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by Solleny Mikely (Brazil)

A leap into the unknown Brazil

The unknown is often feared, it can be considered frightening, but the cold in the belly that he makes us witness is something from another world, an "unknown" world. It was a Wednesday and Mikely would travel to North America, something she had dreamed of since she was a little girl, with illustrious images from fairy tales, Disney and Hollywood, she was prepared, but she did not believe that it really was real. She thought: "how saying goodbye to everyone I love can make me cry if I made that choice, I who dreamed of traveling the whole world, and I know that I will come back, I know they will all be well and cheering for me", and thinking makes total sense, doesn't it? So there she was, on American soil, alone even surrounded by so many people and the future became present at that moment, that day and that snowy afternoon - a detail is that in Brazil, her native country had no snow and it was the dream Mikely to know the beauty of it - ready to start her life. What would become of this girl? Young and dreamy, in a country that was not the fantastic world of Peter Pan or Disney princesses. Mikely was happy and looked more like a child, her eyes widened from so many lights and so many lighthouses, different people and languages, the airs changed and she had everything to change too, or to remain that girl, the exemplary daughter, the best friend and the one who thought of others rather than herself. There she was alone and could be herself, maybe put shyness aside, put an end to sensibility and be rebellious maybe, what really matters is to enjoy, use the "only live once" speech, and make the most of time that life gave you at that moment. Many adventures were to come and Mikely just had to wait for the world, a new world, the long-awaited and unknown world, to happen.