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I was born in Goiania, a big city in Brazil,
twenty-four years ago. When I was just three years old, I started
studying. When I was seventeen, I went to law school and I spent five
years of my life there.
 My parents have a hardware shop in my
hometown. I have a sister who is a year older than I and she has the
same career as me. She has a law office and specializes in worker
injury.
I’ve been in the United States since
December, 2000. The proposal of my life in this country is to continue
my career in the United States of America; that is, to go on with my
education and to work as a lawyer.
Even before I came here, I’d known that it
would be a very difficult task because I would have to start my life
from the beginning. I had to learn another language completely different
from mine. I had to find a place to live. I had to find a job. At this
time, my job is newspaper delivery, but I used to have another one,
which I quit to start studying English. I made this decision because
it’s a very difficult situation when you want to live in a country
different from your own and you don’t speak its language.
Life is very difficult when you have drastic
changes. In my hometown I used to have everything within my reach, but
here I have to work on my own to get whatever I want. Life is like this,
and dreams are dreamed to keep people alive and fighting for something
they believe will be special and rewarding.
The only thing you have to do is to try
reaching for your goals and never give up trying. If you try and fail,
at least you have tried. But if you never try, you’ll never know what it
is that is waiting for you.
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