Vanessa Silva:  

Life It is very hard to write a life bio with all that I've been through. I left Flat Rock High at the beginning of sophomore year and moved with my mother and sisters to Brazil where my mother is from. One of my sisters moved back to the US because she couldn't get used to living here and I might go back with my future husband in a few years too. It's been very difficult to adapt to life in another culture. Things are very different. The hardest thing is the language. Although now I speak and write in Portuguese very well, I still miss English, which is a million times easier because it's my native language. I've been working as an English as a foreign language teacher. It's different from a typical English teacher because you have to teach people who don't speak English how to speak and understand it. It's very rewarding, though. The city I live in -Sao Paulo- is huge! It's bigger than New York and just as busy. I do like it even though it's dangerous, but gro...Expand for more