on the youth joined in their activity and made a hot air balloon together. Reca and Eduardo started to paint pictures with them. Face painting was creatively done by Ilet and Ediane. The fishing game was accompanied by Manu and Ilet. In Between the group and friends “Vagabundos“ from Monte Azul played music and people joint in to dance “Cirandero” and formed up to a traditional “quadrilia” dance. During the celebration no one managed to clime up the big „Pao de cebo“, a tree prepared very slippery to make it difficult for everyone to clime up, the person would manage wins a price.

As the evening rose the lights went on, which our electrician Josué had installed for us. The fire kept smoking but because of the rain wouldn’t light properly. It was a day filed with activities; everybody contributed their part to it. A neighbor who used to work as a DJ had kindly offered his stereo for the party, it was installed on a big truck, which we used as a stage… the „5^th” time the stereo played „No desligar telefoni“ :-) . In order to gain the last prices which where left over the children continued playing „Boca de Palaco“ with Sally and Rebeca, the aim of this game is to throw the ball into the mouth of a clown.

In the end it was a wonderful “Festa Junina” with a very special atmosphere of liveliness – Jipsy juggled with fire her and there people kept on dancing and laughing or rope skipping, it was a traditional “Caipira” scenery. Joao the father of the family lead the participants with his engagement and self-confidence through the program.

We left the field very exhausted from the day, convinced that our effort was a success. I think everyone of us left a small light in the community.

We thank very much all the helpers, I personally think we managed to leave a big present behind and a community which is now part of us and maybe closer to each other.

Best regard Simon Stott

Mini Work Camps 05/12/13th of June

2009-06-15T07:31:00.000-07:00

It's coming close to half time ...

This weekend and the one before we - Gerson, Jesse, Oliver, Arthur, Tati, Ebiliani, Jenni Reimundo and Simon - managed to finish plastering the walls until our arms were soar from grinding the cement. It was very cold and wet work out there and a very small “mini-work-camp” indeed, with only a few people. The red pick up from Se had broken down so we had a bit of difficulties with the transport of material and workers. Luckily our precious helper Murilo jumped in and drove us Friday and Saturday to the family’s house.

On Saturday the weather was a bit friendlier. Ebiliani, Jeni and Reimundo helped us to put in the windows, which Oliver, Tati and Murilo had well selected. We also secured one door in the right place to be fixed later on and Ebiliane sang very nice kindergarten songs with the two smallest children.
The Family is well off, apart from the coldness they have to fight with. Joao has got a job at the moment. Now we are closing up the first half of the house and hoping for dry weather and more volunteers who could help us to rip down the old house and start the second half.
With warm regard Simon

PREPARACAO JOVEM

2009-06-10T14:13:00.000-07:00

Dereco pora - tupi, brazilian nativ language

Bom dia - portugues

Purru acoeto - banto, an african langhuage

PJ – II. Module Identity/ Vision of Brazil
2nd lecture „ Costumes & Religion“ with Dona Marli Pereira

We continued our studies based on the very valued book documetary of Darcy Ribeiro
including other experts of the brazilian culture.

The second lecture was very complementary to Rangels, we now looked deeper into the historical part of the different influences of the Brazilian culture. We got to know:
- The CAIPIRAS – the first Brazilians, being sons of the native population and the Portugues.
- The CRIOLOS – sons of Portuguese and African slaves
- The SULINOS - including several Europeans folks who populated areas in the South of Brazil..
These three new groups of inhabitants build up the foundation of the Brazilians which was based on violent and random invasion of the Sulinos. They raped natives and slaves, this was the first generation of Caipiras and Criolos.

…-Maybe nowadays we have a kind of social revenge beside educational challenges looking at corruption, crime, violence and poverty. But in majority there are healthy and original influences such as joy peace, happiness and creativity living in an open soul, which we have to consider and take care of.

So we dealt and will be kept occupied with following questions:

What kind of relation we Brazilians have to our roots, knowledge, capacity to do and transform?
What kind of attitude do we have towards work and life?

How much did the new created culture later on suffer because of the industrialism and consumism based on fault needs and disorientation?

Very inspired and full of impressions we led to the afternoon activities, as homework we were being asked to prepare something more deeply connected with the delt topics. For the next seminar the students will create a lesson for themselves.

After lunch we were tought to make traditional Brazilian sweets as:
Pe de Moleque – Sweet penuts
Bolo de Bagaco de Mihlo com coco – Corncake with coconut
Geleia de Abacxi – Pinaplegele
Doce de Abobora com coco- Sweet pumpkin with coconut
Cural de milho – Cornpudding

2009-06-03T12:01:00.000-07:00

Dear friends

This was a amazing beginning of our second module in our Youth Preparation seminar

“PreparacaoJovem”.

We managed to clean up the rooms on the first floor and move in the new furniture’s

- chairs, board, flip chart for our first studies inside the Aramitan building.

Our tough crew for this was: Tati, Andreza, Eduardo, Simon, Jan (a German visitor), Jesse, Gerson and me.

The kitchen team we were used to work with during our work camps - Dona Jasinta and Solange

was also present and made a good meal for supper and the whole seminar day on Saturday.

Our first inspiring lecturer was Sr. Rangel.

The essential of this seminar dealing with main topic of Identity and Vision of Brazil from the point of view of Geography and History was

- to characterize the historical building process of the Brazilian people;

- to reinforce the idea that the Brazilians are multi ethnical, or to say created through the mixture, the transformation of different ethnics;

- to reinforce this characteristic of a multicultural population and to use it as a point of departure

to reflect the national and international public politics;

- to work out and build up the nation’s self-esteem borne out of the “nobodyness“ which is a tendency in some nations whose cultural history is similar.

We were 26 participants, including visitors and short-term students, coming from the southern suburbs of Sao Paulo and from Embu Guacu. - As offered before some Brazilians, who participated in our work camps continue with this course.

Through the first interactive discussion time and the artistic task we had after a break: It was possible to know each other in a bigger group.

Profiles were drawn of our neighbours and designed afterwards with coloured paper and peaces of newspaper, making an individual „peace of art“ of the positive and negative frames.

At least we went on with an activity inside the house, painting wooden walls, which are now limiting our bigger and unfinished building in a smaller particular study area.

Step by step we will manage to set up the other rooms. Planed are living or relaxing room and a library.

Now we are enthusiastic looking forward how this pilot project will develop till the end of the year, where longer work camp periods will happen again.

Our aim is to report this for the Aramitan community here and everywhere in the world.

Thank you for your support and your interest.

With warm greetings from our team Oliver Tump

Plastering the walls

2009-06-01T13:22:00.000-07:00

Saturday the 30 th of May

Saturday was Cesars birthday, all the children included the children of Gerson went to Vera Cruz to “Dia de Brinca”, it was a day of Games for the community, where kites where being made, recycle games constructed and lots of other activities presented. They came back very happy and with lots of self made games. Murilo and Tati who went with them where also loaded with positive energy. The tough guys stayed at the building side and continued the work on the house. The children came back for lunch, which was very tasty made with fish and fresh salad . After that Tati joined us in the construction work, during that time the children totally inspired by the day of games played all afternoon on the football pitch with kites balls and music.

On that day we managed:

- Building up the scaffolding

- Plastering five walls inside the house

- Made a lot of “Massa” for the walls = “Producao Aramitan”

The work to b econtinued…

The work at the families house will continue from now on every Friday, because our course prepraocao jovem started. There is the possibility to work every second Saturday, when there is no course happening in Aramitan. The plan is to continue with “mini work-camps” with the people around Sao Paulo, who ever wants to contribute can come and help.

Friday the 29th of May 2009

We arrived at the families´ house with a bit of worries whether everything would work out on this day. Our professional instructor and builder Gerson had back problems and said he was not going to be able to go to work. We managed yet to convince him to join us a bit later on as an instructor. With the same car and guitar we left Aramitan, arrived singing at the place of work, we were 5 people ready to continue what was once started…

It was a joy to see the children’s faces once they saw us arrive. During the work-camp a lot of trust was build up, so they welcomed us with open arms. When I look back, at the first time we visited the family with Santiago, Sandra, Morilo, and Oliver I could see shyness in they facece. There was hardly no communication possible, because of the language but more because they were closed to the outside world. As we arrived on this morning this picture was so different, specially the development of the youngest Junio, it was a pleasure to see how much more outward going he was and how much awareness he gained.

The work we managed was very satisfying:

- Channels for electricity was made in all the walls

- Both floor were covered with concrete

- The Wall was finished in the back room

- A lot of “Massa” was being made for the floor

With warm regards Simon and Oliver

2009-04-14T06:47:00.000-07:00

Sábado fomos a casa da família e tivemos que sair as oito e meia e fazer a viagem de caminhao (como de costume) junto com as ferramentas.

Chegando lá nós cumprimentamos a família e dividimos as tarefas. O objetivo do dia era fechar a cobertura (telhados) e comecar a nivelar o chao (piso).

Eramos 18 em dividas as tarefas ficamos em mais ou menos 4 ou 3 pessoas. Preperamos a massa e comecamos o telhado. Nesse intervalo de tempo as criancas (as 6) brincavam, de pega-pega, lanca-disco, construiram um castelo de areia, mas as outras pessoas nao deixavam de trabalhar um só segundo, alguns construiram o restante da parede para colocar o telhado enquanto alguns passavam as telhas para eles, haviam tambem os que tiravam a terra, cavando todo o barranco de tras e do lado da casa, outros levaram a massa do local ondo foi feita ate onde realmente estava se construindo e o outro grupo tirava a areia cavada. Tudo isso aconteceu no mesmo tempo com todos dando o seu esforco ao maximo.

Meio dia fomos ao lago que fica proximo a casa da familia e nos divitimos um pouco e tambem tiramos parte de toda aquela sujeira e suor depois do banho de logo. Voltamos a casa da familia para almocar, comemos bem e reforcamos nossas forcas, para partir para o trabalho novamente, esses mesmos grupos de antes continuaram fazendo suas tarefas e foram trabalhando até as tres ou quatro da tarde, depois nos reunimos tiramos varias fotos, penduramos uma arvore de representacao a pascoa na casa já com telhado, cantamos, nos despedimos da familia, arrumamos nossas coisas e colocamos de volta no caminhao e na volta quase que nao couberam todos, pois o espaco agora com mais ferramentas era menor, mas mesmo assim demos um jeitinho Brasileiro e voltamos de caminhao todos juntos, quando chegamos proximo ao Aramitan pudemos ver o trem passar, e chegamos enfim ao Aramitan, para tomarmos banho, jogar, jantar e descansar do longo dia de trabalho que tivemos.

Fim...

Ebiliane

2009-04-11T14:56:00.000-07:00

2009-04-11T14:19:00.000-07:00

9th of April:

It is Christoph´s (CH) birthday, so he got a specially decorated plate with flowers, caramels and then a birthday song this morning.

During our morning circle the cement truck arrives and now there is a roof on the volunteer house!
But it is still kind of a sad day, I think: It is our last working day at Aramitan and I´m disappointed of the spirit in people. I was ready for hard work and to finish what we have started while a lot of people where just drifting, smoking, sleeping, complaining, etc. which made me so angry!

At the end of the day I played a little soccer and then Henning, Elsa, Mathias, Pete and I walked to Embu Guacu along the train tracks.
We really needed mosquito repellent so we went to the pharmacy and then to PASTEL SEM VENTO, I think the place is called, we always go there and buy juice. There we ate pastel and french fries.
Now I´m tired that my eyes want ot cry! God natt, sou sa gott!

10th of April:

I was one of the 15 or 16 people that went to the family house today and the weather was great, a bit too warm for an icelander (but hej, I´m half swedish).
The first thing we noticed when arriving there was that the boys of the family all had their hair cut.
Eveyone seemed to work their asses of and it felt so good at the end of the day to have worked so much!
I got the confidence and the trust of the little boy Junior and was allowed to carry him to the water where people junped in to cool off.

Today is Santiagos 30th Birthday and when we came back to Aramitanand had some food, someone had prepared birthday cakes for him and Christoph.
There was singing, clapping and a little speach from each of them.

Already now people are arriving for the weekend and the Sarau.

Elsa and I went to bed with no idea of how long this night would be!

Salbjörg

2009-04-10T14:09:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, the concrete for the roof of the volunteer house arrived

8.4.

2009-04-09T09:38:00.000-07:00

The work at Aramitan is created around freedom and initiative. Possible work assignments are announced every morning and there is an expectation that one works but it´s not demanded. Every day one has the freedom to choose exactely what it is you want to do. This freedom leaves an awesome space for initiatives and leadership but also a space for lazyness and inactivity, if motivation and will are not present. This day, the latter was my case. There were many proj ects taking place. The girls were painting, some brazilians were howling endelssly while plastering an inside room, a window was being scraped, our new designer from New Zealand was measuring and drawing a balistrade for the balcony, shopping was being done and last but not least our fabulous stone wall got it´s last rocks laid while a shape was being prepared for a concrete base. I managed to help a little here and there but all in all it can´t have added up to more then a couple hours of solid work. The rest of the time passed by hanging around. It all became more interesting in the evening. On sunday we are having an open mic or sarau as they call it here. Nina, Christina, Christoph and I are performing acrobatics. Nina is really talented and it is fun practicing. It will be intersting to see how it goes to the sarau. We, the yippies, also practiced some songs for the event. The dinner was extraordenary. Home made pizzas baked in a stone oven heated with wood. Delicious!
Pete

7.4.

2009-04-08T05:20:00.000-07:00

Part 1

This day started without our alarm clock Pete - too bad. I found it quite hard to peal myself out of the cozy sleeping bag and get ready for work, especially hard as a moscito decided to to leave a bite on my left eye lid and even harder as the previous two days (Sunday and Monday) were very relaxing and sleepy. But finally I made it down to the food area and found the magical liquid coffee.

As a starter we played the game "HaSuKo!" which helped people to actually wake up... A big work area for today was the stone wall that will be built in the coming days. As I´ve been working with the big stone wall last year during another workcamp, I decided to work with the new wall for today. It´s like making a puzzle, just that the pieces weigh up to maybe 10 kg or more... In the morning we already used three 50 kg cement bags. The work went really quick and good. It was so nice to just work and not think of anything that needs to be organized or the book keeping... And suddenly I heard the shout "almoco!" (lunch) meaning the regular solid base of rice and beans and today some chicken meat and punpkin. Gostoso!

Part 2

Uff! What a day! The second half also rushed by and now it´s almost supper time.

After lunch break I met with the other organizers of the workcamp to look at the two coming weeks. Those meetings usually eat up quite a lot of time and sometimes I find myself sitting there with "itchy" fingers that want to go outside and do some physical work. Today was a long meeting woth lots of discussion points, announcements that need to be made etc. My head almost stopped working at some point and my potuguese came out in a weird mixture of english and german...

Then I had my daily session of book keeping. When I left the office at maybe 15:30 I couldn´t belief what I saw: The stone wall was almost finished! People worked like ants! Some were constantly mixing new cement, others filled the wheelbarrows with "massa", some picking out the right, fitting stones, the strong ones carried them to the wall and others filled all the cracks and holes with cement and - not to forget - very important, a crew of people cleaned every single stone.

At some point we all thought it would start to rain and sped up the place - I counted 13 people working like crazy! I still don´t belief but the wall was finally finished in one day of fantic work. It´s quite amazing to see how much you can reach, if a lot of hands work together for one aim. Sounds cheesy but its true.

The plans fot the evening are: food, swiss chocolate, a nicely rolled american spirit cigarette, Tati is just making pasteis (Brazilian "speciality"), later we will have a meeting with the entire group and then watch a movie together - by then I´ll be probably asleep.

Christina Gerodetti

PS: The daily soccer game between the Brazilians and the Gringos ended with 1:0 for the Brazilians...

2009-04-05T12:01:00.000-07:00

The roof of the volunteer house is being built, Henning is cutting the grass...

2009-04-04T15:49:00.000-07:00

I woke up at six in the morning far away at the very end of the house, the sun was shining in through the big windows by the balcony. I fell asleep again thinking of the bright sun until I was awoken again, one hour later.

Pete came in with his guitar, playing a tune that has now become quite familiar to us as our morning waking up song. Picking the chords softly he moved through the room slowly, continuing into the next drowsy room.

Several of the girls in the room scurry to gather their things in order to have time to catch one of the three showers we are all sharing whlst a few of us tiredly grumble our way down the steps to the kitchen where breakfast has been set.

Fruit, white fluffy bread, and coffee. A tired atmosphere hangs over the kitchen table. Something that possibly has something to do with our late arrival hame from Embu Guacu the previous night.

Finally we manage to drag our tired selves to gathering and as much neede energizers, Christina leads into a game of tag. Shrieking panting and laughing, the game carries o for maybe 10-15 minutes and is then followed ba a typical YIP song, led by the YIPies.

Then the typical announcements, dividing into working groups and then the day begins as the temperature starts rising to boiling hot.

Cement has to be prepared and flicked onto the walls that will torm a small parking lot, toilets need painting and the working space around the volunteer house needs to be tidied up.

Beside the normal tasks though, today Aramitan hosted a meeting for the Aramitan trustboard and thus, tables needed to be set for a shared linch between the workcamp and the trustboard, and the dusty space neede serious cleaning.

The work carried on underneath the glaring sun and to the music of Manu Chao and pulsating hip-hop.

At twelve lunch was shared along five or four long tables with people, conversations in portugese, german, english and swedish, casually mixing in the melody of words.

A small group of people gathered afterwards for a sort of group discussion with Ute Craemer about her work and Aramitan. In the middle of the conversation the gas car passed by outside blaring that extremely familiar song that doesnt really make sense but sounds more like a composed accident. The gas car passed aroud twice before disappearing to certanly appear later.

Now the girls are sunbathing and the grass, the brazilians rapping and listening to hip-hop whilst several other people take the opportunity of freetime to get some much needed sleep in the cool house.

The rest of the day has dancing, music and churrasco (barbecue) waiting for us, and at three in the afternoon, the sun is still scorching hot, the sky bright blue and Aramitan still filled with sounds and laughter.

Amanda

2009-04-02T18:20:00.000-07:00

I pretty much feel like I´m living in a different world since a couple of days. Sleep is missing a lot. I don´t like to go to bed early because evenings are my favourite part of the day. Feeling exhausted from all the work during the day is satisfying though. On the other hand, getting up in the morning is quite a mission. But Pete is doing a great job on that.
I am still surprised in such a positive way about the work we are doing. I mean many of us have never done this kind of work. We are quite a bunch of people with all these different languages, all these different characters and not to mention the enourmes diversity of all the backgrounds. But still somehow everything works out surrounded by an amazing atmospere! I´ve actually never had so much fun working. I wished more people on our planet could experience work in a similar way. The world would look so different. I´m convinced that we put something in the things we create and I think Aramitan is one of the lucky places carrying a lot of good spirit bacause of that.
Marie

2009-04-01T19:10:00.000-07:00

Yet another beautiful day at Aramitan has come to an end. Now, on top of a nice barbecue, the last games of snooker are being played and the nights long choir of insects has begun.
Santiago had great succes beginning the day with an "aprils fool" joke, convincing the english speaking part of the group that since it was the first of april the immigration control were going to visit Aramitan. Jaws fell and eyes opened.
From the outside the day has been very similar to many of the other days of work work manually mixing concrete, manually scraping windows and manually sanding walls. The manual labor has a social aspact but efficiant it is not...
On the inside this day has been challenging for me. Slowly some of the realities of Brazil are wakening in my consciousness and they are difficult to grasp. The poverty here is extreme and the corruption enormous. I try to imagine the life of my Brazilian friends here at Aramitan, which conditions they have grown up under, what have they experienced, what is their perception of the world and reality? We have a great time together even though the verbal communication is limited. For me a greater part of the joy we share is given by the Brazilian capacity to be grateful and enjoy every moment of the day.
Pete

Ein Tag in Aramitan

2009-04-01T09:20:00.000-07:00

Ruhende Stille

weisse, undurchsichtige Nebelschwaden

geheimnisvolle Morgenstimmung

Rhythmisierendes Grillengezirpe

Taunasses Gras

Leises Vogelgezwitscher

Frischfeuchte Luft

zartweckende Gitarrenklänge

Aufwachen, Aufstehen

morgendliche Stärkung

verschlafene Gesichter

Mango, Äpfel, Porritsch, weißes Brot

Plätschern des Abwaschwassers

Zusammentreffen im Kreis

zusammenklingende Stimmen

Singen

Ansagen, Arbeitsverteilung

Nebeldurchdrigende Sonnenstrahlen

Wärme auf der Haut

Beginn der Arbeit

Hammerschläge, Spachtelgeraspel, Meißelgesplitter

Erdehacken, ruhiges Malen, Betonmischen

Mauern bauen, aufheulende Sägen, Schleifen

Schweißperlen, Muskelkraft, verschwillte Hände

Arbeiten an praller Sonne

braune, nackte Oberkörper

gleichmäßige Arbeitsgeräusche

Stärkung am Mittag

Reis, Bohnen, Kartoffeln, Gemüseeintopf, Teigware

Gemischt oder seperat

Mittagspause, Fußballspiel

fröhliches Stimmengewirr

Billardspielen, Zusammensitzen, zielloses Herumspazieren

Lachen, viele Gespräche, Sonnen

Wäschemachen, Wäschehängen

wiederbeginnende Arbeitsgeräusche

von fernher erklingende Radiomusik

Schubkarrengequitsche

Zuggehupe, Schleifgezische, zusehen, beobachten

Arbeitsanheuerungsrufe

glänzende, intensivgrüne, vor Energie strotzende Natur

rotleuchtende Erde, blauer Himmel

farbig leuchtende Blumenpracht

Sprachenmix

Zusammentreffen verschiedener Kulturen

annähern, kennenlernen, mehr verstehen

Portugiesisch, Englisch, Schweizerdeutsch, Schwedisch,

Deutsch, Spanisch, Französisch

Spätnachmittag

vorbeiziehen großer weißer Wolken

müdes Beieinandersitzen, sinkende Sonne

wunderschöne Abendstimmung

gelb-orange verfärbender Himmel

Sillouetten dunkler Palmen mit Strommasten

staubige, verdreckte Kleidung, erfrischende Dusche, Abendessen

Tagebuch schreiben, spielen, Singen zu Gitarrenmusik, anregende Gespräche

Zubettgehen, letzter Ausblick auf ein Lichtermeer, eingehüllt von tiefem Dunkel

manchmal übersäter Sternenhimmel

müde Körper, zufriedenes Einschlafen bei gleichmäßigem Grillengezirpe

Von Nina

Das Wochenende

2009-03-31T10:55:00.000-07:00

Damit Leute die uns am Wochende besuchen kommen auch mitarbeiten können, arbeiten wir immer von Dienstag bis Samstag. Diesen Samstag waren wir durch einige Besucher verstärkt, eine Gruppe ging das Haus der Familie weiterbauen, andere blieben in Aramitan. Bis ein heftiger Herbstregen einsetzte, konnte an beiden Orten einiges geschafft werden, dann wurde das Wochenende aber herbeigezwungen.

An den freien Tagen ging jeder so seiner Wege: Manche machten sich auf, das Zentrum Sao Paulos zu erkunden, andere besuchten einen Kunstmarkt... Ausruhen von der anstrengenden Arbeit war ebenfalls eine beliebte Option.

Bis Juli vergangenen Jahres hatte ich für ein Jahr im Viertel Horizonte Azul, was nicht weit weg von Aramitan liegt, als Freiwilliger im Projekt Monte Azul gearbeitet. Am Sonntag zog ich los, um am Montag Christina und Jessica ein wenig zu zeigen, wo ich im vergangenen Jahr, bevor ich zu YIP ging, gelebt und gearbeitet hatte. Später am Montag gingen die beiden nach Sao Paulo, ich machte mich auf den Weg, verschiedene Freunde und Familien aus alten Zeiten wiederzusehen. Und irgendwie war dann der Tag der Geschichen: Mädchen schwanger mit 13, andere mit 16 von Drogenabhängigem, dann ein Familienvater, der früher im Projekt gearbeitet hat und seine Familienverantwortung vergisst... Und alles in der Nachbarschaft, Menschen die man kennt. In Sao Paulo ist vieles verrückt und leider oft im negativen Sinne. Aber die Brasilianer nehmen es nicht immer so auf. Das Leben sei ganz gut in Brasilien sagte und ein Ladenbesitzer in Horizonte Azul, "nur ein wenig unorganisiert". Das Unorganisation so viele Probleme mit sich zieht, kann ich schwer nachvollziehen. "Manchmal habe ich den Eindruck, die Menschen denken einfach nicht nach" sagt mir eine Freundin. Das klingt mir schon eher plausibel und ist simpel und einfach.

Die Arbeit hier ist ebenfalls simpel und tut gut: Erde schaufeln, Steine schleppen, Räume streichen... einen schönen Ort entstehen lassen, mit den Händen in der Hand. "Creating hope and trust for the future" lautet der Wahlspruch von Aramitan. Interkulturelle, gemeinsame Arbeit, verschiedene Denkweisen an einem Ort wirken zu lassen, öffnet Räume. So ist es sehr spannend mit internationelen Jungen Leuten und jungen Brasilianern an einer Vision zu arbeiten, gemeinsam für eine bessere Zukunft und Fettecken im Denken. Ein Aspekt von Workcamp eben.

Christoph

Friday the evening

2009-03-31T10:34:00.000-07:00

The Panelafro was a colorful event of brazilian-african culture, dances, songs and capoeira. Once a month, the community gets together - young, old, foreign or local - to celbrate and learn about the rich heritage of Brazil. Sorrounded by the sizzling of smells and tapioca pastries being fried, we joined the circular dances trying to shave our hips to the fast rythms of the drums. We came back home with new volunteers from Horizonte Azul and we were surprised to find connections of friends in common: The roommate of a dear friend of mine, the sister of a girl a year above in school, or even the girlfriend of a friend of a friend. It reminded me once more how small the world is; if a boy from Japan was able to find a connection with a girl to Peru through a hungarian boy whilst in Brazil... Imagine how much initiatives and awareness can bloom!

Thats the thing about Aramitan; it is a place where youth from different backgrounds can meet, work together, enjoy a game of footbal, finding communalities and differences. It is a place where existential questions arise, and where your values can be put into pratise. Under a vibrant sun, immensed in a mozaic of cultures- we lay out bricks that are building our vision.

Joana Bettochi-Barrow

2009-03-27T14:28:00.000-07:00

Hoje, nos fomos acordados pelo Peter com seu violao, pois nos tinhamos um longo dia para trabalhar e se divertir. Tomamos o cafe da manha e desta vez nao fomos trabalhar o Aramitan mas sim ajudar uma familia carente que precisa de ajuda.
Assim que nos partimos, quase todos os voluntarios foram a traseira do camihao, e como sempre muita bagunca e divertimento. Assim que nos chegamos na casa desta familia, eu pude perceber que eles precisavam de muita ajuda, havia muito trabalho e assim todos os voluntarios se ocupavam com seus devores.
Na hora do almoco, houve churrasco com pao e salada, assim todos puderam saciar a fome. Apos do almoco, fomos ao lago para ir ver as belezas da natureza e tambem nadar. Alguns volutarios bricavam na agua, outros nem se quer entraram. De volta ao trabalho, tinhamos que termiar o trabalho da casa da familia, e assim terminamos as tres e meia.
Depois houve uma partida de futebol etre os brasileiros e os gringos mas como sempre no final, os brasileiros acabaram vencedo, com muita sorte, por 4:2. Enfim voltamos para o Aramitan e como sempre muita diversao no camihaozinho, ja quase no final, o trem estava parado onde nos iriamos passar, so que desta vez por baixo dele. Muitos dos voluntarios sairam corredo por baixo dele. Muitos dos voluntarios sairam correndo para a Aramitan para tomar baho. Hoje, tera uma festa, chamado Panelafro, com todos os joves do Aramitan, Mote Azul e Horizote Azul.
Douglas G. de Silva

2009-03-26T15:44:00.000-07:00

Today we woke up with more singing by Pete, it reminded me of Kindergarten. I and some other YIP participants taught the rest a song we learned with Slava back in Sweden. It sounded good and lifted the morning.

I started with building a new compost spot with Christoph and Henning. The day got hotter. By lunch I was full of cement, dust and sweat along with everyone else, which made all of us very hungry.

The day continued to get harder with work, mixing more cement and then more. This was fun as our Brazilian friends were singing, laughing and making jokes which sounded that they should be funny. We all laughed and sweated more.

Having a shower at the end of the day and washing all the dirt off was satisfactory and then to sit down and eat surprisingly not rice and beans but PASTA!

Now the mosquitos are out and the crickets are playing their tune.

Soon to bed... mmmm sleep!

Jessica Collins

25.3.: The second workcamp gets started!

2009-03-25T18:04:00.000-07:00

Most of us woke up by the sound of a guitar playing and Pete saying RISE AND SHINE! We ate breakfast, sang a song, played a name game and then got an introduction to what the day would look like, here in Aramitan.

Now I am sitting on the balcony whatching the sun set, a bit tired after a day of working in the hot sun.

The previous workcamp did a great job and we are continuing with the building of the volunteer house which they started from scatch.

The vibe of the few days before has been a bit weird, we did not really know what to do with ourselves, but today everything started for real and now we are really hungry!!

I think everyone worked and Brazilians seem to do it quite naturally, they work, hang out, work a little more...

This week is stuffed with things to do and today was only the starting point, so I will need my beauty sleep with the mosquitos!

Good Night!

Salbjörg

2009-03-24T18:09:00.000-07:00

Mit etwas Verspaetung der letzte Eintrag...

Friday, the 13th

Friday the 13th was our last working day and it was a good one. We worked at the family’s place again and we had lots of fun with the kids during the day. We played simple finger games and put flowers in our hair, even the communication got better and better.
Of course we did some work, too. Pola and I called build the walls from the new house. I love this job, makes so much fun, especially with Pola. On a self-constructed platform we gave our best, always Gerson in the background shouting: “Mais massa” or “Mais aqua”. It was fun.
The kids helped again to carry those heavy buckets with concrete up the hill. Strong, little fellows. At the end of the day all six of them got a little good-bye gift from us.Back at Aramitan we had a very long and very deep reflection roundabout all the things which happened the last three weeks, what jobs we have done, what activities we arranged and what everybody felt and thought about the whole programme. It was very good to see what a great group we became. Those people who stayed the entire three weeks got really a connection between each other. To some Brazilians I didn’t say even one word, but still in the end we played and danced together, and somehow it was working.
It was a mind-changing experience and I can just recommend it to everybody. Do it!

2009-03-14T17:36:00.000-07:00

Quinta-feira, 12.03.2009

Después de una noche de despedidas, en la que compartimos sentimientos, experiencias e ideas, nos fuimos a dormir con una gran tormenta. A eso de las 6.00 hs, nos fuimos levantando todos, los japoneses se preparaban para irse y nosotros para desayunar y partir a Horizonte Azul, uno de los núcleos de Monte Azul.
Después de desayunar despedimos a los japoneses con abrazos, cantos, todos llenos de alegría, por haber compartido cuatro días con esta cultura que aunque muy lejana a la nuestra, nos hallamos muy cercanos y hasta iguales.
A las 7.30 estábamos partiendo a Horizonte Azul. Cuando llegamos nos contaron que es uno de los tres núcleos de Monte Azul, que se fundo en 1984. Hoy el lugar cuenta con jardines de infantes, maternales,, juguetería, carpintería, centro ambulatorio y una gran huerta biodinámica que abastece Monte Azul y recibe voluntarios de todo el mundo.
Esta organización tiene orientación antroposofica, que a su vez capacita a su personal para un mayor conocimiento. Catalina

2009-03-14T17:34:00.001-07:00

Wednesday, 11.03.2009

Not every day can start with beautiful sunshine. But it doesn’t matter for us. The feeling of everybody inside is the sunshine we need. It is raining slowly. There areseveral groups and they are continuing the work they started. Painting windows and walls, others constructing the part of the parking area. The Japanese people were integrated very well in the social life and working groups, as if they have been here already for a long time. It is cool to see people working with love and engagement. The way you can see this enthusiasm can be explained in different ways. For exemple the relationship between Brasilian and Japanese people. Most of the Brasilians don’t speak english, but even so they can understand each other in a differnt way. It’s amazing to see young people living together without any drugs or alcool. I am sitting here in front of the kitchen table able to see some of the Japaneses working on the roof in the rain. After we had lunch our work continued. In the midday came some Japonese people from television. They had been showed the area and project by us for their report about Aramitan which will pass on the Japonese television. Unfortunately the Japonese are going to leave us tomorrow so it is the last day that we all stay together. We are all going to miss our friendly and lovely relationships and the dayly work. It is amazing, like Vitor said: „Our cultures are so differnt, Japanese are working very hard, but at least there is one thing in common, we can both laugh about everything that happens, even so it is not funny..“ In the evening we had such an amazing and „mucho rico“ dinner that we all enjoyed it a lot. Everybody with a little flow of tiredness because of the work. All in all we can say that we enjoyed and liked eachother as much as possible during this really short time we had together. And so there is only one thing left to be said: Aramitan, Aramitan, Aramitan, Aramitan, Aramitan.... Aqui tem muito trabalho.... Maurizio

2009-03-11T13:22:00.008-07:00

Tuesday, 11.03.2009

Aque tem muito trabalho !!!!!!!

Here we are 16 japanese come to ARAMITAN from the other side of the world!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you believe that it took us more than 25 hours to come here by airplane. Abe Maria!!

So we are just gonna share our pictures with you.

Hope you can enjoy.

Ate logo.

2009-03-11T13:10:00.000-07:00

Notizen eines Workcamps

Aramitan Montag, 9.3.2009

Ein Jahr nachdem ich mein Freiwilligenjahr in Monte Azul, Brasilien beendet hatte, wollte ich unbedingt wieder nach Brasilien fahren. In den Semesterferien war es dann soweit. Die Tickets waren gekauft, die Koffer gepackt. Ein Monat Brasilien konnte beginnen. Nachdem ich eine Woche lang Monte Azul, die Peinha und das Zentrum Sao Paulos besucht und viele viele Freunde wiedergesehen hatte, wollte ich schon am Freitag nach Aramitan gehen. Doch dann bekam ich noch eine Einladung ein Wochenende lang den 15. Geburtstag eine Freundin mitzufeiern. Der 15. Geburtstag eines Mädchens hier in Brasilien ist ganz besonders wichtig, es ist der symbolische Übergang vom Mädchen zur Frau. Also verbrachte Ich das Wochenende mit einer Großfamilie und deren Freunden auf einem Landgut nördlich von Sao Paulo. Als das Fest dann Sonntag Nachmittag zu Ende ging, machte ich mich Auf den Weg Richtung Aramitan, denn außer dem Workcamp sollte es an diesem Abend noch einen offenen künstlerischen Abend, kurz Sarau geben. Nach mehreren Bussen, zwei verschiedenen Zügen und zwei Kilometern zu Fuß kam ich fünfeinhalb Stunden später in Aramitan an. Von weitem hörte ich schon Gesang, trommeln und Saxophon. Obwohl ich in 2007 nur einmal kurz in Aramitan war, fühlte ich mich gleich zu Hause, war froh, den Weg bis hierhin geschafft zu haben. Als ich dann am Eingang ankam kamen mir die, sich auf den Heimweg begebenden Gäste bereits entgegen... Dennoch gab es noch ein allseitiges freudiges „Hallo“ und „wo warst du denn?“ - „warum kommst Du erst jetzt?“

Am nächsten Morgen haben wir dann nach dem Frühstück erst einmal Klarschiff gemacht. Aufgeräumt gefegt, gespült und geputzt. Zum Glück gab es wieder Wasser, so dass auch dem Brasilianische Hygienebedürfnis genüge getan werden konnte.

Nach dem Mittagessen ging dann die Arbeit des Workcamps los: Weil am Vortag Daisuke mit einer japanischen Studentengruppe angekommen war, waren wir insgesamt 35 Workampteilnehmer. Aber natürlich gab es auch genügend Arbeit für alle! Untern anderem haben wir Fenster abgeschliffen und gestrichen. Fenster von Farbe und Schmutz befreit, Wände abgeschliffen, damit diese gestrichen werden können. Und dann haben wir und vor allem auch die Japaner unermüdlich Mengenweise Beton angemischt, um ein Fundament für einen Parkplatz und eine Hangbefestigung zu gießen. Als die letzte Schubkarre Beton geleert war, war es bereits fast dunkel und Zeit sich auf die in der Zwischenzeit frittierten Teigteilchen zu stürzen.

Nach einer Dusche und einem superleckeren brasilianischen Abendessen ist der Tag perfekt, um ihn mit ein bisschen Forró und Samba ausklingen zu lassen und den Grillen zu lauschen...

Herzliche Grüße aus Brasilien von Andreas

2009-03-11T12:45:00.000-07:00

Sonntag, 08.03.2009

Sarau

Am Sonntag bin ich mit einigen Freunden so gegen 7 Uhr morgens von einer Party in Monte Azul zurückgekommen. Sehr müde und erschöpft von der vorherigen Nacht bin ich ins Bett gegangen und habe etwa 2 Stunden geschlafen. Ich wurde also so gegen 9 Uhr von Elli geweckt mit der Bemerkung, „wir sollten mal langsam mit der Vorbereitung für den beginnen“. Ich bin also aufgestanden und habe langsam und gemütlich mit dem Frühstücken begonnen. Die Arbeitsverteilung in der Morgenbesprechung war folgende, in verschiedenen Berreichen mussten Vorbereitungen getroffen werden:

- Küche benötigte Hilfe für die Vorbereitung des Mittag- sowie –Abendessen.

- Die Zimmer mussten Aufgeräumt werden.

- Der Müll musste eingesammelt werden.

- Das Holz, welche Herum lag sollte verbrannt werden

- Und der Platz für die Zuschauer sollte vorbereitet werden.

Ich meldete mich zusammen mit Isaak und Viktor das herumliegende Holz zu beseitigen. Es handelte sich um eine monströse Platte aus Holz die wir klein hacken und dann verbrennen sollten. Wir schnappten uns die Axt und begannen mit der Zerkleinerung der Holzplatte. Die Arbeit war eine sehr heisse Angelegenheit, die Sonne brannte auf unsere Schultern und das Feuer heizte uns noch ein bisschen mehr auf. Mit vielen Trinkpausen und mehreren Motivationsschüben gelang es uns den Feuerplatz zu säubern und das herumliegende Holz zu verbrennen. Bevor die 16 Japaner alle angekommen sind mussten noch einige Vorbereitung für das Mittagessen getroffen werden. Es gab an diesem Tag ein Problem mit den Wasser, denn irgendwo hat es ein großen Rohbruch gegeben. Es musste also Wasser bestellt werden, da bei so vielen Personen die Reservetanks schnell aufgebraucht waren. Wir konnten alle nicht duschen, weil das restliche Wasser für die Toiletten benötigt wurde. Gerson fing bald an das Fleisch für den Grill vorzubereiten und die letzten kleinen Handgriffe wurden erledigt. Dan kamen auch schon so gegen 2 uhr die Japaner. Der Satz Willkommen in Aramitan auf japanisch war auswendig gelernt, „ Aramitan e jokoso“ oder so ähnlich hieß es. Nach eienr ausgiebigen Trommel-Session mit den Japanern gab es Mittagessen. Aramitan hatte sich in 2 Tagen stark verwandelt. Eine Gruppe hat am vorherigen Tag die Bühne aufgebaut, es wurden zum Schluss dann noch Lampen gebastelt, Fackeln aufgestellt Lichter verteilt und Überall Tücher aufgehängt. Everton hat an der Eingangsmauer mit neongelben Tüchern „Aramitan“ hingeschrieben, damit alle Besucher ihren Weg zum Sarau finden konnten. Aramitan füllte sich langsam mit immer mehr Personen, es wurde Fussball gespielt, gesungen und Stühle gestellt, mehr Essen vorbereitet und gemalt. Als es dunkel war fingen die Präsentationen an, Santiago begrüßte die Alle und erklärte die Bedeutung einer Sarau. Das Wort stamme aus den Lateinischen und bedeute „sich sein“ man präsentiere seine Individuum durch etwas Künstlerisches.. Durch die verschiedenen anwesenden Kulturen bekam der Abend einen sehr abwechslungsreichen Charakter. Zwischendurch auerte es eine kurtze Weile, bis sich die nächsten auf die Bühne trauten, viele der Darstellungen fand ich persönlich sehr gelungen. Ich präsentierte mit Oliver und Santiago ein Arbeitersong und sang mit Isaak, Domino, Mariana und Estafania „Trabaljo na Janella“. Eine Saxophon Einlage von Mathias leitete die Pause ein. Zu essen gab es viele Salate und vor allem viel Kuchen. Es war Tatis Geburtstag, der wurde dann auch ausgiebig gefeiert, mit viel Gesang und Kuchen. Der Abend klang mit Feuerakrobatik und Musik am Lagerfeuer langsam aus.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen Simon Stott

2009-03-11T12:36:00.000-07:00

Bom Dia Aramitan, 4.03.2009

Acordei as 7:30 da manha levantei e fui para cozinha tomar cafe; lembrei-me que comi um pao com margarina e o outre com doce de goiaba e tomei cafe com leite. Bom! terminei o cafe as 8:00 horas e fui escovar os dentes. Depois fizemos uma roda para falar dos actividades de dia. Antes de comercar a falar sobre isso a Tati e a Andreza cantaram uma musica pra gente aprender. Bom, depois disso comecamos a nos dividir e falar quem trabalha aonde. Santiago falou que tinhamos que cortar a grama e pediu um voluntario, eu acetei o trabalho estava bem curioso para aprender a cortar grama. Bom, peguei a cortada e comecei. Depois de cinco minutos descobri que a cortada de grama fazia um coisa bem engracado quando eu parava de apertar o betao, o motor ia parando e parecia muito com uma risada. Quando descobri isso, comecei a brincar com todos que passavam perto de mim, chamei a Andreza e mostrei pra ela o som que fazia os cartados de grama. Ela gostou muito e deu a idea de fazermos um video e fizemos ficou muito encracado depois continuei a cortar a grama depois passou mais trinta minutos a Raul apareceu com uma especie de cobra que ele achou no barro aonde ele estava cavando. Era bem estranho a cobra, depois continuei a corta a grama com aquele santo cortador que eu conseguia corta tres minutos e acertados parava por cinco minutos e assim foi a tarde toda, terminei mais um dia de trabalho foi muito bom sempre trabalhando dando risada o dia todo. Essa foi a minha observacao de hoje espero ter mais dias assim. Marcio

2009-03-11T12:28:00.000-07:00

Aramitan Workcamp, Embu Guacu, 3.März 2009

Es ist doch besonders, wie man sich in die Dynamik eines Workcamp Tages einfinden muss, da das geplante doch auch seine Abweichungen, Hindernisse aber auch neue Spielräume bekommt, die man am besten mit Flexibilität, Geduld und Zuversicht angeht. Dieser Dienstag stellte diese Ansprüche an mich und im Rückblick dieser kurzen Darstellung mache ich mir erneut dies klar. Ich habe im Ganzen eine Art Doppelrolle auf der Bauzeit. Ich bin Mitorganisator und Verantwortlicher, aber auch Teilnehmer und also gerne im Baugeschehen dabei. Damit verbunden ist ein häufigeres Ein und Aussteigen in Arbeitsprozesse, für das Begleiten, Reflektieren und Hinterfragen können. Daraufhin kann ich mich einsetzen wo dies nötig wird und wo es sinnvoll erscheint. Also habe ich heute in der Frühe das Frühstück vorbereitet, eine erste Lebensmittellieferung entgegen genommen und die Arbeitsanweisungen von Santiago für die Gruppe entgegengenommen, da er den morgen anderwärtig beschäftigt war.

Nach dem Frühstück folgte das Übersetzen weiterer Ankündigungen und mit dem Beginn der Arbeiten gesellte ich mich den Erdarbeitern zu. Hierbei musste wegen des Fehlens eines gesamten Bildes Rücksprache halten und feststellen, wie Zeit verzögernd es ist, wenn nicht alle Hauptverantwortlichen ein gemeinsames Baubild vor Augen haben, bzw. Veränderungen noch nicht allen deutlich sind. Nach dem Mittagessen machte ich mich auf dem Weg nach Sao Paulo für den Großeinkauf und um weitere gespendete Lebensmittel zu holen. Verkehraufkommen und ein Sommerregen stellten uns auf die Geduldsprobe. Ich kehrte etwas gerädert zurück und musste mir erstmal eine Rückzugspause gestehen, während das große Treiben der weiteren Teilnehmer sich um das Lagerfeuer und Pizzabacken im Tonofen drehte. Ich war froh um die gute Arbeitsstimmung, erstaunt, wie kenntnisreich oder gutwillig und improvisationsbereit alle waren, große und kleine Arbeiten ungesetzt wurden und wieder ein erfolgreicher Tag zu Ende ging. Ich gesellte mich der Tafel zu und konnte erfrischter an den anregenden Gesprächen teilnehmen zum Thema Menschenbild, Behinderung und besondere Befähigungen.

Oliver Tump

2009-03-07T02:10:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone at Aramitan!
Nice to see everyone happy and working hard. Nice to see Cata in the photos as well - haven't seen her since Connect 2 years ago.

Could any of you that read this please check the mails I sent to Elli, or ask her to be on Skype some time. I should like to ask her a few things and have not seen her online lately.

All the best for the last week

2009-03-03T14:58:00.001-08:00

Monday, 2.03.3009

Today started our second week in Aramitan. We were much less people than in the first week so Pola and I worked alone the entire morning which was very nice because we got to know each other much better and found easily our rythm. We digged holes so deep that you could vanish in them. Was quiet funny when we jumped into them made pictures we did not really know how to get out again because we are so narrow. Lunch was great, rice and beans as usually :-) After lunch it got really hot and I was very tired, acyually everybody was, but we all helped with the house for the volunteers. Grubbing earth, building walls and at the very end of the day we pulled out a tree which was more complicated than we thought. Ten people were pulling and pushing on that thing till Manuel (our youngest) gave it the final push. *YEAH* The evening was pretty quiet. After our meeting with Santi, where we were talking about the work at the families place, everybody did whatever he wanted. Josy

2009-03-03T14:53:00.000-08:00

Sonntag, 1.Maerz 2009

Nach einem ausgiebigen Ausschlafen begegnete uns der zweite freie Tag mit viel Sonne. Nach dem gewoehnlichen Fruehstueck machte sich schliesslich die Gruppe, die sich Sao Paulo angucken wollte, auf den Weg. Wir hatten zunaechst einen etwa 2,5 –stuendige Busfahrt ganz nach brasilianischen Stil (schnell & risikoreich) vor uns. Auf einem Zwischenstop in Santo Amaro, einem Stsadtteil Sao Paulos, tranken wir jeder eine Kokusnuss, was wohl fuer viele eine erste Erfahrung war. Schliessliche erreichten wir das Zentrum von Sao Paulo, wo Fabio unser persoenlicher Citz-guide war. Wir streiften einige wichtige Gebauede ab, sahen zerfallene besetzte Hochhaeuser neben architektonisch hochmodernen Neubauten und trafen auf Marcelo, Estefania und Domino. Wir liefen noch einige Zeit durch die ungewoehnlich leeren Strassen (es war ja Sonntag) bis wir in einem riesigen Einkaufszentrum etwas Essbares fanden. Mit gefuelltem Magen lernten wir dann noch die Metrowelt Sao Paulos kennen, um in die wichtige Geschaeftsstrasse, die Avenida Paulista zu kommen. Dort waren noch ein paar Marktstaende mit Kleidern, Schmuck und Kleinkunst aufgebaut. Als Abschluss des Stadtausfluges setzten wir uns noch auf ein Bier dicht an dicht gedraengt in eine gut gefuellte Kneipe. Auf der Rueckfahrt wurden wir noch einmal gut durchgeschuettelt und erreichten muede und von der Hitze gut durchgeschwitzt unser derzeitiges Zuhause. Hier wurden dann noch schnell die Grundbeduerfnisse gestillt und sich mit den Zuhausegebliebenen ausgetauscht, bevor wir nach diesem ereignisreichen Tag in die Betten fielen. Lea

2009-03-01T05:28:00.000-08:00

February 28th
My day started today at 6.30, when we woke up. After having breakfast, we went walking to a place were a truck was waiting for us. We traveled for arround 15 minutes, and arrived at the house of the people we are helping. The man of the house was waiting for us in the door, and through the day was completely compromised with the work. We divided in groups, and started working. I was incharge of preparing the cement, wich was going to be used for the walls. It was a very sunny day, and the heat was almost intolerable. During the lunchbreak, we went to swim in a lake in front of the house. The place was really beatiful; I could see a lot of woodpeckers, and the vegetation was amazing. This was a hard contrast to the missery in wich thoose familys live. It was hard to see how in a real paradise people can live in the most deep misery. Their house is almost improvised; the walls keep falling down and they don`t have electricity, a kitchen, a floor and a bathroom. Things that we are really used to have and we can’t imagine ourselves living without them, as for example a proper bathroom, or flowing current, are things that they can only dream about. But now, thanks to Santiago and all the people who are collaborating with Aramitan, this people will live in more human conditions. We ate, and continued working. In the time we were there, we finished almost all the stucture of the house. At more or less 4.20 pm we went on the truck to go back. At half of the way we had to go back because somebody had forgotten his stuff, but finally we arrived at Aramitan.
It was a hard working day, in wich we suffered the heat, but it was really worth it.
Manu

2009-03-01T05:23:00.000-08:00

Sexta-feira, 27 de fevereiro de 2009

Hoje precisamos acordar um pouco mais cedo que o de costume, pois foi nosso primeiro dia de trabalho na casa da familia escolhida para ser beneficiada pelo nosso mutirao. Apesar de ontem termos tido descanso, pois foi nosso dia livre, eu acordei ainda um tanto cansado do trabalho realizado entre segunda-feira e quarta-feira, algo tipico de quem nao esta, definitivamente, acostumado com trabalhos mais pesados.
A casa da familia fica a uns quinze minutos de carro daqui. La pudemos comprovar a condicao de pobreza em que vivem.
Iniciamos o trabalho de construcao da nova casa. Hoje trabalhamos nas fundacoes, cavando a terra e demarcando os primeiros comodos.
Pessoalmente, no entanto, fiquei muito feliz em ver que os filhos do casal sao criancas saudaveis e que aparentam ser felizes. Isto mostra um contraste interessante acerca do qual tambem pensei um pouco quando, durante nosso horario de almoco, visitamos um bonito lago muito perto da casa. Um lago belissimo, em meio a uma natureza belissima, ao lado de tanta pobreza vivida por aquela familia.
Penso que o mutirao é mais que simplesmente a construcao da casa, mas uma forma um tanto bruxa, magica, de permitir-nos refletir mais sobre a realidade social na qual estamos inseridos e formar uma especie de corrente de energia positiva que pode e deve continuar se transformando em acao.
Foi um dia diferente, produtivo e um presente a todos nos, que pudemos, alem de trabalhar por pessoas que realmente precisam de nossa ajuda, aprecisar uma bela paisagem e conhecer criancas que mais uma vez nos ensinam que a beleza interior sobrevive às adversidades. Fabio

2009-03-01T05:15:00.000-08:00

Quarta-feira, 25.02.2009

Um dia de observacao

Seis e meia da manha e ja estava de pe para preparar o cafe da manha. Na padaria. Simon como sempre, engracado, disse que estava com muita fome e queria 70 paezinhos e 6 kilos de banana, alem de um guarana.
As oito, todos ja tinham tomado um delicioso cafe da manha e estavamos em uma roda para ler alguns anucios e aprender uma nova musica, tambem trazida pelo Simon da Croacia. Dividimos o grande grupo em varios trabalhos (na casa dos voluntarios, na pintura dos dois banheiros, no estacionamento, no patio, na entrada e na janela) alem daqueles que tiveram que fazer a limpeza dos outros dois banheiros. Eu fui fazer o mesmo trabalho que ja estava nos dois ultimos dias,; coloquei na minha cabeca que iria terminar as janelas porque para fazer esse trabalho, preciso ser muito persistente e pefeccionista e por isso muitas pessoas desistem deste trabalho. Muitas pessoas tentaram por algum tempo nos ajudar, mas sempre iam para trabalhos mais produtivos. Raspar a antiga pintura da janela exige grande esforco, nao fisico, mas tambem emocional. De manha pude ensinar um pouco de portugues para os alemaes, Manuel e Josefin e tambem tive uma grande conversa filosofica sobre a privatizacao de empresas e jovens ativos no Brasil com Fabio e Alan. Tivemos um almoco todos juntos ao meio dia e meia e depois fizemos uma pequena pausa conversando e jogando sinuca. A tarde todos voltaram para seus trabalhos e aproveitei para dar uma volta e visita-los. Vi como estavam motivados, alegres e felizes ninguem reclamando do trabalho. Eu, Mariana e Marcio preparamos uma delicia janta para turma que estava com fome e cansados. Todos agradeceram e gostaram muito, A noite, apos o banho, tivemos uma linda palestra sobre o descobrimento, historia e cultura brasileira. No fim do dia, os jovens ainda tiveram muita energia para cantar, tocar, jogar jogos e dar muitas risadas. Todos estam muito unidos e se dao muito bem. E muito interesante notar que o Aramitan proporciona aos voluntarios muita energia e essa energia que juntamos quando estamos unidos por um mesmo objetivo (um futuro melhor), se transforma em energia fisica para um proximo dia de trabalho, como um ciclo muito especial e interesante.

Estefania Momm de Melo

2009-02-25T05:14:00.000-08:00

Tuesday, the 24th of February

Maybe this report is my biggest contribution to Aramitan today, because in the middle of the morning I had a small accident I couldnt work after that. My day started 6:30am with the group responsible to prepare the breakfast. When I was coming back from the bakery, everybody was looking at my five bags of bread. It was making me feel a bit weird but it completely changed when a group of men asked me: „Is it the bread for Aramitan?“ and when I said „Yes“ one of them said „I knew“ and my weird feeling became a smile because I realized how much Aramitan already belongs to the local community. After we have eaten two breads in about two minutes we started our jobs. One group went on with the house for the volunteers. Another group was preparing the future parking area of Aramitan- organising the ground and putting some stones. The third group was doing a nice job on one of the windows of the building. My group was finishing the base of a stone-wall around a coconut-tree and they were taking uncountable bricks to the first group. One of the bricks had a strong relationship with my toe (this was the accident). I could never forget the great job done by Domino who broke down a wall with a big hammer so that more sunshine gets into the building. My unexpected free-day aloowed me an overview of the place, which I never had before. All the work was doing very well: I have never seen so many workers with smiling faces, leaders as responsible and friendly (really belonging to the group), a great atmosphere of comunity sense and warm eyes and hearts as big as the rain that whe had in the end of the afternoon. In the first ours of the night a capoeira group came to visit us and thought us some moves. They brought a good energy with them and introduced us to a spezial part of the Brazilian culture. Everytime I come to Aramitan I know that I will have an unforgetable time. This time it ist he same. It is quite interesting because this place is not ready fort he great goal yet but it already has a lot of beautiful stories to tell. A big kiss to everybody who believes in community beauty. Special regards to the dear Santiago. Cheers! Alan

2009-02-24T05:40:00.000-08:00

Sunday the 22th of february 2009

Workcamp Opening

Today was the opening of our Workcamp. A lot of volunteers arrived during the day, a lot more than we expected! People had a look around the place and quickly started to get to know each other. It was a wonderful atmosphere in the air. All energy and effort that we had put into the organisation during the last six month was becoming a reality on that day. What an amazing feeling to see that it really happens. After lunch we had a meeting to talk about the jobs that already had to be done and the further plan of the day. Then we made a beautiful ritual to really arive at Aramitan. There is a Tupi-Guarani-legend that says that you can only arrive at a place when you say your full name. We made a circle around some stones. Everyone had to grab a stone and present himself with his full name. Then the person had to go up and put the stone on the grass to form a symbol. The symbol represents the world with its four elements and races.Later on we had the official opening. Simon thought us a song and we talked about the program of the upcoming weeks and played some games.

In the evening we had a nice Churrasco with a lot of people. We also invited the family that we are going to renew the house for. They have six beautiful children and the mother is pregnant. They live in a so called „rural favela“ far away from the center of Embu Guacu. So they rarely have any acces to medical, educational or cultural activities. Their house is built out of some blocks and wood, they dont have water and electricity.. The walls fall down very often. It was very nice to already get to know the family and I think that they also enjoyed the Churrasco with us. After dinner the Braszilans started to make music and all of us were dancing and enjoying our first night together. A great start for a hopefully amazing time at Aramitan! Elli

Montag, 23.02.2009

Erster Arbeitstag oder: Wo eine Sonne ist, ist auch ein Regen

Nach dem gestrigen eher bedeckten Tag hatte die Sonne heute beschlossen zu scheinen und erfüllte ihre Aufgabe des Vormittags auf wunderprächtige Art und Weise. Nachdem sich alle aus ihren Schlafsäcken gepult hatten und sich einen Weg durch das Matratzenlabyrinth gebahnt hatten, wagte sich jeder ins Freie um dort mit der Sonne um die Wette zu strahlen. Ganz nach brasilianischer Pünktlichkeit verspätete sich das Frühstück auf sonderbare Weise, sodass wir statt der geplanten 8 Uhr erst etwas später mit dem Arbeiten anfingen. In einer Anfangsrunde, in der wir auch „unser“ Lied voller Elan performten, wurde besprochen, was zu tun ist. Anschließend arbeiteten Gruppen am Haus für die freiwilligen Helfer, wo gerade der Grundstock errichtet wird, dann widmete sich eine Gruppe einer Pflanze und trugen Erde um sie herum ab. Eine andere Gruppe sollte eine weitere Steinmauer errichten. Dafür wurde zunächst der Bereich vermessen und ein Steinhaufen mit kleinen Steinen auf die mittlere Ebene befördert. Da das Rad der Schubkarre ihren Dienst quittierte, waren die Jungs und Mädels dazu gezwungen die Steine in Eimern hinab zutragen bis ein neues Rad sich erbarmte und die Schubkarre mit den Steinladungen eifrig den Berg hinab beförderte. Außerdem musste noch Sand abgetragen werden, damit die Mauer errichtet werden kann. Eine vierte Gruppe arbeitete im Haus und befreite in mühsamer Kleinstarbeit Fensterfarbe. Die Sonne schien und schien, so schien es zumindest und unsere Körper wechselten ihre Hautfarbe von weiß über rot zu braun und manche schafften es sogar wieder weiß zu werden, weil sich „Frau Sonnencreme“ auf ihnen verteilte. Wasser hieß unser bester Freund, und Schatten. Das Eis, was es zwischendurch gab, war wohl die Erhörung diverser Stoßgebete. Nachdem alle ihr Eis aus einer etwas seltsam aussehenden „Wurst“ genossen hatten, ging es weiter. Das Mittagessen um 12 Uhr wurde dankend entgegengenommen. Relativ pünktlich wurde dann nach einer kurzen Zwischenrunde wieder mit der Arbeit begonnen. Inzwischen hatten sich einige Wolken am Himmel gesammelt und kamen recht gräulich daher. Es dauerte auch nicht lange und die Sonne wich nachdem sie ordentlich vom Himmelsknurren vetrieben wurde. Das Grummeln wurde stärker und Blitze durchzogen die graue Wolkenwand. Alle Gemüter freuten sich auf den Regen und als der Himmel dann endlich losrockte, hielt es niemand mehr am Arbeitsplatz und viele beschlossen den Regen mit ausgelassenen Regentanz zu begrüßen. Die willkommene Abkühlung veranlasste die meisten Leute dazu gänzlich die Arbeit für den Tag niederzulegen und nutzen den Tag individuell. Einige beschlossen das Fenster weiterhin von Farbe zu befreien. Der Billardtisch war eigentlich immer in Betrieb, manche zogen sich auf die Schlaflager zurück und wieder andere unternahmen was etwas auserhalb des Campgeländes. Die Abkühlung tat allen sehr gut. Auch der Abend war angenehm und eine frische Brise lag in der Luft, alles Stickige wurde weggespült. Der erste Arbeitstag war von vielen Eindrücken geprägt: Sonnenbrand tut weh. Regen lädt zum Tanzen ein. Körperliche Arbeit tut gut, ist allerdings für einen durchschnittlichen computergeprägten Europäer gewöhnungsbedürftig. Mit Händen und Füßen kommunizieren kann super funktionieren. Und: Wo Sonne ist, da ist auch Regen. Pola

Workcamp at Aramitan - February - April 2009

2009-02-23T09:56:00.000-08:00

Once again we are doing some work in this wonderful project, this time with two different groups who have spent months preparing. Elisa, Christina and Christoph will keep everyone informed of progress, and we wish them all the best.