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.
"And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. (...) Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in." When tears come from nowhere, you must take the time to ease your mind. So Mason took me out on a walk today. He's not the perfect companion, for he gets very excited with every single smell and piece of trash and other dogs, but it'll do. It was a winter day in Rio here (some know how rare those winter days are down there, and for that, so precious). Warm here, gray skies, the sun desperately trying to get out behind the clouds, the rain can fall or not, anyway it fells like a somewhat humid greenhouse. The wind. It might rain, I'd like to get some rain, I surely would!
Though I must say, since our trees don't lose their foliage, add to that the smell of wet grass and dirt. If I had that here, than I might have not survived.
There's something about the skies here, I don't know, they're different, and I said that already. But it always amazes me. There are two things that you can do to take your mind away from your own petty problems. One is to ponder about bigger, terrible problems of the world, like war, genocide, diseases without cure, the list goes on. Once you realize that you live in the same world where those things happen, you realize that you're lucky and blessed and that you really don't have nothing to whine about.
The other thing is to chase the wonderful things about the world, how beautiful things can be, like the laughter of a child, the whole miracle that a butterfly is or how astonishing the sky gets while the sun sets. Once you realize that you live in the same world where those things happen, you realize that you're lucky and blessed and that you really don't have nothing to whine about.
And while Beck said that he thinks he is in love but it makes him kinda nervous to say so; and Robert Smith cried that however far away, however long he stays, whatever words he say, he would always love this someone; and Noel advised that you should not look back in anger; and John asked me to look around round round; I made mine all those feelings.
And I did look around.
What I saw... the sky had several shades of blue. Grayish blue above, baby blue behind the sun, setting. A beam of orange light ran towards the gray. Decorating a darker part of the sky, a couple of yellow clouds floated. Looking up, the sky had another shade of blue, small gray clouds one next to the other made a stripe parallel to other white stripes, trails from airplanes passing by, and one was passing by that particular minute. Few minutes later, the sky was lighted in yellow. Few minutes later, it got bright pink. Grey clouds ran across the sky, I never saw clouds flowing so fast! Among the pink, the white clouds got yellow from the sun rays and spread all around looking like... spread cotton. Sun sets in the west, the east was already dark gray, the pink stain was getting smaller and smaller. Far... Time to go. Thanks.
Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful and so are you Dear Prudence won't you come out to play
Dear Prudence open up your eyes Dear Prudence see the sunny skies The wind is low the birds will sing That you are part of everything Dear Prudence won't you open up your eyes?
Look around round round Look around round round Look around round round
Dear Prudence let me see you smile Dear Prudence like a little child The clouds will be a daisy chain So let me see you smile again Dear Prudence won't you let me see you smile?
Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful and so are you Dear Prudence won't you come out to play
