Um Peixe Amarelo

In the last two years I lived in UWC Dilijan, an international boarding school in Armenia. There I met many friends from all over the world and got to know about Global Citizen Year. One of my closest friend there is Brazilian and he used to show me a bunch of music from Brazil- which made my way to get to know Brazilian culture and some Portuguese!

My whole time favorites;

• •  – Wilson Simonal/ Pais Tropical – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSwSu8wvoLc

• •  – Elza Soares/ Mulher Do Fim Do Mundo (the title of the blog taken from here) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SWIwW9mg8s
    

• •  – Mallu Magalhães/ Você Não Presta – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrh6zd5c0OY
    

• • – Luedji Luna/ Um Corpo No Mundo (whole album recommended)  – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mpsqATBk_o&list=PL8EaHn_WNh-1BXwUl_D7fx-FC0zKav73F
    

• • – Nanan/ Casa da floresta – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPeExiJIqUc
    

• • – oração . a banda mais bonita da cidade – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW0i1U4u0KE

While listening to these songs during the summer, I mainly fantasized, planned and tried to picture what will this year look like. Who would I lean on in hard times? What will be my challenges? Before I even knew it- a challenge was already set. A long, exhausting visa application process in the Brazilian embassy in Tel Aviv was a hard-enough challenge that kept me day and night trying to prepare documents. I really don’t know why this simple looking process was so time and energy consuming. I kept thinking it was all a big signal telling me to give up! I was fighting for an experience I didn’t even started!

Bureaucracy, indifferent attitude of officials and poor understanding of the application process will lead my first steps into this gap year to be exhausting and super annoying. But I got the visa on the last minute, and even on time for the launch in California.

Sooo…

Here I’m Coming Brazil!