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  • 10 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Portuguese; learning English, French, Italian, Spanish
  • 35, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • No occupation listed
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  • From Itaipé, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

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ABOUT ME

I'm a disorganized and confused dreamer!
I don'€™t have money, i don'€™t have a home. I have love to share, a curious mind and an obsession for sunsets!
I believe in the people€'s kindness. This world is just full of violence, and hatred, but i guess that people are just lost. At least most of them. Inside everyone there is a good heart. But they just forgot how to use it.

I grew up in a self sufficient farm, with no eletricity, or running water, in the middle of nowhere, on the brazilian country side.
When i left my home i just jumped inside another world where happiness was something that people could buy, and your value could be measured by what you have, and doesn't really matter who you are.. I saw the little dreamer girl inside me becoming weaker day by day.
I used to leave my home at 7am and just come back, with a bit of luck, at 11pm on the night. Studying and working hard to "be someone". Because they said : for to be someone in this life you have to have a degree, and a good job, and be successful, and have a great house, with a big swimming pool, and an expensive car.
After some years, one day i woke up and just realised that i had forgotten who i am.
I was just fed up of all those things, of living a life for others, of trying to be someone for others, doing what people expected me to do, but don't even thinking about what i really wanted to do! So i decided to leave, and to be free! Even though i didn't know how.

I left the land where i was born on March, 13. I don'€™t know when i€'m going back. I also don'€™t know where i'€™m going next, but what i know is that I want to learn from this world. Meet different people, different languages, cultures ! Meet myself on somewhere. Lose my self on somewhere. Be usefull, give my best to help others, be a full time volunteer around the world.
It has beeng a great exercise of detachment, so far.

Ahh,
I Love children. I love the way they see the world. Amazed with every single thing ! Smiling with every thing that they don'€™t undertand ! I wish i would never lose it ! I think when you are traveling, you just become like a child again ! everything is new, you'€™re just discovering the world, and you can be curious about every single thing. You can be scared sometimes, but it doesn't mean you're afraid! You fall over, you cry, but you just stand up and carry on, because there are too many things to discover in this amazing world.

And to make everything simpler:

"I'm just an animal, looking for a home! share the same space for a minute or two!"
In this case, for one day or two!

PHILOSOPHY

If you can't do everything, do everything you can.

Interests

I'm interested on many things and it change time to time.
At the moment i'm interested on Hitchhiking, self sufficient communities, agriculture, sustainability, social works, lost worlds, people...
I'm very interested on Middle east countries and Asia.
I want to learn how to speak Arabic.
But i also want to learn russian, turkish, spanish, italian, english, Mandarim...

  • animals
  • exercise
  • running
  • traveling
  • billiards
  • swimming
  • agriculture
  • languages
  • social work
  • hitchhiking
  • volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

A brazilian book that i read when i was child, called: A ilha perdida.
In English: The lost Island.
It's a very short book that tells the story of two boys who got lost on an wild island. They met a man, who ran away from civilization and live alone in the island for many years.
It's not Dostoievski or Tolstoy, but this simple book amazed me at that time, and i still remember it. And i still dreaming about finding the lost island and the people who ran away!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Life is the most amazing thing i've ever seen.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Morocco, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, France, United Kingdom

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