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Shares
Preliminarily, it is necessary to contextualize the history of the trip and how it relates to my life: my name is Shaila, I am from São Paulo, but I have lived in Brasília since I was very young and never visited my place of origin, until I was 19 years old . My name is of Indian origin, because my parents, when they lived in São Paulo, became friends with an Indian woman who could not have children, and who said she liked that name, so my parents chose that name to register me. I spent years and years without visiting São Paulo, even though I really wanted to do that. I feel very attached to that place: my heart team is from there (São Paulo Futebol Clube); my first memories are from there; in short, my entire origin. And above all, I was interested in meeting the woman who gave birth to my name. For that desire, I entered an internship, to pay the travel expenses to visit SP. I managed to collect the necessary money and traveled there. I was thrilled with every little place in SP I visited. I made a point of visiting the places that remained in my memory, getting to be moved in some of them. Unfortunately, the woman who gave me my name had returned to her country, but I met a woman who knew her and who told me what she knew about her. She said that Ane, who was the name of the Indian woman, talked about the caste system and that she felt incomplete because she was unable to get pregnant, as this was very important for a woman in her country's culture. I found it interesting to know a little about how Indian culture works, but it saddened me to think how a system can cause incompleteness and insecurity in an individual, and I also started to think like the Culture of my country, although with many good things, it also has structures for that we, who are part of it, feel guilty for things that are part of our nature, such as, for example, in my case, my condition as a woman, if we analyze sexist characteristics of my country's culture. I believe that my greatest learning was the possibility of rethinking my culture and my life, using for example another culture, with very peculiar characteristics at first, but which has a lot in common with the culture of my country.