About me My name is Yohan Garcia, I'm 18 years old (almost 19) and I'm from Brazil. I was born in Porto Alegre, a city in south of Brazil, but I grew up in Gravataí, a nearby city. When you think about Brazil you probably imagine sun, warm, coconut water and beautiful girls. Except for the last one, when it comes about the south it's all wrong. Here is not warm the whole year, actually the winter is pretty cold. It's a subtropical zone, so we have hot summers and cold winters. In some cities here, it is common the temperature getting under 0°C (32°F) in summer. I studied the whole junior school in Gravataí. I've always highlighted in mathmatics during all the junior school. Then, when I've gone to high school, I changed to a military school in Porto Alegre, altough I kept living in Gravataí. (I don't know if there are military schools in your country, but here mlitary schools are just normal schools managed by the Army. Students don't have to make hard military activities, like shoting or making push-ups or whatever, just some easy ones like marching, using military uniforms and practicing sports). In the high school, I started to develop interest for natural sciences too, such as physics and chemistry, So, maths + natural sciences equals what? Exact, engineering. In military school I also had contact with some military colleges, and then I got interested in ITA (Aeronautics Institute of Technology), an MIT-inspired engineering school managed by the Brazilian Air Force, located in São José dos Campos, in São Paulo state. In Brazil, the universities admission process consists in a test, called vestibular. Despite covering just maths, natural sciences (physics and chemistry) and languages (Portuguese, English, Literature and an essay), ITA's vestibular is one of the most difficult vestibulares in Brazil. I applied in my last year of high school but I didn't get it. Then I spent the following year studing harder, specially the natural sciences, and in this year I was approved. Then I moved to São José dos Campos and started studying there. It could be harder, but fortunately Ita students get a place and three meals a day provided by the Air Force. So, now I am in vacations, spending the free time with my family in Gravataí, and next month my classes will start again and I will go back to São José dos Campos for my second year of engineering.