The hello post! Journalist, traveler and shipping container home owner

Hi everyone! I’m excited to learn more about Steemit and also share ideas and learn from the community. I’m a Brazilian journalist who have been working at an inflight magazine for the past 5 years and a half – which means I have certain topics I usually write about like tourism, business and entertainment. And which means I have many others I would like to explore more like tech, nature, inclusion & diversity and well-being.

On top of the Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa. I spent a few days there in 2015 to write a tourism article about the city 

Traditional media x Steemit

The future of media and communication is something that really gets my attention, since I watch from very close all the publisher’s shut downs and layoffs here in Brazil. What to do and where to go just seem questions too hard to answer to most of the professionals.

A couple years ago I thought the answer was to all communication groups get together under one company and charge a subscription like Netflix or Spotify did with entertainment and music, for example. But I guess none of them wants to share profit.

That’s why I’m here at Steemit after literally just hearing about it. There’s no Netflix or Spotify model for media – just because we can’t use a past model to try to foresee the future. A “blockchain media room” that welcomes everyone – even the big communication group, if they want so – sounds like a better idea.

#introducemyself

The awkward photo, ha 

But now let’s shift to the “me talk”: I was born in Brussels (Belgium) and raised in Florianópolis (Brazil), so English is not my native speaking language. I did a few exchange programs throughout my life: high school in a little-little town in Kansas (US), bartending in Big Bear Lake (also US) and a semester of college in Mexico City.

Good times having real margaritas and burritos in Mexico City (January, 2007)  

I have been living in São Paulo for the past 10 years. I moved here to study Creative Writing of Nonfiction and have never gone back – even though my Brazilian home town is a beautiful island. São Paulo is known as the city of job opportunities. And it actually is.

Traveling is part of my routine whether for work (here lies the beauty of editing an inflight magazine) or vacation. I also go often to the mountains, where by boyfriend and I own a land and a tiny container home. It is located on the rural area of a small town with 7k inhabitants. Over the past few years we have grown organic food and sold it here in São Paulo as a hobby, but we have stopped doing this due to logistic issues.

Friends during this past Carnival on our land 

Getting the shipping container home on its place (May, 2016) 

My last work trip was to Washington D.C. and I wrote a story on an itinerary going through the Civil Rights monuments. The US capital is a nice place to explore, but the people and places behind the racial segregation conflict are what makes it different from any other city.

One of the best museums I’ve been: National Museum of African American History and Culture, opened on September 2016 

One of the corridors from the National Museum of African American History and Culture #go  

See you all around!