A keepsake: what keepsake has the EIP provided you? - Lucas de Brito

English Immersion is an American Embassy program, where students from all over the country can stay a week together, getting familiar with the American culture, and studying English all the day.

When you are put into a program where you can only speak in English, that's when you see your potential. It's when you find out you know how to talk with people using a different language than the one you're used to. So, for me, that's the first keepsake EIP brought to me: it showed me I CAN!

When more than a hundred people are together, that's when you can see all the variety EIP has. There are people from all the five regions of the country, so making friends is not difficult at all. Actually, every "hi" you say is a new friend you've made, 'cause people are so gentle and everyone wants to be everyone's friend. Then, this is one of the most important keepsake I'm gonna take from the program: the special moments with friends.

There are a lot of keepsakes I could talk about, and maybe I'll do, some time. But not now. What about you? What can be a good keepsake to you? What is the best one you have?

Lucas de Brito Silva