‘When you stay here, it’s not like another country, it’s like another planet. Everything is different’ via IrishTimesLife
As a child, she progressed from taking twice-weekly classes, to travelling to a school an hour away from her home by herself to study dance full-time, before she auditioned for a Brazilian dance company at the age of 16, kick-starting her professional career.
“There were professional choreographers and we did a week where we danced for eight hours a day. It was amazing. I did that for seven years.” “Working hard is more important than talent. If you don’t work hard, nothing will happen. You need to believe in yourself,” Mira explains.“He talked to me about Ireland, about Dublin, about work, English [and] about opportunity. My eyes were just shining. It seemed like such a good idea,” she says.
“Brazil, I think, is busy because you can’t just have your things. You really have to work, work really hard,” she says. This is a major difference to life in Ireland, she says, where it is easier to have a “really good life”, if you work hard.When Mira first moved here, her biggest priority was learning English. She went to school from Monday to Friday and then worked in public-facing jobs to continue to work on the language, as well as to earn money to allow her to live comfortably. That commitment is beginning to pay off, she believes.
“A challenge I think is being so far from my family, my friends. When you stay here, it’s not like another country, it’s like another planet. Everything is different,” Mira says.
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