Conexão Mundo has been, clearly, the best thing that happened in my whole life. I’m not talking only about my first opportunity to go abroad and visit the country that I used to dream about, I’m talking about building opportunities and creating a brand new experience for thousands of students.

We were with our coaches for one month. In the first moment, it was really scary for everyone to be with people from a different culture, but it quickly became an easy and pleasurable relation.

All over the school, there were people speaking in English, practicing their new skills, sharing their experiences with their coaches or talking about the games and activities we used to practice our vocabulary. In a very short time other students that weren’t participating in the program got involved in this innovative method of learning and soon, the program became the most popular subject in the school.

I don’t speak English fluently, but I am comfortable speaking English because the people in the program made me believe that I’m able to. Now I make plans to study and work abroad, something I thought was possible only for rich people.

Hundreds of students – next year, thousands of students – will think like me, and that’s the reason I believe this incredible program will keep growing and reaching more students, who will build a new and better future for themselves.