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December of the last year I traveled to Spain to work. I searched on the internet a lot and discovered many things like how to have my own passport, what is allowed to take with me, the rules of an airport… I was born and I grew up in a favela and I have never thought about traveling and discover a new country. It expanded all of my dreams and my expectations for the future. As the days were passing, the anxiety didn’t let me to sleep. One week before boarding and I couldn't explain anything about what I was feeling and what I was expecting for that opportunity. I got a scholarship to keep myself up into all the discussions about the climate change and the environmental crisis and I had the opportunity of writing for an important brazilian website about how climate change will impact the favelas and poor communities across Brazil and, for that, I was going to participate in the UN Climate Conference in Madrid (25th COP). I started learning about Spain at the exact moment that I landed. People were so kind and were receiving all the tourists interested in the COP. I met a sir that instructed me about the entire agenda of the event and also explained me how to get into the IFEMA, that was the place hosting the Conference. This experience was so important to me because I learned a lot and met many local initiatives that work to mitigate environmental crisis and the climate change. I am still working at the report for the website and it is going to be about how São Paulo’s favelas are important for producing organic food for the largest city in Latin America. I have talked to a lot of local farmers, academic community and even the Brazilian Institute Climate Observer to compose my report. This experience that started teaching me in Europe keeps me learning at all time.