Hello Friends,
My name is Odilon,
Alessandra’s husband and Sophia’s dad. We are a fun and happy family for more
than five years, since I got married to the most beautiful of the beauties.
When are other family’
stories on the same path we are, we noticed as well as the same destination,
there is another similarity, all of them write a blog. We can tell it is and
awesome way to inform but it also has a bigger purpose… the Catharsis.
Catharsis, from Greek Kàtharsis, means purification of souls by an
emotional discharge caused by a drama, or just unburden!
We realized that the
secret of success of people who have taken this path is to keep the focus and
persistence; and we believe sharing this moment with you is an excellent way to
do this. Besides, we’ll have the opportunity to make new friends.
All posts of this
channel will be written by four hands, by Ale and also by me. So you can
distinguish who wrote what, from now on my posts will be in italics and Ale’s will be regular.
When we tell people that
we want to have different experiences lots of them ask Why? Besides all the
well-known political rhetoric in Brazil, that we kindly named "Brazilian
Costs", what could be another reason for wanting to start over our lives
away from our friends, family and people we love? The answer is that, like any
other young couple, we are looking for an opportunity; not only looking for a
job or money, but to full fill our potential, and receive due recognition for
it.
I am studying Civil
Engineering, and currently I am a government employee with a temporary
contract, working as a draftsman technician (Autocad designer), on the
Education Office of my state. Ale is graduated in Physiotherapy, but since the
age of 17 she works as an ESL teacher in language schools. Sophia is a student,
and since she was 5th months old she has been a regular student at one of the
public day cares in our city.
At this stage of our
careers we still have all the possibilities ahead. Unfortunately after
finishing a Bachelor in physiotherapy I (Alessandra) did not get into the regular physiotherapy
field. Believe it or not but, what have been offered to me was a minimum basic
wage salary to work 30 hours a week, and all that after I graduated! The salary
offered did not even match the tuition paid monthly during university. All the
patients that I attend to, nowdays, are private. As Odilon said, I teach
English as a second language since the age of 17 and I decided to keep
teaching, on a part-time job, with a monthly salary that exceeds the monthly
salary of many friends who work as a full-time physiotherapists. Despite loving
physiotherapy saddens me to see such professional devaluation. I
always dreamed with possibility of doing a masters and / or doctor degree and
then work on the two things I love, teaching and physiotherapy, but this
devaluation always discouraged me to pursue this goal.
Researching about
Canada, I realized the opportunity to have a high-level specialization,
combined with an appreciation of the physiotherapist in an environment that is
very familiar to me, the English language. In this search Odilon also benefits
on engineering field that has a very important role in the current economic
context, and the fact of finishing his degree at a Canadian university will be
a plus in this scenario.
Odilon e Alessandra