Growing up in Brazil, I dreamed of learning English. I set myself the goal of one day moving to the U.S. to create a better life than I could envision in Brazil. However, as an immigrant from South America who had never had more than 3 months of English class, I knew it was going to be a challenge for me to try a better life in a country where the spoken language is not Portuguese. Since then, I've been studying English to be able to achieve my goals. After a couple years, I figured out that by achieving my first goal, I would be able to start my second goal in life, which is that by the end of 2014, my path will be the international trade business. Moving to U.S was a big challenge for me. I started a new life after navigating to new water. I used to live with my parents back in Brazil and I had shelter, food, and washed clothes with no cost. I assume I was a little bit spoiled by my parents, but it was time to get self-reliant. I thought it would be fine being away from my family, but it was homesickness. I feel better now, and I thank my powerful decision it helped me to develop English as second language, leadership, self-esteem, teamwork, independence and I became a good problems-solver.
Building all these skill after a long journey made me feel that I finished the first goal, I'm now working on my second goal which is the International trade business. People like me who lived in Brazil can notice the difference in prices of lots of goods. In my country I can tell that the market is more monopolized than the market here in the U.S. where the competitive market makes an intense price competition. Therefore, the U.S. has a large amount of competitors capable of providing products or services at a good price. This gave me the idea of connecting my home country to the U.S. There is a huge commercialization of products in the USA that, when they are sold legally in a third world country like Brazil, would cost 4 times more than the pri...