first days of work

i went to campus yesterday with felipe, and the professor im doing research with wasnt there... another professor told me he would be back in the afternoon.  so i went home and returned after lunch (lunch break is from 12-2).  

i met professor vicente and we went to see final project presentations of some of his students.  afterwards we got to talk, but it was very brief. he introduced me to the students in the lab then he showed me the projects i will be working on.  for the first project i will be gathering stress data from a magnetorheological damper. the second project involves shape memory alloys to improve the stability of a structure.

before he left he also introduced me to bruno who i will be working with.  i went with bruno to get 24/7 access to the builing where im working and to get a copy of the key to the lab.  we got to talk for a while so he answered some of the questions i had.

today was pretty uneventful.  burno and i drilled some holes in this pvc plank for a while.  also since work is all in portuguese i learned lots of new words like box cutter, damper, bearing, and yield stress.

friday is a holiday so im leaving tomorrow afternoon for curitiba!