English as my first language

I left Brazil for the first time in 1993 as when I was granted a prize from the Japan Foundation and used English on a daily basis for the first time. I had never imagined using more English than my native language and have to express everything I wanted as though I was speaking Portuguese. At this time I had the opportunity to meet people from dozens of countries and listen to several English accents. Unfortunately this experience only lasted 2 weeks but it was a wonderful experience to visit Japan for the first time after started studying Japanese in 1991 at Rio de Janeiro Federal University. During this trip I was able to see famous places in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Hiroshima.