My Exchange Program

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The company, which my father works for, gives opportunities for their employees’ children. I remember when I was a kindergartner, I made a drawing for the company’s calendar and my drawing was one of those selected. As a middle schooler, I could participate in a program by sending in my grades and the winner would be the best student of each grade, and I won all the years I have competed. The prize was an amount of money, which got bigger year after year. The kids between sixteen and eighteen years old could participate in an exchange program sponsored a hundred percent by the company. I heard about exchange programs when I was about eleven and since then I have kept talking to my parents about it. I was fifteen when my father told me that I could do the exam at the company. I was so happy that I was so close to have my dream becoming true. That year, two thousand and seven, my brother won and he went to Alaska for eleven months. After that I started wanting the exchange program even more every day. A few months after my brother went to Alaska I got a job in a multinational company as a Supply Chain trainee. I really enjoyed working there. I could grow so much, personal and professionally. During this internship program I had the same exam again, at the company my father works for, to value my English knowledge and my emotional side. After three months, on a cold Brazilian’s fall Sunday, I got home and when I opened the door I saw my entire family and my best friends in the living room. My father came to me with an envelope with my name written, but, when I saw that below my name was also written “U.S.A.” and, as in a high point of happiness, my first reaction was to scream and jump in my father’s arms. After my excitement, the “party” started. All the information about the exchange program kept coming during the months until I finally got to the United States of

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