Disclaimer: To any new readers, I’m not a writer. Just an FYI.

At the beginning of this year, I created a new motto for myself: Stay hungry, stay humble and keep learning. After spending 2 days in Brazil, I have a new understanding of what it means to keep learning, to stay hungry and especially about not just staying humble, but BEING humbled.

I was humbled for the first time on the plane ride from Miami to Sao Paulo. Literally everyone but me was Brazilian. Unfortunately for me, I don’t look American at all, so guess what was spoken to me the entire time on the plane (and honestly, what’s been spoken to me the entire time here)? Portuguese. What do I not speak? Portuguese. I was so embarrassed that I could barely even tell the flight attendant what I wanted for dinner. The girl next to me had…