the first, thank you for the invitation and
so I would like to tell you now
a little bit about my story of
life through my exchanges with and
zac is 19 years old when I had my
first anxiety crisis
I was at the bus stop waiting
bus crash is from college that work
It’s a beautiful day I had loose everything
calm and out of nothing all that we were
hurry
I was in a hurry I had a lot of
I want to go out and do something
because I felt I was not
enjoying my time my time he does not
was being busy in the best way
and that he was going to need to do something
with my life from there I was
having more or less what I understood
at that time like those of the 20 years
and I looked ahead I did not know
exactly what happens to us
You never know and I looked back and I
not proud of me and it is not felt
had done something relevant is something very
important so far is the bus
arrived the crisis was passing and I went
to work but from there I decided
I had to do something and then
that’s when I started thinking about
exchange and find food and zac
of voluntary exchange is where they
they said that from the moment that
You and I could do a job.
in an organization and an NGO.
a school and learn from lytro
develop leadership
and then when it was discovered, it was as if
a light came and told me that
I’m going to travel and get to know other cultures
they will know other places and at the same
Time I ‘m going to put my time.
available and my privileges in favor of
of other people then it is to decide to travel
decide to meet the world and I went there
in Poland
I went to a city that is called after
it is not one at that time nor knew
right where it was to Poland on the map
But I got there and my job was
working with children from 4 to 14 years
I was there and working with more than
200 classes in schools
of Poland and and many of the classes I
were with other students with
other volunteers from other countries
are in a class of 25 volunteers from
the most diverse parts of the world and there
for being with other volunteers the people
I needed to join to have a seminar
of preparation wants to know what each
I was going to tell you how we were going to
classes is about culture about me
English and everything else
It is in one of the seminars is we were
talking about semiotics was talking
about the identity of each country
And then when I was talking about the
Brazil is one of the boys is put a
photo on the big screen that was to mark a
woman while she is half the tava
carnival was a semi naked photo because the
people stay like that and hit schools
samba during the carnival and then he
It started there He said so this is how the
woman that all women get
clothes are in Brazil is because if it is so
I want to go back to talk to you that
he promised continuously and there in that
Momentum, I understood what it meant.
the problem of stereotypes
I understood what it meant when
someone would take an image and put it all
world in that same image
and then the only thing I thought
I needed to get up and talk and I got up.
and what they think he said is because he is
speaking this with relevant is what the
discussion, and especially because in a
room with more than 25 people is many
countries is exactly using
stereotype to talk about some
thing about is someone
and there is a lack of strange and
I apologize
scenario continues to happen but
best part was when it’s one of the
students who was there with me was
working with me she was a student
from Iran she came to me and she
thanked
she thanked me for getting up and
spoken because at that moment no
understood that she was also responsible
for getting up and talking when someone
talked about country stereotypes
of it and especially about stereotypes
woman’s country is the project
followed for another two months
the project where I was able to work
very much with the children and I also got
fall in love with Poland
to get to know many people and
was an experience that is marked with
sure my life but she’s only half
experience because then I traveled from
Back to Brazil, I stayed less than 24 hours.
here in Porto Alegre and a day later I
I was flying to Argentina in the second
Volunteer project is located in a city
called a town that stands
almost on the border with Chile and there I
worked as an NGO for residents of
street then it worked there with others
with other exchange students and the
our idea was to work with the
communication of this NGO because people
I wanted to do a year-end event
Who would make a Christmas dinner?
where the people who lived in the street
could have a moment to be
food time is clothes to win
during that time when I chose the
argentina when I decide and prince
country I thought my shock
it would be very small because
Argentina is very close to here.
Porto Alegre culture is very similar
food is very similar and
really when I got there the shock
cultural it was very small but I
I had a social shock I was a
middle class student is sustained
by the parents you had is a privilege
enough to sing college and travel
during a semester to learn more about
places in the world while
working with homeless people is that
had a little notion of their city
who will tell the country and need me
relate to them to the point where the two
feel both sides feel
comfortable with that then I
worked in the NGO
I decided to increase a load of
Let’s say let’s say I worked in the
ong is from 9 am to walk eight
night
during the morning took care of the project
teaches of the communication of that event
everything else but during the afternoon I
is put at the disposal
of those who live on the streets to
support assistant they needed
it is sometimes just talking to them and being able to
is present because for them it is not
make no sense to a person of the
Brazil is there to talk
with them was and was something that did not pass
by their heads for the reality that
they lived
and it was in one of these conversations that I
I was walking talking with them talking
about how they were all over
things and then I was with ruan and the
to the need that 33 of the residents
and that’s when they asked me how
was my experience that is
leaving town and I said that I more
I liked being people begging
at that moment luan who is one of them
he started to laugh is god in a laugh and
That ‘s how people thomas talk like that.
is because it has the Mendocines and has the
Mendocinos the Mendocinos they always come
in the first place and I did not even
I was speaking
only that later he lowered her head and
Then when you understand the one thing again.
What I thought I needed to talk to is
I questioned you again, I said no
I did not agree with who I was.
talking and even the boys of the same ong
the NGO volunteers interrupted the
conversation called what is leaving for
talk is or was a man of 50 and 60
years
and then I could not tell him that
I was thinking I could not question him
I had to talk to her because she
felt wrong and obvious side and I said no
I agree with what he said to me.
It’s indifferent and it does not make sense to me.
we use the gender that is to differentiate
the rights or the voice of a person
and then to my surprise she looked at me
Her gaze had relief and is mercedes
a woman who had five children she
had lost her husband and she lived in
street with three daughters weighing that five
daughters
And that’s when she looked at me.
she smiled and said thank you very much for
You said that because I always said
this for my kids and it ‘s very good
know that there are more people who
if that same
this same vision is and believe it
also
the project was also very good was
project that we managed to have a
Christmas dinner for over 400 residents
and then I went back to Porto Alegre.
and then when I came back after almost
six months of travel to that 15 of the 20
She did not exist anymore.
is still in a hurry but the play had
given to two other feelings is
when I had it when I looked back
for me it is my experience and I saw
I had to talk about stereotypes
and I had to talk about rights and voice
I had to have a lot of courage I had
to stand up and defend something that I
believed while seeing something that
It bothered me in two parts of the world.
that it is not easy that I was accustomed
who are the people who was like
is accustomed to living
when I had to talk to a girl is
as a student of Iran and when I
I had to talk to a woman who is from
Argentine homeless and had to have
empathy that I needed to understand which is
the place where they talk about what she
I was talking and mainly that she
felt as they talked about it and
Obvious is mine on my trip she went
incredible learned a lot about the
world, but mainly understands that a
currency and that he had a lot of
thing for me to teach me is I went
I went outside I looked out myself
I looked at a lot of things but that’s just me.
helped to look inside and
to understand what was mine and what was not
change regardless of step location
I could go to Poland and a pediatrician in
argentina and asked is speaking as
street dwellers or a student fall
But I had things I did not
accept that they were wrong and more than
This I needed to use my voice to
talk about it
It’s that 20’s thing she did not exist.
much more because I had understood is the
what to do and how to use my
privileges and everything else to take this
to other people and that’s when I understood
what was that leadership that is what
I spoke because I developed because today
me the leadership is much more
It is the moment when you understand your
Cause and it’s your cause to speak for
but mostly
Do something that’s so true then
strong petit that inspires
encouraging people to follow your
cause or their own cause as well
on this thank you
[Applause]
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