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

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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


 

Thursday, February 7, 2008

eat, pray, love

It was sitting there on Shelley's house and since I couldn't get any other book from the library to continue my dive into american literature, I decided to get into this other path, the path of american bestseller junk food self-help literature that this book seemed: Eat, Pray, Love -One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia.

The book is good. It's a true story, the life of this woman, this writer, that after a terrible time, realizes that she needs to be in contact with God. Well, her idea of God. More, she needs to be in contact with what's good in life. So she decides to travel to Italy (to search the beautiful and the pleasure), India (to get in touch with what's holy) and Indonesia, where she wanted to learn how to balance both sides.

And tough she describes an awful experience with desperate love, depression and a painful divorce, I envy her. She's a journalist and writer and at the age thirty she had a established and successful career, traveled all around the world, had a big house in the suburbs, an apartment in Manhattan, 3 published books etc etc, was married. Of course, she wasn't happy... but DUH, than she took a year to travel and heal herself, and now sold millions of books, which is, by the way, going to be a movie soon, Julia Roberts playing her role, so there you go!!!!

Not only she has a degree form NYU, she took chances in her life. She would take some months to work as a waitress or something and save up for her trips. And meet new people, know how they talk, hear stories, get inspiration. And she would write, write, write, and endlessly send her stories to everyone, and maybe get published. And that's how she found her open door. I so envy her...

So she says: My life probably looked disordered to observers (not that anyone was observing it that closely) but my travels were a very deliberate effort to learn as much as I could about life, expressly so that I could write about it.

So, anyway... the book has been great since. Some of her experiences already made me want to cry (other made me laugh), and I'm just in the beginning!

And it has wonderful histories! Wonderful quotes! She has great thoughts about the american culture, she has a quite accurate description desperate love, that unfortunately I agree: "In desperate love, it's always like this, isn't it? In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding that they be what we need of them, and them feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place."

I keep reading.

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