A New Beginning
During an interview with the New York Times, Christina talked about how her life in Vindeln, Sweden, was very different from what she had been used to in Rio de Janeiro. She had been living there for the past year. Unbelievably, there were not even the tiniest little signs of abandonment to be seen anywhere in the building.
Christina was able to adjust relatively quickly to her new life in Sweden, in spite of the first cultural shock that she experienced. “Within a few short months, I was able to pick up Swedish while concurrently forgetting Portuguese. It didn’t take me long to start having hopeful feelings about the future.