I was born on July 9th 1987 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Since my youth, I always admired everything that comes from outside of Brazil, mainly from the USA and Europe. When I say everything I sincerely mean everything, as the music, the movies, the products, the food, the events, the companies, and many more else.
I think I greatly valued everything from outside my country because of Brazil itself, a huge country distant from any other.
When I was eighteen years old I decided that I was ready to discover a different country, to explore the world, to visit new places, to meet and talk to foreign people, most of all to get new cultures.
For the very first time in my life I flew away from Brazil directly to Europe, to London, precisely. When I arrived in London I can say that I felt something astonishing through my veins an unusual and unique feeling that I had never had, a kind of mix between satisfaction, fear, excitement, and many other feelings too complicated to describe in a couple of words.
After three hours in London I had found accommodation in a student house, I had acquired the public transportation card which is named Oyster, I had seen where my School of General English was located and the best way to go there with my Oyster card.
Next day I was in the school probably I will never forget my first English class because there were around eleven students and a Scotch teacher who told me how much he liked the Brazilian Genre, Bossa Nova. His accent saying Bossa Nova was remarkable, very different of mine and also difficult to imitate. Generally his accent was difficult to understand, but I knew that it was a part of the learning process and I should feel happy because I was finally having a great opportunity to study the British English language.
After one month living with the money that I had brought from Brazil, I decided that I needed to find a job to pay for my expenses or I would have to go back to Brazil.
The first thing that I did was my CV written in English, which took two and half hours only to translate.
With several sheets on my hands, I started to distribute it in all of the pubs at Piccadilly Circus, Bond Street, Oxford Street and finally Leicester Square, which was the only place that I had the opportunity to talk to an old man who told me with a clearly smile expressed on his face: “Young man, stop looking! You have just found a job!”
Nowadays when I look at the significance that the time in London made on my life, I am sure that it was the best time that I have had. The people that I met, the knowledge and the personal strength achieved will be forever presented in my history.
Those times unquestionably contributed for the Biggest and the Best challenge of my life.
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