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Dublin through the eyes of a Brazilian filmmaker
My name is Raquel Freire, 30, I am a journalist with a specialization in Business Communications. Last year, in 2019, I decided to change my career and my life. I want to become a filmmaker and follow my purpose in life. On January this year I came to Dublin in order to improve my English. Since I intend to take a master’s course abroad, I need a very good score at IELTS Exam. Living in Brazil would have been more difficult to learn and would take more time for me to achieve it. Therefore, here I am. I researched among English-spoken countries around the world, USA, Canada, New Zealand, but…
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London: Love at the first sight
Traveling abroad has been always a dream for me. I was born in a very small city in Bahia where traveling inside the borders was not so easy, even worse offshore. January 17th, 2014 was the day when I arrived in London for the first time. It was also my first international experience, so you can imagine how excited I was. In this article, I will summarize to you what this experience meant to me. My life before London I used to live with my mum and my sister in São Paulo. We did not have our own house and I had just finished college. Even though I had a…
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Travel regardless your troubles
What was I feeling like? Suddenly, I got a huge disappointment in my life (I prefer not to say the reason or even what had happened with me). It was just like my world lost all sense, I was completely devastated, I didn’t know how I could survive. As a result, I started to practice exercise like crazy, anything more was enough for me. I got my hair cut, I lost 14 weight in 2 months. I didn’t want to see my friends, I was stuck in my own room, just crying. I wished many times to put an end in my life, but I didn’t do it, because if…