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My story starts in a different way from all other stories, my trip was not to a different country or even to a different state, in fact, it was to my own neighborhood - something very close indeed - accompanied by the best people in this world - my friends of EFI (Integral Training Meeting) - we have lived one of the best experience that life can give to us. I was going to a neighborhood called Alto da Terezinha, located in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, there I went to do volunteer work with a decades-long project in the region called ACEF (Associação Criança e Família), they take care of pregnant mothers until young when they reach their older age - all in vulnerable situations. The path there attracted my attention because it was a neighborhood close to mine, so I remade a good part of the daily journey I take when I return home. My group and I had a very warm welcome and it wasn't long before we were in tune with that place. The most beautiful of all was how the adversities of the lives of those people - from the volunteers there to the children - did not make them lose the spice that gives life flavor. One of the best parts of my visit was going to maternity. There I had a little contact with one of the greatest wonders and gifts of a woman who is to be a mother. I met women of all ages, bellies of all sizes, babies more beautiful than others ... Those women I met are worthy of all my respect and affection, the union they formed and the affection they had not only for their children but for everyone present, it is charming and inspiring, there are no right words to explain how good that place was, just being there to feel all that warmth and love. “Capoeira is a Brazilian cultural expression that comprises the elements: martial art, sport, popular culture, dance, and music. It builds sociability and familiarity between masters and disciples, being disseminated in an oral and gestural way in the streets and academies. ”I take the liberty of looking for the official definition of capoeira because, one of the best nights that I started with a presentation by a capoeira group. They were doing a dance circle and I asked my monitor Matheus - which I affectionately call Koala - to accompany. Wearing tutu and exotic clothes, due to the last children's animation exhibition, we did typical capoeira dances and followed the beat of the instruments. I was a little embarrassed, but everything worked out in the end, we were very happy. And lastly - obviously the night did not stop there - the president of the association made a presentation with his pagode band - Brazilian musical style - and I, together with my friends and all the guests at night, played and danced until the wee hours of the night, enjoying each other's company ... they were happy, everything was perfect. And finally, in the midst of all these emotions, feelings and adventures, I remembered a conversation I had with my monitor Matheus - on the first day of the trip - and we discussed that even being close to home, the reality with the which I came across was so different from mine that it felt like another world. I still remember Coala's words talking about immersing myself in the experience, giving myself in and about the lessons we would learn ... Little did we know that our simple union and exchange of knowledge and views about the world was the greatest of them.