For a long time I didn’t give the value or a real importance to things that accomplished. Well, nowadays it’s so easy to quickly compare our lives with others. Almost 2 years ago I was sat down in the airplane come back to my country Brazil and doing exactly it, to compare myself with others. All those thoughts trought my mind about my trip to the US I did in the end of 2017. Since I was a kid I wondered to travel abroad and study, meet people and places. I had this deep flame in my heart, called dream. My family was humble financelly and seemed impossible for me to experienced anything like that. After college I started to analyzed all possibilities to travel abroad, I searched everything single country to go and I finded out a program called Au Pair. This program was a cheap and I would study and practice English every day. I was really excited about it, I had the requirements and I hold this opportunity. I planned myself to go, it was a challenge for me, I even never leave my house, how I could leave my country, my family and all I knew? In November 27th, 2017 I was flighting to New York, I matched with a family and I was ready to take this opportunity to the next level. More girls like me was in the flight, we traveled for the same agency, we spent 3 days in NY to training and each one went to their ways. Sometimes life give you things and take off at the same easily it came. I made some good friends in my days in New York and I am still thankful for that. In my way to meet my host family, na Au Pair girl got confused about the train and where she suposed to get out, so I helped her to figure out. The point is that I helped her but made a mistake to leaving the train in a wrong station. I was 3 days in New York, my phone was old and I knew nobody and no internet to access. A guy saw my face, propably scared and lost and decided to help me, he called to my host dad, that was waiting for me. This guy that I still remember the face, appeared in my life like na angel. He worked to the train company and put me back on that. In this day showed me how hard my life could really be there and it was. For 2 months I stayed with this host family, well they did not treated me well, now I see. But as I told before I felt myself and scared. I had serious situations with them and I decided to move. It is a hard decision because I wasn’t a strong driver and even I was great with kids, parents did not understand that I never needed in fact to drive in Brazil. I move to another house... another time, another super hard time. In my little time in the US I made two amazing friends that gave me a lot of suport and I am thankful for their lives and for everything they did for me. When I thought was the end of the game, I met a Brazilian couple who hosted me in their houses for 21 days. My history is not bad at all. Let me share how my life changed complety in teh United States of America... Again God put my way two incredible people and I could not be more greatful. They were my host parents, the family that I spent 8 months and the people who taught me so many, the people who helped me to understand that God has a plan for everything, even the bad ones. I grew up so much beside them and I learnt too. The process in Maryland wasn’t good but certainly in LA, California was. When I was online again to find a family, this family held up in my profile in my officialy last day in the US, because the program’s rule is if an Au Pair did not find a family in the schedule time, this person have to purchase the ticket flight and go home. So in my last day, in the last hour the stucked up in my profile, I was worried and sad but that flame to win, the flame to hope, the flame to dreams burned in my heart and I knew that give up was not na option. We matched! After nights and nights not sleeping, night and nights crying and sad, I was happy and strong again. In my time in California I achieved my goal to study in a community college, life sometimes it is so funny... my teacher was na American, with Spanish parents and she got married with a Brazilian so she speaks Portuguese from Brazil. My time in California was great! I have no regrets and if I could I will did it again. I have many funny and real histories about my trip to Canada and Las Vegas. Vegas... what happen in Vegas stay in Vegas.