1.Monat- Achterbahn der Gefühle

1st month- A lot of emotions

Our adventure continues…

When we uploaded our first blog, we went to a bar that same weekend, which was recommended to us by a local Bühler employee. The bar was great and we already met some very friendly Brazilians. When we left the bar a little after midnight, the unbelievable happened! We were robbed! A moment full of fear, adrenaline and fright! When we turned into a wrong street in the city center, not far from our bar, we suddenly noticed the dark figures approaching us from all sides. A few moments later we were already standing there with empty bags. Fortunately, we both left our wallets at home, however, both our cell phones were stolen. Instinctively, we both ran about two blocks after our phones, but after a few skillful handovers, everything was too late. Now we both stood separately in a 2 million inhabitant city in South America, which we knew just since one week. Through much questioning and gesturing, we both found our way home over the course of the night. This was one of the most blatant nights of our lives, that much is certain. We knew that the crime rate here is high and you have to be careful, but that it is so dangerous even in the center of the city was not clear to us before. Now we know that it is basically safe as long as you don’t walk on the street at night, but take an Uber cab even for 100 meters. Through the extremely great support of Juliano, one of the contact persons here on site, we got two good company cell phones very quickly and were also able to file a report and a stolen report with the police. Many thanks again to Juliano! Now we had to try not to let this dramatic event get us down, which was sometimes not so easy.

Park visits in Curitiba

In the first month we visited many parks in the green city. We wanted to see the beautiful sides of Brazil again. We visited the Jardim Botanico, with its unique glass greenhouse, and the Parque Tangua, with its impressively large rock wall in the middle of the city. In both parks we drank coconut juice, which does not taste nearly as good and fresh in Europe.

Great health measures in Buhler Curitiba

A routine that is special for us and which is maintained at Buhler Curitiba is the quarter-hourly stretching and activation exercises. At some point during the day, an external person wearing a light vest comes to the department and calls all the workers together. Then various stretching and activation exercises are performed. The first few times it seemed very strange, but as time goes on we look forward more and more to these beneficial breaks.