The advice I want to give to those who will come here in the coming years or to anyone who finds themselves living a life experience in a completely different context from the one they consider "home", is:
ENJOY!!
Face every day with extreme curiosity, let yourself be carried away by events, by people, take new paths every day, ask questions, experiment.
Take as many walks as possible and get lost in the trees and houses.
Try your hand at experiences never done before.
Experience the local culture first-hand.
Taste new foods, let yourself be attracted by the scents.
Be ready to change and evolve.
Enjoy it and you will be forever grateful.
Shianda for me was all this.
Go out at any time of the day to buy something fresh to eat,
stopping at the corner, on the main street or in the large market
and chat with the ladies of the stalls.
Waking up in the morning to go spend an hour with my friends
and the "Shianda guys" in the gym above the office
and there fill up with smiles to face the day.
Walking for a 10-minute walk and returning home 3 hours later,
because the landscape was getting more and more beautiful and new,
and it was impossible to stop.
Spend 5 hours sitting on a plastic chair,
alternating moments of play with children,
and laughter with passers-by,
to have the famous braids.
See truckloads of sugar cane pass by
and children run after them to get some.
And many, many, many, many others..that I wish you all.
Facing everyday life in the village was an extremely beautiful and full of life experience.
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