The Best Year: My experience studying in California

8/9/2019 12:00:00 AM | USA

"I'm really glad that I chose to come to California! You see people of different races, different types of couples - it made me feel great here. I'm not a strange Brazilian , i'm just one more person here."

Fascinated by the multi-cultural, open and tolerant California, Victoria decided to stay on and become one of them. She wanted to study International Relations at UCLA because she loved to work with different cultures, countries and politics.

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