Body Language

Erick Silva

November 5, 2014

Body Language in My Country

                There are a lot of different cultures around the world and sometimes the cultures can be very similar or totally different. Then, anyone that wants to travel to another country will see what is different and what is similar. With my country isn’t different. We have our culture and inside the country we have a lot of different cultures. You need to know to know our mainly facial expressions, head/ body gestures, and physical contact.

                First, we are famous for our facial expressions because we are often smiling or sometimes with friendly expressions. So, when you see a Brazilian with sad or angry face, it is because something bad happened and if you try to talk with someone when they are sad or angry, you will be a new a friend for this people.

                The Brazilian gestures aren’t easy to say a pattern like the facial expressions, because everyone has their own gestures. Many people use their arms when they are talking. Others use their head, sometimes they only shake the head or move head and arms. The symbol, that represent “Good job” in United States, is used to represent a lot of things, such as “I liked it”, “Hi”, and “I understand”. So, some gestures can be easy to understand, others no.

                Finally, Brazilians have a particular feature that make us different of a lot of countries, the physical contact. In others countries, like United States or Japan, physical contact can be very strange or difficult to keep, so, we used to keep physical contact, like hugs, shake hand, and sometimes kiss faces (except man and man). We give hugs when we meet new people or when find our friends. We give kiss in the face when we are greeting someone. When we are talking, we always look in the eyes and keep a good distance, not so close and not so far.
                In short, each country or culture has its features. Each one has its way of communicate among the people. If you want to travel to another country, you can try learn a little about the culture in this country. The most important is always to respect the differences.

My Major: Software Engineering

            Brazil has a significant number of universities in your cities and states. We have public, private, and online universities. So, with this number, we have a lot of major available for all students. The best universities are public, because it has more resources and experience. My university is public and it has 122 years.

            All student, when he/she is finishing the high school, need choose a major and university. Sometimes this task isn't easy, because we need move to another city or the university in our city don’t have the major that we want. When a finish my high school, years before this happen, I already choose mechanical engineering, because a love cars and anything with an engine. However, this major was just available in other city, in the capital of my state, and my family didn't have money to help in another city. Therefore, I had a new opportunity in my city with a good university, and my family help me to choose my currently major. Now, I love my major and I want to study more and more about it.

            My major don’t ask to talents or abilities, but you need to have patience and a lot of persistence. We pass a lot of time developing programs and this job is very tiring. Sometimes you pass 24 hours without stop. My last big program, I passed 3 weeks to finish a little part. Another important skill, just to me, is to know to use strategies. Why? We have a long process when we are developing something, since planning to release the program. All it needs a process. So, when you use strategies, you can make these tasks easier.

            Every major has its difficult. My major isn't different. The worst part is the time that you spend fixing errors and to understand problems. Communication with people is a big problem too. People are unpredictable. Another big difficult: the computers. Computers only do what we ask, but, sometimes it can be crazy or show problems. It can make you crazy too.

            My major is widely used in all the world. Mainly in United States, China, and India. We are an important part in the International trade currently. We can work to the government, business, or with researches to make something better. So, to find jobs can be very easy for us in the world. In Brazil, not so much. We have jobs, but they don’t pay a good salary and they ask you to make a thousand of things alone. 

            I had a 6-month internship. I work to my university in this period of time. In the same time, I was working in scientific project. This project can help the cities to design a traffic control better. However, this project is very difficult and it will spend a lot of time in my life. I want to get an internship here, a good internship. When I come back to my country, I will look to another internship. Not in my town, because it don’t have, but in other city.