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Everything in context before I start. When I was a child up to about four years ago, I was really shy.

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And when I say really shy, I truly meant it. I used to have these huge blue eyes that took up half of my face.

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And obviously, everyone was commenting on them. I didn't know what was going through people's minds at that moment,

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but I only want to I only wanted to run and hide because of how embarrassed I was.

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Being decent, I want to say. I have been really into art since I was a child.

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I have some huge interest in painting, dancing, drawing, you know, in almost all types of art.

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But today I want to focus on one of them that has really time for me, that is dancing.

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I started dancing when I was three years old.

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And in my life, just the fact of people giving me attention

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when I was not asking for it,

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me taking the stage and really asking for the attention

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was completely impossible.

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But however, I managed to do it

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and started to enjoy it a lot.

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I'm not going to go deeper

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in the following eight years of my life

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as they're very important, but not for this story.

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So, during these eight years, I was having an internal fight between my love to dance, because I started loving dancing, and my fear of doing it in front of people.

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But after these eight years, when I was around 12 years old, an incredible change took place.

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My mother convinced me to change from one academy to another.

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I think that just the fact of my brother going to be with me was what really

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makes me do it, make this decision. My birthday there went something like this.

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I went there and I was in the back of the room as I always had been but

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this time with my brother not wanting anyone to move closer to us and the

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class started, everything was going fine and my word stopped. The teacher stopped

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the class, just to say to me,

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Rafael, please, get to the first

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row. Oh, my God.

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I was so embarrassed at that

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moment. I was like, oh, my God,

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are you telling me this seriously?

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But, you know,

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with difficulties, I managed to go

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to the first row. And there,

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I only won

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with all the fevers

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of my being, the class to finish.

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And when I did, I was the happiest

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girl in the world.

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This situation kept happening every single day. I went there, I was in the back of the room,

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she told me to go to the front, I went to the front, I got embarrassed again, the class finished,

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next day I was in the back of the room, she told me again to go to the front, I got

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embarrassed again, I don't know what I was expecting, it was literally the same

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every single day. But it was something that really helped me. This helped me

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with my sinus and I started not hating too much to dance in front of people and although this is not

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this good one not just in class and also outside when people told me I have beautiful eyes I

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started with difficulties to answer like I thank you it was not such a thing but it was something

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but this encourage it was a turning point in my life it not only helped me with my

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sadness but also changed completely the way I used to see my life nowadays I not

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only I am able to dance comfortably in front of people I am taking the step

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forward in the dance class and as a teacher and also I started showing my

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little pieces of art as i am i i am a visual artist too

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but what really makes me proud of myself is that nowadays or even without my

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teacher i'm pushing i'm forcing myself to do

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new things and i'm becoming the teacher

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and i'm pushing myself to the first row