My sweet lovely daughter, how did you get so big so fast? I knew this was going to happen but I think... I don't know... I just thought I would still have a couple of years ahead to prepare myself. It's wonderful to see how articulate, intelligent and beautiful you have become but it's so hard to see you getting ready to fly away. I guess deep inside I still see you as my little baby, so fragile and dependable. Please don't get me wrong. I am very proud to see you grow. The thing is I was getting used to being needed. And now, you seem to need me less and less everyday. I used to look forward to that but I am not so sure anymore. I just need some time to process it. If I sometimes seem a little lost and I take a long time to make a decision as to letting you go somewhere or do something, please try to understand. This is also new to me and I was caught completely off guard. Remember, this is my first ride too! I am trying to figure it out as we go, because, truth
I have been a freelance Translator since 1999. I can't really say that it was something that I've always known, I mean I didn't have a special calling to become a translator. Life just presented Translation to me exactly when I was about to make my move in order to pave the way for my future. I was still in college when I was offered a huge challenge. This was in fact a big project but by then I had no idea that this experience would be such an important milestone in the story of my life. Everything I had decided so far concerning my future career was put into perspective and suddendly I wasn't so sure anymore. One day I had it all figured out and the next day I was completely lost in the middle of the ocean! When I was eighteen years old, Trucks and Busses weren't exactly my thing and when I was asked to translate a technical manual of a bus from German into Portuguese I just thought to myself, you've got to be kidding me! I had no clue about translation