Just as there are other realities, there are other inhabited planets that the reality of mortals has not yet been able to identify. Just like the portals.

I am Kai di Venus. Like Leonardo da Vinci, who was Vinci's, I am Kai di Venus, and I love these jokes. I was part of a military base school, things I never identified myself with. My parents were worried until in one of the History classes, we studied the Earth and its parallel realities, and that was where I became interested. My parents were so desperate that even if they thought it was crazy, they supported me, and they paid for my course and I went to the UUO.

The truth? I knew I would have to go to another planet to study Dracology. And Earth is the place of paradises. My shallow planet and the whole galaxy are on all fours when we see the photographs of Earth. All nature, the evolution of living beings and their organic, their history and their mythologies, people! There are no oceans on Venus and I've never been on a beach, but I imagine it to be. And when we see the shows on TV, and the TV shows that go there, especially the ones that mortals produce, it's all so colorful and fluid that the first thing you want to do is go there. It's bizarre the love I feel for a place I've never been.

My father is Marshal of War and right now, my planet is at war with Mars and the Moon. So getting out of here was also a security leak. My mother is a housewife and I have an older brother who is the pride of the house. I am happy, and I recognize that I am no child prodigy. My family also knew that when I was 6 years old I was caught in the women's locker room with a wig pretending to put on lipstick. Obviously the girls noticed and called the inspector. I ran out the window, but I was still in lipstick and I was called a fagot for months until everyone passed the year and I did not.

And the next year when I was so in love with a girl that I pushed her against the wall and kissed her, but when she kicked me in the bag, I realized that I could not force anyone to love me. Next year I still liked the same girl and she kissed me, and out of pride I pushed her. I definitely was not very smart. Deep down, you always feel when you're never going to grow up. Like every day I painted my brother's soccer balls, trying to make a replica of the Earth, or when I circled the house pool with wheat flour thinking it was the same as sand, when I saw that the "sand" was Forming a disgusting mass on my feet. And when I asked for a Terran guitar and played for my alternative friends and made the most success. That's when I lost my virginity with the same girl I'd tried to kiss at the age of seven. A few years later she declared herself a lesbian and I wondered if my true love would be on earth.

It's strange not to fit into your own planet. It's weird to sing the radio songs when there's no one with you and it's strange to have dreams surfing or finding beautiful corals on the coast of Hawaii. It's strange to feel immortal young. In this case, mortal. Deep down, I'm proud. I am proud of not being a soldier in war, and think more if I kiss well than how much I am going to take in the CR. I'm proud to enjoy rock n roll and Jack Johnson. And the face of horror every time my family makes for my ripped jeans and my hair tossed in the face. They know deep down, I'm a really cool guy.

On my fifteenth birthday, I asked for a trip to Earth, I wanted to spend the Carnival in Brazil. They agreed, but they sent me with a group of ... anthropology. A bunch of 50-year-old guys full of paraphernalia and paperwork. At the hotel, I jumped the balconies and jumped what they called "blocks" and kissed so many girls that in fact, I think some were boys. But in the end, everything is body and I know I would do it all over again. Only worse.

I ended up finding some nice guys and we had "beers" and I got drunk. And I saw two girls kiss. There was Carnival for 4 or 5 days and after it was over I ran away again and they took me to a rave and I took "balinha" and we danced electronic music. And I saw two boys kiss. And I felt at peace. I saw unicorns and I found it super cool! I did things that my parents would certainly never approve, but I just could feel happy.

But it was quite different when I got to college. The staff looked very serious and there it was much colder than Brazil. But I still know there are parties and good people. But I discovered that here too they are at war and it was the biggest disappointment of my life since my failure to see naked girls pretending to be women. And all the problems that make here another place far from being paradise. Hunger, the murders, and even things that they are behind socially speaking. Machismo, false moralism, non-secular states and extreme capitalism. Poverty is also present in Brazil as on Venus, which made me wonder if the two places in the end were not the same thing. But then I saw smiles everywhere and said that there would definitely never compare to any other place in the world or the galaxy.

But nothing compares to Arpoador Beach and the first time standing on a surfboard. It was the best day of my life after the day of my first kiss.