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travel
One morning I found myself back again with that bunch of friends on a boat trip to the island
Itaparica. At 10:00 am we were dancing to the music of a small Brazilian live band. I danced how
I felt because I forgot all my Samba steps anyway. We had fruits and lovely small talk. What else
do you need to be happy? Just music, dancing, smiling faces around you, fresh fruits and the
sea! Yeah! The beach of this island was amazing. It looked like being in the Caribbean. I bought
some jewellery for my girlfriends from a local woman. And I think it was the first time in my
life that I met someone who couldn’t do the maths with the change. She probably never went to
school. These moments always put the world I grew up and live in into perspective. I felt a little
sad and I decided I don’t want my change, she should keep it. I loved the cute bracelets I bought
from her and I kept one for myself to remember this moment and to really forget about the
doubts that my primary teacher grow with me claiming I was so bad in maths so that doing my
A-levels would be really hard for me. I was best in class then by the way but that’s another story.