It is about a month until a leave for the ancestral home of my mothers and I thought I should write my first post.
There are few words, especially in English, that can describe the anxiety, the roaring excitement and the unadulterated joy that I am feeling at this moment right now. It has been for so long that I have become accustomed to living in my head. Now that I am finally going to Brazil I don't know what to make of it.
Those who have been closer to me in the past year know that I will be spending the next semester learning about the Amazon in the rain forest itself. The ticket is booked, the texts have arrived, and the scholarships have been accepted. Here I am, 20 years of age, and the world has answered my prayers of giving me my own personal legend.
My journey starts in the capital city of the state of Pará, Belém. I will study Portuguese and ecology at this site as other college students do. After about three weeks, I begin journeying into rural areas of northern Brazil where I will meet, feel, and see the people of the largest rain forest in the world.
It goes to show you that "When you want something, the whole universe conspires so that you realize your dream." -Paolo Coelho, The Alchemist
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