151’2025 (2025-05-31) – Saturday
Today, I learned about:
My ongoing relation with CBDN, the Brazilian Confederation for Snowsports, has added another, impressive chapter. Earlier posts about CBDN can be found on 240’2022 (2022-08-28), 304’2022 (2022-10-31) , 334’2022 (2022-11-30) , 31’2023 (2023-01-31) , 272’2023 (2023-09-29), and 91’2024 (2024-03-31) .
On 146’2025 (2025-05-26), I was invited to a ceremony to mark the conclusion of the 2024/25 winter sport season. It was held in São Paulo at MIS, the museum for image and sound. The whole event was very well organized, with both an initial cocktail with delicious salty and sweet snacks and a bigger buffet during the half-time break.
It was really interesting to see the enthuiasm of so many talented athletes, both those with normal body conditions and those who participate in the para athletic disciplines. And the ceremony, which meant to reward the best of those, was also very well planned and executed, with a ceremony master, Beth Romero, who is a well-known sports journalist. A video from the ceremony can be found in reference #1 below, and here are also some photos:
The three photos in the middle column show, from top to bottom: – Two of the most rewarded athletes, Aline Rocha and Cristian Ribera, both world champions in para ski cross country; – Cristian Ribera, showing the Crystal Globe as World Cup champion, rewarded as Athlete of the Season, flanked by CBDN President Anders Pettersson and COO Gustavo Haidar; – Some of the CBDN staff present during the ceremony, from left to right: Laura Dias, Luisa Crisol, Luíza Calaça, Thatiana Freire, Gustavo Haidar, Matheus Sales, Laura Costa, and Rafaella Malafaia.
In the rightmost column, from top to bottom: – CBDN President Anders Pettersson welcoming the audience to the cremony; – The trophy awarded to the Athletes of the Year in their respective disciplines; – The trophy awarded to the Athletes considered Revelations or Highlights during the Year.
Another highlight this month is related to my student of the Swedish language, Gabriel Bertho. I teach him Swedish so he can communicate well with his fellow colleagues at Linköping University of Technology. Gabriel, who is a technology student at UFSCar, the Federal University of São Carlos, spent four months in Sweden in 2024 on a robotics project. The result of that project was presented by him at the 1st Brazilian Conference on Robotics in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil during the last three days of April, 2025. Here are two pictures of Gabriel and his presentation at the conference:
Finally, this month’s header photo was taken by another of my Swedish language students, Laura Ponce, who currently lives in Greifswald, Germany, where she took this springlike photo on 121’2025 (2025-05-01).
Thank you, Laura! More about Greifswald can be found in reference #2 below.
That’s what I learned in school today!
Ref.:
1: Cerimônia de encerramento da temporada 2024/2025
2: Greifswald
*: What did you learn in school today?
What did you learn in School today? 