Good bye Vancouver ):

I really don’t want to think about that in a few days I’ll be gone,  I want to stay, but not just me, here in Vancouver, I want all my friends that I met here in this amazing city, I want everybody here together, having fun, staying happy, I want that reality in my life every day.

I didn’t expect it, I thought that, I was coming here to learn English and do a lot of shopping, I never thought I'd meet such wonderful people, people all over the world, that came here to learn English, and see how is the lifestyle of a Canadian person.

This is the best trip ever! No clichés, no nothing! This is the most true that I can speak. This trip was the best decision that I ever made in my life and I doubt that one day I will regret it. But first, I need to say thank you for my beautiful and perfect grandfather, because it was him that came with this amazing idea and my grandmother, and then to my mom the amazing woman who paid everything and my stepfather, and then to my dad for the support and the extra money. Tereza I have to thank you too, for everything! And then to my perfect friends for the support and the messages of love.

Well, in the start, the idea of coming here to Vancouver, Canada was just a thought, nothing decided, just a little dream, I just saw it was for real when I was on the plane, by myself. It was a slap in the face to wake me up and I pull myself together, and I realized what was happening. My flight wasn’t the best one, actually it was really awful, we had delays, missed a flight, it took me almost a day to arrive, and when I arrived, my bags did not arrive with me. So my first trip alone was very complicated and scary. I don’t know who said it to me, but I agree: “what starts like shit, ends like perfection”.

Vancouver made me a happy woman, I feel free, I feel like a bird being released for the first time, here I smiled in a true way, without masks, without pretending all the time, I laughed out loud and I liked it! I don’t want to come back, that is the truth! Yes I miss my best friends, my family and the food (because OMG the food here it’s so bad!), but I like to feel happy, to feel free, and meet new people every day, without the competitions, here we all are the same, we are here to learn English, nobody is better than you. And I want, to live a little more with my new friends!

I recommend this experience to everyone that has the resources to make it worth it. Not just for the English that you learn, but for everything! You learn how to live by yourself, without parents taking care of you all the time, you’ll grow up in a way that I can’t explain, but it’s in a good way, that’s for sure!

It’s hard, to think that in a few days I’m not going to see my new friends every day. That I’m not going to share my happiness, and the news. But I’ll try keeping in touch, because I don’t want to lose you guys! I love you, I’m glad that I met you guys (girls). You all are more than welcome to Brazil, Sao Paulo! Welcome to my country, my city and my home! Please come visit me, because one day, not that far, I will visit you in your country, your city, and we’ll be happy in a way that we never have been before. Thank you for being part of the best trip and best moment of my life! I’ll miss you guys every day, every night, every moment! Thank you for standing me, I know that I’m not easy, and sometime really annoying, but I know that you love me! Haha

And before I end this I need to thanks to my wonderful teachers, all of them, I didn’t meet every one, because it’s impossible, but that ones that I met, Thank you very much, you’re awesome! If I ever go back to Vancouver, you can be sure that I will visit them, wherever they are. You will be kept in my heart, at least forever.

So I really want to say something to each of you guys, but it’s a lot, so I will say personally, I think it’s the best and cuter. But I want that everyone knows that I’m glad that I met you, and my love for you guys is inexplicable! You guys are my third family!

I will miss you guys

Eu irei sentir saudades de vocês

Mi mancherai ragazzi

Te echaré de menos chicos

我会想念你们

我會想念你們

Je vais vous manquez les gars

Ich werde dich vermissen Jungs

私はあなたたちを欠場する

나는 너희를 그리워 할거야.

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28.07.13 - 30.07.13

Vancouver

I don’t know if I can explain it, but I will try. Here in Vancouver I feel so free, it’s like I can do whatever I want. In Brazil I’m so ashamed, in class I can’t talk, ask a question, participate, or just make a joke. But here it’s totally different, I talk and I love this fact, so much, maybe this trip is the best decision that I ever made in my life and I doubt that one day I will regret it.
Yesterday I found the most beautiful notebook, on the cover of the book there is a graphic of a feather, and it’s really similar to my tattoo, my first tattoo, and I started to think about it, and I was talking with my friend about it, and everything made sense. When I got my tattoo, the main reason was because I love angels, so I got a feather of a fallen angel on my shoulder, but my tattoo has some birds to, and I see them as symbols of freedom, but these are my thoughts, my tattoo has no specific meaning, like when you get a quote tattooed on your body, or the name of someone that you love, my tattoo is simple but I don’t know if I can say that it’s unique, because I already saw a lot of similar ones, but this one is mine. And this is the first time that I feel free, like the birds on my tattoo.
So now, I can connect my tattoo with Vancouver, because this is the only place that I feel free, like the birds, and as I said before, I doubt that one day I’ll regret this trip, and more than that, regret my tattoo. I feel happy, happy in a way I never felt before, at this moment I’m emotional, because everything makes sense. Now I have the most beautiful notebook. And above all am having the best experience of my life.

18.07.13