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  • What has changed in my life over the last 10 years?

    Posted by Adriana on April 29, 2020 at 3:52 pm

    In 2010 I was celebrating my 30’s birthday and the buy of my new and cute apartment to live with my son in São Paulo – Brazil. I was single in this period, and my only priorities were my son, work, friends, my self-development and a stable life to be a good provider mom. Over the 10-year span, looking to back, I can’t recognise that I am the same person. I’ve changed all, I’ve worked in different companies, I married, I did so many courses and I travelled to different countries, and in 2019 I decided to live out of my comfort zone to learn a new language and new culture in an unknown country, living so far of my family and my son – it’s has been the most incisively part – I feel that I’m not static, I have a lot to know and to try, the movement of the discovery new possibilities to live is my taste. I am definitely a product of the decision to do in an uncertain way, for a moment while I’m writing this paragraph, I thought that I was branching out since 2019, but after a deep breath… I can realise that it is and this is a style of life in my family since I was a child.

    Adriana replied 4 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Kerin

    Administrator
    April 30, 2020 at 9:58 am

    Wow @Adriana … an explosive 10 years! Living life to the full! Thank you sharing your experience with us.

    🌸Some notes:

    Well done – you use the past simple correctly and the fluidity is great.

    Some corrections:

    > my 30th birthday

    > buy is only a verb, so you can say ‘the purchase of my new apartment’ or ‘the buying of …’

    > looking back (without to)

    > I’ve change all – better to say: I’ve changed everything (see this for more info)

    > living so far of my family and my son – ‘so far from my family’ or ‘so far away from’

    > Am not sure what you mean by ‘incisively’ .. can you find another word here?

  • Adriana

    Member
    May 6, 2020 at 11:50 am

    Thank you so much for your corrections @Kerin!Innocent

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