What do our dreams mean? When I was child I used to tell my dreams to my sisters during our breakfast. That time they believed that part of my stories was not dreams, but product of my creativity. The true is I always had vivid dreams and usually remember them with details. I still relive some of child dreams, specially the nightmares. According to Freud, deciphering dreams can help to cure some mental issues. That makes sense for me , but I don`t believe that only analyzing the dream can help, but using dreams as part of the process completing an deep analyze of the individual. I believe that dreams are a mixture of different types of memories, it can mix irrelevant short memories with others important, like that ones which build your personality. The big challenge is discover which of them has important meaning to understand yourself. If you try to get information from all dreams that you remember that can be very confusing to your mind. Other possibility to give attention for our dreams after waking, is proceeding like surrealists, depicting by painting. All that incongruous situation that usually happen during the slumber can unleash our unknown creativity or give inspiration to other thoughts.

Mes activités quotidiennes Le Matin je me lève à 6 heures, je prendre le petit déjeuner pendant je regardes les douze minutes du journal international en TV5Monde. À 6 :30 je sors avec mon chien pour lui faire pipi et j’écoute le journal international en BBC News pour Podcast. À 7 :30 je sors ma maison et je vais au travail. De 11 :30 à 13 :00 c’est le temps réservé pour le déjeuner mais c’est suffisant pour chauffer le déjeuner dans l’office, manger et pratiquer Anglais avec quelques amis. De 13 :00 à 17 :30 je travaille plus et après je retourne à ma maison, je prends mon chien pour marcher autre fois et après c’est le temps d’étudier, où l’Anglais, où le Français, où la percussion où matérielles. Sa dépends du jour de la semaine y aussi de mon inspiration. À 22 :00 je m’allonges y je lis un peu, après je dors.

What a planet needs to sustain life Dave Brain is a planetary scientist from University of Colorado who is passionate for the mysterious reasons of why only the Earth has life, at least as is known for now. In his brief lecture, Brain posed some problems to his audience related with his research field which is discovering if there is any relation between the existence of magnetic field and the habitability of a planet. He started explaining the three important things that is already known as needed to the existence of life in a planet: energy, food, and water. According to him, Earth distinguishes from most already discovered planets mainly because of the available liquid water in its surface. The energy from the stars of each system is available for most of planets and the nourishment that our specie needs to be live is found in only six chemical elements which are available in a lot of planets. In contrast, when liquid water was found in other planets, it is trapped beneath icy shield and not in its surface like we can see in the Earth. As a strategy to get the attention and the understanding of the audience, he used the Goldilocks’ story as a metaphor to explain two points that conduct to his research: First is that planets are not in a static situation. Like in the story, when Goldilocks sees a cold bowl when she arrived in the bears’ room, it doesn’t mean that it was always cold, the same can be told when we are looking to the planets in the space. He showed an interesting picture from Mars where can be seen some riverbeds in its surface, this can evidence that Mars had already liquid water in its surface some time. Second is that maybe the reasons to have differences on the planet’s conditions is not as simple as a direct relation between distance from the star and its temperature. Maybe there are more subtle reasons and it is when he talked about the magnetic field seen on Earth but not found on Venus and Mars. The researchers believe that the magnetic field can works protecting the Earth from particles deflected by the sun. To conduct their studies they are collecting data from spacecraft surrounding these three mentioned planets and they expect to make inferences from all these data to have a clue of what from so many planets have more similar characteristics with the Earth and then study it next. Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/dave_brain_what_a_planet_needs_to_sustain_life

Mon travail Je suis ingenieure civil et travaille dans une grand entreprise qui produit l’acier. Je travaille dans le secteur de la gestion de nouveaux projects. Notre mission est de fournir des solutions qui amélioreront la capacite de production, la sécurité des employés, qui réduira les impacts de l'exploitation de l'entreprise sur l'environnement, ce qui réduira les coûts de production et améliorera la qualité du produit final. Mon équipe de travail et multidiciplinaire, et composé de ingenieurs mécaniciens, életriciens, production et métallurgistes. Nous travaillons actuallement sur um grand projet de rénovation de haut fourneau, mais je suis également impliqué dans le diagnostic d’une batterie de cokerie et d’autres petits projets. Chaque projet est une équipe distincte et nous avons solvente besoin d’avoir les compétences nécessaires pour gérer le litige prioritaire. En plus, bien sûr, le défi de gérer son propre temps. J'aime vraiment mon travail, surtout lorsque le projet me met au défi de comprendre processus et ainsi d'acquérir de nouvelles connaissances.

Consciousness - Our shared condition by John Searle I watched a lecture given by Philosopher John Searle who is been studying human consciousness for a long time. Searle started his lecture stating that consciousness is the most important aspect in our life and yet is a subject neglected both by science and philosophy. He gave an interesting reason to explain why consciousness is important: without consciousness, we can not give any importance for any other thing, without consciousness we are dead, in coma or became a zombi. Searle believes that there is a relutance and hostility to consciousness as result of two features combined: that consciousness is a part of the spiritual world and consciousness is not a part of science. He certainly disagree with this assumptions and states that consciousness is a biological phenomenon. He gave a very simple and common-sense definition , since according to him we are not ready for a science definition yet, which consciousness consist of all those states of feeling or sentience or awareness. He refuted brightly some objections about consciousness and I found quite interesting the parallel he did between the changing of the state of our brain when conscious or unconscious and the liquidity of water. If you are interested on these philosophical concepts I recommend his lecture, it is a very short one, with only 15 minutes and he can catch the attention of the audience talking in a fluent and fun way.

Présentations Je m`appelle Erika, je suis braziliene y j`habite en Ipatinga il y a neuf années. Je venu à Ipatinga pour travailler en une grand entreprise qui produit l'acier, une siderúrgique. Je suis ingéniere civil y travaille dans le secteur de la gestion de nouveaux projets industriels. J'aime mon travaille mais j'adore aussi les vacances, je cherche chaque année à voyager vers une destination que je ne connais pas encore. Je voudrais parler bien autres langues lors de visites dans les pays pour pouvoir communiquer avec la populacion locale. Ma priorité est la langue anglais parce que j'en ai besoin non soulement dans mes voyages mais aussi dans mon travail. En plus d'etudiér anglais y française, j'etude percussion y science des matériaux. Tout le mardi, je rencontre mes amis pour aprendre tambour, nous avons un group de musique. Autres activité que j'aime faire c'est rencontrer mes ami dans les bars, regarder des séries sur Netflix, y lire un peau. Je n'aime pas trop aller au gym, mais j'y vas trois fois par semaine car je sais que c'est important.

Activities from my regular routine Talking about my regular routine, not this new quarantine lifestyle, one of the most enjoyable activities is to have percussion class on Tuesdays. Challenging myself learning new things is something that excites me an these classes is also an opportunity to have a fun time with my friends. It is common that after the class we relax talking and toasting a cold beer, which makes the Tuesdays a lively day in my routine.

An important event in my life An important event in my life was my graduation which happened in the end of 2010. It was marked by a series of ceremonies and parties when I could celebrate with my friends the end of a crucial phase of our lives which was studying civil engineering for five years in a public university in our country. It was also a huge milestone in my adult's life because I not only started my career as engineer but I also started a new life moving from my parent's house and from a city where I used to live for 10 years.

Thursday throwback - First time in the USA The first time (and still the only once) I visited USA was in 2018. I like travelling and know different people. The USA is a huge and amazing country, I've been in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. At each place I met different people - old friends, cousins, an amazing family which received me as a daughter and a language partner from italki! It was an excellent opportunity to practice english but more than that, to come back to my country motivated to learn more and more.