WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:08.280 Hello, my name is Adriano, I'm 21 years old, I'm a musician, recorder and cellist, 00:08.280 --> 00:13.560 and nowadays I live and study in Germany, in Hamburg, at the University of Music 00:13.560 --> 00:14.560 and Theater. 00:14.560 --> 00:23.680 I've been living here for five years, but to tell you a bit about where it all started, I would like 00:23.680 --> 00:28.280 to go back to 2011, when I was 10 years old, which was when I went for the first 00:28.280 --> 00:35.960 time to the Dorcas Project in Almirante Tamandaré, which was where I discovered my love for 00:35.960 --> 00:38.360 music and where my musical career also began. 00:38.360 --> 00:49.000 That year I started studying recorder and through that my whole life changed because 00:49.000 --> 00:55.760 I discovered that music is something I love, so many opportunities started 00:55.760 --> 00:57.720 to appear in my life. 00:57.720 --> 01:02.160 First I got a scholarship at the Paraná School of Music and Fine Arts, where 01:02.160 --> 01:06.160 I took an extension course. A few years later I got a scholarship at Martinus 01:06.160 --> 01:12.960 School, in Curitiba, where I started studying German and English too, and having studied 01:12.960 --> 01:18.800 a bit of these languages I participated in a Goethe Institut competition, through which 01:18.800 --> 01:23.120 I won a scholarship to study an exchange year in Germany, which was 01:23.120 --> 01:30.760 in 2018 and 2019, and thanks to God and many other people I met here during that time I 01:30.760 --> 01:36.400 was able to stay longer and thus start my higher education in music. 01:36.400 --> 01:43.200 Now at the end of June I will graduate with my bachelor's degree in recorder and next year 01:43.200 --> 01:45.920 I will graduate in cello. 01:45.920 --> 01:52.120 So the Dorcas Project was, I would say the most important key for me to start 01:52.120 --> 01:59.600 studying music and for so many other things, so if I hadn't had that opportunity 01:59.600 --> 02:07.160 there at the Dorcas Project I believe that none of this would have happened and I can't imagine 02:07.160 --> 02:12.000 where I would be today either. 02:12.000 --> 02:17.600 My parents are separated, but I always lived with my mother in Curitiba. I was born 02:17.600 --> 02:23.600 in São Jerônimo in Rio Grande do Sul, where my father also lives, but that was never a reason 02:23.600 --> 02:28.180 for me not to have contact with both, because every year I always traveled to Porto Alegre 02:28.180 --> 02:33.560 and to São Jerônimo to visit my father, so I always had contact with both. 02:33.560 --> 02:38.760 My father is a farmer and my mother always worked as a chambermaid in hotels, but today 02:38.760 --> 02:44.520 she works in a bakery. 02:44.520 --> 02:52.120 I'm really enjoying the course, it's very gratifying to think that time has already passed 02:52.120 --> 02:58.640 so fast and in a few days I will be graduating from a higher education course, so 02:58.640 --> 03:04.920 going back in time a bit I also remember that at the beginning, when I came to Germany, 03:04.920 --> 03:11.920 I was 16 years old and was very curious to do everything, so I would say I adapted 03:11.920 --> 03:18.620 very easily to life here. Obviously there are certain difficulties, but I had already had an excellent 03:18.620 --> 03:24.840 German language foundation, for example, at Martinus school, so being here I learned 03:24.840 --> 03:31.560 the language very well too, but it wasn't, let's say, a barrier at first. The cold I also 03:31.560 --> 03:36.000 already knew more or less from Curitiba, because it's also a bit cold, but obviously there 03:36.000 --> 03:49.960 it doesn't snow, so here it was a very interesting thing to see and thinking now about the future, 03:49.960 --> 03:55.040 I would like to first stay around here, in Germany or in Europe, well now I'm 03:55.040 --> 04:01.440 graduating with my bachelor's degree, soon comes the master's, I'll probably stay in Germany 04:01.440 --> 04:08.960 to also do the master's, but I have also already had concerts in other countries like 04:08.960 --> 04:18.640 in Lithuania, in Norway, so I would say I'm now starting my professional career 04:18.640 --> 04:27.400 as a musician, so I intend for now to stay here, but I'm always in contact when 04:27.400 --> 04:32.320 possible with the Dorcas Project and with Brazil. It's very gratifying to hear when I talk, for example, 04:32.320 --> 04:37.920 with Darclê, the project coordinator, that she calls me Ambassador of the Dorcas Project here 04:37.920 --> 04:45.640 in Germany, because we also have cooperation with churches here and other projects, so sometimes 04:45.640 --> 04:54.920 we do a benefit concert for the project or organize other events, so it is, whenever 04:54.920 --> 05:02.840 possible, we are in contact and thinking about how it's possible for me, even being here, to be able to help 05:02.840 --> 05:13.120 the project. So I think that's it for now, thank you very much for this opportunity to speak a 05:13.120 --> 05:15.440 little bit about myself and see you next time.