Students talk about everyday experiences that make them happy. Watch their video and read the stories about what makes them feel like a “room without a roof.” And… you can see some of Carlos’ cool drawings, and you can listen to Doaldo sing. We hope you enjoy this and that it makes you think of what makes you happy 🙂
MORE OF WHAT MAKES US HAPPY….
DOALDO: When I was teenager one thing I really want is complete eighting years old, that will make me without a roof, because I can remember in that age I got my driver license and that make me Happy because I could drive by myself. I could make small travels with my friends and I could work and get my first payment.
VIRGINIA: Fortunately I have alots of moments that I feel “like a room without a roof.”
But now, I want to write about the time I landed in France. I always want to visit Paris. so, I saved money and a friend and I organized our trip. When the plane landed I felt euphoria. It was a magic moment!
We visited Montmartre, Louvre, and other places we enjoyed!
I remember on specific moment: we were walking in “Republic Square”, we were laughing and admired the city.
So I said to my friend: I can live here! I felt so good that I wanted to dance in the street (of course, I didn’t do “it”).
I felt like a room without a roof and I understood the world it’s a fantastic place to be.
SIMONE: When was years ago I decided to take a trip alone. I decided to go to N.Y.
I remember I was sitting on the bed at the hotel and thinking there is no one to say where, when, or why I am going. Nobody deciding for me. In that day, I left the hotel, just to walk and that moment I realized that is freedom.
MAGNO: The moment I felt like a room without a roof was when I have my law graduation in Brazil because a lot of persons just was saying that I will never be complete my graduations.
Some of persons in my family too was against me, and when I finish I just feel so happy because was five years (long way).
The other moment was when I arrived here in 2018, because I am feel free to live my life and to be just me, without fear, without judgment.
NATALIA: After one long bad time after my father died, I tried one new dream, I decided buy one apartment for start a new life, new history and flip a page.
My happiness moment as a “room without a roof” was on September 16, 2016, when I got the key of my first apartment and finally I could write my new history on my life.
JUNIOR: A time when I felt happy was I had my first child, “Adah Vitoria.”
My father lived in the USA for many years and so my brother. I was happy because there was a lot of good things going on in my life. When my brother came to the USA I was like 10 years old and to see them again was good. And I believe that they were happy too.
That was a time when everything was going so well, my family together again, I had a nice job, now with the baby. I felt so good.
GRASI: My situation when I felt a room without a roof happened when I was in my first date with my husband because he was my friend before, and I went try a girlfriend for him 3 time but he can’t, because he believed I’m is the new girlfriend for him.
CARLOS: The First time I felt without a roof.
The world have too much rules and the next rules is boring for teenagers, so I can’t say I felt without a roof (freedom) when I was younger.
I really think that I was feel my freedom when I got married. Then I had money, was easier to keep in the rules, I could travel and enjoy my life like I never could before got married.
Sure, my rules, my house, my time, my freedom, life in a room without a roof.
CRISTINA: When I was a teenager. I had the dream of knowing the sea, because where I lived there was not beach.
I got my first job and with my first money, I took a trip to Rio de Janeiro
I remember I was very happy to be able to do it myself. I felt free.
NICOLAS: One of the things that makes me most happy is relaxing, getting home sitting in my chair watching something on tv or playing my video game while I drink a beer and eat a snack and I feel comfortable and safe inside myself. One moment when I have no probelm or concern.
It is simply a moment where I can let my guard down and not be afreid of the world outside.