let me introduce my self. my name is ..... i was born in new york. my father is french and my mother austrian. i was brought up in geneva and went to the art ..... in lausanne which i finished in 2001. first of all, i would like to thank you all for being here. it ..... 4 years that i have not returned to switzerland and i am here ...... to share some of my ..... with you; experience that i have made by having had the chance to leave switzerland to go to brazil. to ...... with, let me go back to the year 2002, when i went to brazil as a tourist for the second time, but for the first time i traveled to a ..... in the north-east ( the poorest part of the country).