Hi everybody!!!
My name is Christiane and I have been travelling for a while. I am a Brazilian who loves being around the world. I have worked for many years in the travel industry, so I decided to combine my experience with my passion and create a blog that could answer some questions people have asked me for many years. Through this blog I want to share my experiences and learn from my readers as well. My goal is to help people who has the dream of travelling, visiting new places, learning about new cultures, but don’t know how to start. No matter the budget travelling is possible.
I will start telling a little about my life so you can understand how I ended up here.
My big and distant dream
When I was a little girl, 11 years old to be more precise, I had a dream a very far and impossible dream (it seemed impossible at that time), I wanted to live in the United States, visit New Jersey and speak English so I could understand what Bon Jovi (my favorite band in the world) said in their songs.
Well I was young had no money, my father had his own business but the money he made gave us a comfortable life, but it didn’t mean I would be able to leave the country with his money, we had a very simple life and travelling was considered luxury at that time.
First thing to do learn the language...
By the time I decided to learn English, I was too young to go to School, so my sister-in-law, who at that time was only 15, but knew English very well, decided to help me and gave English classes for free. She was the best teacher I have ever had; what I learnt from her helped me a lot to get where I am today. After two years teaching me, she told my father that I loved the language and deserved to go to a school, from that day on my he supported me and paid my English studies for all his life…
Life goes on….
After graduating, when I was 18, I became an English Instructor and decided to study Tourism Management. I had fun and was happy, but something was missing. My dream was to live abroad, but I still didn’t have much money, I had to pay for my studies and the classes didn’t give me much.
New York New York
One of my friends found out about the Au Pair in America program. It was cheap we could pay in many months, and it was a good deal, so I become a babysitter, lived in a very nice host family home and I made some money, enough to travel around the USA and that is how I fulfilled my biggest child dream… but I never stopped travelling. After 13 months in the States I went back to Brazil finished college changed my career and started helping people in their trips. Giving advice, tailoring, buying and selling trips… and travelling the most I could.
Nowadays my home is Toronto, besides English, I am fluent in Spanish, I can risk Italian after studying in Florence and I speak a little French... well basic French.
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