About Me — FJCMontenegro
A Brazilian boy’s life
This boy was born in Brazil, the land of soccer, samba, the Amazon rainforest, and the beautiful beaches of Rio. He wasn’t very good at soccer, though, and he completely lost interest in the sport by the time he became an adult.
The boy didn’t have enough motor coordination to learn the samba either, though he had enough of it to play the drums in a death metal band.
He has never been to the Amazon forest, which is way too far from his home state — the southernmost Brazilian state, where it can get so cold some cities get a few inches of snow every couple of decades.
Did you know it can snow in Brazil? ❄️
The boy has never been to Rio either, though he’s been to China and Germany, studying robotics and artificial intelligence for his master’s degree in computer science. He knows nothing about China except that making autonomous humanoid robots walk on synthetic grass is extremely difficult. But he knows that, sometimes, when drinking with your friends in a small boat in Germany, you crush the can and yell “Junge,” which means — conveniently — “boy.”
I guess this boy isn’t quite what you expected of a Brazilian, eh? Sorry. Perhaps this is why he moved to Vancouver, Canada, at the beginning of 2022. He’s been slowly exploring the place, with his mismatched socks and his loving wife.
Adaptation has been… an adventure! Needless to say, this is the moment of this boy’s life when he’s learning the most about himself, the world, and life as a whole. In fact, this is a turning point, when this Brazilian boy is truly, finally becoming a man — whatever that means.
As part of the process, he’s being honest to himself about the fact that he desperately wants to write. So he stopped keeping his writing in the dark and, with the help of a secret society, he’s been sharing it with the world. He’s been mostly writing about distant, dystopian worlds — although some of it is just the view of the waves crashing on the shore.
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