Hi Steemians!!

My name is Erika, i´m currently 22 years old, im studying to get my licence degree in social work.

I´m not sure I was meant to post this, or anything else for that matter, since I wasn´t supposed to be alive... I am what doctors like to call a "miracle baby", you´ll see when I was born i cought a massive infection, a powerfull bacteria entered my tiny body and lead me to bleed from my mouth and nose, they did everything, every procedure they could come up with, and The Lord agree with them, because it was His will to send me and keep me here.

I grew up in a small city that goes by the name of Cumaná, wich is the capital of Sucre, Venezuela. My city is rather cute, blessed with lovely beaches and rivers, sheltered by mountains and and somehow managing to keep it´s charm of colonial history.

Should I tell the truth, I can´t really remember much if my childhood, my parents got divorced and that single fact managed to block like 7 years of memory, the parts that I do remember aren´t worth telling... I went to catholic school for 6 hole years, in that particular place I learned more than just academic lessons... Back then I was heavyer and rough around the edges, couldn´t quite fit in and evetually had to deal with depression, felt isolated, misunderstood and lonelier than ever... I built up a refuge in music, my only true friends were my headphones, no need to say that those were hard years for me, had to reach out for professional help in order to get better, but out of the entire experience I managed to learn how to be strong and resilient for myself, passionate for what I belive in and compassionate for others.

I had to change high schools for my junior year, and those 2 remaning years of high school were the greatest ever!!!
I managed to make friends, good friends, rediscover my deep love for music, a love so pure that even now hasn´t dimmed one bit ;) I began singing outloud (something that I was terrified to do) sang in front of the entire high school two years in a row, and loved every second of it. I graduated as planed in 2012 and finally got my high school degree, and I must say it was one of many accomplishments on the road...

Inicially I wanted to major in psycology, to help teens the way my psycologist did for me, but I lacked the resources to move and study it in the capital, so I applyed to study a licence degree in Social Work at the Universidad de Oriente (Eastern University) and got accepted. First semester was slightly hard to adapt to college dynamics, slowly but surely I got the hang of it, truly started to feel the essence of social work, what is it that we do that helps empower people, and found another way to help those in need, even landed in the honor role of the degree, something I never thought I could do.

I belive in God, and that He acts in mysterios ways that sometimes we cannot understand, and in this career I met the best person, friend and life sister I could ever ask for, her name is Karina, though I call her Pinky (you know for pinky and the brain, I´m the brain), she is my best friend in the hole wide world.

I met a guy in my 18th birthday, I was having a small gathering at my house, he went to pick up a friend and also picked up my attention... He was insistent and caring, after dating for a few months we became an item, his eyes glowed when he saw me, and my heart pounded whenever he came around. We´ve been on a rollercoster ever since, we´ve traveled, laugh, sing, done a little bit of evething and somehow managed to still be into each other, so in love, that we are currently engaged.

I´m not sure what are God´s plans for me, but I´m in this earth for a reason and I´m going to find out why :)