Diante da acirrada disputa no mercado de trabalho, experiências no exterior como um intercâmbio passaram a ser por demais valorizadas pelos RHs da vida. Claro que quem tem bala na agulha vai fazer intercâmbio na Nova Zelândia, Alemanha, Inglaterra... Eu estou indo pros Estados Unidos, o estino escolhido por quem determinou o programa e criou o concurso de bolsas.

- Estados Unidos é intercâmbio de pobre.
- Mas pobre não faz intercâmbio!
- Faz sim, se tiver ganhado uma bolsa como eu!

Por isso, estou deixando família, amigos, faculdade, estágio pelo período máximo de 1 ano. Vou fazer parte de outra família. Estou partindo rumo à terra do Bush, do McDonalds, do country e de Hollywood. Não quero fazer a América nem deixar ela me fazer. Quero iluminação, amadurecimento, cultura, histórias pra contar, um melhor currículo, um punhado de dólares e eletrônicos mais em conta! Nessa ordem.
Mas não se preocupem. Nas palavras de Jesus e Schwarzenneger: Eu voltarei!

De Bonsucesso para o mundo: Natalia Weber tem 21 anos e é estudante de jornalismo da UFF (RJ). Parece uma americana, mas é brasileiríssima. É suburbana com orgulho e está prestes a adentrar nos Estados Unidos. Ela nunca viajou de avião, nunca arrumou uma mala tão grande, detesta McDonalds. Vai ser Au Pair numa família muito boa e com (graças a Deus!) uma criança. Uma criança linda, fofa e maravilhosa. Espera ter bastante tempo pra estudar e espera encontrar bons cursos pra fazer e complementar seu currículo. Espera também aprender a dirigir bem rápido pra se mover lá. Espera conhecer Nova York. Por livre e espontânea pressão, tem a possibilidade de visitar a Disney, mas se não conseguir se livrar dessa, promete enviar uma foto esganando o Mickey! Ela está com muitas saudades dos pais e amigos, por isso espera que eles venham sempre aqui.


Histórias dessa viagem

October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008










Álbum de Fotos

Picasa

Picasa 2


Outras Viagens

Dude! I am a male au pair - Renan

Zooropando - Mariana & Priscila
Maenglishtwobad - Raquel Thomaz
Mandaram, eu fiz - Táia Rocha
Daiana Around The World - Daiana


 

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Groundhog Day

Today is Groundhog Day, and like the movie, moments repeated themselves.

Of course, something did changed.

First day of my International Relations II, and I didn't want to go, I didn't want to take it at all, even though it was my only choice really and I had all books already etc. But it was hard to make up my mind, took forever to press the button, and my bank account is never gonna be the same after this knock-out...

Most of all, I knew thins would be kinda the same, but on a sad, lame way.

So I didn't want to go already, and 10 min before time to leave it started to snow really hard, and it was the first time I was piss because it was snowing... I even felt bad about it, but it was just "perfect", snow on the day I had to leave for class...

I though about how hard it is to drive in the snow and I was freaking out, really freaking out, telling Greg that I didn't know what to do, I mean, I knew: I didn't want to go to school!

(This is a pattern of my behavior actually, since high school, I developed a fobia of starting classes, than things get better... or not!)

He said, "Just go!"

I did, and the snow stopped. Sufjan Stevens had to go with me, to make me calm.

Got there, there wasn't a lot of people and half of them I knew already. We have new faces, more girls wearing scarfs on their heads... Mrs. McKee was there, so was April and Michael, as I figured. All seating in the same seats, on the same classroom, same time, same days. I took a deep breath and a walk around. This was going to be a little hard.

Turn out, the whole thing wasn't totally sad and lame. It was bizarre, funny and a little melancholic, I speak from myself. It was bittersweet, so.

Some of the new faces started talking some weird things, about their opinions with no basis on it (so McKee went and smashed them) or things we had discussed previously and us, the old foxes, just exchange looks, trying not to laugh. Is that they still don't know how things work, and we do, so we were feeling ahead in the game.

There this guy with a G.I. Joe vibe that's the promise of fun of the semester!!!

And while mrs. McKee talked, I was thinking, "I heard this before...". So I stopped making notes and flipped the notebook to the first page, and there it was, everything she was talking about! The exact same things! Of course, now with a different twist...

For example, April was the one who shouted out POLITICAL CULTURE when McKee asked what was America's culture. I was going to, but I got distract by the absurd of the situation and she lifted her hand first, so I said out loud "You go ahead, April" and let her do the honors, so nice of me...

And I had the answers for McKee's questions right there, so I passed the notebook to Michael and told him to answer them, and he didn't understand, but while he read and the teacher talked, he was laughing so hard, trying not to be loud. That was the funniest part!

In the end, all of us old foxes made a council to discuss how crazy the whole thing was, saying "poor guys, they don't know how it is yet...".

Quote of the day:
-"Didn't you wish you had some popcorn and lay back and just watch?" Michael

P.S.: Mrs. McKee asked about Daiana!!!

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