Felipe Torres Przyklenk ‘ e portfolio

Long story short… I am Felipe Torres, I am 21 years old and I am half Colombian, half German. A funny fact about me? I can move my ears… which I’ve always been told is not common. I was born in Colombia and lived most of my life there. I went to high school, I was raised by two spectacular parents in a house where love always reigned. During this time of my childhood and adolescence I experienced many things that unfortunately now I have blurred memories. I remember the trips I used to take with my family when I went on vacation, my first love and my first breakup, my best friends with whom I did practically everything. We used play soccer and video games, went to parties, had barbecues, etc. We were really inseparable just like I was with my family. In 2019 after graduating I decided to do an exchange to Germany since I wanted to know my roots since my mother is German and it is a part of me that I always wanted to discover. I left for a year in which above all I grew as a person. It was definitely the hardest year of my life as I went from having everything to having nothing. I lost my friends, my family, my house, my comforts and also it seemed that everything was going wrong for me. I got along badly with the people in the house where I was staying, I couldn’t make friends since I always felt that the culture was very distant and cold, I broke up with my lifelong girlfriend because of the distance, among other things. I was on the verge of depression but it was during this time that I managed to build the pillars that today support my life in which I am quite happy. I had the opportunity to get closer to God, I started to meditate and go to the gym. These are things that have given me discipline but above all, having been happy in an immense loneliness makes me feel today in the idea that I can do anything I set out to do in this life and that there will never be an impossible challenge challenge. In the present I decided to start my studies in Canada, a country in which I have been living for 8 months and I can say that I love it and am incredibly happy. For the moment I will continue writing my story with the hope of being able to fulfill all my dreams and to make this world a better one for my children and grandchildren.